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by n3k5 6y ago
On a typewriter the bell rings before you return the carriage. (By pushing it – if it's manual, there's no such thing as ‘hitting enter’.) It happens a few characters before the end of the line, as a warning that you should go t
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by n3k5 6y ago
If you're in a dim environment, a glossy screen has slightly better contrast and colours. If you have a light source or bright objects nearby where their light falls on the screen, a glossy screen has significantly better contrast an
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by n3k5 6y ago
Interesting! I had to deal with a related problem several times — I often want this from my Logitech mouse: > I discovered that the side buttons emitted standard M4 and M5 commands just as they did in Windows But there's no way of
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by n3k5 6y ago
“Scan Code 22 and Press Button to Continue.” (If you want to take a guess at what I'm referencing, spoiler alert — the URL itself contains a clue: https://web.archive.org/web/20160129014847/http://i.
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by n3k5 6y ago
No, you're right: Checkm8 only lets you boot into a custom OS, but to decrypt any data from the installed iOS, you'd need to hack the secure enclave, which it doesn't touch. (Technically you could boot a fake OS with a passco
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by n3k5 6y ago
Grubby wrote about this yesterday: > I [used a 6-digit passcode] thinking, basically, that even though a 6-digit passcode is less secure, anything truly dangerous like disabling Find My iPhone requires my iCloud password as well. It sim
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by n3k5 6y ago
> I only end up with 4 dimensions I think you're right. Even if we classify classical Chess as 3D (2D board + a time axis for game states), time travel re-uses that same time dimension. If you wanted to shift the complexity into lud
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by n3k5 6y ago
> So checkmate in any one timeline counts? Yes. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24065059 ) > You couldn’t do all timelines. How do you reckon that? I mean, it makes sense on an intuitive level; however, since n
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by n3k5 6y ago
When there are multiple parallel time-lines, you have to input a move for each one before you can advance to the next turn. But to win, you have to mate just one of the opponent's kings. One player can have multiple kings on one board,
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by n3k5 6y ago
“SSDs across the line with quadruple the storage” 1/4 TB of storage in the $1800 model, 1/2 TB in the $2300 one. Ugh. (So before the lower-end one had 64GB? [Edit: Nope, 1 TB Fusion Drive, thanks smnrchrds!] That would be FULL ju
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by n3k5 6y ago
It's a famous quote from John Wheeler.
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by n3k5 6y ago
It's even less ‘elite’ — I have < 500 points and see a ‘vouch’ link on dead comments. The FAQ doesn't state the exact threshold; I'd guess it's 100 (at most).
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by n3k5 6y ago
> things we don't know are basically nonsense I do not know how many regular hexagons can be constructed with their corners on the vertices of a 17^3 cubic lattice, but I do know that the question makes sense and that the answer is
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by n3k5 6y ago
Content warning: 1 of 1337 hackers found the following comment helpful. BeautifulHandwrittenLetters.com employee Theodore Twombly rated it ‘-1 Funny’. In popular culture, disobedient AIs mostly occur in cautionary tales where human lives ar
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by n3k5 6y ago
After almost two decades, this is the end of OS 10. Check this out: https://youtu.be/GEZhD3J89ZE?t=5837 This one goes to 11!
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by n3k5 6y ago
As Alan says in the article, ‘“absorption” […] means that light is absorbed over distance as it travels through the object.’ So you can make an object darker by increasing the material's attenuation of light going through it, but it&#x
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by n3k5 6y ago
TL;DR: It's not about having another DAW. This functionality is also important for workflows that have nothing to do with producing. Yes, some of that new stuff looks a lot like a DAW, and for DAW users the first priority should be to
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by n3k5 6y ago
> For those interested, Martin Keary (aka Tantacrul on YouTube) creates these very impressive YouTube videos of reviews of music notation software. They're also quite entertaining. Worth a watch even if you have just a passing int
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by n3k5 6y ago
Linked page just says “something went wrong” at the moment; cache: https://web.archive.org/web/20200608072453/https://dixonary....
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by n3k5 6y ago
> a font (which is a simulation of a case of metal blocks) In metal typesetting, a font is exactly a collection of metal blocks (which embody glyphs of a given design, size, and thickness). But on a computer, a font is a piece of softw
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by n3k5 6y ago
> random is possible Thank you! This answers one of my questions. But what about procedural generation — a new glyph every time, e.g. an interpolation of multiple prototypical shapes as described in that SE answer … something something e
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That's good to know; you should put that information on the web site. Especially the part about the business model. Another thing I'd like to know before considering downloading the app is system requirements. A lot of people aren
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by n3k5 6y ago
You don't even need a DAW. When I downloaded Dexed as an audio unit for my Mac (thinking “I'll have to try this later; at the moment I don't have enough RAM free to start a DAW”), I was pleasantly surprised that it also came
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by n3k5 6y ago
Basically I just skimmed through https://www.google.com/search?q=scipy+dsp+real-time and weeded out false positives that do use SciPy in some capacity, but also more specialised stuff such as the aforementioned Pyo. This mo
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Yup, making it fast is no problem; I was just concerned about achieving low latency without dropping samples. The typical cookbook examples usually output to matplotlib or maybe an audio file, rather than straight to DAC, and I had amplifie
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by n3k5 6y ago
Interesting thought. SciPy is obviously useful for modelling DSP stuff, but no idea how feasible it would be to use it for real-time processing, compared to something like Pyo ( http://ajaxsoundstudio.com/pyodoc/ ). I ju
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by n3k5 6y ago
I've come across Overtone a few times and pretty much ignored it because I'm not a Clojure fan. But the Shadertone integration looks very appealing: https://youtu.be/kyL3xc7MzR0 I guess I should give this a go aft
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I'd guess this is because from the perspective of evaluating an engine, when you've seen one King game, you've seen them all.
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by n3k5 6y ago
Insulated wires that look a lot like bare metal are quite common, e.g. in electromagnet coils. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_wire The insulation melts away where it comes in contact with hot solder, so it's
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by n3k5 6y ago
What's so funny about Turdus Maximus? I have a very great friend in Rome called Turdus Maximus.

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