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by jeffbee 4mo ago
The interrupting parenthetical was so disruptive to the sentence that I thought it said, essentially, "The trombone is the only brass instrument. Parenthetical. The trombone is played by moving the slide."
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
The role of the tongue is heavily emphasized in modern brass pedagogy. Try Claude Gordon, Physical Approach to Elementary Brass Playing, 1977
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
Oh, I read that as an independent statement, rather than one qualifying the first.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
"The trombone is the only brass instrument in a classical orchestra" is a statement that requires further support.
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
I'm just wondering why this Wild West stuff seems to be neither effective, since Texas has auto theft rates well above national averages, nor necessary, considering that Florida lacks the statute and has auto theft rates well below nat
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by jeffbee 4mo ago
What's your hypothesis on why Texas has a much higher auto theft rate than Tennessee, given that they long had the policy you seem to believe is a remedy?
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Instagram auth flow is still hosed as I write this. If I try to sign on via web to my account, which was "recovered" yesterday at least 8 times by me and by hackers, I get the most obnoxious recaptcha treatment I've ever see
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Yeah. I spent years working partly for the account abuse team at Google and that is why I always shake my head (silently, because the HN groupthink disagrees) at the endless parade of stories on this site about people who lost access to the
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
My account, with a 3-letter username worth $$$, got hacked yesterday morning probably by this flow, but I did manage to defend it. I think by far the biggest problem with Instagram/FB/Meta auth flow is that 2FA does nothing. You d
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
It would take like two minutes to cross Atherton on a horse.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
It is an incorrect use of what was already a flawed metaphor. Pressure is isotropic. Directed pressure makes no sense, like all other fluid analogies in unrelated fields of engineering.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Freedom is good for the economy and fascism is bad for the economy. It's nice to have more evidence but we already had plenty.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
This is, if crude, the correct take. You always choose your applications first, then the operating system best suited for them, then the hardware platform.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
I'd guess the problem with the display is software, not hardware, and it just goes to show that the model of slapping parts together and using random downloadable software doesn't always turn out right.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
You seem to be arguing with someone else.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
The person to whom I responded seemed to imply that it consists chiefly or entirely of taking practice exams. I merely wish to point out that if you want your kid to take SAT practice exams every month you can do it for free at home.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
You can, as of about a year ago, take official SAT practice exams for free in Google Gemini.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
I doubt that you can point to a high school which banned calculus. My guess is that you are referring to a political fight in San Francisco where a very specific racial/ethnic cohort of parents believes that one of the high schools is
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Internally the statement is perfectly true: some researchers did estimate this, and the credit card is a fair proxy for a 5g mass. Was the research flagrantly incorrect? Yes. But that does not affect the truth of the statement.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
AI summary isn't bad at all, but people don't understand it and Google hasn't explained it very well. It is just RAG. It is a summarization of the documents that are on the first page of the SERP. People think it is answering
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Yes. And just on the arithmetic it should be crystal clear that no data center is anywhere near energetic enough to heat the countryside for miles around. The effect comes from the man-made surfaces facing the sun instead of natural ground
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
That paper was 100% garbage. It hinged entirely on the observation of 1 huge industrial park in Bajio, Mexico, which contains one AWS data center and about 3000 auto parts factories. The before/after breaking point of the effect was du
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
In my experience the answer is "no". If I am reviewing some slop and I ask Claude's human babysitter why this class has these constructors, they don't have any idea. Without Claude they don't understand the output a
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Giving equal weight to real data centers and 1000sqft telco switches on this map is sort of misleading.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
The biggest lesson I learned working at Dropbox was how toxic python is. If you have an unmanageable python code base, and hire Guido himself to help you fix it, he'll dig you into an even deeper hole and then quit. Which honestly was
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
> right click on an item, click "copy public URL", paste it into the browser, and get an exact copy of that item You have described Google Drive.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
In a "tax break" (misnomer) situation the developer is paying either a lump sum up front, or a defined annual tax that commences immediately. You don't have to wait to find out. An example of this is the Google Kansas City de
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
I think you're a little miscalibrated on "giant impervious surface". The 244-acre site in question would have had three data halls, a substation, and one assumes parking lots and aprons. Here's a 300-acre Walmart distrib
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Why shouldn't there be such things? We already have fuzzing, and responsible software publishers dedicate 24/7 resources to fuzzing.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
The current model Prius is visually pleasing.

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