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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
How could a study like this study six different categories of mental activity and not include a category for making music? Might be very informative to see that compared to those other categories, as it uses the same parts of the brain as
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
The number of different things that different people want to do for different audiences with music that goes through a computer somewhere along the way is so great that we must admire the people who have put MuseScore together for producing
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
I worked on a team of hundreds that developed and maintained a vertical market app enterprise app for a few thousand client companies, probably more than 100,000 end-user seats, but fewer than 500,000. My small sample size (1) observati
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
> obviously some sort of weird re-writing of history Might this not be a way to get people to accept the reality that the view of reality to which we have been exposed since birth is asymptotically approaching 100% phony, e.g. euphemi
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
Charles Schwab company did a survey of those of their customers who did very well over the long run, and they found a surprising attribute of a large number of the most successful investors: they had forgotten that they had the account. B
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
https://climatecasino.net/2023/06/wtf-is-happening-an-overvi... It is a quite long article. Almost at the bottom it gets around to this: Which says: "Here’s where things get esoteric. As of January 1, 2020,
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
I realized it that the emergency was a gimmick whan they started wanting me to schedule a few extended trips, 11,000 miles flying in coach each way, to train my replacements.
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
I saw an article about this last week. It identified the cause as a new rule last year switching the fuel for cargo ships and tankers that reduced the allowed sulfur content by about 80%. This is very good to slow ocean acidification, sa
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
So here's the question: Was Dick Pick, the creator of Pick BASIC, vaccinated with MUMPS? Pick BASIC was sort of like a version of MUMPS for people who could not afford to go to the hospital, easier to swallow, but with similar side
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
IIRC $300 each was 1 GB zip disks in the middle 1990's.
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
All this song data has been standardized and revamped multiple times and these standards have been implemented in mp3 players to decode and display info about that to which you are listening. Waitaminute -- mp3 players can play lots of so
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
VIN is a good example of how this stuff gets pretty crazy. The standards define it so as to be unique, but only unique within defined n year ranges of model years (VIN identifies vehicles), where n depends, however, on the vehicle type,
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
I went to a Zadeh lecture, and he said that it was responsible for some big improvements in auto-focus cameras.
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
But I listen to audiobooks while exercising. No way to look at a computer screen or fool with a printed document. Same would be true for those who listen to the audiobooks while driving.
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
> YT barely makes money Sure. And the same has been about Amazon in retail. But the scoreboard for the tech companies is not earnings; it is return to shareholders, mostly share price appreciation. If the stock prices are high in re
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
I like audiobooks, but they have some limitations. Nonfiction -- for example. Figures, diagrams, photographs, ... don't translate to audio very smoothly. In a printed book, eyeballs can tell readers where the quotations, either in
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
How were these structures dated? Did they have some wooden parts, or were there animal remains that could be carbon dated found with them? Something else?
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
Ada is gone!?!?! Are all those weapon systems and European banks gonna' program themselves?
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
> stewardess graduation pictures While PSA operated within a single state, there were no training requirements for its flight attendants. They were recruited by a lucky fellow who walked up and down the beach on weekends making offers.
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
Not to mention order of magnitude reduction of the amount of fresh air per passenger allowed to enter the cabin. Not to mention that the flight attendants used to be registered nurses; now they might not even know how to work the oxygen b
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
Here I see 116 writers complaining about the near-impossibility of making a living via youtube, a property of one of the biggest big dogs in the technological world. Consider the following: 1. Youtube is a monopoly. 2. Youtube is obtaining
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
Restricting resales for 3 years would be OK if the company would agree to no layoffs, no facilities closing, and no takeovers of the company or the local facilities for three years, etc, etc. Creating neighborhoods according to short-term
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
Thanks for the links. I'd seen the high body count for the total put away for the entire S&L crisis, but never knew that it actually focused so well on those cases. I had personal connections to two persons involved one way or a
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
In 1988 the newspapers showed a list of the 100 S&L failures that were designated by the feederal authorities as highest priority for investigation and prosecution. This article did not mention that list. Since that time, I have never
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
> we don't know exactly what is happening There is another technology that produced a similarly startling mystery -- the ouja board, introduced in 1890. That one, we figured out. The messages came from the depths of the human mind
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
About 10 years before this one, there was a similar fraud, National Student Marketing Corporation, that was similarly successful based on a similar foundation. My recollection is that it also attributed its (temporary) success partly to r
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
I had a little problem with my desktop computer (Intel I7-6700 CPU) a couple of months ago. It would start up and run OK, but eventually the file system would switch itself into the read-only state, causing it to lock up. After a few week
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by lucas_membrane 3y ago
> In all scenarios, taxes decrease consumption. Not always. For example, an increase in the tax on a popular but very low-priced subsistence food can increase its consumption by reducing the amount of higher-priced alternatives that co
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by lucas_membrane 4y ago
TFA missed Darlington Electronics Inc. of "Real Genius."
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by lucas_membrane 4y ago
Not all the electrons follow the path of least resistance. The currents in parallel paths are in inverse proportion to the resistances of the respective branches.

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