SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Being a licensed engineer is not a requirement to being an "expert" in expert testimony. You are an expert if the court deems you an expert and the opposing counsel has agreed. Full stop. I think that the only thing an engineeri
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I find Times New Roman very bad in general. It was designed for one purpose: extreme horizontal compactness for narrow columns in newspapers. That function is almost obsolete at this point, and Times has poor legibility compared to wider
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> So, the popular web fonts (Arial, Verdana, Georgia, and Times New Roman) are such not only because of their wide availability, but because they are drawn with the screen’s limitations in mind. Um. Times New Roman was commissioned in 1
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Points of order. 1. The LinnDrum MidiStudio was never a product. The two appear to be similar but it'd be hard to claim one was a clone of the other. They seemingly differ in polyphony, sample resolution, and a wide variety of othe
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I have been told the following joke multiple times by former Iron Curtain denizens: Soviet citizen 1: Look at my new watch! Made right here! Soviet citizen 2: It's so beautiful, elegant, and small! Soviet citizen 1 [picking up two lar
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> He could have delegated the design of the first font for his TeX system to a professional type designer. Knuth started work on TeX's fonts about the same time that he began work on TeX and Metafont (1977-78). CM was largely comp
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> as well as a magic system incorporating “true names” of things, a concept used in many other fantasies such as Eragon. Er... also was a pretty important influence on one of the most important cyberpunk works of all time... https:&#x2F
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I like all of Earthsea. But what really surprised me about the Earthsea "trilogy" was how interesting the later three books were, and how much they subtly reflected, I suppose, changes in her philosophy about feminism and culture
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
So... no evidence at all then?
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
The WP is one of the most highly respected newspapers in the world. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Please provide your extraordinary evidence.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
When Reverb was bought by Etsy, they dramatically raised their fees with no real justification, and reduced the quality of their customer support. It has rather damaged their previously sterling reputation among musicians.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> It's a problem of scale. It's perfectly possibile to manage a few hundred disputes on a daily basis, but with >5000 uploads per minute, it becomes impossible to do manually. Nonsense. Assuming the revenue to Google incre
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Yes. Because music is both composed and performed, it has three primary copyright scenarios. 1. Print rights protect sheet music etc. from being copied. 2. Performance rights control whether your composed music can be performed. 3. Mechanic
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> Due in part to the destruction of the USD caused by the Fed. In small part. Inflation from 1955 to 2013 is almost exactly 9 times. That accounts for $495 million.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
The reason the dollar is a currency is because of the existence of a force (in this case, the Fed) that can tamp down speculation and deflation. Cryptocurrency doesn't have this, and that is its central failing.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Nope.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
12-note equal temperament is a reasonable local minimum but it is by no means the best in the sense of roughness: 31-note is better. Not to promote 31-note (which I do not use), but how is it that this article can arrive at 12-note in some
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> Slow down there bud. Where did I say that? If I miserepresented you, then I am sorry. > Unless you’re talking about AI/ML, then yes, university labs receive more from companies, than government funding agencies. This is simply
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
You seriously think that university research in the US is largely funded or driven by companies? This is utterly wrong. *Edit*. The question is why the united states has the "best research universities". That is a very general-
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
I was at the Pike Place Market Starbucks in Seattle and picked up a mug special to that shop for my (native Italian) wife. I took it home in DC and found it had a hairline fracture. No problem, I told her, and promptly called the Pike Pla
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Whataboutism. There's a massive difference between "no license is 100% unambiguous" and "BSD is maximally ambiguous".
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
No, nor MIT/X11. There is debate as to whether its wording might provide some protection through accident of history, but that's not how the law should work: a proper license is unambiguous.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
I am not familiar with the Tivoization issue, but v3 solves one showstopper problem with v2: v2 has no real patent release. To me this puts v2 in the same category as MIT/X11 and BSD: archaic licenses that no one should ever use except
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
??? It's even cheaper to remove the pedals and cranks from the kid's bike and to lower its saddle. Instant balance bike.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Did the Stasi also permit you to lawyer up with the ACLU and sue them in open court? What these FBI agents did, if true, was reprehensible. But surely we can come up with a better comparison than one of the most evil secret police regimes
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
All of the window title bars and the menu title bar are utterly wrong in design and format. What's going on with that? That's not at all how WWW.app looked. Why would this page intentionally change them?
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
DEC, SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, etc. were all proprietary. So they weren't Unix either?
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> Additionally you can still use the decades old Ctrl+A/Ctrl+E shortcuts almost everywhere These are in fact Emacs keybindings and they date from early NeXTstep. OS X inherited them from NeXT.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> In part for these reasons, DAWs are widely loved by their users and serve as a shining example of software making very little assumptions about the user’s creative workflows. Instead, DAWs accommodate numerous paths to reach a desired
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
The closest thing they'd be in English would be a Latin root. Some Chinese words are a single character, but most are multi-character, and like Latin roots, characters have a "meaning" associated with the set of words in w

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