Optimal_Persona

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by Optimal_Persona 3y ago
Wilkinson inspired Hadley Wickham to articulate a Layered Grammar of Graphics embodied in his ggplot R visualization package. https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/layered-grammar.html
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by Optimal_Persona 3y ago
Pi + e sounds like a tasty summation!
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by Optimal_Persona 3y ago
Fascinating! The purring of cats is one of my favorite phenomena in the universe. It's amazing how such soft-bodied and relatively small creatures can create such a low fundamental effortlessly. And this article gives me some ideas for
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by Optimal_Persona 3y ago
You're absolutely correct! But in this case - part of what Lou Reed sold to the public since the very beginning of the Velvet Underground was a palpable contempt for mainstream notions of what was "acceptable" whether in term
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by Optimal_Persona 3y ago
My experience is 180 degrees the opposite. Had RSI and shoulder/neck issues for years until I threw away the external mouse & keyboard and committed to using a laptop in a standing position with a large monitor on a stand right abo
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by Optimal_Persona 3y ago
I dunno, pedestrians in the US legally have the right of way and most motorists and the occasional altruistic bicyclist recognize that and act accordingly-ish. I was in Amsterdam for the first time this year and quickly recognized that folk
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by Optimal_Persona 3y ago
I first came across Xah Lee's site years ago while trying to mitigate some mild RSI. At that time I saw he was an RSI sufferer and hardcore Emacs user. Over the years when I see an article by devs with chronic RSI, all I will say is t
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
FWIW in my East Bay neighborhood, I'm noticing in the last couple months it's taking closer to a week (rather than a day or 2) for "Coming Soon" real estate signs to change to "Sale Pending".
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
IME running IT and data reporting for a social service nonprofit, students/grads of local (SF Bay) CS/data programs who apply seem exposed mostly/only to shiny new tools not developed by Microsoft. IRL you still will have to
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
Well, it can't be cheap to allow Upper East Side socialite Serena van der Woodsen (played by his wife Blake Lively) to maintain the lifestyle to which she's accustomed ;-)
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
I think there is also a lot of pressure from funders to be the first to provide proof of a paradigm-breaking discovery, and tout it as a breakthrough before the claims can be verified. By chance, about a decade ago I met the lead researcher
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
+1 I work in publicly funded mental health and our responses to possible/actual HIPAA breaches are monitored very closely by our funders. So even if an event occurs that is not deemed to be an actual breach, if our response/invest
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
I work in public mental health and earlier today got my weekly Becker Hospital Review email, which contained info about the Federal Trade Commission issuing a statement expressing privacy concerns about the merger. Not sure whether these FT
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
I was gonna say the same, I went to DePaul music school with Jay before he was...assimilated. He may not have been the very first to have a virtuoso robot band, but he probably isn't far from it.
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
Darn it, I thought this would be pulling back the curtain on jazz guitarists and pianists! I am not a comper as described in the article, but during the pandemic I've saved a lot of money on all sorts of household items/toiletries
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
I always thought Textile was the superior Betamax to Markdown's VHS, but John Gruber's popularity is what helped Markdown take over.
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
Very cool! It's funny, over the years I've seen high-tech digital Roland accordions used in very trad venues where I wouldn't expect them. But TBH when I saw the thread I was expecting something a little more like Keith Cary&
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
I've seen some videos where Brian Eno is tweaking JavaScript code in Apple Logic DAW's scripting tool. But elsewhere I've seen Eno say, "With friends like Danny Hillis, there may not be much point in my learning to code
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
I have no horse in this race other than being a Docusign enterprise HIPAA plan customer for my org of ~150 people, but: IME Docusign is absolutely at the tiptop of product quality, documentation, and service for any SAAS company I've e
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
Heehee, my first thought reading the headline was Tony Levin's bald head...
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
lakecityquietpills.com. Oh, not that kind of contract work? Well then...My first stop when hiring extra help is a tech-focused temp agency, here in the SF Bay Area I've had outstanding luck with Robert Half. Their recruiters speak tech
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
Yeah, the classics are evergreen. Beyond Roads' Computer Music Tutorial, his Microsound is also a classic of the genre and IMO one of the best treatments I've seen of time-based artforms, situating compositional practice in betwee
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
At least they didn't name it after a very popular existing language and then tack "script" on the end...
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
Worth noting that the two great psychedelic alchemists - Albert Hofmann and Sasha Shulgin - conducted human tests with their own persons. It couldn't be otherwise..."Uh, Someone Who Isn't Me and their dog report that this stu
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
Says Dumitrescu, "I've been working on these theory ideas for over five years, and seeing them come actually to be realized in experiments is exciting." Wait, he only specified one of the time dimensions he's been workin
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
Thanks, you basically wrote what I was going to. In audio-production-land, the term DAW is generally understood to mean "real-time (single-digit ms latency) capable audio plugin host and audio/MIDI sequencer". Anything not ch
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
The advent of JavaScript endless scrolling was really disorienting for me, it made me realize I had an almost "Palace of Memory" approach to mentally categorizing online information by its navigation and page structure before then
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
Also wondering what parent means...IMO the Boss form factor is by far the best of any mass market pedals from the '80s. Indestructible footswitch the width of the pedal, thumbscrew for battery compartment access, easy to AC power, larg
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
Thanks for the links! The Boss BF-2 is my all-time favorite modulation pedal, my brother got one new in the late '80s and I somehow ended up with it for the last 25 years. It's one of the few modulation pedals that sounds great on
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by Optimal_Persona 4y ago
Well, if Amazon spun off AWS they would have no choice but to treat all the retail-side issues (counterfeit goods, BS reviews, garbage search results, shoddy delivery subcontracts, facilitating the sale of stolen merchandise, warehouse work

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