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by sramsay 2y ago
For me, it's the library problem. I read the guide and think, "Wow, this is really great!" Then I read the cookbook, and it mostly says that things (like database connectivity, regex, options parsing, even HTTP GET) are not q
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by sramsay 2y ago
Prostrations are part of every Orthodox tradition, to my knowledge. You will even see people making prostrations publicly in church especially during Great Lent, but you will generally not see people doing it at a Sunday liturgy since (in m
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by sramsay 2y ago
I'm aware of the verse. I'm not aware of any scholar taking that meaning literally and concluding that 1 Peter (the author of which is unknown) is referring to Peter's biological son and further concluding that this son is th
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by sramsay 2y ago
> The two things I learned from my experience at the Christian "University" are . . . You also seem to have become a bit of anti-intellectual yourself. Dismissing a fundamental question in textual criticism (about one of the mo
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by sramsay 2y ago
I'm pretty well read in this area, and I have never come across the theory that the Gospel of Mark was written by Peter's son (or even that Peter had a son, never mind his name). Where are you getting all of this? Most of the as
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by sramsay 2y ago
Stephen King: A character wonders if, given all the suffering recently endured over the last few hundred pages, life is nonetheless still worth living. This character is killed by an entity which, despite all appearance and reputation, is p
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by sramsay 2y ago
Everyone in this thread is talking about coding, but this is, perhaps more significantly, a word processor. “Change reading level: Adjusts the reading level, from Kindergarten to Graduate School.” “Adjust the length: Edits the document leng
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by sramsay 2y ago
Hear, hear! I absolutely love FM-OP from Bogaudio. In fact, I'd say I use that more than any other FM softsynth mentioned in this thread.
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by sramsay 2y ago
Yeah, my first reaction is that this list is more-or-less the philosophy an American lit. scholar would be expected to know. Heavy on continental philosophy, hermeneutics, recastings of traditional metaphysics, neo-Marxism . . . way less An
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by sramsay 2y ago
"We cannot effectively study, understand, debug, or improve, the underlying operating system if it is non-free. We actively work with the source code for the systems on which we depend, and we are not interested in supporting any platf
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by sramsay 2y ago
I believe some researchers have come to the conclusion that "the earliest extant program for a stored program digital computer" was not written by John von Neumann, but by his wife: Klára Dán von Neumann. Knuth references a letter
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by sramsay 2y ago
Forgive me, I think I read you wrong. It sounds like you meant, "the millennials in my family" . Which, yes: I see what you're saying.
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by sramsay 2y ago
> All I know is that the boomers of the family ate fat and sugar like it was going out of style, and lived in decent health to a ripe old age That's a data point. > while the fair-trade free-range organic millennials seem to be f
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by sramsay 2y ago
Whenever I say, "I probably have the worst sense of direction of anyone you will ever meet," people invariably say, "Oh, me too!" And I say, "Really? So you are never surprised by what you see when you walk out of t
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by sramsay 3y ago
I absolutely understand what you're saying. And you might be right in this particular case. But there's a difference between the "you" you have in mind here and figures of literally world-historical significance. I doubt
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by sramsay 3y ago
This is the most lucid explanation of aliasing I think I've ever read. I mostly deal with this stuff in the realm of audio where the matter of analog vs digital rages regularly. The reason one hears "Nyquist says" so often fr
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by sramsay 3y ago
Just got done mastering a track (a soundtrack for video with voice over). Getting to the appropriate LUFS level with a limiter seems to me something that is easily automated, and I'm not sure you need AI to do it. But as usual, most of
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by sramsay 3y ago
Read it in grad school (for an English PhD). And honestly, that's the only context in which I'd recommend doing so. It's a dreary slog of a book; we were reading it more for its historical importance than for any particular l
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by sramsay 3y ago
LOL. Requesting permission to use the phrase "the goal is not to win the war against bias" in future, highly relevant situations. ;)
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by sramsay 3y ago
Also a die-hard Gentoo fan (daily driver for 20+ years). I tried Arch and what astounded me the most is that the docs didn't seem as good as Gentoo's. That surprised me because I end up looking at Arch's docs all the time and
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by sramsay 3y ago
Making synthesizers emulate the sound of real instruments was once a major goal of synthesis, but that has mostly faded outside of the rarefied world of physical modeling. Electronic musicians remain interested in sounding "warm"
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by sramsay 3y ago
Orca is explicitly mentioned in the comment to which you are responding.
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by sramsay 3y ago
I'm not suggesting that we banish numbers from the entire stack. I'm asking why they are absolutely necessary for a textual interface in this domain -- to the point that, as someone says below, it is a "contradiction" to
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by sramsay 3y ago
Doesn't what? Doesn't use numbers? scale(scales) .scaleTranspose("[0 <2 4>]*2") .struct("x*4") .velocity("<.8 .5>\*4") .velocity(0.8) .slow(2) ) .fast(1) .note() .cli
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by sramsay 3y ago
What I really want to see is a music programming language that does not require elementary knowledge of trig. In fact, I don't want it to use any numbers at all. They all do: Faust, Impromptu, ChuCK, csound, SuperCollider, etc., etc.
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by sramsay 3y ago
Csound is extremely powerful, but my favorite thing in this vein these days is Faust: https://faust.grame.fr/ It's a functional language with a nice way of generating diagrams of DSP algorithms, but its big killer fe
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by sramsay 3y ago
I suggest nano to my students in classes where everyone is a beginner and we're learning programming on the command line. The greatest advantage of nano for these users is that all the commands are listed along the bottom of the screen
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by sramsay 3y ago
Absolutely. I've written everything in Vim for almost as long as Vim has been around -- three books, dozens of talks and papers, who knows how many lines of code . . . I had been joking on social media a few weeks ago that Vim must
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by sramsay 3y ago
This is really cool!
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by sramsay 3y ago
Honestly, I just thought it was hilarious -- a sort of parodic counterpoint to the Story of Mel.

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