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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
When I was starting out in electronics I found the easiest way to build an oscillator was to build an amplifier and the easiest way to build an amplifier was to build an oscillator. I guess the trick is to be 7 years old and have far more a
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
It got killed because it was submitted by five people, the first is still alive.
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
You only need to make it 40 or 50 pages before Formalized Music comes up. I am not sure I would say they are about the same subject; Formalized Music is about single aspects of Xenakis' music, it is gear talk for the computer musician
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
I click on "threads" once a day to see if there is anything I should reply to.
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
The last thing I want out of retirement is maintaining my current lifestyle. Which is not to suggest that my current lifestyle is lacking (or not lacking) just that the last thing I want in life is complacency. Everything I have worked for
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
Rereading this for the first time in 20 odd years, I think what we lost with the death of David Foster Wallace is the loss of the friendship between David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen. It is easy to see the effect this loss has had
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Mr. Difficult: William Gaddis and the Problem of Hard-to-Read Books (2002)(adilegian.com)
20 points by ofalkaed 11mo ago|8 comments
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
Disclaimer: Internet is not working well for me tonight so I could not watch the video. C3 seems to be building on the faults of C and not fixing much, but maybe I just drank the the Zig Kool-aid? Giving it a quick look, it really seems lik
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
In my experience Intel and AMD Thinkpads of that era are about the same for battery life but Intel always needs some kernel parameters set. Where I notice the biggest difference is Intel's integrated graphics gets you better battery li
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
ChromeOS with the Linux VM is a surprisingly nice setup, I bought a Thinkpad Duet 3 so I could use Linux apps on a tablet and it seriously has me considering getting a Chromebook for my next laptop. Everything integrates so seamlessly and e
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The Siren Music and Sound Package in Smalltalk(fastlabinc.com)
9 points by ofalkaed 11mo ago|0 comments
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A Rigorous Approach to the Algorithmic Composition of Iannis Xenakis(2009) [pdf](monoskop.org)
26 points by ofalkaed 11mo ago|2 comments
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
That assumes they have a sense of sight similar to our own. What if their only well developed sense is smell; their equivalent of writing is depositing scent onto paper and their "non-verbal" movements were the movements required
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
The only piece of software I can recall buying is Myst, took awhile for me to save up that cash with just my allowance. Seem to recall it cost $56 in 1993 dollars, that was a great deal of money to a 14 year old in 1993. Adjusting for infla
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
Aurora is going pretty strong here in northern Minnesota, filling most of the sky. A jet is going over way up there right now, they must be getting a hell of a show.
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
Back around the turn of the century my wifi card died when I was reinstalling my system and I had no money for a new wifi card, no internet at home so I ended up with a very a basic console only Arch install, only audio software I had insta
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
I am quite impressed, even if it was not completely right and provided a few rather humorous charts, it is close enough assuming you are following along with the code. A great improvement over the alternatives for getting oriented in unfami
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
>The aliens change colors when they descend to a new level (whoops). That is how Space Invaders originally worked, used strips of colored cellophane to give the B&W graphics color and the aliens moved behind a different colored strip
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Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language [pdf](worrydream.com)
3 points by ofalkaed 11mo ago|0 comments
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
It looks like they need to turn down the ink flow on the press or the plate is a bit past its prime. I like it.
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
I can't recall the last book I read where the main character or anyone "wins." I watch a couple movies a year and those also tend to lack the hollywood ending. HN is probably the closest I have ever come to social media and m
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
>contempt for everything that's not Forth. I have never seen that, most in the Forth world seem resigned to obscurity and content living in their own world. If you could point me to the people advocating Forth above all else, I woul
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
>together with Lisp Lisp has a lot in common with Forth in that people often reduce it to a trick and miss the lesson it has to teach; people implement their six words from the bare metal and use those six words to implement Forth but ne
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
>but they will try to convince you to scorn all other viewpoints How is that not what you are doing? Lay it all out and back up what you are claiming, some of us are willing to hear you out.
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
We all get hung up on such things on occasion, realizing it is probably better than never doing it.
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
Here is the COLREG order: Not under command Restricted maneuverability Constrained by draft Fishing (actively dragging) Under sail Ignoring not under command; in the open sea only the fishing boat has right of way over a sail
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
Small sail boats do not need to go around wind farms, they can just sail right through them assuming the weather is agreeable. The problem is more that if you are caught up in a storm anywhere near a windfarm (within range of the storm carr
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
If hit just right it would destroy the boat but that is a one in a million hit. The shape of displacement hulls and their need to part and push the water aside so they can move through the water will almost always mean that small boats will
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
Why do my beliefs require anything to prove them? My beliefs are not fact and I never represented them as such, I said plainly that I have mixed feeling and that society should not bow to me. The exchange in response to my post are a good e
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by ofalkaed 11mo ago
I plainly stated that society should not bow to my needs and that those who contribute to society and are a part of society are more important than me, what more do you want?

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