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by epcoa 2y ago
In addition to the portability issue, CoreGraphics does not compete directly with Skia or Direct2D for that matter (it’s mostly CPU based). If you combine it with CoreAnimation you get something of a quasi superset. Direct2D is +/-, bu
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by epcoa 2y ago
I love Cairo, but it’s just not in the same feature or performance ballpark as skia. There’s a reason even Firefox adopted skia. Skia is like the V8 of 2D drawing libraries, just a ton of continual investment into optimization. I used to w
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by epcoa 2y ago
There isn’t really anything commonly “native” as powerful as skia for 2D drawing and a big part of skia is using the native graphics effectively, this is why it exists in the first place for browser engines. Besides having one target API is
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by epcoa 2y ago
> chemically altering the corn syrup. And where does corn syrup come from? From squeezing corn? The sugars in corn don’t start as glucose either (they’re starches). Besides, at home, bakers easily make “HFCS” themselves by adding any we
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by epcoa 2y ago
Well then it is a worthless term. Both granulated sugar and HFCS are processed foods. Corn syrup is a household ingredient. No idea why you think a bit higher percentage of fructose changes anything.
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by epcoa 2y ago
Canada has letters in postal codes. That’s the issue the GP is referring to, since US gas stations invariably just have a simple 5 numeric digit input for “zip” code.
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by epcoa 2y ago
The thing is though that payment networks do in fact do instant verification and it is interesting what gets verified and when. At gas stations it is very common to ask for a zip code (again US), and this is verified immediately to allow th
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by epcoa 2y ago
As you may be aware, the name field for credit card transactions is rarely verified (perhaps limited to North America, not sure). Often I’ll create a virtual credit card number and use a fake name, and virtually never have had a transaction
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by epcoa 2y ago
sci-hub proper hasn't been updated since it's indefinite pause in december 2020. Alternatives are of variable success depending on field. It might be better for CS/Math, but medicine and life sciences it's pretty bad.
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by epcoa 2y ago
sci-hub hasn't been updated in 4 years and the sources for annas-archive like nexus-stc are seriously hit or miss (depends on the field).
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by epcoa 2y ago
> Python is something I fundamentally love and use frequently, but I'm not the first to notice the terrible UX when it comes to managing different versions of Python itself, and its packages. Python’s ecosystem looks like a trash fi
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by epcoa 2y ago
Nope. Windows CE was more in the old school “smartphone” (pre iPhone) and PDA, marketed along with a baseline hardware profile and called Pocket PC. Also used in a number of industrial PDAs (think postal service and warehouse scanners), set
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by epcoa 2y ago
An absolutely irrelevant detail here. While there was an additional flourish of obfuscation of questionable prudence, the attack was not at all dependent on that. It’s a library that justifies all kinds of seemingly innocuous test data. The
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by epcoa 2y ago
> You could anchor things relatively to other controls or components. I don’t believe this was a feature that came out of the box in VB6. There is Control.Anchor in WinForms that is post VB6.
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by epcoa 2y ago
> Just want to add to what other people are saying, not only did VB6 support relative positioning Did it? I know .NET WinForms does with Control.Anchor, but that is VB.NET, not VB6. It’s been many years but I don’t recall any method for
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by epcoa 2y ago
Oh this. This is not the smoking gun you seem to think. https://deplatformdisease.substack.com/p/igg4-covid-and-mrna... It would be good to point out William Makis is a disgraced, long unlicensed (pre pandemic) physici
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by epcoa 2y ago
Dunking on nlohmann for performance is pretty easy. I’m interested in what the value proposition is over one of rapidjson, glaze, or simdjson (all of which have some amount of SIMD or SWAR optimization, and more importantly SAX and the use
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by epcoa 2y ago
While I agree there’s some ironic amount of overlap, you ruined your point going full circle.
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by epcoa 2y ago
This is off. E-C# is the major sixth. E-C is the minor sixth, which as you say is enharmonic with sharp fifth (E-B#).
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by epcoa 2y ago
♭6 ;-) (E-C is minor 6th) But I think it should be noted from the context of that comment (and the original article) that the names are necessarily ambiguous. So the names E-G-C (or whatever set you choose, how about F#, A#, C#) are pitch p
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by epcoa 2y ago
Sure, but I certainly haven't been proposing that naming chords based on identifying pitches on a standard keyboard with no other context is suitable, quite the opposite (fool's errand in my original comment). In the confines of t
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by epcoa 2y ago
You’re saying if the triad E G C is played in a piece in C major it doesn’t sound like a C chord?? Ok. Then what do you call it?
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by epcoa 2y ago
You're absolutely right about enharmonic equivalents and I could/should have been more precise. However of course the given task of "keys" or pitches -> chords we don't have any information about this, enharmoni
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by epcoa 2y ago
The problem is not the testing. The problem statement is flawed. Chord naming is not particularly useful as simply a function mapping a set of undifferentiated notes to a name. The post interestingly gets that the root note is important,
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by epcoa 2y ago
This is unfortunately one of the ambiguities in notation. But usually not a problem because it should be quite clear when figured bass is being used. In jazz/pop notation inversions are indicated with slash chords.
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by epcoa 2y ago
For what it is worth it’s not wrong to say that the triad where E is the root would be Em#5. The inversions you point out still have the same root (C) even if the bass is different. But I agree you’ve identified the fundamental problem: w
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by epcoa 2y ago
> My hunch is that any algorithm that analyzes chords in isolation (and not in the context of other chords in the song) You can at least get much further by naming a key (what a key is, is not etched in stone either, but there are some u
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by epcoa 2y ago
This may be so, but I don’t know how it counters the fact that there is more essentially unwatched and obscure content produced on these platforms than ever. And it's not like this particular content was once popular in the "good
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by epcoa 2y ago
> I'm definitely looking at it from rose colored glasses It's not rose tinted glasses, it's just a poor comparison. The absolute vast majority of these videos have double digit if not any views. You're seeking them
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by epcoa 2y ago
I think we are talking past each other and see what you’re saying. Also rereading the initial comment it is now obvious what is going on. For some reason I thought they were claiming weird interactions between statement objects (which would

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