SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> That movie was pretty good, but it would’ve been great if it had been thirty minutes shorter. For me the canonical example of a movie that didn't know when to quit was A.I. Artificial Intelligence . There were at least four poin
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
This used to be true for English as well.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
You can't fathom a situation where a German website would need or want to have a drop-down for English speakers in Germany? Because that's clearly where this came from.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
The inclusion of this one: https://genders.wtf/gender/mrs-prof-dr/ ... indicates that the webmaster has never been to Germany etc. These are titles, not genders. In some countries the titles "Mrs.", &
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
#1 on my list has got to be the myriad of LaTeX-writers who think that math variables can be longer than a single letter. That is, they write things like: $foo + bar$ ... not realizing that LaTeX is typesetting these to imply f ti
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Wasn't purchased in 2022 but I was just now talking to my wife about how great a purchase this had proven over the years. A Black Condor T&T Pouch. I tossed the map insert in the middle, the drawstrings inside, and the Molle att
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> Audiophiles might point out that analog audio sources can theoretically hold details you can't hear in digital. This is true because values in analog media are continuous. Over imperceptibly short periods of time, the numbers that
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Already posted and discussed heavily here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34254766
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I will remember Creative as the company that purchased two of the greatest music synthesizer companies, E-Mu and Ensoniq, merged them, and then destroyed them.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I think it's fair to say that NeXTSTEP is considered to be extraordinary for its time, and one of the most influential GUIs in history. When NeXTSTEP 0.8 came out in 1989, here's what it
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
That is an astonishingly bold claim with, I suspect, no evidence to back it up.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
MIDI having been at "version 1.0" for 40 years is kind of a fib. Sure, the MIDI association never changed the number, but MIDI has undergone numerous revisions since 1.0 was established, including: LSB+MSB CC values, NRPN and RP
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Roland and Sequential. Otherwise, point well made.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> Second, why does the Senate have the ability to force the Union to accept a resolution? This is clearly not the case in other industries. It isn't? I think it is.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I fear that this may actually be very bad news. He's also shutting down the website. Tom is 94.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
An entire story lionizing Hot Wheels as historic and seminal and without once noting that the entire brand was created as a cheaper and lower quality knockoff of Matchbox, founded 15 years earlier.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I'm fairly confident that MIDI 2.0 is already dead. I really don't like to say that. It was designed by a large industrial committee, in secret, with no transparency and no input from other interested parties. The opposite of MI
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Waldorf's been doing this since at least the Microwave II/XT, circa 1997. Not positive they had the memory to avoid bricking at that time.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Most Waldorf synthesizers are updated just by sending MIDI sysex to them. The same goes for nearly all DSI/Sequential machines, as well as M-Audio and Novation, among many other manufacturers.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
The baud rate chosen was extremely well thought out compared to the crazytalk that are standard serial port baud rates. Specifically, the rate was 31250 bps. Why? Because the huge majority of synthesizer processors at the time had clock
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I have an unusual folding bike. It's a Bike Friday Tikit, and basically has a Steal Me sign attached to it. But it also can be folded extremely rapidly and covered with a custom built-in cover so it looks like, oh, a tuba case. My ant
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
A fair while back a startup in Rome that I am very familiar with had lots of fun setting up there. They were a highly scrupulous group, and besides they were going after government contracts, so they paid all of their taxes and regulatory
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> They posted it because he collapsed and died You missed the point. He's [rightly] complaining about substack.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
None of this comment makes any sense at all. MacBooks can be bought with tons of software preinstalled (or did you mean it's missing apt-get? Try brew). And the mouse/touchpad are as good as it gets.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I see, for the Mac Studio 2022. But the other two (the Macbook and Mini) are intel native. What's confusing here is he clearly says "After we had a functioning universal binary, we ran benchmarks and conducted manual tests to see
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Weren't they comparing native M1 code against native Intel machines? No emulation anywhere.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I came to say exactly this: in my opinion the site's choice was very obviously wrong.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Did you see the part about selling to kids who don't have much money?
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I'm not saying it'd be good for anyone. I'm just saying that it seems Wales is playing with fire.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
What is surprising about all this is that it wouldn't take much effort at all to get fed up and fork Wikipedia. Surely Wales and company understand this danger.

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