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by cannam 1y ago
In 1968 a British newspaper ran a competition for English translations of "Spleen - Je suis comme le roi..." The poet Nicholas Moore - motivated by a belief that translating poetry was impossible and the project futile - sent in 3
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by cannam 1y ago
I'm just about old enough to remember (in the UK) foolscap paper, an imperial size also a bit longer than A4. You never see it any more (at least I don't) but foolscap sized box-files are still readily available. I guess a slightl
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by cannam 2y ago
There's a link to the Perl code hidden in the third para of text ("The [Perl source] for this script is available...") Of course a big reason it still works is that it was written for Perl 5, which is still current! What that
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by cannam 2y ago
This was my attempt at doing something a little bit like it, 27 years ago. It's mostly interesting as a historical artifact - certainly yours is a lot more sophisticated and much much prettier! This one just does greedy matching agains
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by cannam 2y ago
> I think that's probably what chordify.com does [...] I don't think they are using chordino I think they were initially using the Chordino chroma features (NNLS-Chroma) but a different chord language model "front end&quot
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by cannam 2y ago
Oh this is very nice, I hadn't seen it before. A few random thoughts: - The Vamp Plugin Pack for Mac finally got an ARM/Intel universal build in its 2.0 release last year, so hopefully the caveat mentioned about the M1 Mac shoul
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by cannam 2y ago
> No-one ever called a real program an "app" before that, did they? Yes. Apple called them apps in the 80s, at least on the Mac - this is Apple II but it's plausible they were also referred to as apps there? For my part I
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by cannam 2y ago
The April 1984 issue of the British magazine "What Micro?" (70p from all good newsagents) contained a spoof review of a revolutionary new PC, the "Victori XZ64/4A". A paragraph in praise of its display reads: "
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by cannam 2y ago
QString::toUpper/toLower are not locale-aware ( https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qstring.html#toLower ) Qt does have a locale-aware equivalent (QLocale::toUpper/toLower) which calls out to ICU if available. Otherwise i
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by cannam 2y ago
> HN comments were dismissive of the Google SRE "no heroes" article recently If (like me) you hadn't seen this one, I think it is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41172531 (Some of the top-level commen
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by cannam 2y ago
> imagine if McLaren did this In some sense car manufacturers do do this - their designs are famous for being full of functionally empty retro cues that customers nonetheless go for.
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by cannam 2y ago
(Amateur cellist) Instinctively I find this absurd too. I always thought it was funny that, at least at the level of student instruments, the more you spend, the more beaten-up your new instrument looks. Basic ones have an even spray varnis
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by cannam 2y ago
She's still playing and touring and if you get a chance to hear her, she's an absolute delight.
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by cannam 3y ago
> My greatest "unnecessary Firefox UI change gripe" is the removal of browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll 4 years ago Totally agree. Four years on, and it still trips me up daily. Ironically, the usual failure mode for me is actuall
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by cannam 3y ago
> It's nice this works fine on your white-on-black terminal I was curious about this as well, as I found the images in the README a bit hard to read. In fact the program itself seems to use quite sensible colours in my white-backgro
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by cannam 3y ago
Same here, I had it checked out from the library continuously for a couple of years and referred to it constantly. A terrific explanation of a super cool piece of work, full of insights. I later bought another ex-library copy that I still h
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by cannam 3y ago
With CPU, totally. As an example I can look at my own Sonic Visualiser application, largely written 15-18 years ago and entirely CPU-driven. Relative to then, it's now horrible on contemporary Macs for example - it feels far slower t
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by cannam 3y ago
> It's not too hard to get an AppKit/Cocoa project from the early 2000s compiling on modern macOS, but Cocoa had already accrued 20 years of age by 2005 That's a mindboggling thought. How much did 2005 Cocoa have in common
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by cannam 3y ago
Very nice! For other readers, the link is a lot more relevant to HN than you might guess if you are just skimming by.
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by cannam 3y ago
There is the slightly awkwardly-named idagio ( https://www.idagio.com/ ), which has been doing the same kind of thing for a while. (I'm not well placed to compare them, since I let my own idagio subscription lapse a coup
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by cannam 4y ago
I was once on a London bus that got stopped by the police for jumping a red light. It was at Hyde Park Corner, heading north toward Park Lane - the light guarding the intersection with Knightsbridge turned red, the bus sailed through, and I
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by cannam 4y ago
The same author wrote another very useful post in 2010 that also involved mediants: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/10/20/best-rational-appr...
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by cannam 4y ago
Global Dream II https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/01/global-dream-ii-worlds-bigges... It's a sad story from many angles - technical, environmental, political, economic.
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by cannam 4y ago
Source-code freedom is user freedom. It's effectively a sort of guarantee. The additional freedom that BSD licences provide is freedom for developers to do what they like, not anything to do with users. (The biggest practical advantage
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by cannam 4y ago
I don't know about NY or Paris, but the comparison against London seems fair enough. They seem to be using a Tokyo metropolitan area of about 2000 km^2, and comparing it with Greater London at 1572 km^2. And indeed, people throughout G
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by cannam 4y ago
I thought high humidity made it feel colder, when the temperature was relatively low? Hot damp air feels hotter than hot dry air, but I've had the idea that cold damp air feels colder than cold dry air. Is that a misconception?
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by cannam 4y ago
> Unless you're promising them a long-term commitment (and at that point are you really freelancing?) they might be hesitant to invest I think this aspect can be overstated, or at least it varies a lot depending on type of project.
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by cannam 4y ago
What an interesting article! It seems as if the idea is quite literal - that attention may become what you need in order to support yourself, a currency, not just something you can exchange for money somehow if you're lucky. Unless I&#
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by cannam 4y ago
That is curious, I'd glanced at the iPad announcement but hadn't noticed the big price increase. I wonder what the cause is. Are any of the components radically more expensive? Is this the general trend of costs and the previous m
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by cannam 4y ago
> "Step 1: Process this artificially created periodic signal by multiplying it by sine waves of frequencies from from 1 to N. There are our bins! Step 2: OK, for real world signals we need phase, so now let's talk about complex

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