SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 7y ago
Okay. So using the J.K. Rowling example: provide a plausible way that she could make money off of her writing, and particularly her first risky book, in the absence of copyright.
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
Right off the bat Joel makes what appears to be a very serious mistake regarding work for hire. His opening logic is as follows: - When you hire a contract photographer to make some pictures, he owns the copyright on those pictures even th
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
It's worth mentioning KIPR BotBall. There are three major STEM promoters in the guise of a robotics competition: Offerings from FIRST, competitions sponsored by Vex, and KIPR BotBall. FIRST is the most well known at this point, thank
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
I have the opposite opinion. US funding sources for science and engineering tend to be very government-heavy rather than industry-based; but in my experience those government grants, particularly DoD, emphasize research with specific pract
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
> Haskell, OCaml, probably F# too. Lisp has macros, read-macros, and eval. These things enable DSLs. You're saying strongly-typed functional languages have features of equivalent power for this purpose?
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
I have noticed Youtube's landing page to be quite slow to load compared to most other sites. I had assumed it was some stupidity in my low-bandwidth network connection: but I now wonder if Youtube's just getting killed by all of
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
> This looks pretty interesting and may well be an improvement over PCG[1]. Like this website, the PCG website also makes rather bold claims and has no peer review to back it up. What's the deal with this?
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
> In many applications there are negative consequences to your RNG being compromised. Witness the security researcher's mindset. RNGs aren't just used in security applications. A large chunk of RNG needs are in simulation. Sim
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
No peer review. There are many bold claims on this website. But you don't screw around with RNGs: they need to be right. Until this author's claims have been verified, I would not use this algorithm.
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
I did a bit of development for the Newton back when: I wrote Waba for the Newton (a JVM) and Hemlock. But I never could figure out why NewtonScript had two different inheritance paths. It seemed overly and unnecessarily complex. (1) Was
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
> It's not standard at all. There is absolutely no MIDI standard for the contents of a patch. I really don't know what you're thinking of. I think you may have misread what I had said. I didn't say that patches had t
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
> This makes no sense. Why? It's highly standard. About 90% of the synthesizers I've written patch editors for provide exactly this facility. In fact some (PreenFM2, Korg Microsampler, Futursonus Parva) provide only this f
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
> Most SYSEX dumps are just dumps of the plain ol' structs that the synth engines are using to drive their output. A lot of synths don't have the processing power to do more than just dump the struct. I don't think it&#x2
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
[For the benefit of HN: SysEx is a special manufacturer-specific MIDI message which is undefined, so a synth manufacturer can use it for whatever he wishes] I build a lot of open source patch editors for older synthesizers. My beef with Sy
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
Long ago I once attended a conference whose keynote presentation was by a group which was involved in DNA computing. They were talking about using a beaker of solution to compute a Hamiltonian cycle of length, I dunno, let's say 15.
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
I just bought a Choose Your Own Adventure book a few days ago: it has exactly this graph on its back cover now.
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
Recently Behringer, a musician's audio equipment manufacturer, teased a clone of the Wasp, a historic synthesizer. They copied the design language down to the original wasp icon as can be seen in this image. https://media.s
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
I imagine this was said in jest. But it's worth mentioning that Venice has sunk almost 10 inches in the last century. Even if water levels hadn't changed -- and of course they have -- Venice would still be facing serious probl
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
Going the other way. When I lived in Japan I would collect Japanese products with unfortunate English names or ad copy. And there were so many. "Angel Relief" cookies ("Relieve the Relief!"). Dunk Beer. Grape and Le
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
I came here to say just that.
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
> Patents are primarily about getting a limited time monopoly. Nope. Patents have always been about encouraging public disclosure of secrets. This has been the case since they were invented by the Venetians in order to break trade guil
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
I have a Korg Microsampler. It's a common music synthesizer (er, sampler) keyboard manufactured in 2009. The only way to upload and download samples to this device is via a piece of proprietary software made by Korg USA. Which is 32
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
No. This is an extraordinary bit of whataboutism, and requires extraordinary evidence. Please justify it with real, verifiable examples.
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
In fairness, neither of these guys was, at the time, spying.
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
Danny White, a resident of Washington, DC, had a similar problem: his vanity license plate read "NO TAGS", which happens to be what police there put down in the license plate slot for missing plates. https://www.google.
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
How so?
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
How are these genres being plotted? What are the axes? What are the text colors?
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
How does this differ from scheme-style continuations? IIRC, full continuations in the scheme sense of the term are currently impossible in Java as they require forbidden stack manipulation. Or is what's being proposed here something
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
I'm on Fi and get them all the time.
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
> Windows users have had no choice but to do that for decades. You're saying this like it's a good thing.

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