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by afandian 1y ago
Originally because it produced sound by heterodyning two sine waves. Modern ones (the Moog ones I saw 20 years ago) have tunable waveforms but still hark back to that original sound. I like the sound. In the sonic tradition of the cello. h
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by afandian 1y ago
I asked ChatGPT to generate images of a bagpipe. Disappointingly (but predictably) it chose a tartan covered approximation of a Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe. Analogous to asking for a picture of "food" and getting a Big Mac and
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by afandian 1y ago
BBC Micro in graphics mode 2 the pixel is a 2:1 rectangle. Other geometries for different modes. It's going back a bit, but very much living memory! https://beebwiki.mdfs.net/MODE_2
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by afandian 2y ago
For the past couple of years I have tried to spend a couple of hours a week volunteering at the local city farm. [0] It’s a fantastic community project, with very capable professional people keeping things running, but most of the physical
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by afandian 2y ago
UK also. https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-beefs-up-travel-war...
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by afandian 2y ago
https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-fr...
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by afandian 2y ago
Thank you, that reason is on the list of allowable exceptions.
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by afandian 2y ago
Excuse me, do you have a license for that gerund?
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by afandian 2y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve here. If you're trying to understand the original article I think you have enough information. If you want to expand your understanding of English then you have some leads to follow
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by afandian 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351604
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by afandian 2y ago
A dictionary doesn’t capture the entire language. In this thread there are native speakers saying that this is a well formed, meaningful English sentence. Therefore it is.
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by afandian 2y ago
At least in British English it’s perfectly fine. A bit poetic, but not an obscure construction. edit — NB This is a British English publication. This is an American English default site.
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by afandian 2y ago
You forgot the part where the platform rebranded and got a new domain name. And you have to log in with your company email address. And even if you switched it to your personal email before you left, and they kept the data, was the password
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by afandian 2y ago
If payslips are paper, people at least have a fighting chance of retaining them. I have payslips from when I was a teenager. Not because I kept them, because I never threw them away. Electronic documents, however, need deliberate attention
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by afandian 2y ago
The general decline in paper copies of official documents is scary. The recent Conservative UK government put in place the "hostile environment" policy (official name!) and expelled and denied rights to people who had lived here f
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by afandian 2y ago
Fun idea, but adding and committing is the time when I want to be going slow and paying the most attention! What files did I change, were all the changes on purpose, have I described all of the changes. Buttons for pulling and creating bran
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by afandian 2y ago
I use a 6-digit PIN to unlock my iPhone. I get it right less than half the time. Often one or two numbers just fail to register. ISTR someone else confirmed this bug.
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by afandian 2y ago
15 years back I used to work somewhere that had an entirely separate engineering network with no route to the Internet. And a build room that was physically airgapped. All for good reasons. Xcode worked fine. I wonder how they do it now. I
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by afandian 2y ago
Don’t miss Mike Harrison / “Mike’s Electric Stuff” on YouTube. Here’s his teardown of an insulin pump that has many similarities. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e2MQUUkubgs
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by afandian 2y ago
I'm glad to see people talking about this. I'd love to see a new right: The right to not have your phone on you. For whatever reason. Maybe it was stolen. Maybe it's being fixed. Maybe the battery is dead. (Maybe you don&#x27
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by afandian 2y ago
If I were in their shoes I would take some small comfort from a constitutional lawyer even saying "officially we don't know". It's not often you're asked to do something that could break the law, with the whistle-bl
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by afandian 2y ago
Do civil servants have trade unions in the US? This seems like a place they could step up to offer advice.
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by afandian 2y ago
Post-Twitter, in my corner of the world, scholarly publishing technology, people have moved to BlueSky, Mastodon and LinkedIn. I agree, LinkedIn is full of people performing their career as social media and posting selfies. But there is als
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by afandian 2y ago
My own graphics card was 5 years old. It was just an Nvidia with outdated Linux drivers. There is no other application on my computer that complained about it. In any case I'd understand needing bleeding edge hardware for 3D gaming, or
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by afandian 2y ago
Zed doesn't run on the PC you describe. It needs a modern GPU that supports Vulkan (not for AI, just to show text on the screen). I liked Zed so much I bought a new graphics card! https://github.com/zed-industries/
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by afandian 2y ago
If you have a spare few hours, the Acquired podcast episode on Meta is enlightening. They just stumbled through growth hack experiment after experiment without seemingly any risk assessment or ethics.
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by afandian 2y ago
It does, but the headline doesn't. I don't know if it's a nickpick too far, but it should be "X in a PDF in Chromium", as the hack seems as much about Chromium as it is about PDFs.
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Doesn't work in Evince or Firefox FWIW.
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by afandian 2y ago
The background is the > decade of underfunding of public services. Whatever the details of this case, there's a very high noise floor. The conspiracy theorist in me does think that this case was a convenient lightning-rod for public
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The Minimal Phone is now shipping (E Ink phone with a QWERTY keyboard)(liliputing.com)
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