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by colomon 11y ago
`use v6;` is not mandatory in Rakudo. Off the top of my head, I don't think it's mandatory in theory in Perl 6, either. However, it is widely used to mark Perl 6 code, because it gives you a nice clean error message if you accid
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by colomon 11y ago
I'm not sure exactly what the grandparent was trying to say, but seat belts became mandatory new car features in the US back in the 1960s. Airbags became mandatory new car features in the early 1990s. On the other hand, I believe seat
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by colomon 11y ago
Kids today may not remember it so much, but the Polio vaccine was a Very Big Deal at the time. I'd be surprised if any reasonably well-educated older American didn't know who Salk was.
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by colomon 11y ago
Without thinking about it too much, I think I'd say "going to college" for undergrad (even at a university), "going to grad school" for a graduate degree, and "going to med school" for a medical degree. (
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by colomon 11y ago
How does a fixed supply of land preclude raising the rent?
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by colomon 11y ago
I do have an Android device with 16G main memory and a 64G SD card. Despite having plenty of free space on the card, I pretty routinely run out of space on the 16G. That's because most apps can only install there, and many apps can&#
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by colomon 11y ago
Does anyone know what the author (Dennette A. Harrod) is up to today? Some quick web searches showed his homepage[1] was updated in 2010, but his resume doesn't have anything more recent than 1994. I got curious when I saw his resume
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by colomon 11y ago
Since becoming reacquainted with the poem a couple of decades on from 8th grade English, I've read it as regret at the way age reduces your choices. That comes from interpreting the fall woods as being the autumn of the narrator'
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by colomon 11y ago
I dunno, contrast it with ABC notation for something very much less verbose: http://abcnotation.com/examples
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by colomon 11y ago
Where? I admit I haven't read the entire thing (as it got boring fast) but a search on a couple of the pages doesn't turn up the word Lilypond?
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by colomon 11y ago
Dunno about OMN, but Lilypond seems to have quarter tone support: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation-big... (third staff down)
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by colomon 11y ago
Yes, I find it really frustrating that the article doesn't contrast at all with the previous state of the art. I seem to remember that the Yamaha pianos you mention already had significantly better than MIDI reproduction capabilities
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by colomon 11y ago
Geez, I've been using it for some time now and never had a clue it was supposed to save your position in an article. I just use it as a convenient way to transfer links between my devices.
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by colomon 11y ago
I used it for about the same period on the Commodore 64. On a 64K 1Mhz machine, it compiled faster than any tool I use today does on a 3Ghz machine. The resulting code was compact enough to make 64K seem like a lot of memory and drastical
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by colomon 11y ago
He gave it again yesterday here in Olten.
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by colomon 11y ago
This articule weird because it's holding the anthems to a standard that doesn't make much sense. In traditional music and hymns, tunes and words are semi-independent, and it is completely routine for one tune to have multiple set
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by colomon 11y ago
Right, maple syrup goes back to colonial times, and we still make enough in Michigan that with a little effort you can always buy locally produced. At least some Michiganders say "eh", too -- my impression is it is especially comm
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by colomon 11y ago
This is a great point. I put a high value on writing efficient software, but you have to know when to do it! For instance, I wrote a script to download the O'Neill's tune collections in ABC [1] the other day. I wrote it in Perl
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by colomon 11y ago
If dark matter has 80% of the mass, and your imagined adjacent universe is otherwise like ours, then it seems like you need four of them to make it work. :)
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by colomon 11y ago
"The number of major games that only or even mainly exist thanks to Kickstarter must be tiny." Yes, the article is silly to spend much time talking about games which made millions. But the overall effect of crowdfunding making mo
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by colomon 11y ago
Also, why use the signed ptrdiff_t for a loop index that is never negative?
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by colomon 11y ago
In Newfoundland, anyway, it wasn't just the tunes that used to be in people's homes, it was the dances, too: "Mostly they'd have a dance in the kitchen. It was all wooden floors. Some of the kitchens was a bit small so t
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by colomon 11y ago
Twenty years ago I listened to an audiobook version of a poetic translation of the Iliad. It was just eye-opening, vastly better than reading the book -- went from frequently being tricky to focus on to just right. Not surprising, seeing
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by colomon 11y ago
Thought the beginning was weak stuff, but the three paragraphs about his Scarlet Letter school reading experience were spot on.
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by colomon 11y ago
Even those with no musical training will probably disregard your mistakes if the overall performance is good. Example: My favorite Irish traditional duo is Peter Horan and Fred Finn (both RIP, alas). They were legendary for the tightness o
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by colomon 11y ago
You could get most of the way there with a straightforward module in Perl6: sub infix:<ᛈ>($ᛣ, $ᛤ) { $ᛣ + $ᛤ } my @ᚠᛁᛒ := 0, 1, * ᛈ * ... *; say @ᚠᛁᛒ[100]; Don't know that I'd particularly recomm
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by colomon 11y ago
The machine's main memory was a physically rotating drum. If you think of how slow that must have been, odds are very good that his optimizations made a noticeable difference.
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by colomon 11y ago
The C64/PC disc discussed here is also from the late 80s.
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by colomon 11y ago
This criticism seems so odd to me. Does the author really believe that people reading that are going to assume that Watt knew nothing of steam engines, this idea hit him out of the blue, and he built a working model the next day? Of cours
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by colomon 11y ago
Huh? I mean, I think the stats as presented in that cartoon are complete BS [1] too, but that link is in no way a meaningful refutation of it. [1] First hint: note that both pairs of stats presented add up to 100%, yet are described as rel

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