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by abruzzi 11y ago
The author misses another big cause--the auto period on iOS puts it on the outside. Something that always bugs me, and I'm constantly going back and correcting.
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by abruzzi 11y ago
FYI, I just upgraded my MacPro1,1 from Snow Leopard to El Capitan (very non-trivial requiring a custom boot file.) I wanted to run a bunch of music software that never got past PPC, so I needed to keep Snow Leopard around. It turns out the
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by abruzzi 11y ago
While I think using this kind of data is a bad thing from a privacy perspective, the first thought I had reading this article was "what about minimal users?" Specifically people like me, I use my phone for phone and web. No soci
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by abruzzi 11y ago
Anecdotally, I'd say that something like 50% of the cars I see on the road are at least 10 years old. Probably 15% are 20 years old or more. I live in one of the poorer states in the US, so my experience may be somewhat skewed. This a
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by abruzzi 11y ago
I think to some extent it depends on what you see apps as on a device like the AppleTV. To me the big potential draw of app on a TV is access to other content streams that Apple hasn't negotiated contracts with. So while on my old Ap
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by abruzzi 11y ago
My favorite surname detail is that in Iceland you surname is derived from your father. So Björk Guðmundsdóttir is the daugher (dóttir) of Guðmund. Her brother would have the last name Guðmundson. I'm not sure if any of the other nor
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by abruzzi 11y ago
Unless someone walks across the lawn, steps on a spike, and develops tetanus. The point is it might be legal but you run the risk that it could blow back pretty badly.
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by abruzzi 11y ago
"It's entirely possible to cover a class worth of material & study topics you don't want to without paying for someone to help you do that." True, but that misses the point. If you expecting to gain a well rounded e
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by abruzzi 11y ago
There are plenty of much cheaper (and still good universities). The local one here is $2000 a semester and while it doesn't have prestige, it's a very good all around university. Also, the Internet makes it easy to learn random t
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by abruzzi 11y ago
From 2012. I wonder how it turned out (not a Californian, so I don't pay much attention to CA politics.)
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What We Owe MythBusters(nytimes.com)
7 points by abruzzi 11y ago|0 comments
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by abruzzi 11y ago
The theremin's sound (as well as the ondes martenot) is just the beat frequency between two supersonic oscillators. While it is the electronic generation of sound, it doesn't really have the ability to modify the sound. Wether t
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by abruzzi 11y ago
The article seems to elide the differences between subtractive synths, and all the many other forms of synthesis--Frequency Modulation, Additive (Fourier), Physical Modeling, and others that don't necessarily have all the pieces they m
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by abruzzi 11y ago
A bunch of motorcycles made before the beginning of E10 have fuel tanks that are made of a material that swells and deforms with E10 gas in it. If you have a 90s or early 2000s Ducati, E10 can make it impossible to remount the tank after r
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by abruzzi 11y ago
This article seemed to have a deceptively shifting focus, often conflating or confusing the incentives for studios with the incentives for performers. The ability to sell side services has limited impact on studios, for instance. Also, in
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by abruzzi 11y ago
Of course "the Room" was worse, by a long mile, but it was enjoyable. I have long been a connoisseur of "bad movies". Look for movies like "Hillbillies in a Haunted House" or "Rock and Roll Wrestling Wome
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by abruzzi 11y ago
This is basically my answer as well. I'm the first to admit that my tastes are not very well in line with conventional wisdom (I also cant stand Pixar films..) The closer your tastes are to that sort of normative, middle of the road
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by abruzzi 11y ago
Sadly that's the wrong Room: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_room_1998/
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by abruzzi 11y ago
Snowpiercer. I'm sure some people love it, but I could not think of a single redeeming thing after I got done. I honestly preferred "The Room", (though that ones 'quality' was unintentional.)
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by abruzzi 11y ago
I never trust any online reviews, especially aggregate reviews, because I have never found any to hew remotely closely to my taste (the best example is on RT, the worst movie I've seen in the last two decades is rated 95% fresh). The o
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by abruzzi 11y ago
Well the reason I haven't moved is I haven't found jobs that wouldn't amount to a 75% reduction in pay, not because good paying jobs don't exist in the small towns, but because my skills don't qualify me for those j
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by abruzzi 11y ago
Some of the comments in the article seems a bit disingenuous. The Dhaka vs DC graph was kind of funny, because the quality of life in Dhaka is probably much lower in large part due to that density. But more to the point, I agree that no o
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Peeple: Yelp for people(washingtonpost.com)
11 points by abruzzi 11y ago|4 comments
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by abruzzi 11y ago
Since Le Mans is an endurance race, the vehicles that can run longer with less pit stops have a strong advantage. This is what the Audi diesels dominated for a good part of the 2000s.
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by abruzzi 11y ago
I'm kind of surprised by his dismissal of "Cat's Cradle" (or at least his demotion of it) as lighter weight and "adolescent." To this day I still think it is Vonnegut's best novel. I think that it is sho
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by abruzzi 11y ago
scrolling is normal on safari. On the other hand, the unnecessary animations gave me a headache and I had to stop reading halfway through.
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by abruzzi 11y ago
Is the submit not supposed to work on iOS? Kind of a let down to spend 10 minutes filling it out, then the submit button doesn't do anything.
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by abruzzi 11y ago
In fairness, while the 45 minute mark is rarely hit in a single movement, 15-20 minutes is the length of the opening movement of most symphonies from Beethoven and later. And many other single movements out there.
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Why Can't Streaming Services Get Classical Music Right?(npr.org)
86 points by abruzzi 11y ago|82 comments
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by abruzzi 11y ago
I've never really looked closely, but in the Athabaskan area you see two red blobs when you turn on languages. These are "Dene" languages. Dene I believe refers to themselves. In the American southwest the Navajo call thems

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