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by ssttoo 5d ago
For rethinking the Luddite movement I recommend the book Blood in the Machine (I think I learned about it here on HN)
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by ssttoo 22d ago
And written the same day she wrote Jolene
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by ssttoo 1mo ago
These pencils are sort of an “industry standard” for folks who write (or annotate) music because you can be fast with low effort due to their softness. And also easy to erase since you didn’t damage the paper, there’s no need to press hard
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by ssttoo 2mo ago
Looking at the first example [1] looks like there is high pass, low pass, and two more “cuts” [1] https://github.com/AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation/b...
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by ssttoo 2mo ago
No VPN just home, in California
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by ssttoo 2mo ago
And, I noticed yesterday, old.reddit.com now requires login. Which renders a blank page on my phone. Check and mate.
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by ssttoo 2mo ago
I don’t know about the brain but it’s good for the final results in my experience coding, writing and composing (orchestral music). The results are better and it takes less time if I start with pen and paper before “committing” to the compu
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by ssttoo 3mo ago
Is the burden of proof on me, the developer? Do I need to prove in perpetuity that I didn’t get a job or a free flight to talk at a conference because of my free software? (Which had a flaw that hurt someone)
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by ssttoo 4mo ago
IIRC Facebook switched to HG from SVN in the 2010s, one (main?) motivator being that the single repo was getting too big and svn’s only way was to start splitting it up. Which was against the philosophy of openness of the single repo. No id
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by ssttoo 4mo ago
I recently skipped a concert at the YouTube theater in LA because my phone is too old for Ticketmaster or Hollywood Park apps. Even though you can go and buy a ticket at the box office they have to send you the ticket to the app. No option
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by ssttoo 5mo ago
It was so popular in studios to use an old Yamaha ns10 speaker as a kick (bass) drum mic that now Yamaha started making and selling an “official” version. I personally used a toy guitar amp for this purpose https://music.stoyans
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by ssttoo 5mo ago
Will the app work on it? Also will you need a $xx/month cell phone subscription plan? With a credit check and everything?
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by ssttoo 6mo ago
A friend was about to start this Monday. Last week Oracle called to rescind their offer
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by ssttoo 7mo ago
I just wish we’d stop with the “unreasonable” click-bite. Cheapens an otherwise excellent article, like “7 x (number 6 will surprise you)” of yesteryear
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by ssttoo 7mo ago
Excellent! For a music project of mine I found MusGlyph [1] which is also all about ligatures, like typing ssss for 4 beamed sixteenth notes. There are some ligatures I need that are not in the font, I contacted the author and he encouraged
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by ssttoo 7mo ago
Add Bulgaria too. I liked Illusions but a good friend of mine was simply in love with it, bought and gave copies to everyone. And for his birthday last year I almost gave him a signed copy of the Seagull I saw at a local second hand booksho
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by ssttoo 7mo ago
Just pushed another update to https://sightread.org which generates sheet music to practice sight reading and music dictation. Still rhythm-only, now with support for asymmetric (odd) rhythms like 7/8
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by ssttoo 8mo ago
Ha, I was just playing with making a simple pad in webaudio and it evolved into a progression-playing backing track tool (vanilla html/js/css page). It would appear there are a lot of us in the Venn intersection of programmer&#x2F
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by ssttoo 8mo ago
Not only US. A friend’s flight was late and about to land in Munich after the airport closes. So they had to land at a different airport and then take the train to Munich.
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by ssttoo 8mo ago
There’s the weird incentive for schools to appear selective. That’s why UCSD would rather reject great candidates because chances are they’ll go to the likes of Harvard. Why accept candidates that will ultimately go elsewhere? Better to be
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by ssttoo 8mo ago
> to make sure V8 doesn't optimize out something too much A bit more explanation of “something” and ”too much“ would have been educational
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by ssttoo 9mo ago
I’ve published several books with them. Only once I asked and they managed to find the beast. They didn’t promise but they did deliver.
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by ssttoo 10mo ago
He also designed a Facebook’s office in Menlo Park. The roof was literally a park, seemingly blending with the bay and you could go for a nice nature stroll mid-day by just going up a flight of stairs. https://arquitecturaviva.c
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by ssttoo 10mo ago
Yup, it’s web performance advent calendar in its 17th edition. I’m the maintainer, AMA. Also still accepting contributions for this year.
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by ssttoo 10mo ago
Let me add also Blindness by José Saramago, it has pages-long paragraphs and sentences, characters have no names just descriptions… it’s surprising at first but not hard to get into. Amazing book!
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by ssttoo 10mo ago
https://SightRead.org - free, ad-free, etc, vanilla js (except for the abcjs notation library) web app to practice sight reading. Currently rhythm-only, but more is planned.
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by ssttoo 11mo ago
I recently started exploring supplements. Turns out a lot of what you find in the likes of CVS and Whole Foods can be all over the map: from 0 of the actual ingredient to 10x what’s on the label. Current consensus on reputable brands seems
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by ssttoo 11mo ago
Meta.ai (at least its WhatsApp version) has been really ghosting me lately. For example I asked “what’s CA prop 50?”. Answer: > Thanks for asking. For voting information, select your state or territory at https://www.usa.gov&#
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by ssttoo 11mo ago
Lovely! Couple questions… - where did you get the noises, are they your own recordings? - how hard it is to support earlier iOS? For folks like me who are on older phones that cannot be upgraded anymore (iOS 16 personally)
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by ssttoo 1y ago
Ha, I was just recently thinking about what you do with attention in different languages. In my native Bulgarian (обръщам внимание) you “turn” your attention as in you “direct” it. Same word for when you turn a page. Like you have but a sin

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