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baldfat
6y ago
13 years ago I bought a Tablet PC (Motion PC) with OneNote and I bought a portable shotgun mic by sony. BEST THING EVER. I got to write with the pen (Non-touch screen) and the mic recorded the audio for my graduate classes. It would recogni
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baldfat
6y ago
I use Windows, Linux and Mac OS (Work requiered) Mac OS has the worst shortcuts in my opinion. Desktop short cut! How is there no Shortcut for seeing the Desktop? Legacy of Steve Jobs doing the opposite of Windows is also a killer. Mouse S
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baldfat
6y ago
No but if your a teacher or live with kids it is a scary figure.
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baldfat
6y ago
My son have to have testing at the hospital. He had to get tested (It was negative). I think this is a large portion of kids who get tested. You can't get a kid under 12 tested where I live except for these situations.
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baldfat
6y ago
Teachers have been the enemy for decades. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-america-demonizes-its-tea...
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baldfat
6y ago
This goes back 25 years. It is even more so if you are the first in your family to go to college. There will be a huge shortage of teachers and there already is a HUGE diversity problem with most minority groups do not go to school for teac
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baldfat
6y ago
Why are teachers never even entered into the equation? You have no teachers you don't have school. Teachers getting sick is going to put a serious hurt on the educational system. Teachers have been demonized for decades now so hardly a
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baldfat
6y ago
FlatPack was made to address two things focused on security: 1) Application won't need root privileges 2) Without compromising on the systems security
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baldfat
6y ago
I have no idea why people have a hard time comprehending that facts are always seen through opinions and worldviews from people who are all unique and have unique interpretations of what they observe. Everything is bias and eye witnesses of
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baldfat
6y ago
This is FAR from a research language. What multi-purpose language is a research first language? Racket is no Haskell.
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baldfat
6y ago
Quote: the language is more oriented to researcher than to get things done. I can't disagree with that more. The whole reason why I switched to Racket is how quickly I can do things. I actually feel like it is much faster to go from i
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baldfat
6y ago
I started using Racket for some MIDI a few months ago. Racket is a great little music play ground.
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baldfat
6y ago
There are more then enough ways to keep it going. This has been address by several tools. Personally I have some tiddy code that is 8 years old and it still is working.
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baldfat
6y ago
Well that is why there is 4.0. Hadley Wickham has had a HUGE influence on R and it is now we have a lot of new things we can use that makes it reproducible in base R.
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6y ago
I want augmented reality for communication and for board gaming please. Someone focus on having cool Augment Reality chat where I can walk with a friend or family member and see them right next to me. I also would like to play board games w
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baldfat
7y ago
My wife is in the same boat as you. She ended up just going back to single serve french press. She thinks it is just simpler and taste great.
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baldfat
7y ago
I posted them above SM7B from Shure $399 Sennheiser e945 $219 SM58 from Shure $99 (This is a tank of a mic that just rocks)
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baldfat
7y ago
> - Use a condenser microphone with a pop filter for vocals As an old engineer and record label owner I actually say NEVER use a condenser microphone unless you have great acoustics in your room and specific reason for using them. Use a
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baldfat
7y ago
The Dead Sea Scrolls in Israel are real. The ones in one museum in America were forges.
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7y ago
Racket is a working man's Scheme. Seriously appreciate the Racket world and how it has helped my coding. How to Design Programs is the best book I ever got through. I wish Racket got a lot more general computing users it is such a f
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I think there is much more non-SQL then the OP realizes. I have been protesting non-SQL, SQL is more powerful than most realize. Also the term "Big Data" is being used 99% of the time about data bases I could load into my ram but
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baldfat
7y ago
Early Generation X Computer users will be the greatest generation of computer users because: 1) We had an easy time with simple CPU like the Z80 or Assembly for the C64. You could have the whole chip in your head. 2) Graphical Interfaces hi
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7y ago
That is 100% Apple's fault and makes me thankful for backwards compatibility. Music Production has been hit hard by this same move. Plugins and virtual instruments that people have been using for years are all gone from support. All th
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7y ago
I never got OS/2 installed as a teenager. I had everything set and I had run into everything that could go wrong. The computer store I bought it from and sold for seasonally (At 13) was sure I was just a stupid kid. I brought it into t
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I am getting old and I am also finding I have just settled to languages I feel hit that balance for me. Racket for general programming (It really is the best for people learning to program and also great for making fun programs that is supe
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"People leave managers, not companies" https://getlighthouse.com/blog/people-leave-managers-not-com...
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baldfat
7y ago
Well lets see? It had a 90% death rate as a disease I would gladly give, receive or beg for it for myself or my child.
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baldfat
7y ago
AWK has been and will forever been under appreciated. It is a fantastic tool. I always preferred it to Perl myself.
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I also use Bitwig (And Tracktion's Waveform 10) They both work on Linux and are great. Bitwig works on a subscription program for updates. You want the latest you buy a subscription and it lasts for a year. After the subscription is ov
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7y ago
Ranger is by far the most useful file manager I have ever used. It's quick and powerful. The only thing that keeps it in the minor leagues is how big the learning curve is for anyone that doesn't know Vim shortcuts.
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