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Who Cares if You Listen? (1958) [pdf](chromatone.center)
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by pastureofplenty 2y ago
A bit like Google removing their "Don't Be Evil" motto
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by pastureofplenty 2y ago
This was actually something that was tried with music in the early 90s, by Philips and Sony with the CD-i. The musician/producer Todd Rundgren made an album specifically for this format called "No World Order" where the songs
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by pastureofplenty 2y ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.
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by pastureofplenty 2y ago
I have an idea for a parody of that song called "We Bilked This City" about the non-profit industrial complex.
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by pastureofplenty 2y ago
I did not notice any images being incorrectly displayed upside-down when I submitted this, I apologize if some of you had trouble viewing them.
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A field guide to the central, creeping section of the San Andreas Fault (2006)(researchgate.net)
44 points by pastureofplenty 2y ago|27 comments
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by pastureofplenty 2y ago
Bad news for sensitive wetlands
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by pastureofplenty 2y ago
Maybe this will make Google reconsider relying on them for cached versions of webpages.
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Engineering Geology of the BART System (2000)(sonic.net)
66 points by pastureofplenty 2y ago|13 comments
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The Railsback Curve(en.wikipedia.org)
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by pastureofplenty 2y ago
I don't want to hear anything about AI either, especially if it takes an extra 3 seconds to load.
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by pastureofplenty 2y ago
Web designers really, really need to stop putting light grey text on a white background. Good article though.
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Rev. Cecil Williams has died(kqed.org)
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Not your mother's mall (2003)(sfgate.com)
19 points by pastureofplenty 2y ago|21 comments
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by pastureofplenty 3y ago
JWZ doesn't like HN and doesn't want his site being linked to on here so your URL redirects to a crude image.
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Blossom Rock(en.wikipedia.org)
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by pastureofplenty 3y ago
There used to be two really tall redwoods in the beast bay that were used as Navigation Trees to avoid a submerged rock in SF bay, that later had to be blown up after the trees were felled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by pastureofplenty 3y ago
Someone, perhaps Mark Twain, once said that daylight saving time is like cutting off your head and standing on it to make yourself taller.
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by pastureofplenty 3y ago
News you love to see when you're flying out of SFO in a couple weeks.
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God is telling me to become a fisherman (2004)(web.archive.org)
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by pastureofplenty 3y ago
Yes, I have a bot that posts daily San Francisco weather records to Mastodon. It did not post as scheduled today. This is because I am looking at all the high temperatures, low temperatures, and precipitation on today's date from 1875
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by pastureofplenty 3y ago
Another thing that makes Sacred Harp sound "weird" is that it eschews traditional voice-leading rules and therefore has no prohibitions on parallel fifths, fourths, or octaves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vo
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by pastureofplenty 3y ago
It feels like AI is becoming a buzzword more and more divorced from its original meaning. Your car's automatic transmission would count as AI according to some of the colloquial uses I've seen.
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by pastureofplenty 3y ago
I've been working with PHP for the last couple months or so for the first time in over a decade. I can't say I've enjoyed it. Feels very tedious always having to look up, say, whether the needle comes first or the haystack in