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by cannam 4y ago
Heathrow Express has long been a bit lost. The original idea was that you would check in for your flight - including baggage drop - at Paddington before taking the Express. When the "lawn" area at Paddington was opened in 1999, th
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by cannam 4y ago
And it's been a long time since any available phone could be operated one handed by most users. An iPhone Mini isn't really one-handable either. I am the small-phone-lover this article is addressing, and I did sign up to their l
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by cannam 4y ago
> I hope something similar comes to common lisp. When you say "something similar", what are you thinking about? Simply this rather professional presentation, or something social, or something technical? Or the fact of a renaiss
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by cannam 4y ago
Following up a week later just to say thank you for this link - I hadn't heard of this stuff, but have now found a source of it. It's delicious.
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by cannam 4y ago
I just experimented with putting a thin layer of shiro miso on my buttered toast. It didn't quite work for me. Miso flavour turns out to be very compatible with toast but my test miso didn't have enough tang to cut through properl
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by cannam 4y ago
What an excellent test case. Perhaps the Kiwi Marmite has a suitable function as "beginner's Marmite".
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by cannam 4y ago
The pot pictured in the article has similar branding to the UK product - so South Africa is UK-aligned on this rather than Aus/NZ-aligned (or independent)? Being from the UK I'm fondest of the home version, and especially for its
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by cannam 5y ago
We had a black MacBook at work that was reserved solely for demos. Perfect device for that. Work was a university department, so we would never have bought them for individual employees. I do think the glossy white MacBook was also a pleasi
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by cannam 5y ago
I agree with you that you can often do this in a way that is still pleasant to listen to. But timestretching/pitch shifting is very far from being transparent in the way that a decent resampler is. Even a small shift will introduce so
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by cannam 5y ago
It is, but I'm sure the audible artifacts introduced by a pitch shifter would outweigh any perceptual effects due to the change in tuning. It has to be one of the two - either the lower-frequency music is fractionally slower or it has
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by cannam 5y ago
> I can offer up a recipe for "Brown Stew" if anyone's interested Is that the Good Housekeeping recipe book by any chance? That has a number of brown things, including stew. "SAVOURY SAUCES "Vast as the number of
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by cannam 5y ago
> The polyphonic case (like chord detection) is trickier Very true, but for practical purposes chord detection is easier than polyphonic note transcription - it isn't necessary to transcribe all the notes with perfect fidelity to id
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by cannam 5y ago
There are various commercial offerings that do this, including Chordify and Capo. Alternatively if you want a flexible free (GPLv2) option with source code, consider the Chordino plugin ( http://www.isophonics.net/nnls-chroma
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by cannam 5y ago
I've a great affection for Minolta, though born from retro appeal because I am not old enough to have seen their best stuff first time around. I'd love to know more about how the company operated during the 50s to 70s. Their 1970s
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by cannam 5y ago
You're not thinking of the types 4 or 6? They were both horrible sponges. The Type 5 is also a quiet rubber-dome-with-slider model, but pleasantly tactile with very high quality keycaps. (I'm fond of it, and so inclined to be defe
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by cannam 5y ago
> Is “hover” done like “over” (long ‘o’)? No, it's not that - at least in British English - referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English , "hover" uses ɒ ("LOT, blockade, song&
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by cannam 5y ago
Seconded - this is probably the most philosophically interesting outage-post-mortem I've ever read.
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by cannam 5y ago
If anyone else is as baffled as I was by why you would put a pillow between your knees: the idea is apparently to improve your alignment if you happen to sleep on your side. (I do sleep on my side, but this idea has never occurred to me, an
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by cannam 5y ago
Comment in December 2000: > Yes, WONTFIX and INVALID seem a bit much. We'll just keep it in the database for eons. That joke aged exceptionally well!
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by cannam 5y ago
Repoint, a thingy for checking out and versioning your source code dependencies - for situations where you don't have a good language-specific source package manager to hand. https://thebreakfastpost.com/2018/05&#x
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by cannam 6y ago
Can anyone explain why this apparently excellent article, 3 hours old, with 305 points and 304 comments, is currently on page 16 (!) of HN - while the article it's a reply to, 8 hours old, 127 points, 240 comments, is still on the fron
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by cannam 6y ago
> Second, 1999 was barely more than 20 years ago. As late as 2003, there were still no smartphones, no Facebook, and Google was still just a search engine. Going back to the life you had 18 years ago is just like riding a bike. The artic
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by cannam 6y ago
> rsync.net is one part of my personal computing setup that I never even think twice about I've been using them in a small but important-to-me way continuously since 2008, and I have occasionally forgotten the service needed maintai
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by cannam 6y ago
I quite like the name, not least because it accurately gives the impression of "something you will probably misunderstand".
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by cannam 6y ago
> asked what makes each musical era distinctive: timbre Anyone interested in this might enjoy the paper about the "Scanning the Dial" experiment. (It's about contemporary music rather than historical eras, but the idea is
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by cannam 6y ago
Agreed, maddening. I kept my Firefox installation pinned to 74 for as long as I could because of this, but I had to give in and update to 85 a couple of weeks ago for something. I scan the release notes for each release in hope, but no. I d
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by cannam 6y ago
I had never heard of Setext! I do know that, before Markdown became popular, lots of programmers had their own similar format going on - this was mine, from 1998: Perl program https://sourceforge.net/p/rosegarden/c
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by cannam 6y ago
You've just reminded me how wonderful the principle of the slide rule appeared, when I eventually encountered one after a childhood using calculators.
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by cannam 6y ago
Seems fair. Idly speculating, if this architecture favours characteristics of higher-level languages (I'm thinking of the widely-reported measurements of primitives used in automatic memory management), relatively disfavours straight-l
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by cannam 6y ago
I'm curious about the text as well. The photo gallery shows it placed quite some distance in front of the teapot, which I guess is what you would expect. We recently bought an Utah teapot - a company that I think is the original manufa

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