SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 7y ago
I'm sure that my kids will certainly love to hear that they have to learn Unix in order to learn a build system in order to try out Python. It's all part of the "learning process for newbies."
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
> (think yamaha dx7) More properly, think Yamaha TX81Z + filter.
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
This is nonsense. San Marino is almost entirely dependent on tourism from Italy, and is very, very heavily trafficked. This list seems to be based on some arbitrary absolute value and not on rate.
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
> A name for the state of Georgia Where is "The Republic of Georgia" documented as a common name for Georgia? "The Republic of Georgia" was the name of the country Georgia prior to the breakup of the USSR.
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by SeanLuke 7y ago
> The Republic of Georgia What is this?
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Midimutant is an evolutionary resynthesis system. These have been around for about a quarter century but I think they've not proven very helpful. There is another way to let the machines do the work: interactive evolution. Brian Eno
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
C-SPAN
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Call me highly skeptical. Every reference I've seen to this claim seems to point back to usbkill.com making it itself. The problem is: optoisolators are very slow. Building one which goes faster than 12Mbps would be nontrivial; I do n
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Why?
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
I see. RND returns a float.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Why the 205.5? Why wouldn't this work as 205 + RND(1)?
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
It's worth considering the source of this article.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
I myself was struck by how ugly the hyphenation looked because the hyphens (and periods, and commas, and semicolons, and quotation marks) didn't poke outside the margin slightly to make the perceived margin straight. Even with a greed
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
> Studio-quality analog has had better than CD-quality audio since the late 50s (lower noise, more headroom). I believe you're referring to dynamic range, that is, the ratio between the loudest possible sound and sound level which d
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
??? Stanford is definitely not an Ivy League school.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
This feels intuitively like it's closely associated with some measure of the Komolgorov complexity of a passage.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
I don't know what the results really were but: > it found that more men than women were receiving less money for doing similar work NY Times needs to learn the difference between absolute numbers and rates. This is awful reporting.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
I think Arlington would disagree with you.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
or ed! Wait, I don't think I'm helping your case.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Connecting a controller keyboard to a laptop isn't an issue because it shares power and ground with the laptop. But synths on separate power are another issue entirely. For example, the Waldorf Blofeld has a USB MIDI connection; I at
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Not even remotely.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
USB has a huge problem compared to MIDI cables: it's not optoisolated. That alone almost takes it out if the running for controlling synths via laptops.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
It seems to me that the Minilogue XD is just a stripped down Prologue. The Prologue is fairly prosaic (and largely analog, since we were talking about digital) -- being largely 8 Monologues in a box. Except for one item, the programmabl
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
You're just describing stage keyboards. I'll grant you that there is zero innovation there. But that's because the customers in that market want a very simple thing which is essentially a commodity, to which the market has
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
The Volt's gas engine also engages directly with the wheels under some circumstances.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
Pareto's law. You optimize the few parts that matter speedwise, and the rest you can do in ordinary "higher level, garbage collected" fashion. In C++ you can't do that. This is the standard argument for Lisp type-opti
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
I got the syntax right? Was completely guessing.
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
I'm interested in this simple closure code from the article: function getGetNext() { let i = 2; return function getNext() { const next = i; i = i * 2; return next; } } As
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
My understanding is that the Times is getting in trouble for this claim. Kevin Drum, who actually used earlier word processors, described it thus: "Berezin didn’t invent the concept of word processing; or the term 'word processin
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by SeanLuke 8y ago
In the 1980s an engineer named Dave Smith, who ran a very popular music synthesizer outfit called Sequential Circuits, proposed an open protocol for connecting music synthesizers. The idea was scoffed at by a number of manufacturers, but r

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