jancsika

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by jancsika 11d ago
> I V vi IV is the four chords that an alarming share of pop music is built from. This is in line with hundreds of years of authors "explaining" music by starting with Pythagoras for their bona fides, then using that credibilit
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by jancsika 18d ago
Even without knowing your specific criteria, #2 on your list must be Alan Kay. But I'm curious who you think #3 is.
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by jancsika 21d ago
> click-to-cancel combat-antisemitism EndStreetHarassment jingle knicks knicksgame3 rental-ripoff Summer I'd like to believe that the diversity, equity, and inclusion of Scheme, Pascal, and C stdlib naming conventions here is intent
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by jancsika 23d ago
> I don't know what's going to happen. Maybe I'll need to figure out childcare, maybe I won't. Maybe I'll have food to eat this weekend, maybe I won't. Maybe my job will go away next year, maybe it won'
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by jancsika 27d ago
The end of the AI's first sub-phrase in the video is wrong. You started by playing a simple I - vii - I as the first sub-phrase. Then the AI started its response with a dominant 7th-chord. In the vast majority of cases I can think of f
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by jancsika 1mo ago
This isn't too far from the Bad Creek Project, a 1.5MW peaker plant drilled into a mountain by Duke Power in the 90s that drains into the lake below. It, too, has a road to nowhere. However, that road has a public access overlook, comp
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by jancsika 1mo ago
> If people die it’s no big deal if they volunteer for it and know the risks before they sign up for it. Similarly, letting pilots skip the security check is no big deal. Just check the id_hash of their _pilot_struct against the ids in t
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by jancsika 1mo ago
In-person, high-risk rule-breaking that's hard to validate has a tendency to scale differently from say, pasting a value into a lottery/payment app. I mean, compare the number of people who've flown over Barbara Streisand&#x2
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by jancsika 1mo ago
> In a free society, we don't need state-run media. I think this is a kind of time-sequence fallacy which I've seen before on HN. It's not that "we don't," but that, perhaps, "we wouldn't ."
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by jancsika 1mo ago
Right. It's just funny that there is an always-increasing number of extant cases like OP's for SVG and/or internal hyperlink specs where content isolation would have been much appreciated, and literally zero cases I can think
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by jancsika 1mo ago
If you don't mind vectorizing these then they already exist and are called power outages.
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by jancsika 1mo ago
I'm quite certain every McDonald's franchise knows how to hire high schoolers and serve up a bunch of smashburgers to instantly become the busiest franchise in the state. The problem isn't an ability to understand long term s
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by jancsika 1mo ago
Ah, I see. What's so funny about this is that XML is absolutely brimming with rich namespace solutions for all the problems you don't have. For example, if your users ever want to blithely roll their own "href" namespa
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by jancsika 1mo ago
Why not use classes instead of element ids?
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by jancsika 1mo ago
> We just needed to put each icon in its own shadow DOM to avoid styles clashing between the different SVGs if they happen to be named the same which was a bit of an annoyance for our graphic designer. What do you mean by "named the
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by jancsika 1mo ago
Seems like just sitting with one's feelings for 5 minutes a night would amortize the cost of those "blues" over the full length of the hike. End of trip for non-amortized blues: OMG my sudden lack of trail-purpose is casting
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by jancsika 1mo ago
Still not sure about the "who" question, but here's the scale of money changing hands: > Residential proxies are everywhere, so why did proxy DDoS attacks mostly come from the U.S.? The answer is money. If you are committi
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by jancsika 1mo ago
Did you read the paragraph before that about paying ninety-five dollars just for two weeks of proxying through a single U.S. IP? There's nothing in the last 10 years even remotely as economically bizarre as that. You'd have to
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by jancsika 1mo ago
I just read this from Nokia's blog of all places[1]: > A fresh U.S. residential IP address (especially one behind carrier-grade NAT and harder to block individually) is “gold.” Customers pay up to $95 to lease a single U.S. resident
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by jancsika 1mo ago
> if I get sent to male holding facility I'm just chum in the water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_people_in_prison
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by jancsika 2mo ago
> It's worth noting that Taylor Farms consumer bagged salads are consistently marked, in the form of an alphanumeric code printed on the bag near the sell-by date. This reads like C strings having not only a null terminator but carr
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by jancsika 2mo ago
I take this comment as a cautionary tale about just how big a problem the p-hacking issue can be in the social sciences.
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by jancsika 2mo ago
What's the difference between a regulatory barrier and a Chesterton's fence?
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by jancsika 2mo ago
> The unknown request will be buried in spam - a problem we have already, but worse. I feel like every one of these suggested changes to email comes with a functionally equivalent parody magic trick. For this one, a magician has two stac
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by jancsika 2mo ago
> What’s missing from this strange conversation is discussion about how many data center proposals are near residential areas. What's strange is that you didn't once mention the layperson's fear of data center projects in
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by jancsika 2mo ago
> (potentially) lower transaction fees <transactionFeeDiscussion> Citation needed. I'm looking at the transaction fees for lightning network and they are in the range of FedNow or RTP. For Bitcoin it's not even close. &lt
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by jancsika 2mo ago
> Like, OK, that's their problem, but what's that got to do with you? If a social creature plays chess in a club where everyone else cosplays, the first thing that creature will do is find a better group of players to raise
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by jancsika 2mo ago
Back in 1984 George Lewis apparently did a stint at IRCAM, culminating in an electro-acoustic performance with three Apple IIe's connected by MIDI to three DX7s. I'd bet his conversations with the IRCAM directors were similarly li
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by jancsika 2mo ago
> While I won't deny there are some problems currently, I think people comparing where they start to where others end is a huge mistake and leads to a lot of unnecessary anguish. That an ungenerous and frankly dismissive reading of
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by jancsika 2mo ago
> In every prize I’ve ever judged or heard firsthand reports of, everything else is up to the judges and their idiosyncrasies. Sure. But even seemingly broad guidelines deeply influence/constrain the judges' choices. E.g., the

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