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by dhosek 1y ago
Capitalism. It’s why we can’t have nice things.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Matter and energy are discrete. The continuity or discreteness of time and space are unknown. There are arguments for both cases, but nobody really knows for sure. It’s fairly easy to go from integers to many subsets of the reals (rationals
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by dhosek 1y ago
Those tables don’t give a value for that. They only give values for angles whose trigonometric values can be expressed in terms of rational expressions with radicals (and angles as rational expressions in terms of π).
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by dhosek 1y ago
Still kind of freaked out that a Möbius transform can be expressed as a matrix multiplication.
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by dhosek 1y ago
> √3/2 … that isn't a useful value for calculation Some tables do indeed have that value and it is a very useful value for calculation, one that can be symbolically manipulated to get you an exact number (albeit one likely expr
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by dhosek 1y ago
D’oh! I even own this one!
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by dhosek 1y ago
Not really mentioned, but I suspect that at least part of the time, the leaky pipes are caused by the trees. I used to own a house in southern California with a sprinkler system and a couple Chinese elms. Trying to track down why some spr
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by dhosek 1y ago
There is, actually, a not insignificant repertoire of secular choral music although it’s lost a lot of its popularity. The liner notes for one collection of Aaron Copland’s music made a comment about how it was strange that Copland had writ
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by dhosek 1y ago
As I recently commented on Bluesky, I want to write a contemporary choral setting of Spem in Alium (hope in another) but write the title Spem in Allium (hope in garlic) and see if it can make it to publication before anyone notices).
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by dhosek 1y ago
I think there’s a big issue with the recording style used for choral music. It tends to be recorded with a far mic in an echoey room which gives the experience of hearing it in church, but I think close micing the individual sections would
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by dhosek 1y ago
I hate to say it, but you are the edge case. Most users are not fixing dates of photos (especially pre-digital scans) or adding GPS data to photos which didn’t originally have it.
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by dhosek 1y ago
I imagine when they run out of other sensors to add to our phones, they’ll add chip readers so you can just scan for the implanted microchip on a cat you encounter. (said semi-sarcastically since the tech requires close proximity between an
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by dhosek 1y ago
What I found impressive was that Apple Photos, given pictures of my cousins when they were 50 or more years old, was able to identify pictures of them as kids. On the other hand, it could never consistently distinguish between my two older
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by dhosek 1y ago
That would unreasonably assume competence.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Have you listened to any legislative debates on technical issues? “A series of tubes” was the high point of political understanding of the internet.
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by dhosek 1y ago
I’d go farther and say that extended ASCII was an unmitigated disaster of compatibility issues (not to mention that more than a few scripts still don’t fit in the available spaces of an 8-bit encoding). Those of us who were around for the p
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by dhosek 1y ago
Any correctly designed grapheme cluster handles emoji characters. It’s part of the spec (says the guy who wrote a Unicode segmentation library for rust).
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by dhosek 1y ago
That was a laugh-out-loud moment in that film.
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by dhosek 1y ago
My brother did this in his geometry class and passed out. The nurse called my mom and asked if they should send him home to which she responded, “hell, no!”
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by dhosek 1y ago
It should given that it works with trumpet (and even voice). I remember listening to some jazz piece on the radio where the DJ, before the song, alerted listeners to the long note that was being held and suggested trying holding your breath
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by dhosek 1y ago
Of course in their list of fictional gateways, they get the Shawshank Redemption example wrong: it was Rita Hayworth, not Raquel Welch. (I found a similar aggravating error recently in an (older) article on boingboing which erroneously cred
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by dhosek 1y ago
When I was a kid in the 70s, I think the record was somewhere in the neighborhood of 3–5 minutes (maybe seven?) and we used to think that was such a short time that we could do it and then trying in the backyard bucket pools that were endem
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by dhosek 1y ago
Theodore Gray (the guy behind this site) has done some really cool stuff around the periodic table, although my favorite was the sodium party: https://home.theodoregray.com/blog/2014/7/26/sodium-party
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by dhosek 1y ago
Oddly, I know her only as a novelist and am surprised to learn (right now) that she was also a philosopher.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Nah, it’s password123
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by dhosek 1y ago
Nah, I have no obligation to interact with anyone I don’t want to.
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by dhosek 1y ago
It’s somebody’s side-thing, I think and not official Bluesky, but yes, that’s become my primary feed for Bluesky. Following is my secondary and I almost never look at discover or popular with friends.
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by dhosek 1y ago
But blocking on Bluesky works better than it did on Twitter. If you post a crummy reply to me and I block you, nobody sees your reply. There are a few other small differences between Bluesky and Twitter that really do a lot to cut down on
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by dhosek 1y ago
But you don’t necessarily even have a hard disk. You might only have a 320K floppy. Floppy-only computers were pretty common in the late 80s when I was in undergrad.
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by dhosek 1y ago
The way growth in memory availability changes the scope of problems is really quite astonishing. I cut my teeth writing code for Apple ][ computers with theoretically up to 128K of RAM, but in practice much closer to 40K for most use cases,

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