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by gooseyard 8y ago
I'd like to recommend Simon Winchester's "Krakatoa The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883" to anyone interested in learning more about the Krakatoa eruption. It's quite a story.
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by gooseyard 8y ago
maybe this? https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/ ive re-read that piece dozens of times, the implications are fascinating.
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by gooseyard 8y ago
I've been using Musescore for a lot of the stuff I used to use Lilypond for, but one of the things I absolutely love about Lilypond is that its easy to write scripts that emit lilypond format, it's killer for repetitive stuff like
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by gooseyard 8y ago
thank you from the depths of my musician heart.
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by gooseyard 8y ago
swirling moods makes me think of Brad Mehldau, Ben Monder, Pat Metheny Groups "The Way Up", maybe some of the Chris Potter Underground or Donny McCaslin records.
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by gooseyard 8y ago
I look forward to being able to pinch zoom to magnify interesting landmarks
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by gooseyard 8y ago
his easter egg in Adventure absolutely blew my mind
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by gooseyard 9y ago
If you've not come across Lee Smolin's (speculative) writing on the Fecund Universes theory, you'll probably also love it. Don't have any links as I've only read about it in one of his books, but it's a fascina
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by gooseyard 9y ago
that's a guitarron in the picture which, coincidentally, is the instrument I am trying whether to decide I am too late in my musical career to bother learning :)
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by gooseyard 9y ago
even more socially savvy than "don't feign surprise" is "don't ask questions that might lead to answers that might lead the asker to feign surprise". In any situation where you're assuming the role of teac
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by gooseyard 10y ago
I'm male, barely progressive, of below average couth, and probably seem like a dinosaur to younger colleagues when it comes to gender issues, but I think your item #1 is without question the most endlessly frustrating and pointless sou
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by gooseyard 10y ago
I had this problem, although I found after I started using a tiling window manager that I gravitated back from screen (which I used obsessively) to workspaces with a fairly small (usually two, sometimes three) of xterms running. I might hav
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by gooseyard 10y ago
relevant here: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7168.full
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The American Leader in the Islamic State(theatlantic.com)
1 points by gooseyard 10y ago|0 comments
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by gooseyard 10y ago
I wonder often how often cliquishness gets interpreted as agism, but in either case, being an aging white male in the tech business has given me a new perspective on the merits of workplace diversity :)
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DeVry Agrees to Pay $100M in Case Alleging Deceptive Ads(nytimes.com)
61 points by gooseyard 10y ago|9 comments
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by gooseyard 10y ago
I feel the same way; although I've spent some time with both Gnome and KDE, I never developed an attachment to either of them, mostly because I felt that there was a good likelihood that mastering the Gnome of today might be a pointles
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by gooseyard 10y ago
You'd probably enjoy Clay Shirky's book "Cognitive Surplus", which really put into perspective for me what this apparent glut of time I had on my hands meant. There's an excerpt at: http://mentalfloss.com
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by gooseyard 10y ago
you might be interested in http://erlangonxen.org/ (LING) if you haven't seen it already!
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by gooseyard 10y ago
in racing I've heard this referred to as "unsprung weight" or mass. Makes it a little easier to find more information if you're interested.
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by gooseyard 10y ago
If a guy like this were to get a legitimate psychiatric diagnosis, what do you suppose it'd be? Not that I feel bad for the guy, mind you, rather I feel it'd be helpful to the community of people who have been affected by this kin
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by gooseyard 10y ago
same story here, I don't even want to admit how long I've been using IRC. I can imagine that people who are new to using an IRC-like system in an office might lose sight of when it's right to do things in person or over the p
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by gooseyard 10y ago
Another very good article on this topic, by Daniel Dennett http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/dennett_anim_csness.ht...
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by gooseyard 11y ago
I've been doing gpg and smime for many years; in the contrib/ folder in the dist tarball, you'll find a "gpg.rc" and "smime.rc". I don't think I've changed more than a couple of minor settings in
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by gooseyard 11y ago
can someone confirm whether this is derived from MSR's Drawbridge research? ( http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/ )
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by gooseyard 11y ago
I'm excited about this too- I almost always choose OpenBSD for small, single-role servers, because it runs so well on small hardware like Soekris single board machines, and the maintenance is so low with OpenBSD that I rarely have to t
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Star KIC 8462852's puzzling fading behavior(arxiv.org)
4 points by gooseyard 11y ago|0 comments
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by gooseyard 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLctf4o6feQ
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by gooseyard 11y ago
Criticism is the lowest form of art.
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by gooseyard 11y ago
I guess this is the WYSIWYG thing all over again- in the beginning its nice to be able to see continuously what the finished document is going to look like, but after you become very fluent with the software having to draw everything or to

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