mazelife

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by mazelife 3y ago
I'm a software engineer working with scientist-turned-programmers, and what I've experienced is also exactly the opposite of the author. The code written by the physicists, geoscientists and data scientists I work with often suffe
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by mazelife 3y ago
> Because the music of the past was written in a notation that’s different from that used today, it’s necessary to translate and input every mark of the original score – notes, dynamics and other expressive marks – into a music notation
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by mazelife 3y ago
This, I believe: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_(database)
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by mazelife 3y ago
Well the titular "whistleblower" of the article has claimed the U.S. recovered a saucer from World War II dictator Benito Mussolini on a tip from Pope Pius XII. Sorry but that's firmly in tinfoil-hat territory. https:/&
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by mazelife 4y ago
> [he] described an expanding and self-replicating bureaucracy that is growing ever more expensive to maintain This seems to me a key piece of the problem. Rises in tuition have massively out-paced inflation while salaries for tenured pr
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by mazelife 5y ago
Yes, a wok is a somewhat strange choice for that dish. I'm not really an "expert" on Pinoy food but my partner is Filipino and I've seen this made many times by him, his family, or even friends of his when we have visite
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by mazelife 5y ago
I don't get the sense that those varietals will only grow in Guimaras, but the locals will tell you that it's not just the varietal but also the specific soil, micro-climate, and cultivation methods of the island that makes them s
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by mazelife 5y ago
Well in the spirit of a friendly flame war, I'm going to put my stake in the ground and say that Carabao mangoes from the Philippines and specifically the Galila, Tablan, and Fresco varietals from the island of Guimaras are the best in
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by mazelife 6y ago
You managed to perfectly put into words something I was trying to articulate in my own comment on this thread about the limitations I kept running into with open source notation tools as alternatives to Sibelius. They always felt like they
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by mazelife 6y ago
I've stubbornly stayed on Sibelius 6 for years, but it no longer works on OS X Catalina, so I was pondering biting the bullet and upgrading to 8. But after seeing this... Does anyone have any recommendations for a _real_ alternative th
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by mazelife 6y ago
“Black Lives Matter's Effect on Police Lethal Use-of-Force” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3767097 Give it a read, maybe it will change your mind. Organizations like BLM were formed to organiz
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by mazelife 6y ago
Haskell Programming from First Principles ( https://haskellbook.com/ ). Not free but, hands down, the best book for someone looking to pick up Haskell.
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by mazelife 7y ago
I’ve found Charles Rosen’s book _Arnold Schoenberg_ to be an excellent introduction to the composer. It’s a short, well-written book. Not so much a biography, as an exploration of the music and the various phases of the Schoenberg’s musical
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An Intuition for Propagators(youtube.com)
1 points by mazelife 7y ago|0 comments
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by mazelife 7y ago
My lawn definitely has it's share of crabgrass which I don't mind. But Kentucky blue grass and clover (both native) seem to do better. Which unfortunately means mowing.
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by mazelife 7y ago
Along with other commenters here, I've given up on trying to have a perfect lawn. As long as it's green, it's fine with me. I'm also trying to gradually reduce the amount of property given over to lawn by a little bit ea
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by mazelife 7y ago
I dislike the wishy-washy passive construction in their summary graf: > In the massive global network of manufacturers, distributors, sellers, and resellers, it can be nearly impossible to tell who’s actually responsible for getting any
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by mazelife 7y ago
> The only way this may change is if we change how we pay for our care. Agree 100% on this. The incentives in a fee-for-service world are just so badly misaligned with the goals of functional healthcare system. > Even the value based
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by mazelife 7y ago
Also #7, "want to use graph databases? noSQL? good luck" Is incorrect. How do I know? I've built a non-trivial Django app with a Neo4J backend. It included an API using Django REST framework. There are some parts of Django th
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by mazelife 7y ago
> I hate to sound mean spirited, but I have a hard time being sympathetic to intelligent well educated people who chose to pursue careers that obviously don't pay well. I think the issue that the author is raising is that in the not
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by mazelife 7y ago
It's kind of funny to me that every single one of these more or less came true with one notable exception: "Have you ever carried your medical history in your wallet?" As it stands today, at least in the US, most people'
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by mazelife 8y ago
Yeah, it's hard to take anything in this article seriously when you're one line into it and the premise: "Of the well-known composers of the 19th century, Fryderyk Chopin is the only one whose complete works continue to be pl
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by mazelife 8y ago
This gets us classifications all the way from "no starch at all" (i.e. soup) to "non-starch surrounded on all sides by the starch" (i.e. calzone). But I posit the existence of an eighth category... that is to say the inv
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I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine(theintercept.com)
4 points by mazelife 8y ago|0 comments
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by mazelife 8y ago
I really enjoyed Craig Child's book "House of Rain", which isn't exclusively about Chaco, but does talk about it quite a bit along with a number of other sites across the region. Reading it made me want to visit Chaco ne
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by mazelife 8y ago
I think price transparency is a bit of a red herring. That's not to say I don't support the idea of requiring hospitals to be upfront about costs, but it isn't going to fix issues with ER visits referenced in the Vox article.
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by mazelife 8y ago
Of if you just want to dip your toe in the waters, he's written some marvelous short stories. The Visit to the Museum , The Assistant Producer , The Admiralty Spire , and Lik are four favorites of mine.
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by mazelife 8y ago
A while back our company switched to the "homework" format for evaluating software engineering proficiency because we felt like it took a lot of stress off of candidates to write code in an unfamiliar environment (or worse, on a w
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by mazelife 9y ago
When I hear someone (having, by their own description, a front-row seat for these events) reduce the civil-rights movement to this: “What I saw was a number of bad laws called into question and ultimately removed by acts of courage and wise
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The Problem with Your Chatty Apps(wired.com)
2 points by mazelife 9y ago|0 comments

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