aworks

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   Glenn McDonald, formerly of the Echo Nest and Spotify, has a new book that talks a lot about music recommendations. https://www.canburypress.com/products/you-have-not-yet-heard...
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   I spent a couple of months last year learning q. When I went back to it this year, I realized it would take significant effort just to refresh my skills. I now program for fun in gawk.
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   I now live in a neighborhood with about 200 homes all built right after WWII, all 2 bed/1 bath 1,200 sq. ft. with minor variations[0]. Sidewalks! Next to me is a rich town with no sidewalks and a more country ambience except for the ev
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   I subscribe to Fanfare Magazine, "The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors" i.e. classical. It comes out 6 times a year. The current issue is 512 pages and has about 10 reviews of new or re-released Bach recordings. I'd gue
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   "destroying" seems hyperbolic.
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   I sometimes use ChatGPT to prepare for a doctor's visit so I can have a more intelligent conversation even if I may have more trust overall in my doctor than in AI.
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   These are two of my favorite albums but I can imagine those new to jazz thinking Giant Steps is too intense. Although not as intense as Coltrane's Interstellar Space...
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   by aworks 2y ago

   Here's another active blog on Typepad https://www.therestisnoise.com/
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   I still pay for my Typepad account but have only blogged sporadically for the last decade. I haven't particularly noticed any degredation of its capabilities but I haven't paid much attention to it either. I did revise the templat
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    Reminds me of Xerox Parc vs. Apple. Building successful products is hard.
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    Windows 11 suffices for my needs. Ubuntu on WSL is a bonus.
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    I don't particularly care if if these line up, but I find the list interesting: Multiple churches in the Philippines presumably due to Spanish Catholicism. I didn't grow up in California so I don't know the Spanish missions v
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    Reminds me of when I went on business trip of several weeks to Sweden from California. The Swedes spoke English reasonably well. I then went to Scotland for vacation and had a much harder time understanding their dialect than I did with th
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    I have a Jeep and do the "Jeep Wave" when I drive past other Jeeps. It's mostly an automatic gesture. When I go out for a walk on the street, I have to fight the urge to wave when I see a Jeep.
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    In the early nineties, I would print out usenet threads at work so I could read them while riding the train home.
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    I just read about "MIRROR" for physical pain relief by neuroplasticity techniques: Mindful, Intention, Repetition, Relaxation, Optimism, and Resilience. The book, The Brain's Way of Healing, suggests modest improvements in a
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    I retired my Car Thing three months after purchasing. All of the functionality was better on my phone with the exception of a large, tactile button. I didn't expect any refund here but it does remind me of when Apple bought lala, the
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    So far, my 2 years of retirement are an experiment in discretionary time. I'm married but no children or pets in the house. So I have lots of leeway in what I do every day. Maybe I average 1-2 hours of responsible time. And there are
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    I don't particulary appreciate harmony which may explain why I listen to so much of John Cage's music.
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    I may want the opposite - email2rss. I have a good method for handling hundreds of RSS feeds in the Bazqux reader. Reading in gmail feels like a burden as I have yet to find a good flow to handle too much information.
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    I worked at Synopsys for 11 years until I retired. Very diverse types of software engineers. I was in the hardware IP group (versus say the EDA or security businesses). My team had embedded software engineers, Linux kernel hackers, compiler
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    In the eighties, I worked on host development tools used for the Flight Management Computer System firmware in the 737-300. Presumably, the hardware, the software, the tools, the language (Ratfor), the host OS (VAX/VMS), the developme
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    I'm not answering your direct question but for reasons, I'm interested in Indiana farm land in the 1920s and 1930s. From a peak in 1920, price per acre was down 2/3rds and didn't fully recover until 1948. The Great Dep
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    Hmm. Versus Apple II/III, detached keyboard, built-in display, and mouse. I also like "Imagine two posters next fall, the first appearing In retail dealers and Sears"
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    I use HackSnack to generate an RSS feed for this. https://www.kadoa.com/hacksnack
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    I didn't know what "tonerheads" were. First Google search for the term gives a reddit link and enough of a summary to understand the meaning. Presumably people aren't trying to make money from that search...
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    I'm not on the app so I wonder if TikTok users found out about the legislation via TikTok.
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    Everyone on the planet? Even in China or Russia?
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    I see friends' Meta activity in the Philippines and it's 10x what I see from friends elsewhere.
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    e.g. the movie Accidental Tourist