yoctonaut

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by yoctonaut 4mo ago
This is delightful. I replaced the battery on my 2011 MBA some years ago, but it's been sitting (replaced for family use by a Framework). You're inspiring me to do something with it.
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by yoctonaut 6mo ago
Kyle Gann's Arithmetic of Listening goes deeply into this. Given an infinite number of ways of dividing the range from f to 2f , some other equal-division temperaments (31 or 53, for example) get closer than 12TET to maintaining l
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by yoctonaut 2y ago
> There is no "why it's worth reading". On the contrary--every individual reader gets to determine this. I found that it wasn't.
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by yoctonaut 2y ago
This seems to have been written with the assumption that everyone will share the writer's understanding of why it's worth reading.
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by yoctonaut 2y ago
That's surprising and alarming. Thank you for bringing that up, though!
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by yoctonaut 4y ago
Perhaps not: https://www.oprfhs.org/news/1742090/statement-regarding-grad...
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by yoctonaut 5y ago
The Jack Johnson outtakes with Sonny Sharrock were a revelation to me. Well worth seeking those out.
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by yoctonaut 5y ago
He worked with a lot of white musicians and arrangers. In the 1962 Playboy interview, he famously said, "I think prejudice one way is just as bad as the other way. I wouldn't have no other arranger but Gil Evans -- we couldn&#x27
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by yoctonaut 7y ago
Alex Wellerstein, author of the NYer article, has a bit more info on his blog ( http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2016/05/23/the-blue-flash/ ), including an answer to the question of what happened to the core
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by yoctonaut 10y ago
A lot of good advice here. Whenever I was laid off, I tried to send out a minimum of ten new contact emails a day. (Longest layoff, two months. Shortest was 14 days.) Make sure that you sign up for unemployment compensation immediately--s
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by yoctonaut 10y ago
With the title "Cold Email Opening Lines," I was half-expecting things like "I don't care if you live or die," or "Millennia from now, when the sun engulfs the earth, nothing we do now will have mattered. Buy m
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by yoctonaut 11y ago
I'm 90% sure that there's a lot of Boontling in Pynchon's novel _Vineland_, set in northern CA, though I haven't seen a full glossary. This one doesn't mention it, but as I recall, a "Wheeler" is a tall t
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by yoctonaut 11y ago
This is great. I see it as more about the aesthetics than about airtight security, anyway. As an aesthetic project, it's perfect. Well done.
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by yoctonaut 11y ago
I disagree with the writer's conclusion that one should't mention other interviews or other offers. In my most recent search (after a layoff), my best leads were two companies who'd gotten in touch while I had been with my f
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by yoctonaut 11y ago
Perec's _Life, a User's Manual_ is an inspiration. Meticulously structured, continually mysterious, always several steps ahead of you, and yet it doesn't beat you over the head with how "clever" it is. Highly reco
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by yoctonaut 11y ago
Are you referring to the hammer mechanism clicks? (They're rhythmic, along with the notes, as opposed to random noise.) I think the exposed mechanism makes that sound more present in the recording. The outer body of a conventional pi
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by yoctonaut 12y ago
From the Safari console: SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<' [ace.js:0] ReferenceError: Can't find variable: ace TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'this.state.editor.getSession') Aha
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by yoctonaut 12y ago
(Nearly) full text of what Steve said here: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/17/steve-albinis-k...
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by yoctonaut 12y ago
When a company I worked for tried Joyent for hosting, I found it strange that Joyent's own package manager didn't offer the latest stable version--in fact, their confusingly named plans at that time came installed with a few diffe
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by yoctonaut 12y ago
Same error here, with the same empty response, followed by {"name":"RqlDriverError","msg":"Object field 'id' may not be undefined","message":"Object field 'id' may
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by yoctonaut 12y ago
I have to say I was kind of hoping someone had replaced the Helvetica Neue with the old bitmap San Francisco face.
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by yoctonaut 12y ago
I managed to get (first name)@(popular).com, and man, it's a core sample into what a bunch of people all over the world are doing. Signing up for cable or satellite tv, buying iPads/iPhones, sending each other family photos, orde
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by yoctonaut 12y ago
It depends on the nature of your project(s) and the data you want to store, as well as what you want to do with it. If you're storing and retrieving things that make sense as persistent documents with JSON-like structures, sure. If y
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by yoctonaut 12y ago
Very nice work--great textures and atmosphere. Thanks for sharing it! If you're ever inclined toward a productivity challenge, you might want to check out http://weeklybeats.com (not my site, but I am a participant). The
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by yoctonaut 12y ago
This is a really great idea--bravo, xtrmntr! Are you traversing a SoundCloud playlist, or pulling randomly based on tags? It's quite cool. If the police feeds are too dramatic, there's that excellent (archival) NASA audio one as