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by klodolph 3y ago
There are some musicians out there who rotate the sheet music 90 degrees. These people exist. But I don't see a particular reason why one orientation should be much better than the other—maybe your eyes are better at following horizont
812.
by klodolph 3y ago
With sheet music, transposing music means moving it up or down the staff, and changing the key signature to match, and adjusting any accidentals.
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by klodolph 3y ago
> If there's a glass option, buy that. Is that better? Or is it worse? From estimates that I’ve seen, the glass bottle has 5x the carbon footprint of the corresponding plastic bottle. Glass can be recycled but it takes a lot of ener
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by klodolph 3y ago
I’m just personally frustrated by the disposable shopping bag ban, because every time I go to the store, I typically come back with a bunch of different food items in single-use, disposable plastic or glass packages. What is the point of ba
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by klodolph 3y ago
n=1 but I’ve been in collisions with unibody cars, and they were not written off just because the frame was bent. They were repaired. Granted, these were fender benders. Not serious collisions.
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by klodolph 3y ago
I do wonder what the tail end of this looks like. Eventually the whole operation is just going to service a few odd museum pieces. The Macintosh II will sit alongside the Linotype machine, the Jaquard loom, the Watt steam engine, etc. The q
817.
by klodolph 3y ago
I don’t see how this is different from tourism.
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by klodolph 3y ago
The people I know who go to burning man are incredibly thorough about picking up litter before they leave, and they wear the clothing at other events. Roundtrip transportation to “the middle of nowhere” is no worse than rounddtrip transport
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by klodolph 3y ago
Depends what you mean by “the impact of contention”. It is possible, if you build a lock-free system, to end up with threads that keep churning and never make forward progress.
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by klodolph 3y ago
That’s how California works too.
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by klodolph 3y ago
If you translate it back into English, “she had said goodbye too much”, it’s clear that the real question is, “did the author mean something by those choices which the translation obliterated?” Translation is a process which both erases inf
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by klodolph 3y ago
Calcium and magnesium share some pathways for absorption and compete with each other. Not only is there a limit to how much calcium or magnesium you can absorb, but if you have a high-calcium diet, your body will absorb less magnesium. Ther
823.
by klodolph 3y ago
It’s the best option for Unity development, if you don’t want to pay. (There are a lot of people in this category—students who want to get into game development.)
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by klodolph 3y ago
There are repos with many files and there are repos with lots of history data. Those are problems with different solutions—adding millions of files to the repo will make 'git status' take ages, but it won’t necessarily put the sam
825.
by klodolph 3y ago
> Are there some fundamental aspects of git that would make it either very difficult to improve that, or that would sacrifice some important benefits if they were made? It’s hard to look at a million files on disk and figure out which on
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by klodolph 3y ago
As always, I recommend Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Williams and Colomb. Get an old copy if you don’t want to pay for a new edition. Elements of Style is a classic but there are better alternatives.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yeah. Although I think part of the problem is just how much of a nightmare Fontconfig is. I dealt with fonts on Windows and macOS, and there were a ton of hoops you have to jump through if you want tight control over how you display text on
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yeah. For most operations, you pay for drive throughput & redundancy, and the actual storage itself is “too cheap to meter”. Except when it isn’t, but those customers know who they are.
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by klodolph 3y ago
If you want to understand crystals thermodynamically, in terms of entropy, you should be using a more rigorous notion of entropy. When crystal formation is thermodynamically favorable, the process causes entropy to increase, not decrease. S
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by klodolph 3y ago
> There's no such a thing like "side-effect-free" code. This kind of like “Ceci n'est pas une pipe.” In that it’s useful to remind people that there is no such thing as side-effect-free code, strictly speaking, but as
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by klodolph 3y ago
You can disable direct root login and force users to login as their own account first. This way, any root login is tracked—you know who logged in as root, because they had to log in as their own account in order to run su.
832.
by klodolph 3y ago
Basically, su vs sudo. Do you want any user to be able to become root, if they know the root password? Or do you want more control over the process?
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by klodolph 3y ago
There’s a lot of deployed Python code that uses multithreading. The genie is out of the bottle, so to speak. The JavaScript model is, basically, the sub-interpreter model. You have multiple independent heaps. Given independent heaps, you wr
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by klodolph 3y ago
It may be too late to go with the JavaScript model.
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by klodolph 3y ago
> One beef I have with short session expiration, though, is that in many cases it causes people to degrade security. One counterpoint—if sessions last too long, then I forget the password, and reset the password. If sessions are too shor
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by klodolph 3y ago
That’s one possible scenario. The correct way to evaluate security is to consider many different scenarios, and consider how your mitigations affect the likelihoods of all of them, weighted by their impact.
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by klodolph 3y ago
> Also, it would be better to protect against this by securing the logs or using hard drive encryption. This one line is emblematic of the flaws in the article. My take on the article is, “Imagine that everything else in a system is done
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by klodolph 3y ago
I don’t think “mainstream narrative that the government would like to push” is in any way explicatory. The idea that there is some kind of mainstream narrative doesn’t seem to hold up to me. If you are doing food science you can conceivably
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by klodolph 3y ago
Scientists are on average a little left-leaning but science denialism, somehow, is something that crops up in both far-left and far-right spaces (just not equally). If you were in a leftist bubble, you’d have been seeing science denialism f
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by klodolph 3y ago
If you have a single free electron, and move it on a curved trajectory, you’ll see electromagnetic radiation. If you have a hypothetical continuum of charges moving in a circle, and you use Maxwell’s equations, you’ll find that given a cons

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