PaulDavisThe1st

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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
to make the list closer to complete, magit in emacs allows this (Ctrl-space on the line, done).
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
The per-line staging in magit is a frequent tool I use. I can be in the middle of bunch of other changes, change 1 line for a different reason that would otherwise be "mid-hunk", and the stage & commit it with its own explanat
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
"Chords" is definitely the wrong word to use if you mean "voice leading and counterpoint" or more generally, western tonal music theory. And yes, that theory is highly localized in both time and space.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
This just isn't true. Try listening to any deep ambient, and you'll be hearing (a) instruments with filter cutoffs in use (b) chords (c) no percussion (d) no lead. Again, Roach's "Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces" is
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
This is really not true. Firstly, "western electronic music" covers an enormous range, from still, wall-of-sound ambient to four-on-the-floor EDM to music that sounds like any other but is generated using electronic/digital i
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
I personally consider this to be a better intro, albeit in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl6ZcY9ag This is a more recent paper (2019) that I think is better constructed and more aware of the in-field work th
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
That's a great line from the professor. Really great. Also, other traditions focus on melody over harmony (e.g. Carnatic and Hindustani), although they have to consider harmony as a by-product of polyphonic music (i.e. more than 1 inst
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
You made a very specific claim that more risk == lower price. That isn't true as a general rule, though it may be true much of the time.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
> Summer vs winter, add a couple extra My 6.7kW system produces 2.5 what we need in the summer, and 0.5 of what we need in the winter (even though its output here in New Mexico is relatively constant). Adding a couple extra is going to
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
Much too simple. Most "risks" have an upside and a downside. In this case, for example, the solar PV system may be working better or worse than the (potential) buyer initially comes to understand. We have huge industries based on
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
> You're ignoring that adding non-copyrightable code to a collection of copyrightable code makes the collection copyrightable. That is true for public domain code. It is not true (at this time) for machine generated code.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
What aspect of copyright law do we not understand?
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
I have no particular problem with this decision/policy on the part of Codeberg. I do have an issue with their "tainted code" project that labels various FLOSS projects as "AI tainted". ardour.org has the follow AI p
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
> It seems unlikely to me that the PTO would declare that a software project that heavily utilized an AI-based advanced autocomplete would make it not copyrightable. Why would they have different rules for one potentially copyrightable m
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
Not sure why you'd expect anything except a list like to be of "any value". It's like, say, talk.politics.theory back in the Usenet days. For a while it was fun, and then it wasn't. Too big, too wide .. it killed
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
> Apparently it's just due to Linux not having a native passkey implementation. Excuse me? The infrastructure for "an apps is trying to login with a private/public key pair, and right now it needs the private key to encryp
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
The other Naomi, Naomi Klein, wrote an entire book that uses Wolf's "transformation" as a structural scaffold to explore the rise of the new right/MAGA etc. etc. It's called "Doppelganger".
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
For the DAW tool, just run Blender on top of JACK/Pipewire and use Ardour to get sample-accurate synchronization between the two, and all the features of both, without compromise.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
> > And right now already, the web has sort of stagnated, people's idea of it has really focused down to the stuff the technicians have given This comment has not aged well at all.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
> I am pretty sure it will become industry standard at some point. I remember people saying this in 2004. Blender is widely used in "the industry" (whatever that industry is). What is has really accomplished in terms of "t
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
In the late 80s I was working at Rabbit Software in Malvern PA (they made IBM 3270 terminal emulator software). I used to car pool to work from Phila. with a brilliant woman who was a lot older than me, and had a solid lifetime of IBM mainf
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
Some years ago, I heard that a rough metric for regular athletics: humans slow down by about 5% for each doubling of the distance. If that is accurate even between 100m and the mile, then extrapolating the world 100m record (9.58 seconds) o
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
> But I just hate this idea that truth and facts are no longer real, they're just "directions". There's another way to look at this which is just as pernicious, and you've already mentioned it. That's the id
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
1. if FTL is achievable, then presumably it isn't limited to 1.00000000001 x C 2. I like to think about the size of the universe by always remembering that with the naked eye, on a good night, there's only a single object in the
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
It is not theorizing to say "a company with $N of revenue and ($N - $1) of operating costs is essentially broke". Of course, the whole point is that you typically would have no idea of the numbers unless the books are open and inc
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
Ah, indeed, I read that line backwards ("excluding" got transmuted to "including"). Right you are.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
Again, I suspect that the problem isn't the size of your rent payment, it's the size of your paycheck (which is not your fault, but that of your employer, our government(s) and The System (TM)).
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
I don't agree with your characterization of "human nature". I mostly disagree that there is any such thing, and to the extent that there is, it seems to me that it is more like: cooperative, altruistic, empathic within the in
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
Please tell me more. It is acknowledged as not covering some costs that affect many people severely. But that does not by itself make it a bullshit number.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
Let me suggest the problem: CPI inflation suggests a rough doubling of basic living costs. How many jobs can you point to that are paying 2x in 2026 what they were paying in 2000? There are some . But the data seems to suggest that the maj

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