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by srcreigh 5y ago
Shouldn't it be illegal for a political party to force any MP vote on any matter? The MP was voted in to represent the people, not the political party. I guess it's a race to the bottom and impossible to prevent coercion. I just w
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Agreed. I've watched the news this past week. We somehow went from A) allowing most illegal activities to B) completely disallowing any form of actual protest. (EDIT: according to rescripting, there are protests still happening in Otta
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Thanks! I found some type providers docs [0] which is at some level an ML version of my Racket blog post. I had no idea type providers existed. The closest inspiration I had was probably Kotlin SQLDelight or Hibernate java codegen which (pr
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Not really. I'm just saying the same stuff in a different #lang-- I mean in different words :p
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Another example... this Arc code doesn't finish evaluating until a couple round trips with a web browser are finished. Absolutely cursed (defop said req (aform [w/link (pr "you said: " (arg _ "foo")
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by srcreigh 5y ago
The point about simple evaluation models, while true for basic Racket, is actually the furthest from the truth in idiomatic Racket. The idiomatic way to solve a problem in Racket is to develop new syntax (and evaluation orders) which are su
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Although that makes sense, I actually just figured out what the other person meant. A perfect 5th is a 3/2 ratioof the base frequency (3rd harmonic). If you square that fraction you'll get 9/4, which is a 9/major 2nd.
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Every part of what you said confuses me so much! How does 5+5=9? (Wrong I know but what is right?) Isn't the 9th harmonic a distinct frequency in a musical note? I thought it was side effect of how physical vibrations ripple out or som
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by srcreigh 5y ago
I would guess you're right but I'm not 100% sure! This channel is pretty responsive, you ask on the video. This one is fascinating too - it's just intonation vs 12edo comparison. You can really hear all the beating in the har
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by srcreigh 5y ago
It's not always just about simplicity of primes. Some intervals correspond to harmonics too. Major 2nd: 9th harmonic (9/8) Major 3rd: 5th harmonic (5/4) Perfect 4th: inverted 3rd harmonic (4/3) Perfect 5th: 3rd harmonic
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by srcreigh 5y ago
There's a simple reason for 15/8 being the major 7th. It's the 15th harmonic. The 15th harmonic is not changing anytime soon!
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by srcreigh 5y ago
> I don’t know why twelve in particular has this effect, or if other roots do as well Here's a 31-equal temperament song. Microtonal music has a reputation for sounding bad, but it doesn't have to. https://www.youtub
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by srcreigh 5y ago
I love how she takes a sip of her coffee/tea when she has to wait for the computer
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by srcreigh 5y ago
For what it's worth, Trudeau lost the popular vote last year.
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by srcreigh 5y ago
> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Reddit and HN are both replicated by third parties. The content won't go away.
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by srcreigh 5y ago
What are your fav mods?
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Everything we do involves being influenced by the interests of others. I'm curious what makes advertising A) special B) necessarily negative. Advertising is bad therefore it's bad doesn't really prove anything. Is that what y
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Amazing news. Practical consequences: Huge opportunities for French tech entrepreneurs. Huge opportunities for immigrant tech entrepreneurs to France. Gets the ball rolling for other countries to implement this. And more advanced regulation
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by srcreigh 5y ago
The UK market for digital products won't stop existing just because a few UK entrepreneurs move to the US. These regulations are the only way to dismantle US big tech monopolies. The US government won't do anything about it on its
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Are you saying advertiser's influence is somehow making the fulfillment problem worse? This kinda assumes our own thoughts and desires aren't influenced by outside factors (bad habits, intrusive thoughts, etc), and without adverti
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Since it's codenames, I would guess some of the words on the board they were hinting at would be WW2/war/call of duty/video games related stuff like France, Ear, Lag, Light, Hand, Hurt, Mud, Radio...
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Under this assumption, by the principal of mathematical induction, you can easily do it K more times for any K without taking on barely any risk at each step of the way.
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by srcreigh 5y ago
What makes a business a gatekeeper? Would this require for eg discord to allow 3rd party clients?
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Relativism is a western concept
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Even FF receives lots of money from Google every year to be default search engine. It's pure speculation but I wonder if the threat of not getting that deal next year is enough that FF doesn't invest in Pocket/bookmarks too m
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Sure. The GGP tried to say the bailout was an investment with profits though. It's not as simple as "They got low returns so it was a bad investment", but it's also not as simple as "They got returns so it was a goo
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by srcreigh 5y ago
$109B profit from a $635B investment over 13 years is less than 2% yearly return. It's a huge waste considering other higher return investments. EDIT: see replies for much needed nuance
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Why would Google ever implement decent bookmarks aka local search for all your data? They need to track you for their business.
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by srcreigh 5y ago
Competitors to any bookmarking product include: social media / Reddit / HN, messaging / Slack, and of course Google. I used Google to find an old tweet of mine to get a link to an old product today. It was very easy. Any spec

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