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by edbaskerville 3y ago
I used to be big on LilyPond, but in the end I concluded that my musical brain works much more effortlessly when there's an actual graphical score in front of it. (Maybe I'd feel differently if I had one of those keyboardist/
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
Thank you article, parent, GP. You've saved me just in time from never having read the Deref documentation properly. I have some code to delete before I make this mistake again.
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
Yes, that's a good point, that in well-moderated environments you can call them out effectively. And silent majority, indeed. Too bad the term "silent majority" has been co-opted by the loudest and most misguided minority.
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
It's not just the ones at the top, it's a strong subculture within the industry, built perhaps on valuing certain personality traits that to some extent may correlate with certain kinds of effectiveness. I immediately think of HN
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
As far as I can tell there's no way to get proper pinch-to-zoom in Xorg, so I'm going with Wayland for now. It is totally insane that this is a thing for a user to think about.
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
And here! I switched from Mac to a Framework with Ubuntu/GNOME six months ago. Switched to Fedora/KDE Plasma this week and it's been so much better--everything is so much more discoverable. That said, Dolphin just got a bug w
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
"...designs created for adults may not be appropriate for children." Seems right, seeing as the designs created for adults aren't good for adults either.
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
My experience with pitch memory is nearly identical to yours (but only 34 years playing cello, not 35). Absolute (perfect) pitch really does seem to be a whole different thing neurally, akin to (and perhaps actually related to) the differen
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
Non-Tesla supercharger pilot: https://www.tesla.com/support/non-tesla-supercharging
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by edbaskerville 4y ago
Lots of good responses to this question. The most plausible solution being pushed right now is the one advocated by Lee Drutman and Fix Our House, proportional representation via large multi-member districts: https://www.fixourho
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by edbaskerville 4y ago
Second Strogatz, does an amazing job linking the math to the visual intuition--probably less rigorous than some texts, but the perfect balance for an intro. Took an amazing course based on that book with Charlie Doering, who has sadly passe
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by edbaskerville 4y ago
I honestly don't remember!
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by edbaskerville 4y ago
Not the worst example I've heard. In 2016 the Haitian president canceled daylight savings by decree two days before the changeover. I was flying out of the country the morning after the change, and had a really hard time explaining to
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by edbaskerville 4y ago
The literature on the evolution of cooperation, focused around computational thought experiments with iterated prisoner's dilemma, seems relevant here, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperati
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by edbaskerville 4y ago
Yeah. SQLite's backup API is the right way to do this: https://sqlite.org/backup.html
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by edbaskerville 4y ago
Interesting! Presumably last 12 measures if you're playing a 12-bar blues, etc. Big downside is you're stuck playing to a metronome, which would be enough for me to skip it, but it depends on the kind of music you're playing.
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by edbaskerville 4y ago
The thing that did for me is realizing that people on opposite sides of the United States can't play music together if it requires any rhythmic coordination, even with a true speed-of-light signal with no other sources of latency.
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by edbaskerville 4y ago
Looks like it was only 3 Strads and 3 new violins, which were selected from a pool of 15 submitted by violinmakers. So only really good violins. (But also a very small sample.) 8 players chose a Strad as their favorite, so it's not as
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by edbaskerville 4y ago
I worry that the takeaway for people that only read clickbait headlines about the 2012 Stradivarius study was: expert violinists can't tell the difference between cheap and expensive violins. All the new violins in that study were high
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by edbaskerville 4y ago
Happy to learn about this. I'm going to add a shout-out to my lower-tech SF favorite, community-supported KPOO 89.5, featuring a wonderful array of programs hosted by kindly volunteer DJs. Plus, their stream works most of the time. (If
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by edbaskerville 4y ago
I could imagine a post-crypto-crypto state, where projects that don't die first abandon their overt blockchain framing, and then actually abandon the blockchain entirely. E.g., ten years from now OpenSea evolves into a completely centr
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by edbaskerville 4y ago
"Anytype is co-owned and co-created by the people who use it. Everyone is welcome to contribute to Anytype and everyone is rewarded." Is Anytype a DAO? I'm getting whiffs of blockchain/"web3" stuff between the
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by edbaskerville 4y ago
I agree that algorithmic redistricting based entirely on population density would be the best way to do strict single-member geographic representation. But even neutrally drawn districts give more power to the party that is less concentrate
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by edbaskerville 5y ago
No. Biden pressured the firing of a prosecutor that was NOT looking into corruption allegations, since terms of U.S. aid included reducing corruption. You may remember this as a right-wing line about him corruptly helping his son. It was th
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by edbaskerville 5y ago
The Quadra 700 case was basically a copy of the Mac IIcx and IIci, which are on there. My first Mac was a IIcx, and I still have it. It really does have a great case. (Sadly, it boots to error chimes.)
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by edbaskerville 5y ago
Straus Creamery sells their milk in glass jugs—available at grocery stores in San Francisco, including Safeway, the big chain. Stores charge you a deposit for the jug and refund it when you bring it back. Works very well. It would be nice i
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by edbaskerville 5y ago
This has amazing potential. I'd encourage you to form a non-profit, turn this into something that can last as an organization without becoming what you're trying to avoid becoming. This is a good enough start that I bet you could
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by edbaskerville 5y ago
End the business model entirely! Make all microtargeted advertising illegal! (I can dream, can’t I?)
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by edbaskerville 6y ago
I went ahead and broke that out into a separate page: https://takecongress.org/methodology.html
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by edbaskerville 6y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. The wording is something I've struggled a lot with; I've found it hard to find something accurate but also short and accessible for non-technical people. Clearly it's not quite there, if that was yo

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