SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Hmmm, did i use the words "must" or "never"? Essentially no media outlet is reporting on it. At all. Heck, the link provided to HN is directly from the PR of the legal firm itself: that would be the definition of an
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
CPS could well be the spawn of Satan. But with the exception of a minor (Breitbart-like rag) Tennessee Star article, 100% of the references I can find on the Google appear to be postings and promotions from Pacific Legal and its partner, t
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Links to references are entirely broken in Firefox on the PNAS website. Does nobody test for these things?
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I see nothing in that link that suggests anything of the sort. The problem Amanda Knox faced -- and I presume this is really boiling down to her -- is that Italy doesn't have double jeopardy. So the prosecutor kept retrying her, and t
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
So Mexico is highly ranked and Italy is near the bottom? Sure, Italy is drowning in red tape, but bureaucracy in Mexico is greased with corruption. And by nearly any quality of life measure I can think of, Italy is far, far ahead of Mexic
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I think Hong Kong can pull this off in part because so much of the city is long thin corridors which can be nearly entirely serviced by the metro, commuter train, by light rail in the new territories (and I guess the cable car). This cover
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
It might be worth mentioning a famous abdication which caused a lot of consternation, albeit in another game. I love this story but may have gotten some details wrong. Marion Tinsley was world checkers champion from 1955-1958, then took a
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Okay, so the author thinks the Medici thing is a myth (I think his contemporaries do not). But I presume the oddly nationalistic Britishness of the article is the reason why it completely skips over the fact that ice cream as we know it no
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I'm guessing this is in reference to a famous math problem, open for quite a long time, posed in the paper "Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?" by Mark Kac. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_the_shape_
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Trademarks are registered under specific categories of commerce. It's within those categories that trademark confusion can be argued. Comcast has like 50 trademarks (look them up on TESS), and they impact on everything from cable to i
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> Lisp does have statements, such as `setf` or `loop`. Just because you also attach an expression to it because hey, gotta evaluate to something, doesn't mean it's not fundamentally a statement. I think the general consensus i
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
To be honest, I think Athena and X have had very little influence. X's GUI design (and the Athena widget set) was entirely derivative of the Lisa/Mac interface. The notion of a client-server GUI system -- a historic extension o
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Ask yourself why Lisp has no statements. Is it impossible to issue orders to the Lisp runtime?
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I was dumbfounded to find NeXTSTEP missing: it was among the very most influential GUIs in history. Much of 95's UI (and OS/2's UI) were stolen directly from it, and badly, right down to icons. This page also seems to focus
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Analog synths have tons of chips in them.
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To have a graph, in general, you have to have multiple directed edges from a given object. A cons does not offer this, and the best you could do would be to treat cons cells in a extremely convoluted way as binary hypergraph nodes. You s
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
How so? The cons data structure only points to a single object. You could do singly-linked lists and trees (only with kids pointing to parent) and that's about it, right? And I guess simple loops?
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I disagree. It's true that Casio developed its own digital synthesis approach as it couldn't do FM. But this was true of Kawai (additive, hybrid single cycle, then PCM), Ensoniq (hybrid single cycle), Roland (single cycle + PCM)
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
No. Frequency Modulation is literally the first derivative of Phase Modulation: so for all intents and purposes they're the same thing. Nearly everyone uses PM -- especially Yamaha -- because it's rather easier to implement and
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> This undersells the CS-80. It had polyphonic aftertouch, which most synths don't have today. Vangelis using poly aftertouch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoEkyBX7qsg The CS-80 also famously had a touch strip,
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> "We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be gran
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Well... Sean Astin was Rudy.
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> I've just been doing some repairs on an old deck and all the hardware is square. I don't think I've ever seen a square screw/bolt before moving to North America... This sounds like Robertson, which is uniquely Cana
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I want to give a shoutout to a similar but much nerdier design, which is no longer sold. Kenmore (rebadged as De'Longhi) used to make a single long-slot toaster with an adjustable width all the way out to about 2 inches. I have one.
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Sure, but how many of them have 82 copies of the 1623 First Folio? https://www.folger.edu/collection-materials
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I am also a long-term pianist. I have always heard it categorized as percussion. That being said, percussion isn't necessarily the most useful category of a piano for purposes of physical modeling: after all, it's just a travel
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Wait, wait, wait. This entire webpage has examples of ASCII art, and yet 100% of the examples are bitmaps ?
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This was a case study with no control group. Case studies are, IMHO, close to useless. Having read the study, I'm not impressed. No attempt was made to compare Minneapolis with peer cities as controls, that is, ones which did not inc
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I don't think there's any reasonable comparison except for transliterated foreign words. Latin roots seem the closest metaphor.
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> Now, the Han characters are ideographs. This is not a phonetic script; individual characters represent words. [At least in Chinese] Characters represent parts of words. Some basic words consist of just one character, but others cons

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