gooseyard

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by gooseyard 2mo ago
At my employer, we'd been using a similar scheme to build and ship interpreters along with releases of various pieces of software for years. Although I was interested in p-b-s for some time, I was loathe to consider switching to it sin
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by gooseyard 3mo ago
I was going to post this as well, its delightful to see that other people enjoy it since it was really mind-blowing when I read it. It's interesting since I saw another comment near yours that raised the question of robustness of the l
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by gooseyard 4mo ago
hey thanks!!
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by gooseyard 4mo ago
By complete coincidence, yesterday I came across this link to an article Peter Naur wrote in 1985 ( https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf ) which I haven't been able to stop thinking about. I've been doing
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by gooseyard 6mo ago
I haven't actively looked into it, but on a couple of occasions after google began inserting gemini results at the top of the list, I decided to try using some of the generated code samples when then search didn't turn up anything
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by gooseyard 8mo ago
related: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ntsb-investigation-waymo-robota...
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by gooseyard 10mo ago
I listened to an interview with the woman who was at the time I believe overseeing the efforts of the Audio Engineering Society to address the problem of the countless recordings made on proprietary digital audio tape machines like the Sony
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by gooseyard 11mo ago
I learned of Michael Levin via Sally Adee's "We Are Electric", one of the more interesting pop-sci titles I've read in a while, the section on Levin's lab was definitely the highlight.
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by gooseyard 1y ago
Made me think of one of my favorite books as a kid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_(Macaulay_book) , loved getting to pass them on to my own kids.
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by gooseyard 1y ago
i'm also an audio nerd and although I do everything in the box when i'm recording, i agree completely that it's way easier to use outboard stuff for this case. i had an analog channel strip but decided to try one of the very
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by gooseyard 1y ago
I don't know quite what it is either, but I do know with certainty because it was my own experience that the act of inventing songs doesn't require any kind of experience at all, as some of my earliest memories as a child were rid
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by gooseyard 1y ago
I've struggled to teach this to jazz students, I know when I was a kid I read the same kind of advice in guitar magazines, and while I don't think that the theory-first advocates are malevolent, I think most of them were not serio
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The NASA RIF has begun(nasawatch.com)
18 points by gooseyard 2y ago|1 comments
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by gooseyard 2y ago
I grew up in this area of West Virginia, it's such a crazy thing that a community of really amazing scientists are nestled in the middle of this incredibly rural area. It's really neat to see the old blue trucks if you take the to
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by gooseyard 2y ago
an interesting article on this topic: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/02/more-christian-th...
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by gooseyard 2y ago
If you consider the idea of music as language, genre as somewhat akin to regional dialects, and performance as akin to a recitation in that dialect to an audience, then the most fundamental prerequisite for composition is having something t
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by gooseyard 2y ago
At risk of sounding argumentative, another way of looking at this I think is that the community of people in the US who have known only a facts-first approach to reality are now discovering the size of the community of people whose worldvie
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by gooseyard 2y ago
The closing on the sale of my house in Quincy was that day. I was moving far away immediately after the closing, had my car packed with most of my worldly goods and all I had left to do was to drive up to Reading to sign the papers. Not lon
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by gooseyard 2y ago
you might enjoy some of Lee Smolin's writing on the "Fecund Universes Theory"
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by gooseyard 2y ago
i wouldn't sweat it. if orch-or works out it won't matter who was on board early. sometimes i think that a group of people guess that some theory is correct before some clever academics figure out how to prove it in a manner that
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by gooseyard 2y ago
my favorite completely unprovable yet strongly enticing theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection
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by gooseyard 3y ago
I've been playing jazz most of my life and one of the most frustrating parts of it has been this idea that there should be some immediately obvious virtue in jazz as a musical style. If you're a musician who enjoys improvisation,
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by gooseyard 3y ago
Have wondered for years whether Akamai's Query system ( https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa10/tech/full_papers... , sadly never open sourced) had any influence on the creation of osquery. They a
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by gooseyard 3y ago
high five I won't need to worry about this again
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by gooseyard 3y ago
well im a dope, I never noticed the edit option. So if I edit the hunk and toggle the subset of changes I don't want, I'll get prompted to accept the diff of the diff? brb I need to go try this.
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by gooseyard 3y ago
I didn't know about git add -p when I started using magit and thought it was an amazing magit-specific feature and went around cluelessly telling everybody about it. Later when I was experimenting with a different editor I realized my
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by gooseyard 3y ago
Simon Winchester's "The Perfectionists" is worth reading
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by gooseyard 3y ago
I haven't been this angry since QWOP, gold star
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by gooseyard 3y ago
I got a 64k CoCo2 when I was 10 or so. The Apple II was the only other computer I had ever used, and so my worldview was that BASIC was how you interacted with a computer. My Radio Shack carried Rainbow magazine and had lots of back issues
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by gooseyard 3y ago
This treatise on artisanal pencil-sharpening is relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spMaP-_Cq_8

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