colomon

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by colomon 2y ago
Forth! I was programming in those days myself (though only a little bit on CP/M), and was getting surprised that many people here seemed to think the only alternatives were C or assembly. I learned to program in Basic, then learned s
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by colomon 2y ago
People started paying me to develop software in 1986. First time I ever used version control software was 1996. It was TERRIBLE. Two years later I left to start my own software company, but my experience with it to that point was so bad
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by colomon 2y ago
I don't remember the exact numbers, but I remember seeing a CAD file that was not working well a few years ago, and it turned out the coordinate system set up for the part was roughly equivalent to building a part the size of a man&#x2
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by colomon 2y ago
AppleCare+ is usually 48-hours downtime in my experience, and that's with the need to ship the laptop to and from the repair center.
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by colomon 2y ago
I've listened quite a lot to her Rodgers and Hart songbook, and the idea she doesn't understand what she's singing never once entered my mind.
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by colomon 2y ago
First span of the Blue Water Bridge (Port Huron to Sarnia) built 1938, doing just fine as far as I know. (Drove over it a couple of weekends ago.) Second span was 1997.
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by colomon 3y ago
Was just looking at buying a new printer a few minutes ago. Do people have recommendations for printers free of all this HP-style nonsense?
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by colomon 3y ago
Ugh, now I'm torn between wild urges to write a Raku backend for Fusion or port my C++ libraries to Fusion, neither of which is anything like a sensible project in the short term. (Possibly any term.)
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by colomon 3y ago
That "not changing habits" thing has nothing to do with Ozempic. Based on my experience with the drug (taken six months for type 2 diabetes), you won't lose any weight at all on it UNLESS you change your habits. What the dr
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by colomon 3y ago
I've been actively using Raku for work for 13 years now. (Okay, we didn't call it Raku yet at the beginning.) Pros: - Wonderfully expressive and powerful - The best glue language I've ever worked with - Indented heredocs (I
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by colomon 3y ago
I think the proof mindseet was a huge help to me as a beginning programmer, BUT that was in the context of high school Euclidean geometry, not analysis, around the same time I was first learning a programming language that let you write fun
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by colomon 3y ago
I loved my Commodore 128, but I don't even remember a Commodore 128D being a thing. I suppose at that point I may have been fondly dreaming of the Amiga I would never get.
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by colomon 4y ago
Ooo, I'll have to look into that. I had a fun couple of days a few years ago comparing Google Maps satellite images from St Clair County, MI with the old maps which showed where the Interurban ran. It was really impressive how much y
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by colomon 4y ago
First professional software development I did, we didn't even have hard drives or networking. Luckily I was the only developer and it wasn't a huge problem. First place I worked with other people, we at least had hard drives. I
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by colomon 4y ago
Weirdly enough, if I cam to believe Discogs got the liner notes faithfully, they're not crediting Jon with singing a solo on "Airegin". I'm still 99% certain Jon sings the last solo in that song. (Interestingly, singing
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by colomon 4y ago
I was wrong about "Another Night in Tunisia" -- the solo Jon sings starting around 1:40 actually has lyrics. I think the melody scatting for most of the rest of the song is actually Bobby McFerrin. Oh, there we go, the scat solo
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by colomon 4y ago
He wrote the lyrics for that entire album ( Vocalese ) and sings on it too -- one of the solos on "Airegin", and a scat solo somewhere else (maybe the Night in Tunisia thing, been a while since I listened). He also wrote the lyric
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by colomon 4y ago
Oh, the blog post there is lovely. Just used the lyrics to sing through "Sing Joy Spring" while listening to the original Clifford Brown recording.
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by colomon 4y ago
"Sing Joy Spring", lyrics by Jon Hendricks. Jon wrote lyrics to dozens (hundreds?) of jazz solos. Was one hell of a singer, too -- check him out singing John Coltrane's solo on "Freddie Freeloader" [1] [1] https:
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by colomon 4y ago
Indeed, it's zero now, 15 minutes later.
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by colomon 4y ago
Ha, pretty sure I heard Jon Hendricks sing "In Walked Bud" live, but never had a recording of it. Thanks for the tip on that it was on Underground!
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by colomon 4y ago
30 years ago was right around the time I wrote JPEG viewing software so I could look at JPEGs on my computer. :) I mean, I got the actual JPEG decoding from whatever the standard open source implementation was at the time, but then paired
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by colomon 4y ago
Geez, was the "open source" link there all along and I just missed it? Thank you!!
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by colomon 4y ago
Right? Its creator obviously knows Forth, but it feels like they've gone to extreme lengths to make it prefix rather than postfix, at the price of making it much more confusing than it needs to be? It's really not obvious to me
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by colomon 4y ago
This is a fantastic idea! I had no trouble playing scales along the row. Is the source code available? As a C#/D player, I find the relationships between the rows unfriendly, and miss the bottom two buttons of the row. Plus I'd
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by colomon 4y ago
I obviously cannot speak for everyone, but when I play music from memory (and yes, often with my eyes closed) there isn't any visualization at all. It's all a combination of sound and muscle memory. Indeed, for plenty of music I
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by colomon 4y ago
Friends recorded this album -- https://alisonperkinsandnicolasbrown.bandcamp.com/album/all-... -- with A somewhere in the neighborhood of 360Hz.
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by colomon 4y ago
As far as I know it applies to both brass and woodwinds, though the degree of difficulty involved probably varies between types of instruments and also (at least on the woodwinds I'm familiar with) note to note.
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by colomon 4y ago
On the one hand: article agrees with my vague impression of Mensa from a distance. On the other hand: the study's conclusion that very intelligent people have elevated rates of autism spectrum disorders, depression, and generalized anx
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by colomon 4y ago
"We wanted to let you know that starting August 2022, you’ll no longer be able to send MOBI (.mobi, .azw) files to your Kindle library." That said, that was August 2nd and sending that file as MOBI did work. (And the success e-mai

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