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by analog31 6mo ago
Truly random music doesn't suffer from someone trying too hard and making it lame.
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by analog31 6mo ago
When I learned to juggle (which I've forgotten), it was with beanbags, because they don't bounce away when you drop them.
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by analog31 6mo ago
Peaceful transition of power is definitely something to cheer about.
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by analog31 6mo ago
>>> Can you imagine if every button on every site was the same Windows button gray color, regardless of the site's color? It'd be awful! Speaking as a user not a developer, it'd be lovely.
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by analog31 6mo ago
Can we cycle the holes? Use one while the other one is warming back up.
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by analog31 6mo ago
I'm reminded of the story of Richard Feynman and the names of birds: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/85809/feynman...
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by analog31 7mo ago
I've heard two people separately tell me that Yo Yo Ma would start his concert by playing a single long, low note. And they both told me they were immediately hooked.
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by analog31 7mo ago
>>> Say you’re being handed a USB device and told to write a driver for it. Hand it back, with a request to prove that it can't be done with one of the devices that the OS's already recognize as virtual COM ports.
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by analog31 7mo ago
We could have spent the money on windmills without raising any suspicions. On the other hand, fertilizer is fluid -- either ammonia or ureal ammonium nitrate.
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by analog31 7mo ago
Maybe this is the reason behind the old saying: "All of the good composers were either deaf or Hungarian."
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by analog31 7mo ago
This is also one of those things that varies with the individual. When I was a kid taking cello lessons, I learned to play by ear. For classical students, theory doesn't really start until college. I know very little theory, but I&#x27
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by analog31 7mo ago
I'm a jazz musician, and my kids are both professional classical players. I've asked them why they don't learn to play jazz. My daughter described pretty much what Glass is saying here. She calls it "fear of sucking.&quo
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by analog31 7mo ago
I live in a university town, and the free concerts are great. Especially because the students and faculty are most often playing material that I've never heard, including new and experimental stuff. Over the years it's been hard t
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by analog31 7mo ago
I admit that the bands I play in aren't at a level where we play "shows" with high ticket prices. More often we play in bars that host live jazz. I hope you don't give up on live music, but find a way to enjoy it on term
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by analog31 7mo ago
Obligatory Onion... https://theonion.com/ant-farm-teaches-children-about-toil-de...
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by analog31 7mo ago
Just to give a bit of flavor, I was a math + physics major in the 80s. The physics curriculum had some oddly named courses such as "theoretical physics" that were not really physics courses but were meant to give you the math and
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by analog31 7mo ago
I hope that's sarcastic. Physics is the original computational science.
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by analog31 7mo ago
I was a math + physics major in college, in the 80s. Thankfully, our differential equations course covered both analytical and numerical integration. We also took a course in the math department called "numerical analysis" that go
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by analog31 7mo ago
I have a tiny business that makes a gadget for musicians: Think something like an effects pedal. I publish my schematics, have shared PCB files, and even offer to give you some of the parts that are hard to get. A few people have built thei
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by analog31 7mo ago
We don't continuously share and sell the info we gather, and none of us have any hope of recognizing more than a tiny fraction of the population.
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by analog31 7mo ago
Yes, meetings vary profoundly in terms of their quality, purpose, and participation. For instance, is it a meeting of peers, or are managers in the room? If there's a large disparity of roles in attendance (e.g., junior engineers, ma
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by analog31 7mo ago
>>> However, DC does not make sense for a radial power distribution network. Why not? Pure geeky curiosity.
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by analog31 7mo ago
The early limit was because high voltage DC required producing it at the generator, whereas you could produce high voltage AC by generating at a lower voltage and then stepping it up with a transformer for long distance transmission. The ru
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by analog31 7mo ago
Indeed, the amazing images that we've all seen of the coronavirus are from the same technique, cryo-EM tomography, but the overall size of the specimen is also much smaller. There's a limit to how much data can be processed, resul
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by analog31 7mo ago
Can it be challenged under the European constitution?
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by analog31 7mo ago
Without technology, say bye bye to at least 6 billion people. We've turned the earth into a machine for sustaining life. It's clear that we need people who understand how the machine and its parts work, well enough to keep it runn
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by analog31 7mo ago
Oddly enough, I was wondering: What brand? I don’t think I’d travel with one, but I’m just curious.
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by analog31 7mo ago
Well, it's past the edit window, and of course I accept the downvotes, but I realize that I should have provided a bit more context. In the US, the faction in power right now is attacking perceived symbols of "woke" ideology,
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by analog31 7mo ago
I think one reason for the excitement is that the “software crisis” is real, painful, and costly. Thus it’s tempting to grasp for a shiny new silver bullet that might have a chance of solving it. I’m neither a developer nor an executive, bu
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by analog31 7mo ago
Almost purely for amusement, I played around with letting Claude generate Python code for FreeCAD. I actually got a coherent part out of it, that I sent out for fabrication. The practical motivation is that my needs are extremely basic (pla

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