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by louthy 2y ago
Vinyl is technically worse in that the low-end and high-end frequencies need to be rolled off to cut. It's also technically worse in that it can't do low-end stereo without the needle jumping out of the groove. The reasons that p
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by louthy 2y ago
I never had help from senior engineers. No mentoring whatsoever. I learned by doing, making my own mistakes, learning from them. So it’s not a requirement to have good mentors. Although they may shorten the journey. Having an insatiable d
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by louthy 2y ago
As I understand it, he was making a pro-Hamas speech (not pro-Palestine). Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK. The UK had a particular problem with preacher Anjem Choudary [1] indoctrinating followers to be militant isla
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by louthy 2y ago
If you’re referring to the faux outrage whipped up by Daily Telegraph ‘journalist’ Alison Pearson, then that too isn’t accurate [1]. A member of the public reported a crime (inciting racial hatred), the police followed up on that, as is th
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by louthy 2y ago
Tweets inciting violence and hate crimes. Which led to actual riots and attempts at lynching of immigrants.
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by louthy 2y ago
This is utter hyperbole. The kind of rhetoric stirred up by Musk et al, but not even remotely true.
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by louthy 2y ago
> the same way we standardised on "class" Did we, when did this happen? Languages like Haskell use type-class to mean something closer to traits/interfaces in other languages. I wouldn't be surprised if other languag
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by louthy 2y ago
I have a lot of respect for Erik Meijer and I agree with the basic premise of the paper/article. However, I don't fully agree with Erik's position. Let's say this was my program: void Main() { PureFunct
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by louthy 2y ago
As someone who's written a pure functional framework for C# [1], I'll bite... > How can you "Make illegal states unrepresentable" with mutable state and sequences of mutations that cannot be enforced with the type sys
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by louthy 2y ago
> I started graying in my mid twenties, I am in my late thirties now and my hair is a little over half gray at this point. I would frankly like to do something about it, my wife has been insistent that I don't because she likes it.
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by louthy 2y ago
Didn’t read it, just went for the memes. The kinder surprise one is absolute genius!
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Ah, thank you :)
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by louthy 2y ago
> D&B is just jungle 14 BPM faster. Blasphemy!
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There was a club in London that I used to go to in the mid-90s called Complex. It had three floors, one was drum&bass, one techno, and the top floor was PlayStations. The PS1 was a real zeitgeist moment where gaming came of age.
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by louthy 2y ago
You’re right, but it’s also worth noting that the Belleville Three [1] were heavily influenced by Kraftwerk (electro) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belleville_Three
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by louthy 2y ago
It’s awful, yes. But it’s also where everybody is. So, if you have a public profile you need to be on there.
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by louthy 2y ago
I can't edit it, so here's a direct site link: https://soundcloud.com/paullouth/paul-louth-jungle-mix-nye-2...
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by louthy 2y ago
There's still plenty of fresh underground music and the 'kids' are doing just fine. Yeah there's loads of mainstream garbage out there, but there always was. The main difference is that this stuff was being invented, w
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by louthy 2y ago
> I didn't expect a jungle setlist while browsing HN I didn't ever expect to post one! :D
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If anyone's interested and wants to hear more, I have a mix of 92/93 era Jungle [1] Some rough mixes here and there (especially the first one) because it was live from a NYE event. But it suits the style of music, that era was so
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Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds(bbc.com)
10 points by louthy 2y ago|3 comments
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by louthy 2y ago
The population hasn’t been tested. A subset has.
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by louthy 2y ago
That doesn’t change my point. It didn’t test every dev on all platforms, it tested a subset. That subset may well have different attributes to the ones that didn’t engage. So, it says nothing about the audience for the forums as a whole, ju
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by louthy 2y ago
I’m not sure that’s evidence; I looked at that and saw it was written in Go and just didn’t bother. As someone with 40 years of coding experience and a fundamental dislike of Go, I didn’t feel the need to even try. So the numbers can easily
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by louthy 2y ago
Edit: meant to say self-host/single-tenant in the last paragraph.
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It never stops, but at least with evidence of audits, evidence of pen tests, and policy documentation, it can be a little easier!
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by louthy 2y ago
GDPR & ISO27001 compliance are the important ones, but depending on the industry there maybe others (HIPAA for example). You need to hire an advisor and start writing everything down. Being able to hand over compliance documentation al
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by louthy 2y ago
> run a basic invariant-mass calculation and see the mass peak popping up. For the idiots in this post (me), could you please explain what that entails and why it helps confirm the discovery?
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by louthy 2y ago
I thought it was a satirical allegory about the US healthcare system ;)
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> Debt had nothing to do with WW2. That is not what I said.

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