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by parenthesis 4y ago
> Something I think we overlook is that America was more fractious prior to the mid-20th century, but the stakes were lower because our institutions were more distributed and more local. Donald Trump always struck me as a character out o
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by parenthesis 5y ago
Thanks for reminding me, that as a child I used to love touching the TV screen for the static.
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by parenthesis 5y ago
To me the differences matter much less than the fact that after about a minute and a half you've basically heard the whole song, and then I just get bored. Which is funny, as there are many very repetitive tracks I like with long runni
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by parenthesis 5y ago
I was searching for the artist Urban Soul on Tidal to discover there's another artist called Urban Soul (I wanted the Roland Clark project) with albums by both mixed up together in the search result. 'Twas all in vain, since I wan
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by parenthesis 5y ago
Oh, and I wish someone would sell widescreen televisions with built-in curtains that automatically move according to the ratio. And please stop chopping bits off old tv shows to 'make them widescreen'. It was awful seeing pan-and-
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by parenthesis 5y ago
Early talkies mostly used the Academy ratio which is not very wide. The introduction of television encouraged the movies to go colour as standard. The introduction of colour tv encouraged the movies to go widescreen as standard. I wish film
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by parenthesis 5y ago
No mention of Stanley Druckenmiller. See lines 482 - 544 in a speech given by Druckenmiller https://gist.github.com/bluechoochoo/a034da52c64ac6fcb637 where he talks about his and Soros' respective roles in the inf
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by parenthesis 5y ago
You can use headphones as a microphone, or a (dynamic) microphone as a loudspeaker.
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by parenthesis 5y ago
I understand lawn mowing, what I don't understand is people mowing tiny bits of grass with powered mowers. I use a push mower, about once a week (and I leave the clippings on the lawn). It's really enjoyable.
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Tech Pioneer Stephanie Shirley(ft.com)
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by parenthesis 5y ago
Everybody seems to say ree-verb as short for reverberation. I don't say "reeverberation", I say something more like "ruhverberation" — which I don't think is an odd pronunciation — hence I say "ruhverb&q
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by parenthesis 5y ago
On the one hand, I can't disagree with you, but on the other, it's like saying that Fred Astaire isn't good looking enough to be a movie star.
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by parenthesis 5y ago
There is just something perfect about the original Mac series. When Steve Jobs saw the Xerox Alto, he thought "well, obviously all personal computers are going to be like this", which is pretty much how I felt upon encountering
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by parenthesis 5y ago
The standard trick is to have something in the foreground. Several of the pictures on Mount Rainier's Wikipedia page do this. For example, trees in the foreground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Rainier_p
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by parenthesis 5y ago
Eventually … still need to do the really difficult things like decide on a name and license, and write some documentation …
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by parenthesis 5y ago
I started creating a language about fifteen years ago. It started as a project to learn C: implement an interpreter in C that lets you interactively call C library functions and system calls. But, little by little it become my own implement
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by parenthesis 5y ago
(With apologies to Noël Coward) Facebook is for investing in, not being on.
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by parenthesis 5y ago
> I love the story about TTI's chairman. Which is also a masterful advertisement for private business owners in a similar situation to sell to Berkshire Hathaway, for less money than they might otherwise get. This is not a criticism
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by parenthesis 5y ago
and Macsyma/Maxima
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by parenthesis 5y ago
Also, he will mention how something he can't work out keeps on bothering him until he has worked it out.
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by parenthesis 5y ago
To go a bit on a tangent: I love TV shows where it really is shot where it is set, and the location is a big part of the show. Examples: Magnum P.I. (Hawaii); Miami Vice (Miami); The Equalizer (NYC). Where re(make)(boot)s exist, I'm ta
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by parenthesis 5y ago
Okay, I get what you are saying. Two simultaneous notes a minor 2nd apart sound like two distinct notes. But you don't have to narrow the gap by much more before it sounds like a single note. A very small gap gives a subtle chorus effe
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by parenthesis 5y ago
Oh, absolutely. In fact, I can recall improvising over a song purely by ear, and then coming up with some worse lines once I'd worked what the chords were and written them out.
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by parenthesis 5y ago
It's both. Last night I was improvising a melody based on a chord progression I had just come up with. I heard the chord progression in my head without thinking about what the chords were. But then when I thought about it, I knew what
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by parenthesis 5y ago
> The "problem" with just intonation, if indeed it is a problem, is that if you define two series of notes (call them a scale, if you like) using these integer ratios but starting from two different notes, you will trivially fi
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by parenthesis 5y ago
In melodic performances that take a `bluesy' approach to pitch, it can absolutely by heard when a note is somewhere in between two equal tempered pitches. For example, lots of the notes in the vocal of the Beatles `Come Together'
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by parenthesis 5y ago
Frequency is measured in hertz (Hz), where 1 Hz means 1 cycle per second, 440 Hz means 440 cycles per second etc. Periodic sounds above about 20 Hz are perceived is being `pitched'. Our perception of pitch is logarithmic. I.e. if you k
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by parenthesis 5y ago
> If it's something practical like programing or music that means applying the techniques to make something. When a child learns a new word, they may go around gratuitously using it for a while. When you learn a new concept or techn
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by parenthesis 5y ago
Giving an improvised lecture to an imagined audience in my head on a topic I am studying I find a very useful way of consolidating and systematising my understanding, and of finding gaps to be filled.
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by parenthesis 5y ago
Can you do it `forwards', `backwards', `inside out'? What these mean depends on what you are trying to learn. In programming, examples would be: • writing code and reading and understanding other people's code. • `exec

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