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by delta_p_delta_x 3y ago
It is interesting to juxtapose the feelings of Indian classical musicians towards two Western instruments: the harmonium and the violin. The latter has been so enthusiastically embraced that it has long since displaced even the vīṇā in
902.
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> using OCaml on Windows is so painful as to be effectively not possible Have you considered F# instead? Native support in the dotnet CLI, VS Code, Visual Studio, and Rider. Not to mention the huge .NET standard library...
903.
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> I find .mli files to be in all ways inferior to the "inline" approach Rust (amongst others) take Agreed. The same criticism can be levelled at C and C++ with header and implementation files.
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
Are you considering fresh graduate applicants? I am interested in working with automotive and embedded C++.
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> There is a useful message though: make writing clear and unadorned I think this is the key takeaway. From the example in the article, phrases like 'just', 'painfully simple', 'just another way' aren't
906.
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
In the tropics, both butters go in the fridge. Heck, in the tropics, almost everything that's not a dry, dessicated powder or otherwise dehydrated goes in the fridge.
907.
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
Why do people on Hacker News dislike the Windows kernel so much, without knowing a gram about the innards of Windows? All you lot see is the Windows shell, which is fairly trivial to replace (ergo why it has changed so often in the past 3
908.
A Lesson in Cartography in Potato Land (2012)(web.archive.org)
11 points by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago|2 comments
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> you may be encouraged to pick different notes than for a descending one Hmm, this is not entirely true. There are absolutely symmetric rāga s, and some of these are extremely popular: I mentioned Śankarābharaṇaṃ , but there are sever
910.
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> I am surprised there is nk mention of quarter tones here There is some debate about 22 śruti s[1][2]. I subscribe to this paragraph from the second link: > Further, there seems to be no point in trying to interpret these positions
911.
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> there's some very well developed verbalization of percussion It's called bol [1] in Hindustani music, and koṉṉakkōl [2] in Carnatic music. The basic 4-count syllables are 'na dhin dhin na' in the former, and &#x27
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> Is there a similar source for Southern Indian (Carnatic) music? https://www.ragasurabhi.com/ is decent. > PS also any good sources for watching performances? - First Edition Arts has similarly high-quality videos:
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
There are two major Indian classical music traditions, Hindustani (North Indian) and Carnatic (South Indian). The link is focused on the former. I'd like to add some (general, not just rhythmic) notes on the latter. 1. Both derive fr
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> vegeterian food being cheaper This is how it should be everywhere . Non-vegetarian food is massively subsidised in the West. A Big Mac ought to cost tens of dollars, not five.
915.
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> indian plant-based food In India, they just call it food. About 40% of Indians are vegetarian[1]. [1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/08/eight-in-te...
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
Not until extremely recently[1] for fractional scaling. In my books, this is non-working HiDPI, because on Windows, my 15.6-inch full-HD notebook display is at 1.25× scaling, and my 27-inch UHD monitor is at 1.75× scaling. And since this is
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
Azure is Microsoft's biggest money-maker, not the inclusion of ads in Windows. Windows itself drives 12% of Microsoft sales[1]. [1]: https://www.kamilfranek.com/microsoft-revenue-breakdown/
918.
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> Windows really should just rebase on to Linux No, it should not. The NT kernel architecture is drastically superior to the Linux monorepo.
919.
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
There are two Microsofts, as I see it. The one with DevDiv and stuff, which has amazing and mostly free development tools like VS Code, VS 2022, Windows Terminal, WSL, Azure, the .NET ecosystem, the MSVC C++ STL, PowerShell, TypeScript, and
920.
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
The most common and promising fusion experiments today (JET, ITER, Wendelstein-7X, CFS/MIT SPARC) are magnetic confinement fusion: use big, powerful magnets to shape and compress a hot deuterium-tritium plasma until fusion happens. I
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> Nvidia really hurt themselves with their long-standing closed source driver position > In many circles (like HN) they burned a lot of goodwill and mindshare I think Nvidia couldn’t really care less about ‘goodwill and mindshare’ (fr
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
Or 200 km. Of course it's a nice, round number in SI.
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> compared to proper Visual Studio Debugging in proper Visual Studio is by far the most pleasant experience I have ever had. Flame graphs, call graphs, memory and CPU utilisation graphs, straightforward call stacks and variable views...
924.
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
I never said anything at all about American brands; I simply don't get them where I live much (if at all). My LG refrigerator and dishwashers, Sharp microwave, and LG monitors + TV have all been working fairly well for several years.
925.
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> flood social media with targeted ads for some geoarbitraged thing that tiny startup found on AliExpress decided to sell DTC This is a gem of a phrase. I'm going to use 'geoarbitrage' from now on. I live in a place full o
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
A lot of people seem to have the impression that black holes are like vacuum cleaners, sucking up anything that comes near. If the Sun were replaced with a black hole of equal mass, apart from the heat and light going out, we wouldn't
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> I feel it's mostly the problem of the first impression. That's fair. I started out with MIPS32. When I first saw x86 instructions, and a `mov`, my first thought was, 'what the heck? Where are the loads and stores? `mov r
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> Writing optimized assembly is a whole other question. To be fair, that's the compiler's job; everything from dead-code elimination to loop auto-vectorisation and auto-parallelisation is pretty hard when done manually.
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by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
If you just want to teach assembly (assuming this includes the datapath/control units, the CPU pipeline, hazards, etc) today, you can't go wrong with Patterson and Hennessy's Computer Organisation and Design . Pick your vers
930.
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
I feel it's primarily x86-64 assembly that's so ridiculously hard to read, not least owing to the dozens of extensions and two syntaxes (GNU/AT&T versus Intel syntax). Furthermore, it is a register-memory ISA, and has a

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