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by dhosek 2mo ago
Although Apple did undo the touchbar (although I think they gave up on it too soon—I actually liked it once they restored the esc key. I can never remember what all the F-keys are supposed to do and getting an app-specific set of graphical
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by dhosek 2mo ago
One hopes that the new CEO will realize the turn towards ads is ruining the Apple brand and pull back on that front.
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by dhosek 2mo ago
For that matter, a kit drummer is essentially playing (up to) four instruments at once since each limb could be doing something unique (granted for many (most?) drummers, they’re just using the high-hat pedal as a footrest, beating quarter
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by dhosek 3mo ago
I was being sloppy and should have said diatonic scale.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
For that matter, the first 5 stacked fifths gives you the standard pentatonic scale. Extending by a fifth on either end and you get the most common accidentals in Western music (if your first seven give C major you’ll get F# and B♭). I thin
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by dhosek 3mo ago
In the 00s, I sang in the Holy Name Cathedral choir and we did a lot of 20th/21st century choral works with harmonies that strayed very far from the classical tonal vocabulary to the point where when I was doing my own composition work
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by dhosek 3mo ago
One could make the argument that the only numbers that actually “exist” are the natural numbers, but the question ultimately is can you model any real number in the physical universe. Modeling ½ is simply a question of picking a unit to be
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by dhosek 3mo ago
Except that you’re assuming that 1 must necessarily correspond to that minimum distance. Keeping that situation, we can just say that 1 corresponds to two inches and then realize 1/2 as that number. Classical geometry (a la Euclid) all
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by dhosek 3mo ago
I’ve had this paper downloaded for about a decade and haven’t gotten around to reading it, but thinking about it, especially if space and time are quantized (an undetermined question last I checked and almost certainly still so), there woul
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by dhosek 3mo ago
I was being loose with terminology, but yes, oud/lute family is more accurate.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
I’m a bit skeptical of the claims given that multi-course tunings are almost as old as guitar-family instruments.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
This is one of those things that I learned about in my youth when I was a bit obsessed with model railroading (although that obsession only extended as far as dreaming and not actual building). I remember reading an article about Shays in o
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by dhosek 3mo ago
A musician friend used to actually do recording with garageband on an iPad. I use mine for sheet music a lot and even sprang for the external foot pedal for page turns. There was one rehearsal where I didn’t have a chance to scan everything
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by dhosek 3mo ago
I learned the correct pronunciation when someone laughed at me at a TeX conference in the 80s when I made a reference to the You-ler fonts. In my single semester of high school German I was either never taught or ignored the teacher when th
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by dhosek 3mo ago
Just as a pedantic aside, people often use Venn diagram when they mean Euler diagram. A Venn diagram always has the overlapping circles and use shading or labeling describe the set relation. Euler diagrams let the circles describe the relat
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by dhosek 3mo ago
On the gadget front, I really love the paperlike screen protector for the iPad. This combined with the Apple Pencil made a huge difference in the usability of my iPad for writing/drawing. I still prefer to write on paper, but it’s real
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by dhosek 3mo ago
On an Apple ][, you couldn’t necessarily assume your BASIC code was going to start from the same location, thanks to the LOMEM command. I remember one of the things I wrote back in the day was a relocatable Assembly loader that would allow
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by dhosek 3mo ago
Indeed, even though I’ve never done this, when I saw a REM statement at the head of the file with random characters in it, I immediately assumed it was a bit of in-line assembly.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
When I had Comcast internet, I could get on those, but it required a network profile to actually connect to the internet. That said, I wouldn’t put it past TV makers and Comcast to collude on using this to allow backdoor network exfiltratio
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by dhosek 3mo ago
Why not both?
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by dhosek 3mo ago
I had no idea about the Exxon connection to Zilog. That was wild.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
There was an interesting recent 99% invisible episode about the creation of videos for Karaoke in the 90s, which talked about videos created on very low budgets for songs with tight constraints. Even adjusting for inflation, their budgets w
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by dhosek 3mo ago
This is where English’s defective subjunctive makes life harder: The point wasn’t about the practicality of the probe from a scientific position, but rather pointing out that even in a best-case scientific scenario, the political-economic-c
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by dhosek 3mo ago
“It’s a Unix system. I know this.” was definitely the line from the movie most quoted in online spaces in the 90s.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
Isn’t this a Windows flaw where it effectively treats the current directory as the head of the path? (I remember the naïve olden days of people’s Unix Path starting with .) Or is Cursor going out of its way to execute a git.exe in the curre
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by dhosek 3mo ago
In California at the high school level, I think it’s only 1 or 2 years of PE.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
Illinois still requires cursive as part of their elementary education curriculum (although it’s an outlier in that it also requires PE in every year of K-12 education and also for public university degrees¹ (maybe also private?) as well as
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by dhosek 3mo ago
The rest of my 6-person team (ranging in age from 20s to late 50s maybe early 60s) has been very reluctant to embrace AI despite the push from our manager to do so. I was very much on their side initially, but creating a few little tools to
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by dhosek 3mo ago
OK, so people are ordering a custom PCB from China for a one-off? Whatever happened to making them at home? I remember my brothers doing this in the bathroom sink with a board coated with copper¹, some special markers to draw the circuit on

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