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by cnasc 8y ago
I think it's a fantastic project! Seems like a lot of what I want in a desktop. Looking forward to the new posts.
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by cnasc 8y ago
A related sort of idea, which has been posted to HN before but never gotten a huge amount of attention is the Arcan project [1]. Basically an interesting implementation of a display server and desktop environment being worked on by a lone d
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by cnasc 8y ago
In my opinion, animations should be like reverb in music. If it's noticeable, you're probably using too much (surf music excepted). A little bit of animation can smooth things out and enhance the experience with helpful cues. Too
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by cnasc 8y ago
I'll echo GeoffKnauth, I'm glad to have paid you for several of your books. I'm looking forward to starting the introduction to Klong book, as I find array languages fascinating but there's a regrettable lack of beginner
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by cnasc 8y ago
I've used J (a language in the APL lineage) as an interactive calculator before. It makes some things pretty easy, especially if you need to operate on series of numbers. What's the sum of the numbers from 15 to 20 inclusive?
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by cnasc 8y ago
> when they say, "drink", they mean "standard drink", which is this quasi-mythological beverage that one never encounters in real life. I encounter 12oz bottles and cans of 5% abv beer literally every day
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by cnasc 8y ago
I used modern mechanical keyboards with a variety of switches for a while. Recently I got a Model M (a few months younger than me) and I like it a lot more. As far as the feeling, it could be that the plastic rivets holding your Model M&#x2
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by cnasc 8y ago
I had an environmental ethics professor in college. Her pet cause was the plight of the atlantic bluefin tuna. She frequently lamented that only the cute animals get any real support.
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by cnasc 8y ago
If large numbers of FETs are your thing, you might be interested in The Beast with a Thousand JFETs [1], a discrete audio amplifier dissipating about 140 watts per channel and producing output power of 70 watts with a 2 ohm load. Other arti
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by cnasc 8y ago
I would be hard pressed to come up with a coherent genre for what I play, I guess it's really a hodge-podge of everything I've been exposed to musically. I like it a lot. I'd say I play 95% in P4 now, after starting about 3 m
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by cnasc 8y ago
Pretty cool! I made something like this a few years ago, but nowhere near as sophisticated. One suggestion: as of late I've been playing guitar in perfect 4ths tuning, and it would be helpful to be able to change the tuning of individu
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by cnasc 8y ago
I think an appeal to authority is only fallacious when it's an appeal to an authority that has no relevant expertise. Something like "my dentist says that anthropogenic climate change isn't real, you don't think you&#x27
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> (Once you know this you'll suddenly start to see how a disproportionate share of red cars have failing paint -- particularly after sometime around the early 1980s when the use of Cadmium pigments started to fall out of favor for m