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by dwringer 8y ago
Whether "most people ... care about [it as] literature", I'm not sure, but most people in many school districts and universities were at least forced to read Beowulf as part of a standard curriculum, possibly more than once o
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by dwringer 8y ago
I appreciate your response, though my point wasn't to "prove [the above poster] wrong", but that the ability to slide notes in chords is not exclusively dependent on a specific FL Studio plugin and has always traditionally be
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by dwringer 8y ago
Well for polyphony the "which note goes where" issue could, with creative sequencing, be solved by using different channels for each individual note to override the synthesizer's configured behavior [also enabling the use of
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by dwringer 8y ago
Portamento is a fairly standard feature on many synthesizers - there's no need to use MIDI to spell out the full range of sliding one note into another, or to use a pitch bend. On supporting instruments (such as a great number of vinta
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by dwringer 8y ago
Although based on that book, with which I agree here, the plural seems unambiguously the preferred term for this article's context, I'm not convinced of the book's examples of incorrect use of the singular form. It seems lik
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by dwringer 8y ago
I thought it looked kind of cool, so I derived a lettering style from the one shown on page 17 and made a kludgy bit of Common Lisp to print strings in it[1]. I tested it a little bit, but, caveat emptor . As written it only supports spac
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by dwringer 8y ago
Agreed, but the article itself from that issue is titled "The New Scarlet Letter"[1]. The statement from Wikipedia seems to conflate the cover line with the article itself. [1] http://content.time.com/time/
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by dwringer 8y ago
Sorry, my earlier use of the word subset was a mistake and I have edited the sentence in question to say "within the purview" which is more what I had in mind. I appreciate your reply and do agree with your final statement, thoug
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by dwringer 8y ago
Not encountering this for the first time, I've given much thought to your position over the years. But according to many mathematicians, mathematics is within the purview of natural language[1][2]. And wasn't it Feynman himself
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by dwringer 8y ago
On a high DPI screen I still find it a little straining. To me the width is acceptable enough but the color is about as light as I'd want, and a shade of dark blue that strangely blends with the off-axis color-distortion of my inexpen
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by dwringer 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand the distinction you're making, and whether the nerves are considered part of the heart there are most definitely nerves into the heart. From [1], "The vagus nerve directly innervates the sinoat
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by dwringer 8y ago
I have seen that idea popularized here on HN for sure - it seems almost every physical or mental health and diet related post gets a comment about "the gut microbiome" which either mentions or is replied to by a comment that claim
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by dwringer 8y ago
I probably can't see even 320x240, but that doesn't mean I don't like having the extra pixels since I don't stare at one spot the whole time. Upgrading to 4k felt extremely liberating compared with 1080, IMO - productiv
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by dwringer 8y ago
As I read it, the point is not about using unit tests to verify correctness, but as an interactive means of learning the problem inside and out prior to finding a complete solution. The trick is in learning what you don't know, and on
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by dwringer 8y ago
Much of the music is, but the recordings of many specific performances are not - and specific performances are often what listeners are interested in.
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by dwringer 8y ago
I was on the fence there for a while between the two designs, and now that you mention it I think the shoulder-width separation is at least as important for comfort as any other factor. I ended up going for the Advantage2 instead mainly be
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by dwringer 8y ago
The one I got was the Kinesis Advantage 2, which I almost hesitate to recommend due to the sticker shock. I'd recommend trying to see if the idea of a more symmetrical typing posture appeals to you enough to be worth it (maybe just so
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by dwringer 8y ago
An alternative to using a different key layout is to use a contoured matrix-style ergonomic keyboard (where all keys are arranged in symmetric columns and curved to fit the hand). I did this a couple of years ago and can similarly report a
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by dwringer 8y ago
I think in many contexts there's a case to be made for the redundancy. For instance, at a checkout counter where a customer or cashier may have a pen in hand, may be wearing one or more pins, and is subsequently prompted for a PIN - s
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by dwringer 8y ago
I remember this practice of almost-compelled research participation even in the introductory undergraduate Psychology 101 course, and in that class (which included high school students and tons of non-majors) there was a lot of the attitude
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by dwringer 8y ago
I'd really like to see a customizable threshhold on what is and isn't spam. I've noticed a lot of mailing lists and things I did sign up for getting passed to junk, though periodically I try to mark them as "not spam&qu
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by dwringer 8y ago
Where does Facebook offer a place to put "content"? AFAIK You can give them personal info and suggest interesting things, and Facebook decides how, if, or when to present this information, and to whom.
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by dwringer 8y ago
Are you referring to Zuckerberg capitalizing on the ideas of others, or Rupert Murdoch buying out MySpace and making everyone jump ship to Facebook?
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by dwringer 8y ago
The original never had that weird breakdown, it was just the website with spinning hamsters playing what is the intro of that first video, and it predates that version. I'm not surprised the person who did the remix moved onto other b
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by dwringer 8y ago
I run them with different color themes and fonts (randomly chosen from a list on startup) so I can instantly see which window is being used for which project (I juggle several at work - I also take advantage of Windows 10's virtual des
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by dwringer 8y ago
I don't think that kind of memory usage is necessarily common - I get sessions that grow for whatever reason but typically I can have several emacs instances running at once using less than 100MB each - the ones I treat like notepads a
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by dwringer 8y ago
Thanks for the reply; I've read only a small fraction of Jung's vast body of work and certainly don't always agree with [or understand] his conclusions, but I've also felt he was pretty moderate in drawing them and ofte
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by dwringer 8y ago
When I took some undergraduate level Psychology courses there was nothing to make me think Jung had been discounted as "an interesting part of ... history, but not actually useful" - with several comments from various instructors
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by dwringer 8y ago
worshipping an arbitrarily contrived measure of password entropy makes for good security theatre, but there's a lot that goes into maintaining anything resembling actual security. How many people use "password generators" an
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by dwringer 8y ago
I tried to kill the ones on the sides and/or that moved around more first, which did seem to lead after ~10 generations to lots of static/slow opponents coming down in an easily-dispatched cluster that could be easily mopped up at

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