nerflad

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by nerflad 8y ago
If you moved the entire population of the Earth to the United States and spread it out evenly, there would only be about 2000 people/square mile (7% as dense as New York City). So not overpopulation as much as everyone wanting to live
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by nerflad 8y ago
> I basically was taking issue with seeing a reply to a post that was highlighting this difference that is a real perceptual one (not just a notational one, but described, unfortunately, with focus on notation) with the claim "there
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by nerflad 8y ago
> addressing someone with grave intellectual disabilities. Well, I did say I was a drummer!
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by nerflad 8y ago
Who's we? Your decision to give certain beats more or less emphasis is a subjective one. You can glean absolutely no information about a piece from the way the rhythm is subdivided, except maybe the intended tempo.
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by nerflad 8y ago
Well this gets subjective almost immediately, but in a general sense, not closely related to one instrument, I think of phrases as the music within the length of time (la dee da dee dum), as opposed to the length of time itself (1234, 1234)
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by nerflad 8y ago
In an effort not to be snarky, my point is that rhythm is fractal and these are essentially just two different levels of magnification. You're absolutely right that there are conventions and implications in how they are written, but t
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by nerflad 8y ago
(1) 2 3 | (1) 2 3 and (1) 2 3 (4) 5 6 are rhythmically identical. You're only conceptualizing them differently. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to write this myopic and extremely condescending explanation of my area of study. I
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by nerflad 8y ago
> ONE two three | ONE two three This phrase also has two significant beats. There's just a barline in the middle. See my point?
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by nerflad 8y ago
There is no difference between 3/4 and 6/8 unless you are trying to decide on which one makes your score easier to read. It's just different ways of conceptualizing the phrase. Mathematically (and therefore rhythmically) th
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by nerflad 8y ago
> There are a lot of people who does not know any other languages, believe it or not. This is the only reason I can see to use this over perl (which it seems to be heavily influenced by) or python. Then again, learning how to use these
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by nerflad 8y ago
On the other hand, what percentage of developers within Apple use Homebrew? I think they still have major skin in the game, even if they aren't targeting outside developers.
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by nerflad 8y ago
I am so happy to see some of these predators get caught. A former coworker, a very smart but also very naive network engineer from the middle east, was hooked by these people shortly after immigrating. They said they were the US governmen
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by nerflad 8y ago
HN hug of death. Archive: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
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by nerflad 8y ago
> I wish their was one web platform that existed out there, that could stay stable in it's philosophy, and not succumb to embracing the chaos invoked through economic success. An example that comes to mind is Wikipedia. Maybe the
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by nerflad 8y ago
You'll still see promoted tweets, they'll just get more and more strange as you collect all the bigger corporate brand accounts in your blocklist.
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by nerflad 8y ago
Me (25 y.o east coast male, long-term relationship, no debt but decided due to other factors)
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by nerflad 8y ago
I agree; I have zero interest in installing software using anything other than my system's default package manager. The whole point of package management is centralization, keeping track of chaotic dependencies and install states. Ha
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by nerflad 8y ago
I maintain 14 AUR packages and have also never heard of this happening.
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by nerflad 8y ago
Totally. Wasn't the satirical version of facebook called lifeinvader in that game? very similar :)
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by nerflad 9y ago
The main thing that irks me on Macs is the non-standard behavior of the Home and End keys. I expect them to go the beginning or end of the line I'm typing, and in every other system they do, whereas in MacOS they usually scroll to the
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by nerflad 9y ago
I love reading about the end of the commercial UNIX wars. Definitely watch this documentary filmed during a NeXT company retreat, if you haven't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNeXlJW70KQ
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by nerflad 9y ago
Casey openly talks about how the app failed. Him and Matt Hackett's interview on the YC Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvK-CgzxSdM
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by nerflad 9y ago
I've noticed some sites hijacking Alt-ArrowKeys now, too. Since backspace was deprecated, that means those websites prevent the user from using the keyboard to go Back. Very frustrating.
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by nerflad 9y ago
Wow, I've been passively interested in getting a GoPro camera for a long time, but knowing their remote control requires a cloud service (I thought it was local wifi) is a total dealbreaker. Same with Hue lights. It is absolutely rid
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by nerflad 9y ago
It still uses pacman. I can't confirm this, but it feels like Arch linux has surged in popularity over the last ~3-4 years. I ditched Debian for Arch in 2016 and haven't looked back.
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by nerflad 9y ago
Turning off location history in your account settings is also important, but turning off location services on your phone will prevent the messages from appearing (since Google will, in theory, not have your location readily available).
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by nerflad 9y ago
Just turn off location services on the phone unless you really need them.
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by nerflad 9y ago
A fresh installation of Windows 10 Professional has advertisements for Candy Crush in the start menu. I don't think anyone's overreacting.
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by nerflad 9y ago
That was fun :) Seems like a fun (if not particularly effective) way to test CSS graceful degradation too.
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by nerflad 9y ago
How many Googlers are using Linux for their everyday work? I assumed MacOS had as strong a hold on Google engineers as those anywhere else. I personally don't like using MacOS and would be thrilled to see more developers using open s

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