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by mathw 7y ago
Arrangements are definitely copyrightable, completely independently of the melodies used to build them.
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by mathw 7y ago
Anything that uses 9 of the 12 tones in a Western standard equally tempered octave, for starters. So, if it changes key at any point it is very likely to find that it uses 9 tones or more. Anything written in a melodic minor scale will use
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by mathw 7y ago
Yes, there are. And yes, it could sound different enough. If I invert the octaves of every alternate note it's going to be quite hard to pick out the melody as being the same, because I'd have disrupted all the scales and arpeggio
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by mathw 7y ago
My team's currently building a proof-of-concept microservicey replacement for a chunk of our company's platform, based on solid understandings of the problems the existing one has, what it'll need to do in the future etc. The
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by mathw 7y ago
What a glorious combination of things! What a shame faster, more reliable and cheaper don't usually go together, but that's the challenge all developers face...
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by mathw 7y ago
Well, what is information? Is it an abstract thing, or does it only exist in terms of the thing which is representing it? I don't have a clue, I just think it's a relevant question at this point.
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by mathw 7y ago
Because the parameters demand the same type (and for the return value), but the supplied parameters are not the same type because the only way to get that is to pass in exactly the same instance of the closure. It's a fun little thing,
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by mathw 7y ago
I've never understood the level of vitriol directed at systemd and Lennart. I can understand having technical disagreements, but the hate has been astonishing. And it's still going on.
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by mathw 7y ago
Good luck using those in some tools which use the API differently though. Windows filenames are endless fun. What's the maximum length of the absolute path of a file? Why, that depends on which API you're using to access it!
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by mathw 7y ago
The simple answer is that C++ templates can do more than Rust generics can, including some things that in Rust you'd use the macro system for, and probably some things that you'd have to translate by expanding out the template and
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by mathw 7y ago
I tend to think that it's fine, because I remember what it used to be like... what we have now is the "easy" UI! And they do occasionally put some new stuff in that helps. Like the recent version which adds new commands to sp
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by mathw 7y ago
I want an editing environment which operates on the AST of my code (obviously it would have to support every language I wanted explicitly to do this), so that files become entirely irrelevant, I never have to worry about formatting differen
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by mathw 7y ago
This does not surprise me. Git's original purpose of managing versions of a tree of text files (i.e. the source code of the Linux kernel) pervasively influences it, and I wouldn't expect it to be any good for working with binary f
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by mathw 7y ago
I do like that select statement which hits the first case that has its channel ready with a message. That's very nice. And having channels in your standard library is brilliant and everyone should do it. A shame about the shared memory
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by mathw 7y ago
No, it's because of a political decision. In the UK, you get healthcare regardless of your employment status or insurance cover. You don't get somewhere to live without a source of income, and our benefits system is being systemat
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by mathw 7y ago
That will slow down I'm sure, but the Rust developers and users are aware of a number of things which are still holding the language back and need to be designed and implemented in the next few years. Big functionality stuff and usabil
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by mathw 7y ago
And for all the channels which really are relying on that revenue? Are you paying for YouTube Premium? Are you signing up to support the creator on Patreon? Are you paying channel memberships? What's left to fund your favourite content
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by mathw 7y ago
If you're on your company-provided system you probably don't have the ability to change any anti-virus settings. Corporate IT admin rarely trust us to not just turn it off because it's annoying.
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by mathw 7y ago
That's only possible if you live in the correct time zone, too.
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by mathw 7y ago
I hit day 15 and stopped last year. There always seems to be one puzzle which is so irritating it no longer seems worthwhile when I could be playing some music or building something in Minecraft or just lazing around on the sofa with the ca
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by mathw 7y ago
As someone using a completely mainstream and normal language (well, Rust), I salute you.
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by mathw 7y ago
Sadly not for all printers, my printer requires an awful app that does everything itself. Not acceptable! But yeah, Cloud Print doesn't seem to have been particularly widely used or supported.
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by mathw 7y ago
I remember trying to write something in it and the performance was atrocious, it used masses of memory and I hadn't even really done much. I wasn't anything like the developer I am now back then of course, I was an undergraduate C
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by mathw 7y ago
Java succeeded massively on the desktop, just not in quite the way people expected. We now run software that's written in Java without really knowing it's written in Java, with native wrappers and suchlike. Turns out the way to su
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by mathw 7y ago
I went to a Slack workspace I'm in which has had WYSIWYG editing turned on and the first assertion in the article - about the non-closing backticks - isn't true. Since they turned it on last week I've had no issues with anyth
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by mathw 7y ago
Like no other system software ever had a CVE.
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by mathw 7y ago
Because you are an exceptional user. The average computer user will never install or be willing to work to configure any extra security software, especially something which takes that much work. To protect everyone, and to keep the flow of
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by mathw 7y ago
No, they're not violence. They are a possible consequence of it. Violence, as per my dictionary, requires intentional action (but is not necessarily physical). The existence of gay people is not intentional, and therefore is not an act
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by mathw 7y ago
Indeed. I'm also fairly sure that calling it non-violent communication was no quick decision and was at least partly chosen to make us consider whether our usual methods are in fact violent and thus harmful.
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by mathw 7y ago
Aren't all nuclear weapons doomsday weapons?

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