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by siraben 6y ago
For those who own a reMarkable tablet, you can get a similar effect on your suspend screen by running remarkable-news[0]. When suspended, power consumption is very low (idle) and the screen is not powered, making it ideal for static content
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by siraben 6y ago
Oh that's interesting. Rests are usually are not omitted in sheet music though, what does it look like on your software?
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They're sort of represented as voices. The top voice has a rest for half a beat, the bottom voice starts immediately and the middle voice starts after a quarter of a beat.
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I'm curious, how does this approach fare with classical pieces where learning by sheet is the norm? The melody and chord progression is not hard to for a lot pf pieces (e.g. pop and jazz if you have a trained ear for complex chords), b
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by siraben 6y ago
That's because for the left hand, the white notes are meant to be held for 2 beats. What you are hearing when you say the notes are the same length is that they start every semiquaver. If you see a player's left hand you'll
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by siraben 6y ago
I'm classically trained in piano (13+ years) and reading sheet music fluently was integral to practice, but I also have been getting into improvisation and playing by ear over the last few years. I think knowing how to read sheet music
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by siraben 6y ago
Is there a website where I can find the historical data of ships in the area? Are they still waiting for the ship to get unstuck or are now going around southern Africa?
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by siraben 6y ago
I just packaged it in my overlay so Nix users can try it out without installing it (works on macOS and Linux) nix run github:siraben/siraben-overlay#tz or, when it gets upstreamed into Nixpkgs nix run nixpkgs#tz Seems lik
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by siraben 6y ago
Relatedly, this blog post, "So you want to abolish time zones"[0] elaborates a hypothetical scenario of calling someone in Melbourne, and how complicated it would be without time zones (since if it's 4 am everywhere, what&#x2
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by siraben 6y ago
Laptops that are designed with Linux first-class support are interesting, and I've been considering to get one once I'm through with my late 2014 MBP. How do System76 and Purism compare in terms of daily drivers? Anyone tried both
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by siraben 6y ago
Neat! In your post you mention that it takes a few seconds until you get to the prompt (and the waiting time is similar for the nix-shell shebang scripts), but recently someone made nix-script[0] to cache these scripts, resulting in a runti
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by siraben 6y ago
The default configuration.nix created by the NixOS installer[0] is a KDE environment already, and it's relatively simple to expand and iterate your system configuration (no restart required!). Personally for me the hardest part was fig
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As a university student, I feel the same way that there is an infinite amount to learn, but towards mathematics and computer science, which themselves are very broad fields. Since the software industry appears to change trends at the drop o
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by siraben 6y ago
> I can't believe this worked. Sure, you won't be deploying this in production, but we mostly survived this long with unconfined apps and having transactional updates is an improvement The resulting system still seems very muta
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by siraben 6y ago
One issue I've had with personal shell scripts is that the dependencies are often implicit, or command line arguments change, leading to (sometimes silent and critical) behavior. With Nix you can write shell scripts with a nix-shell s
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by siraben 6y ago
Now there's a PR up for Rust-based stdenv![0] [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274
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by siraben 6y ago
No backward jumps. It was a language with a single register (accumulator) and various arithmetic functions that would let it advance a certain number of steps on the tape, or add/multiply/subtract from the accumulator accordingly.
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by siraben 6y ago
What would writing a solver for regex crosswords entail? Is it just a matter of constraint solving, and what would the running time be?
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by siraben 6y ago
I created an esolang in Mathematica to test out genetic programming, by ruling out possibility of infinite looping, implementing mutation and crossovers to result in a program that would convert a list of numbers to a target number. Even a
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by siraben 6y ago
Update has been pushed and merged, will show up in the binary caches within the next few days :)
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by siraben 6y ago
I went to check[0] who was the maintainer for uutils-coreutils on Nixpkgs, and realized it was me! Thanks for the reminder, will push a PR update. [0] https://repology.org/project/uutils-coreutils/versions
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by siraben 6y ago
They are in Nixpkgs, presumably it would just be a matter of replacing coreutils in the stdenv[0] with uutils, then attempting to build, say, Firefox with the new stdenv. [0] https://github.com/edolstra/nixpkgs/blo
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by siraben 6y ago
One of my favorite short stories by Jorge Luis Borges is The Library of Babel[0], in which characters live in an infinite library that enumerates all possible strings of a certain length in book form. It even has an online version[1]! You c
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by siraben 6y ago
I second this statement. I find that my code across different paradigms (imperative/OO/FP) has become a lot cleaner as a result of learning a purely functional language that makes it impossible[0] to call an impure function from a
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by siraben 6y ago
Reading Ben Lynn's Haskell website was one of the things that got me out of a rut with learning Haskell and showed me how expressive, yet concise it is. There's a lot of advanced and beginner Haskell resources but not much interme
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by siraben 6y ago
Curious about what your NixOS setup is like, do you currently use flakes and home manager?
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by siraben 6y ago
The most malware-y test-related piece of software I've had to install on my computer is Lockdown Browser, which requires to be run as root on macOS or Windows(!) (no Linux obviously), detects if its running in a VM, has a blacklist of
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by siraben 6y ago
> On chain logic should always be as minimal as possible. The goal of the project was to make the auction as transparent as possible, doesn't that imply moving as much of the logic on chain as possible? > If you find yourself wri
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by siraben 6y ago
> I need a hero, and by that, I mean that I need a usable methodology for building scaleable decentralized apps. Yes, you've heard that right. We don't need more "Ethereum killers" that can do 10x more tx/s than
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by siraben 6y ago
Thanks! What sort of work did you do in the field of applying categorical methods to programming?

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