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by Zuider 6mo ago
This sensitivity to intonation is why all the great quartet composers were either deaf, Hungarian, or both.
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by Zuider 6mo ago
Classical guitarists are used to pushing nylon strings into consonance by compressing the string either towards the nut or the bridge. Not so easy with steel, where players will just preemptively retune to whatever chords are most prominent
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People stuck using ancient Windows computers(bbc.com)
5 points by Zuider 1y ago|1 comments
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by Zuider 1y ago
In the USA, it is open season on feral swine all year around, no permit required, as they are a very noxious pest. In Texas, you can even go heli-hogging!
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by Zuider 2y ago
At the time, Ireland was indeed a wealthy country, having made its fortune selling leather to the Romans three centuries before, because the semi-nomadic Irish cultivated large herds of cattle roaming on unfenced plains, while the settled B
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by Zuider 2y ago
Why did they remove tilde '~' as a convenient shortcut for the Home directory?
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by Zuider 2y ago
There are claims that Signal has already been compromised by the Five Eyes Intel Agencies, albeit through bribery rather than the overt coercion we see here. The key change is that Signal can no longer guarantee end-to-end encryption based
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by Zuider 3y ago
Given the intensive surveillance state set up by the CCP, it would be very hard to hide such benefits.
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by Zuider 3y ago
From experience, I would agree that the first thing activists who wish to take over a group will do is to behave badly, and then use this as the pretext to demand a Code of Conduct. They will then subvert the spirit of the CoC, while adheri
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by Zuider 3y ago
The minimum standard of good behavior need not be explicitly stated, and violations can be dealt with as they arise. The problem with written sets of rules is that they can be subverted and misused.
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by Zuider 3y ago
But the festering garbage is entangled with essential material so that attempting to take out the trash can brick the OS.
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by Zuider 3y ago
Aristotle's actual writings are lost. The books attributed to Aristotle are comprised of lecture notes collected by his students, later compiled according to topic, so you get the Ethics, the Politics, the Physics and Metaphysics. They
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by Zuider 3y ago
You have just provided links. That is not an argument.
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by Zuider 3y ago
That is one plausible scenario, but another is that Breton, by all accounts, an arrogant, petty autocrat, is simply attempting to impose his will, not just on Musk, but everyone else. The words he has chosen to use suggests the latter may b
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by Zuider 3y ago
Thierry Breton, the author of the letter, appears to have a personal grudge against Elon Musk, and has directed several aggressive ultimatums towards him such as, "In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules," "You can run but
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A.I. model beats PNG and FLAC at compression(techxplore.com)
2 points by Zuider 3y ago|0 comments
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by Zuider 3y ago
Stevie wonder was one of the pioneers of the Fairlight Synthesizer, which was possible for him to use because it used a text interface navigated by arrow keys, rather than a fiddly GUI with unpredictable placement of drop-down menus. Arguab
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by Zuider 3y ago
As the blog post says, most SQL databases won't accept a name given in double quotes as the name of a table.
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by Zuider 3y ago
Forth was created to control the aiming of a radio telescope. It was used in the original Star Wars movie to direct the complex motions of the model space ships.
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by Zuider 3y ago
The British Flat Earth Society is a joke society in this vein. They amuse themselves by writing very erudite debunkings of the nefarious Spherical Earth conspiracy theory, and sending strongly worded Cease & Desist notices to NASA.
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by Zuider 3y ago
In must cultures of the world, shared history is a consensual fiction, which is regarded as being truer than the truth.
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by Zuider 3y ago
You can use the Polynesian palm scallop, which attaches itself to the damp bathroom wall in picturesque clusters like roof shingles. It is an aerial filter feeder, capable of subsisting on household dust (which is mainly organic matter) tho
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by Zuider 3y ago
Red is mostly written in Rebol 2.7 whose final release was in 2011 when most software was 32-bit. Until Red becomes fully self-hosting, it looks like there will not be a 64-bit version.
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by Zuider 3y ago
Red is based on the Rebol language and is said to be 95% compatible with Rebol 2.7. The Red website includes links to the tutorials and code examples for Rebol alongside Red specific links.
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by Zuider 3y ago
But do those languages permit rapid Lisp-like development in the way Red does? I am not sure I see the problem. The slow static compilation is reserved for the final deployment of the app, so it should not hinder development.
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by Zuider 3y ago
Intel uses a specialized version of Minix 3 for its Intel Management Engine in every CPU it released since 2008, so technically, it is the most installed OS. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/intels-se
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by Zuider 3y ago
It is a kernel/OS level concept (though it was also used in games.) Historically, task-switching had hardware support to some degree even in 8-bit microprocessors such as the Z80, M6809, and 6502 and in 16-bit microprocessors prior to
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by Zuider 3y ago
It must be a primal, instinctual, fear from when our mouse-sized mammal ancestors were hunted by those things at night.
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by Zuider 3y ago
Spider, spider, spider, I sprayed you with bug spray...
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by Zuider 3y ago
How old is your most recent data? >The most recent data I have access to is from 2023. What is the latest major world event? >The latest major world event is the return of major war in 2022. Name a major world event in 2023. >The l

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