randy909

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by randy909 4mo ago
This. Just because an llm can translate any language into a programming language doesn’t suddenly make all languages programming languages. Until I can ‘brew install englishc’ and so on, it’s not a f**ing programming language.
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by randy909 4y ago
The needle wiggles side-to-side and might collide with the groove next to it if two bass hits are poorly timed. I suppose the likelihood becomes greater with the more compact inner area? Also the high end sounds better the faster the vinyl
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by randy909 4y ago
> The crappy CDs were a result of dumping a phono mastering onto a CD without realizing that a CD player was not going to apply the RIAA curve. I don't believe this is the case. The RIAA curve is a very aggressive curve (40db) and n
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by randy909 4y ago
100%. If you can find a quality rip of the vinyl I'll take that for convenience (I have ~1000 vinyl records so I have my fill of that magic) but especially something from long ago transferred to CD in the 80's I'm going to be
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by randy909 4y ago
> Vinyl and casettes required pre-emphasis of highs to offset the limited high frequency response and noise of analog media. This is true of tape but not vinyl. High frequencies are difficult for vinyl and are better off rolled off. A lo
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by randy909 4y ago
I'm not sure buying old vinyl helps all that much. The bass was cut from recordings so the needle would move less and not collide with the groove before it. Early CDs also lacked bass until trends changed. I would guess that most of th
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by randy909 4y ago
Being respectful and just being straight forward and direct are the same thing as long as you're not being an asshole while being straight forward and direct. I do agree that it can take extra mental energy to translate "this idea
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by randy909 4y ago
I've used both and Kotlin was a better overall experience for me. TypeScript has weird typing problems far more often due to the underlying runtime being dynamically typed.
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by randy909 5y ago
> During high traffic times, this means you can literally never have a gap. It is legal to enter an intersection (i.e. cross the white line) when your light is not red. Therefore at least one car can turn left legally per light cycle. Ag
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by randy909 5y ago
Stop the head thumping or any physical punitive action no matter how light. You might have to restrain her at some point but that's different. The only thing you're teaching with those actions is "violence solves problems&quo
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by randy909 5y ago
I prefer the criteria "would a prehistoric person eat this?". Our bodies evolved with food you could pick off a plant and put in your mouth sometimes after applying heat. Or meat. This is "natural" food. Plenty of ingred
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by randy909 5y ago
This is great advice. I've used Anki to memorize technical knowledge (not language) for ~10 years. Here are some additional points with some overlap: * Keep trying. If you're having a bad time with it it's because you haven&#
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by randy909 5y ago
Same situation with my hobby, making electronic music. While there are a ton of amazing tutorials for how to write music there are way more gear review videos with orders of magnitude more views. Its fun to shop for new toys, learning new t
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by randy909 9y ago
The downvote wasn't me but I'll agree that this doesn't seem much more related to the music than any visual synced to the tempo. Coltrane's drawing captures a system that could be used by other musicians to create new mu
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by randy909 10y ago
While I can get behind some of the points made in the articles you reference, for tech articles the date provides very important context. Imaging the shift in your thinking if this article was 10 years old. Little in tech is timeless, espec
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by randy909 12y ago
See space.vim for another cool use for the spacebar. https://github.com/spiiph/vim-space
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by randy909 13y ago
This is an absolutely fantastic plugin. The minor installation pain is paid back easily after a few hours of use. Fast, fuzzy matching autocomplete people!!
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by randy909 14y ago
> Ok let’s get Command-T. Oh wait that’s incredibly slow and clunky and looks jenky Uh, what!? Command-T does much of its work in C to make it as fast as possible. I find it to be mind-numbingly fast. It is extremely well done. Did you
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by randy909 14y ago
I've heard that one of the problem areas is that you can't make a perfect, colorless filter - one where 20KHz is allowed through but 20.001 is not. A filter has to slope down at least somewhat gradually. The more steep you make the filter,
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by randy909 14y ago
> I also don't completely understand about their being only one possible solution. It makes sense if you know that the signal is a single sine wave, but since in general the signal is a summation of an unknown number of sine waves, it's
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by randy909 14y ago
> Band limiting means that there's a maximum frequency. You can think of it as a limit on how fast the signal can change. There's only one possible way to draw a curve that goes through all the points without changing too quickly. This
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by randy909 14y ago
Totally with you up until the lost culture thing. More people know how to play the piano virtuostically than ever. Culture is expanding and being recorded permanently in the digital world. How are we losing it? It reminds me of what the blu
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by randy909 14y ago
Looks like it also explains why caret (^) was chosen in regex and vi to mean "beginning of line".
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by randy909 14y ago
"If we really want to stop young men like him from becoming mass murderers, and prevent the small amount of violence attributable to mental illness, we should invest our resources in better screening for, and treatment of, psychiatric illn
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by randy909 15y ago
Here, this will solve all your problems: http://awesome.naquadah.org/