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by Uhhrrr 3y ago
Gradus ad Parnassum of Johann Joseph Fux http://www.opus28.co.uk/Fux_Gradus.pdf
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
Cold War relevance, maybe?
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
Eh, some will pivot and some will die, like always. Maybe it's a good way for YC/HN to find out which things don't work, in a short span of time.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
I showed my younger kid some stupid JavaScript tricks in the browser developer console and he was off to the races, looking up how to make splashy buttons and the like. So I got them the "Get Coding" books, which are HTML/Jav
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
An LLM will happily hallucinate a plausible-looking answer for you, with correct spelling and grammar.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
This makes me wonder: how many of the books I grew up with had already been bowdlerized?
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
But much of the Protocols was taken from an anti-Napoleon III tract which doesn't mention Jews at all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dialogue_in_Hell_Between... So just talking about conspiracies isn't
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
If you put "Musk" in the headline you get more clix.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
When I first discovered it, I listened to it in an airport on a Discman, and it worked for me. Calming, and people seemed to move more slowly.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
The rose cutting trick is "Shadows", Teller's signature trick. It's not surprising they didn't figure out that one.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
Yours is not a top level reply, so you're good! And it's true - I had to decide between a long, ungainly title and violating my own rule and chose the latter.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
If you are more than one degree of separation away from being present at it, please don't make a top level reply.
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What happened at the 2:00 meeting at Twitter for “anyone who can code”?
20 points by Uhhrrr 4y ago|4 comments
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
Usually when you pull off a large negative LoC change there's some pretty good code to show off in place of it.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
Also, labeling free speech as "far right" will serve to make "far right" seem more positive.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
Lifelong US resident here - this is not remotely true.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
I have pruned my feeds so I get almost no news about celebrities, sports, or random market movements. For other news, I try to keep things balanced as far as the culture war goes, and I try to keep in mind the ultimate sources of the storie
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
It seems like this sort of overhead is exactly what Musk is planning to jettison.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
The example given is "sparse matrix transpose in the style of Tim Davis", but someone who wanted something with such specificity would be able to just take it from Github anyway, perhaps with a little more searching.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
It's like COVID, enough people have been cancelled now that people are well on their way to not caring.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
Looking through the texts ( https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1577459524583428096 ), losing thousands of employees is part of the plan anyway.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
Tempered tuning is a great example of "worse is better"(1) (including the part where "worse" winds up being "better" for various cases). When making an instrument, every interval between adjacent notes has the
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
Why isn't searching for a new job an option? That should be number one. Number two is figuring out a new skill which will help you get that job, and using it at your current work somehow.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
I got to see it at the Castro a few years ago. There was a fair amount of chuckling at: "It's a Mission number." "That's Skid Row, isn't it?"
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
Was the link supposed to be this?: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01673-4
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
I think the advantage over mute is that the blockee can't reply, so when others see your tweets there's one less person telling you you're wrong.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
It is very imperfect, I would say
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
I'm in the blocked club and have never interacted with him!
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
After clicking six times and learning nothing, I left.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
For a lot of these cases, I suspect the politicians just get rolled by a series of Very Serious People who spend all their time working on briefings which justify their jobs and the attendant concentrations of power. "If not for this p

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