rdtennent

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by rdtennent 8mo ago
pdftk
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by rdtennent 10mo ago
Tarifs don't bring in revenue from the countries that they are imposed on; they are paid by importers and ultimately shoppers in the United States; that is, they are taxes.
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by rdtennent 2y ago
I once had to deal with a complicated report in Word that had been "improved" by several editors using inconsistent indenting styles. It couldn't be fixed in Word by even Word experts. I extracted the plain text, added LaTeX
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by rdtennent 3y ago
Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) have discovered that the persistent fatigue in patients with long-COVID has a biological cause, namely mitochondria in muscle cells that produce less energy than in health
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Researchers discover physical cause of long Covid tiredness(amsterdamumc.org)
103 points by rdtennent 3y ago|104 comments
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by rdtennent 3y ago
most renaissance and baroque works for plucked instruments (lutes, baroque guitars) were originally notated in tablature and such scores can certainly be found at IMSLP. If you think "guitar tabs" are a recent invention you'r
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by rdtennent 4y ago
You're speaking of the renaissance lute. The baroque lute was most often in an open D minor tuning for the top (fretted) strings: ADFADF.
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Wolfgang Haken Has Died, age 94
3 points by rdtennent 4y ago|0 comments
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by rdtennent 4y ago
>Bach wrote The Well-Tempered Clavier to show off how one well temperament system (no one knows which one) sounds okay in every major and minor key. The keys closer to C sound sweeter and more euphonious, while the more distant keys soun
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by rdtennent 4y ago
You'd better wake up sooner: "Static analysis with SL has matured to the point where it has been applied industrially in the Facebook Infer program analyzer, an open source tool used at Facebook, Mozilla, Spotify, Amazon Web Serv
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by rdtennent 4y ago
I heard a delightful story about a student who submitted as his own composition a chorale harmonization by Bach that he'd found in an obscure place. He was surprised to receive a failing grade from the professor. When he went to ask
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by rdtennent 4y ago
Fossilized, not frozen.
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by rdtennent 4y ago
The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded. The title should refer to unexploded-bomb hunters; that is, the unexploded refers to bombs, not hunters.
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Chinese surveillance and censorship tool required of Olympians
27 points by rdtennent 5y ago|4 comments
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by rdtennent 5y ago
Canadians are generally very satisfied with the quality and availability of healthcare in Canada. The issue in this case is not the quality of care but the possibility that the provincial government is suppressing testing that might reveal
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by rdtennent 5y ago
No matter what topology is used, the basic issue is the same: if any of the p2p links introduces unacceptable latency (such as the inter-ISP link I described), the whole system is borked. The clients are generally not movable (or would
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by rdtennent 5y ago
The magical belief that p2p is always superior to server-client for this kind of application has to be refuted. I live in Kingston Ontario, a medium-sized city between Montreal and Toronto. There are essentially two high-speed ISPs: Bell,
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by rdtennent 5y ago
Jamulus software is not only free (gratis and libre) but its use is completely anonymous: you may have to open a port but you don't have to open your inbox to spam or register in any way. And users don't need to authenticate to u
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by rdtennent 5y ago
"No dedicated hardware"; but for best results you'll need a wired ethernet connection, wired headphones, a good microphone and an audio interface, and on Windows an ASIO driver. "For the lowest possible latency, FarPla
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by rdtennent 5y ago
The Samsung Galaxy A40 is 144.4 x 69.2 x 7.9 mm and has a 5.9" display, a 3100 mah battery and an earphone jack.
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by rdtennent 5y ago
Well if any of the O(N^2) connections has unacceptable latency, you'd understand why a server is sensible. Reducing computation won't improve latency in the connections. One has no flexibility with clients but a server can be lo
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by rdtennent 5y ago
> P2P is the way forward here IMHO. But if any of the O(N^2) P2P links has unacceptable latency, eliminating the server would be counter-productive because the client-to-server connection may have less latency if the server is locate
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by rdtennent 5y ago
"need to find a server midway between all the users" Nonsense. Did you read my post? The server is in Montreal; all the clients are 200 miles west of Montreal in Kingston. Physical distance isn't important. What is impor
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by rdtennent 5y ago
"requires a central server" is misleading. You can set up a server wherever; there's no central server. Except for the multiple-ISP issue I discussed, there's no reason access to a server is more latency than access b
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by rdtennent 5y ago
traceroute
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by rdtennent 5y ago
My experience with Jamulus might be instructive. Members of our group live in the same city (Kingston, Ontario) but use two ISPs. Packets between users on the same ISP were fine but packets from one ISP to the other were being routed via
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by rdtennent 5y ago
My textbook https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/specifying-software/FC5... has a tutorial introduction to recursive descent.