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by colomon 4y ago
It's worked about 90% of the time for me. Basically everything I've sent to kindle the last two months I've sent as EPUB, and most of it worked. A lot of them were the "Compatible EPUB" version from Standard EBook
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by colomon 4y ago
If you're just talking about old enough to have a grandchild, 50 is plenty old -- indeed, old enough to have gotten married after college, had a kid who got married after college, and that kid now has a kid of their own. At least one
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by colomon 4y ago
Nothing against the Asahi team, it sounds like they're doing fantastic work. But I'm a little surprised at the talk (which I've seen before) which indicates theirs is the first approach allowing you to use Linux on ARM Macs.
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by colomon 4y ago
To be more precise, he wrote the music which was used as the theme song for "Cosmos" -- it originally appeared on Vangelis's album "Heaven and Hell", five years before "Cosmos" came out. Apparently it was
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by colomon 5y ago
Oh. I'm still using MacOS 10.14, so there's an official up-to-date version to download from the Lilypond site, and I think I'm using a two year old version of that. (I am very slow to update the OS on my main work machine,
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by colomon 5y ago
ABC is very well optimized for single voice traditional instrumental music. In that domain (and with a bit of experience at it), it's very easy to write and read ABC: T:The Three Smokestacks M:4/4 L:1/8 C:Solomon F
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by colomon 5y ago
I've never noticed any difficulty getting LilyPond running on MacOS or Linux? I use it regularly on MacOS, and keep it installed on Linux for special occasions.
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by colomon 5y ago
Off-topic, but is there a guide to best practices for portable pre-compiled headers out there somewhere? I'm under considerable pressure to add pre-compiled headers for Windows to my code, and it won't have any significant benefi
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by colomon 6y ago
There's a bassoonist urban legend (possibly true) that Bernstein wrote the ludicrous high Fs in the West Side Story bassoon part so that one of his pals who played bassoon would have to be hired for the pit orchestra, because he was th
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by colomon 6y ago
Yes, the first edition of The Princess Bride had red text for Goldman's "editorial" comments. I don't know if there have been editions since which maintained that convention?
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by colomon 6y ago
Huh, that happened to my Galaxy S9 phone, but I haven't noticed issues with my MBP. Geez, something else to worry about...
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by colomon 6y ago
For me the big eye-opener was learning to play traditional Irish dance music on whistle. About two years into the process, I thought I was great. I could read sheet music, I could play fast, I could play rolls, I knew a couple hundred tun
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by colomon 6y ago
Ugh, just went to Amazon to check out the book, and discovered I bought the Kindle version last summer (maybe when the article originally came out) and then forgot to actually read it.
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by colomon 6y ago
My librarian wife tells me she has bought some of them for the public library, so I guess it's just a weird gap in my own knowledge and not a "nobody in Michigan has heard of these" thing.
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by colomon 6y ago
Is this a regional thing? I ask because this seems like something I should have heard of -- my family had the 54 volume "Great Books of the Western World" on our shelves, I took two semesters of Great Books in college, frequent b
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by colomon 6y ago
I think Thucydides is exactly what we read next in 1st semester Great Books.
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by colomon 6y ago
There's also a classic Liz Carroll reel, "Barbra Streisand's Trip to Saginaw": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr2RgTmO1pI (I was in the (Saginaw) audience the night Liz named it.)
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by colomon 6y ago
"It can read the formats R13, R14, R2000, R2004, R2007, R2010, R2013 and R2018 for 99%." So it seems Wikipedia is wrong there.
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by colomon 6y ago
Are you sure that github points to the same Cat language? The stuff in the readme there seems like the same sort of idea as the other Cat, but vastly more primitive.
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by colomon 6y ago
I got into Forth in the mid-80s on my Commodore 64. At that point I'd learned C64 Basic and 6502 assembly, and Forth was just a revelation. A much more expressive paradigm than Basic, the full power of bare metal programming, and if
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by colomon 6y ago
I have a perfect real-world example. About four years ago some of my code broke in certain cases. I came up with a fix that relied on a case-sensitive regex to check for those cases. I think I made it case-sensitive because I wanted to m
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by colomon 6y ago
Looking at their overview, this is Constructive Solid Geometry rather than B-rep (Boundary Representation) solid geometry. STEP does hypothetically support CSG, but B-rep STEP files are vastly more common in my experience.
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by colomon 6y ago
Goderich also has active salt mines... I'm presuming this project is using a played out branch of them.
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by colomon 6y ago
Wait, isn't this the obligatory one in this context? https://xkcd.com/224/
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by colomon 6y ago
And yet... asking us to sign up for Board Game Arena and Discord is exactly what the weekly game night I've been involved with the last month did, and they have 8+ people every week. (For that matter, I asked the folks in my new D&amp
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by colomon 7y ago
Since she mentions it is on sale, the answer is most likely Swordheart: https://www.amazon.com/Swordheart-T-Kingfisher-ebook/dp/B07K...
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by colomon 7y ago
Indie writer isn't exactly right, she's a successful children's book author under her real name, with at least a dozen books out from Puffin. (Also a Hugo award winning comic book creator, but that was self-published.) But y
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by colomon 7y ago
I haven't done any serious Forth programming in 30+ years, but every time I see a limited resources programming environment, I immediately get the urge to implement Forth on it. "This new game is going to include a DCPU-16 virtua
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by colomon 7y ago
I just carry a small Anker USB-C hub in my laptop case -- has two USB-A ports, an HDMI port, and an SD card reader. I must say, though, I've used it less than I expected to when I got it.
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by colomon 7y ago
Right, that's actually my standard Calibre use case: Load book into Calibre. Convert it to MOBI if needed. E-mail it to my Kindle address. It then pops up everywhere I have a Kindle app, mostly my iPad and Galaxy S9. Huh. Now that I

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