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by jefurii 4y ago
Analog computing has been used by musicians for awhile now. Synthesizers are basically analog computers. Bob Moog was an engineer whose genius was figuring out how to connect keyboards to lab equipment and how to hide enough of the guts to
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by jefurii 4y ago
Thanks for those recommendations! Yep, I didn't make it past early college music classes, which just weren't doing it for me. I got booed out of the room once for suggesting it'd be cool to mix jazz and hip-hop (in 1989).
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by jefurii 4y ago
The standard arrangement -- it enables you to put together a group of players who've never worked together to play tunes nobody has even heard before, but then it just sounds like every other jazz band. I'd love to hear your vario
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I remember watching a documentary about Miles right before he released Tutu. The interviewer asked if he ever got nostalgic for the old bebop or cool jazz stuff he used to play. Miles paused for a long time, then he said I love those old
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by jefurii 4y ago
In one sense jazz is all about freedom - you can play "whatever you want!"- but in many other senses it's as incredibly traditional and formulaic.as classical. There is a canon of songs that is worshipped, and song structure
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by jefurii 4y ago
This is like VCVrack meets Hainbach in Pico8!
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Defined Networking (Nebula) Is Open for Business(defined.net)
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by jefurii 4y ago
Powder milk Biscuits: Whole wheat that gives shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done.
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by jefurii 4y ago
I try to practice a form of meditation when I wake up at night. I try to avoid having any verbal thoughts, to silence that yammering voice in my head, and keep things at the level of sensory impressions. If my thoughts turn towards my tra
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by jefurii 4y ago
> This is so one-sided, it’s practically propaganda. What's wrong with that? He's not trying to be a journalist in some mainstream publication (both-side-ism is suspect anyway). You read Stross to get his take on things, from h
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by jefurii 4y ago
Not a fan of Elon but it does look like Twitter had some serious problems that did need to be fixed. Like not having plans for dealing with cold-boot situations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33593122
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In my college linguistics class the prof told us about a study involving adult language learners that measured foreign language fluency against number of drinks consumed. Fluency went way up with one drink, peaked at two drinks, and rapidl
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What we are seeing is Saudi people who tweeted or liked tweets critical of the Saudi regime being arrested and held prisoner if they visit the kingdom.
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We need to have a system where all the code is open source and available for download. All the code, from the registration servers to the voting machines to the tallying servers. Everything made available along with the SHA256 checksums.
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"And now for something completely different" is a reference to Monty Python, the British comedy troupe. Python is named after Monty, not the snake.
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Wasn't my decision to go with it.
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by jefurii 4y ago
Why the f*** couldn't they just build Elasticsearch with a SQL query language from the start? I hate their JSON query syntax and now that this is out I feel like I wasted all the time I spent making my applications work with it.
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by jefurii 4y ago
A better headline would be "More than 60K rent-stabilized apartments are kept off the market by landlords".
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by jefurii 4y ago
The system used to produce ddr.densho.org uses Git and git-annex to manage archival metadata and binaries. Unfortunately it's not directly visible on the site and is not open-source licensed. The original use case was to support branc
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by jefurii 4y ago
What's wrong with git-annex? My work has been using it for almost 10 years to manage 40TB+ of data. It's always been rock solid.
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by jefurii 4y ago
So... a revival of forums and IRC channels? Not a bad thing!
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I know what you mean - for awhile after 2016 you couldn't say anything remotely progressive without having your comments flagged by overzealous Clinton-or-nobody Dems. I almost left but I stuck around and it's gotten better. The n
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Except that the U.S. is a privacy hostile country so if you live here you risk a search whenever you leave.
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It's nice to hear the workers' perspective on this.
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KCRW FM Los Angeles. YouTube DJ sets at Laundry Room, HÖR BERLIN, Seoul Community Radio and other virtual venues. There's a whole genre of YouTube videos of disembodied hands playing electronic music, titled with the names of the inst
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Yeah you can't win every battle, and it's probably best to avoid letting it turn into a battle at all. Highlighting the attractive aspects of Linux while supporting her choices works best in the long run anyway. Anyway, Linux an
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My wife is an attorney and has been happily using Ubuntu for her law practice for something like 10 years now. When it was time to replace her aging 12in TiBook (OSX) I suggested she consider a Linux laptop. I myself had switched to a Thin
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by jefurii 4y ago
The LetsEncrypt tutorial showed me exactly this configuration.
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China rations electricity to factories as heatwave sees power demand surge(theguardian.com)
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Anidolic lighting could be used to provide diffuse light beneath solar panels.

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