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by musicale 4mo ago
Interesting - are you saying that is the case for Nara + Mura? (I imagine it may depend on the specific characters used for the name, which I do not actually know, but I was guessing that something like 楢 (nara/oak) + 村 (mura/vill
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by musicale 4mo ago
The SUV child/cyclist/pedestrian invisibility problem can possibly be mitigated somewhat with technology, but the height and mass problem cannot. It's an arms race as well. It's unpleasant and less safe to drive a "
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by musicale 4mo ago
> It’s really an ideal vehicle. If you are inside it, yes.
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by musicale 4mo ago
Google's native client (NaCl) even used it on 32-bit x86... Segmented memory (on hardware that supported segment permissions) was used to good effect in Multics as well.
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by musicale 4mo ago
The explanation made sense to me: romaji works well for vowel shifts (as the vowels aren't glued to consonants) while kana works well for consonant shifts (because the vowels are glued to consonants). Latin text's smaller tokens
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by musicale 4mo ago
Is that you Gemini?
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by musicale 4mo ago
More impressive are the people who can count cycles, adjust between A440 and A400, etc.
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by musicale 4mo ago
Modern 12-tone equal temperament is a compromise where every non-octave interval is slightly out of tune(as the 12th root of 2 is irrational) in order to facilitate modulation and playing in any key. Integer ratios (or closer to integer rat
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by musicale 4mo ago
Free to humans possibly.
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by musicale 4mo ago
> The Hidden Fees Receipt I wish the FTC hadn't exempted restaurants from junk free transparency requirements. https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/ftc-exempts-restaurants-... Restaurant industry celebrates &quo
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by musicale 4mo ago
Name checks out.
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by musicale 4mo ago
I can't help but think it was a mistake for "Open" containers to be Linux-only. Why can't we have POSIX containers, for example?
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by musicale 4mo ago
macOS is basically already a POSIX subsystem for macOS, which is already a UNIX™. But (some) people still criticize it because it's not Linux or FreeBSD (though it is closer to the latter than the former).
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by musicale 4mo ago
I would like a modern runnable version of PLATO.
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by musicale 4mo ago
Woz really does seem to be both a brilliant and nice guy. Steve Jobs was brilliant and complicated with many down sides, but he also seemed to have good taste and to care about user experience as well as good design, and his era at Apple pr
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by musicale 4mo ago
The competition for faculty jobs at any college is typically fierce, which means you can find excellent faculty almost anywhere.
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by musicale 4mo ago
Apple (like most large tech companies) is indeed a resumé black hole, and knowing people helps, so definitely network if possible. However, applying to the right position, with a good resumé that highlights experience/skills/proje
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by musicale 4mo ago
Great to see this happening. Personally I want an OS where everything is memory-safe by default. Of course in an alternate universe where macOS (and iOS etc.) was based on Multics rather than Unix, it would have had essentially zero buffer
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by musicale 4mo ago
should be an option to add this to titles if needed
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by musicale 4mo ago
> That doesn't mean we can't become big. We did this before. When we listened to our Community, gave them what they wanted, let them work with us to build something amazing, they told their friends Exactly this. Mozilla/Fi
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by musicale 4mo ago
This is unfortunately true. There are tons of IEEE spamferences. Which is a shame because there are also good IEEE-sponsored (or co-sponsored) conferences (I find ISCA, Hot Chips + Hot Interconnects, and SC to all be interesting systems con
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by musicale 4mo ago
> juniors using AI are never going to rise to the level of our current seniors who built decades of experience without AI this does not seem to be an argument for requiring junior employees to focus on using AI tools
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by musicale 4mo ago
100%* prefer almost anything to sodcasting, facetime calls, and tiktok/youtube/mobile games at max volume *rounded up
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by musicale 4mo ago
> Then I joined the crypto sector and the people there seemed almost mentally deranged so better than expected then
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by musicale 4mo ago
Let go of ... meaningful existence? Who could object to that.
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by musicale 4mo ago
As you indicate the most popular (and generally highest paying) professional sports in the US are football, basketball and baseball. This includes college football and basketball, which are part of the career path for those sports. Women&#x
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by musicale 4mo ago
s/investors/speculators/
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by musicale 4mo ago
> 2+2=4 doesn’t change anywhere or under any different physical law. How about python3: >>> input() + input() 2 2 '22' or if you insist: >>> .2 + .2 + .2 == .6 False
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by musicale 4mo ago
This seems like ... sort of good news that the assessments are actually working. Hopefully the students will decide to use their brains more.
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by musicale 4mo ago
Yes, Apple's notorious contempt for backward compatibility raises its ugly head again.

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