BigTTYGothGF

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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
Lots of deans and college presidents asking themselves the same question.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
We as a society seem to have done OK without onion futures for these past 70 years, makes you wonder what other futures trading we could do without.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
There's a lot of people in this thread who see "North Korea" and "nuclear test" and get fired up but would otherwise shrug if it were instead, say, "Oklahoma" and "fracking". The supplemental inf
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
Never has been: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_South_K...
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
For a more detailed analysis from an Indo-Europeanist with a Greek background: https://consultingphilologist.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/how-m...
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
I thought the Thracians spoke an IE language.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
I am a (former) mathematician and know many more. > Maybe mathematicians are smart enough to never ever buy such piece of shit on higher principle They are not. Mathematicians are as human as most of the rest of us here.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
> The kind of rampant, commoditized consumerism where we routinely snub our noses at and throw away perfectly useful goods is a rather recent trend. By and large the kids already have perfectly useful goods but no room for more.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
LAPACK doesn't do sparse systems. (On the other hand, I skimmed the article and this might be a banded system, which LAPACK can handle).
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
I get that one saves a few characters over base64, but does that actually translate into any meaningful difference to the filesystem?
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
> I read many years ago that psychedelics are what lead to the formation of consciousness I have never taken psychedelics but I believe myself to be conscious.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
Also quarter step bends in guitar and vibrato in general.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
That's clearly not what was meant, even without the context of this following bit: > To describe tones that exist in music, we can describe tones that exist on a piano. There are only two rules: > the first key must play a tone o
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
> It's all about the integers modulo 12. Only in 12TET.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
Because of circumstances I was involved in running several birthday parties for children these past few years. All of them had pinatas. In my experience: > Adults hate them This is absolutely not the case.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
> On my own it often takes me 5-10 minutes just to figure out how to phrase something simple clearly You need more practice doing it (with your brain, not the model).
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
Meanwhile someone went and did the experiment on the equivalent problem in a virus: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mutate-em-all-and-...
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
Most of those are variable names. The rest: > Why a melody wants to land where it lands is still mostly opaque to me > A key, its diatonic chords, a progression, those chords broken into an arpeggio one note at a time, and a melody
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
Vampires aren't any more fantastical than FTL travel, and yet we're perfectly happy to have that in SF.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
> Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. .... 100% That's certainly a revealing example. TTLS is entirely melody, and the article says basically nothing about melody. At a stretch you could say "the article talks about the major scale,
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
"Seem" is doing a lot of work there.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
> But what about At the very least your dog stands a good chance of being put down.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
Wiki suggests otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjū
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
Ah, the good old "outside agitators" canard. > These new AI data centers are now built with their own power generation capacity And now you've got all the noise and pollution from that to deal with.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
Well, was he? I mean, I never heard of him, but all I know about the Chinese internet from those years I got from reading China Smack.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
It's a big world, and I personally don't know anything about the history of software in places other than the west. Could you expand on the particulars of software in China and why those claims are wrong?
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
> good thing it's completely illegal for the federal government to interfere with state voting proceedure Oh yeah that'll stop them.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
400 years ago you'd be saying the same thing about heliocentrism.
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
I'm having trouble understanding the situation here. Could you expand?
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by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
> My point is more that as a middle aged dude that grew up reading, the current publishing industry feels awfully hostile to me. I too am a middle aged dude who grew up reading and I think there's a simple explanation for that feeli

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