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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Hmph. I always thought of Wingdings as an unimaginative version of Susan Kare's Cairo, sans dogcow.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Pretty sure that's not how the law works.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Doesn't this mean that Google has violated the DMCA and you can sue/fine them?
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> Lastly, as a result of this mishmash of legal, industry, general-intellectual-property, and general-use terms, it isn’t clear whether The MIT License includes a patent license. The general language “deal in” and some of the example ver
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
I am spooked about LACK as a rack: its legs are far from made of strong material, and wood screws are very likely to tear out with a sufficiently heavy rackmount item. I'm not talking big servers; just small music synthesizers would b
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
It depends on the drug. Under my insurance, I get certain drugs for $0.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> all seem to be incredible people who are committed to do good Gates and Zuckerberg were far from models of piety in how they came into their fortune.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Of course. I'm just saying that while cultures have been cobbling together collections of stuff since time immemorial -- doubtless there were archives much older than these -- the really interesting innovation didn't occur unti
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
These were not libraries in the modern sense so much as private archives, owned and controlled by religious orders or royalty and only available to a select few. The oldest public library in the world, as far as I know, is the Biblioteca
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
A nice article, but one nitpick. The authors repeatedly describe Apple's approach as "non-standard" when what they mean is "not what Linux does". That's pretty grating. It's also worth mentioning that i
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
... as an embarrassing relic of a former monarchy.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> Laws protecting against insulting of government institutions exist in most countries of the world ??? Lese-majeste largely exists as an embarassing relic of a few European monarchies and former monarchies and in several thuggish middl
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
I have an only barely related story involving McDonalds and social behavior, but if he can meander, so can I, right? Back around 1990 I was working in a (then industrial) part of Hong Kong called Tsuen Wan. I would regularly go to McDonald
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
This simply isn't true. These are two different organizations.
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You're citing a news article from 1977 as your counterpoint?
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
There's basically no science in this "science-based how-to". This was the article which started the flaxseed oil cast-iron fad. I think that has now faded: apparently flaxseed oil has a tendency to deteriorate and flake off
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> I thought you were suggesting that the jagged, stair-step output of a DAC is what causes aliasing, which is a common misconception. Oh, heavens no. Just describing the naive way to draw a square wave in PCM.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Of course it's a digital signal. It's a PCM array. If what you mean is "the artifact isn't 'aliasing' until it finally goes through the DAC", my answer to you is: that's a useless and counterproducti
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> No; the first Buchla oscillator, the 158, did indeed have linear FM. Could you point to an authoritative source on this? The Model 100 owner's manual says this about the 158: "The frequency modulation control require an ext
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Ah yes, that's right. The I sin Beta t is I sin(beta t), not I sin(Beta) t.
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Well, remember the DX7 was 12 bit.
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Ah, then move along.
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All right, mister fancypants. I decide to create a sawtooth signal by repeatedly drawing a diagonal line, then a vertical line in my digital PCM sample array. It looks like a sawtooth when I plot it, but the sound that comes out doesn&#x2
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> FM synthesis, as such, was not new. The Buchla synthesizer featured it in the 60's. But the critical feature of FM synthesis that made it usable as a musical element was linear FM. Early synthesizers (like, I presume Buchla&#x2
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> That's not what aliasing means. ?? Aliasing doesn't just happen when you're converting an analog signal to a digital one. It can also be introduced when you're manually building or converting a digital signal w
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
That's an amazing claim. Try drawing what would appear to be a perfect square wave in a digital wave. Up, flat, down, flat. Guess what: you've just introduced enormous amounts of aliasing.
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You'd think that making a fully digital square or sawtooth wave would be trivial compared to this, but in fact it's much, much more difficult because the digital wave must avoid aliasing, an issue the analog wave generator needn
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> Yamale’s tox.ini, for example, depends upon two different versions of Python, 3.6 and 3.8. What? It seems to me that this awful design choice is root of the problem, and not MacOS at all.
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Well, there's the spice.
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> Software people can't even effectively specify the performance requirements of the artifacts that they produce. This is Real Scottsman nonsense. Algorithms can be easily tested, and can be modified and optimized to meet a host of

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