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by jay-anderson 7y ago
When we bought our house it had a lawn in the backyard. I never really liked taking care of it. Last year I worked on getting rid of the bermuda grass in my back yard. This year I put out some wild flower seeds and watched what came up. I s
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by jay-anderson 7y ago
I worked with the author at a past company. He was an ideal coworker. He's an excellent communicator and was great at cutting through whatever else was going on to help us get the important things done. I'm happy to see his writin
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by jay-anderson 7y ago
To get an idea of the game you can try out the original version on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/MZX102
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by jay-anderson 7y ago
How it's written here it won't be null. However the general pattern is to check for null in the finally block since it may not be provable that the stream is non-null (e.g. created in a library call or similar). In fact the try-wi
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by jay-anderson 7y ago
Pretty neat. It'd be nice to be able to choose more chords. For instance with some inversions the voice leading can be improved. Also it'd allow for using secondary dominant and other chords with non-scale notes.
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by jay-anderson 7y ago
The 'Living Big In A Tiny House' youtube channel put up a video of this yurt today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f05NYU3kmFs .
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CS50 for Lawyers 2019(youtube.com)
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by jay-anderson 7y ago
I tend to agree that I don't like the harsher saxophone sound, but there are some great usages of the sax without that. Paul Desmond (played with Dave Brubeck) is a great example of this in my opinion.
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by jay-anderson 7y ago
Reminds me of how spring configuration works between yaml and property files. It does a similar flattening to translate between them.
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
Writing laws feels a bit like a monkey's paw. No matter how well written a law is they often have unintended consequences or are implemented manners that weren't imagined. I don't think the bill's author/sponsor is
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
Very much agreed. Like all things balance is needed. Often it's worth thinking about performance during initial design. There's the idea that fixing bugs earlier in development is cheaper. This also applies to performance issues.
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
That's a great example. I remember having lessons in school where we analyzed ads to decide what persuasion/propaganda techniques were being used. I hope these types of lessons are taught somewhat commonly. However I don't re
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
The code for windows has been leaked and people could get the source. Sometimes companies have agreements for viewing the source of software they produce. These are two examples where the source code is visible, but this alone does not make
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
That depends. The district my kids are in avoids the issue by creating a fall break for the full week that just happens to cover Columbus day.
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
My understanding of checklists in this context is they are not intended to decrease autonomy. They aren't meant as a means to use lower skilled labor for important tasks. Instead they make sure the baselines are taken care of and we ar
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
Be sure to checkout the .gitignore: https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen/blob/master/.gitign...
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
Is this mostly renaming the notes or is there something more? That said it is a useful way to think about some musical concepts. It's the same as integer notation for pitch classes if I'm understanding correctly: https:/&#x2
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
There are humans that eat insects. I don't think there's something about eating insects we automatically find unappealing. I believe we've been taught that. Another idea is we don't like seeing the face of what we'r
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
Agreed. As a lilypond user, hiding some of the extra stuff would be confusing to me. I don't think it would be simple to create a mode for more easy note-only editing.
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
I was at a company once where they were out of cubical space. There was an available office that had windows so they put some people in there and boarded up the windows.
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
I heard on the radio recently that even though cities have been growing the overall water usage hasn't grown with it. The report attributed it to more efficient toilets. If cities required better insulation would we see a similar effec
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
Rust recently added nonzero number types (see https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2307-conc... ). Though I believe the primary motivation here was the reduce memory usage in some speci
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
I live in the desert as well. I'd love to have a house with better insulation to spend less on AC. Earth sheltered homes seems like a great way to do that (though there are other problems - e.g. moisture, heavier roof). https:/&#
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
I was thinking the same thing. It's an odd list. It may make sense to exclude cliff dwellings if the list should be the oldest buildings still being used. Still, old, well-made buildings are very neat even if not technically the oldest
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
Yes! I think a lot of people miss the water part. The land will not grow a lot of the plants we eat or large trees without irrigation. However cows and other animals can eat the scrub that grows there naturally so it makes some sense to rai
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
Yep, this was me with ZZT. The scripting language was very limited--it didn't even have numbers really. You had to get creative. But it was simple and small enough to understand and try things out. Good memories to me.
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWDX6oaYCg - here's an older video about him. Pretty interesting. We need more home archivists (or whatever the proper word is) like him. There's so much stuff out there that would
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
I'm not sure about local funding (I think there's a certain amount of state and county funding as well). I'm sure that differs for each one. They also often staff the fire department with local volunteers. I have a couple unc
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
Agreed. It's annoying that we need special permissions on old public domain artwork. Depending on where you're at they can't prevent you from using it freely. In the US at least there is precedent that exact digital copies of
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by jay-anderson 8y ago
Right. Jbig2 supports lossless compression. I'm not very familiar with the bug, but it could have been a setting somewhere in the scanner/copier that it was changed to lossy compression instead. Or they had lossy compression on by

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