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by dwringer 4y ago
I always thought one of the main benefits of a 7-tone subset is that it fits inside working memory. It's also what anyone who grew up with commercial pop music or western classical music has a natural ear for. Not to mention that even
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by dwringer 4y ago
I think it would be a far better headline if "military grade AES-1024" were put in scare quotes. Otherwise it just looks like clickbait and presumably keeps a lot of people from ever clicking on it.
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by dwringer 4y ago
> People just got tricked in to doing this because Facebook was centered around connecting people at college, where you interact with people in real life. It was obsolete and an aberration the moment Facebook decided to open up to the wi
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by dwringer 4y ago
Well that's certainly one way to view it, but I am not sure whether it's how Feynman himself would have viewed it. To me there's an implication there that he doesn't view atoms in this context as passive beings since Fey
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by dwringer 4y ago
The line "I... a universe of atoms... an atom in the universe" implies to me that the narrator views himself as the tiniest piece of an infinite tapestry of life. I think Feynman was many things but lost "into other barren in
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by dwringer 4y ago
I always interpreted the data storage (and, particularly, retrieval) aspect as more of a metaphor for man's search for meaning. Or something.
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by dwringer 4y ago
Right on, the original story it's based on, by William Gibson, was published in 1981 but the movie is from the 90's. I think that movie is tragically underrated but it does have a bit of a cult following now at least.
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by dwringer 4y ago
I kind of wish editors focused on having different highlighting modes the way some strategy games have different map modes. I sometimes find myself changing to random language modes in emacs just to see different highlighting schemes that
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by dwringer 4y ago
I've only seen a couple of MCU movies and a few (mainly Batman) DC ones, never much cared for the comic book medium but for a few exceptions; however, I don't really see what you're describing as a problem among my friends wh
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by dwringer 4y ago
Rainbow parentheses are such a great invention I can't understand why it isn't standard nearly everywhere.
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by dwringer 4y ago
I see a lot of people using loop in the wild, but personally I took to heart Paul Graham's advice from ANSI Common Lisp to generally avoid it because of the exact reason you've suggested, it's complicated and honestly not v
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by dwringer 4y ago
I think a lot of programmers as they are first learning their first language go through a phase of trying to count brackets and parentheses and failing miserably (those bugs are horrible to hunt down) before finding editors that help match
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by dwringer 4y ago
There is a lot of overlap but plenty of self-deprecating jokes are way too blue to be considered "dad jokes". Still I think you're right and that's just a variation of the same thing. Just... "adult" dad jokes.
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by dwringer 4y ago
That one is a little bit simplified, and as such is very close to something like D'Nealian which is what I learned in school. Technically in Spencerian the letters "d", "t", and "p" have the same basic st
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by dwringer 4y ago
The Decimo is a great form factor, it's also just about the most inconspicuous fountain pen possible so you won't get weird looks from people who've never seen a fountain pen before. That said I have one as well as a Custom 7
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by dwringer 4y ago
Not the OP, but I learned by reading and practicing alongside Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship [0], by Platt and Henry Spencer themselves. It goes into an astonishing amount of detail; while there are probably newer adaptations I thi
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by dwringer 4y ago
Well, if you print it out then it's all kind of embedded on a piece of paper.
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by dwringer 4y ago
Great point about muscle memory, I found it fascinating to learn Spencerian as it kind of distills the essence of writing to a surprisingly low number of forms (7 or 8 I think?), a kind of local optimum for Latin-based cursive. The hardest
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by dwringer 4y ago
A few years ago I made a conscious effort to improve my handwriting and got a few fountain pens, to me transitioning from D'Nealian to a Spencerian variant was pretty easy and I think the latter is faster, more legible, and more comfor
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by dwringer 5y ago
Free software doesn't mean you get to see all the hard work that went into it, though, or that you get to see all the UML diagrams, or napkins, or other design documents. You might not even get all the supporting code, if it isn't
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by dwringer 5y ago
I think in that example the analogy might be more along the lines of studios who come down hard on fan fiction, forbidding it, versus those that allow it or even encourage or draw inspiration from it. Although my analogy falls short because
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by dwringer 5y ago
I haven't seen one priced at 99 cents for a couple of years now. The best price in convenience stores where I live (US) is typically 2/$3.00. The cans don't even say 99 cents anymore, they seemed to start phasing that out af
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by dwringer 5y ago
A lot has changed in the three weeks since they took their poll, I'd be very surprised if some of these numbers hold true today (for instance, this claims only 47% under 30 believe Russia has intentionally targeted civilians)
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by dwringer 5y ago
Good question which had me slightly concerned for a moment; there's official documentation of the upcoming change here[0]. It does seem that this is only applied to "fulfilled by Amazon" products (and will not apply to third
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by dwringer 5y ago
Whoa, 2 for $2.22 is something I haven't seen for 15 years here in northern WV. Usually like 2.19 for one, and two is pushing $3.75 now (maybe $3.50 if you're a rewards member). I suppose we have excise taxes to thank for that. T
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by dwringer 5y ago
It was there, the problem is that by default if you open files the way most people do (double-clicking or dragging) then Excel decides you must not want to be bothered by the options so it fills them in for you. "Helpfully" not ev
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by dwringer 5y ago
You can just flag submissions or click the "<x> minutes ago" to open individual comments and flag them.
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by dwringer 5y ago
I think it would be extremely cool to be able to transpile other languages into this language's diagrams and then watch the execution.
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by dwringer 5y ago
I did grow up with the original Doom, and to me this mod actually restores some of the sense of overwhelming darkness that came from playing it on old, dying, poorly calibrated low-resolution CRT's from the late 80's. No game has
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by dwringer 5y ago
Wow, your post sure got a lot of replies, heh. I've not used a modern VR headset but I have used a TrackIR, and to me it provides such a huge leap in immersion that I can't really see how VR would be worth the extra hassle over th

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