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by strenholme 1mo ago
It was a really good article up and until it explained the octave, the perfect fifth, and the equal tempered scale. It didn’t do a full explanation of equal temperament—we use it because, with it, it’s easy to change keys. Once it jumps fr
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by strenholme 1mo ago
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say 2/1, 3/2, 4/3, 5/4, and 6/5 are intervals which sound pleasant to the human ear. [1] Once that is established, as per the linked article, 12-tone equal temperament makes a lot
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by strenholme 1mo ago
Yes, he could have approached it differently. It’s really good at explaining the octave, the fifth, it shows the mathematical basis for why just intonation has “wolf notes”, and why we use 12-tone equal temperament. Once it hits the 12-tone
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by strenholme 1mo ago
It looks like more of Firefox has been ported over to Rust since then: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/security-chromium-ve... The reason why I support Gecko and Ladybird’s engine is because I am opposed to mon
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by strenholme 1mo ago
There’s a reason I use Firefox (Gecko). Also, Ladybird—another completely different web engine—is really promising. I spent five hours building it from source, having it take about 8 gigabytes of space, and it perfectly renders my own web
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by strenholme 1mo ago
I’m amazed beach.santa-cruz.ca.us is still around. I’ve given it some SSL certs and have reclaimed it: https://beach.santa-cruz.ca.us/ Thanks for checking the zone files of the parent domain to verify it’s still there.
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by strenholme 1mo ago
The way it worked is that someone nominally representing the CA State Government had* ca.us, and they in turn gave* san-jose to someone who nominally represented San Jose, los-angeles to someone who nominally represented Los Angeles, santa-
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by strenholme 1mo ago
I agree. As a DNS implementer, the action plan is unnecessary. There are, what, only 22,000 or so .name domains. One can write code to do two lookups for firstname.lastname.name: If firstname.lastname.name is found, return the NS delegat
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by strenholme 1mo ago
The .name mess is not in the public suffix list. https://github.com/publicsuffix/list/issues/2306 for more discussion.
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by strenholme 1mo ago
I remember I had beach.santa-cruz.ca.us at one point registered to me. I owned beach.santa-cruz.ca.us, someone else owned santa-cruz.ca.us, yet someone else owned ca.us, and I believe Network Solutions took care of .us at the time.
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by strenholme 1mo ago
The correct way to handle this mess is to simply keep things messy. BGP tables are a big mess, for example, because a lot of companies keep their IPs when going from ISP to ISP. But, assuming that Verisign can’t keep third level domains (a
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by strenholme 1mo ago
There’s a reason why this culture doesn’t exist: Internet Explorer 6 As recently as 2012, web developers had to make sure their websites ran on IE6, a browser from 2001, and were very frustrated that had to support this 11-year-old browser
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by strenholme 1mo ago
Once people start saying things like “his own privileges as a cisgender white guy”, that’s a red flag in my book—someone who writes like that, in my experience, doesn’t have real empathy for others, and uses “privilege” as an excuse to not
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by strenholme 1mo ago
I think it would had been better for Andreas Kling to simply stay “our style guidelines use the masculine form when describing an unspecified person, even though the person may be masculine, feminine, or non-binary”. But I also understand
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by strenholme 1mo ago
I will believe it when I see it. Still no public release.
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by strenholme 1mo ago
To clarify: C3 has fixed sized ints. Maybe the parent poster doesn’t like their names, but they are fixed sized, as follows: Name Size Signed bool 1 no ichar 8 yes char 8 no short 16 yes
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by strenholme 2mo ago
Talking to myself, doing some research inspired by my reply above, I came across this: https://decreechronicles.com/guardians-of-the-decree-the-hid... I mention fertility rates remained constant in the 1980s. Now I know wh
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by strenholme 2mo ago
You have a different definition of “work” than I do. For people in the peanut gallery, here is the chart we’re looking at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birth-death_RO.svg Unfortunately, the data for this ch
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by strenholme 2mo ago
Twitter has become a cesspool, and there’s a lot of reasons why people are leaving it in droves. My personal issue is the misogynists who have created a hateful completely false narrative that 80% of the women sleep with 20% of the men (inc
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by strenholme 2mo ago
Here is what they said: “You can definitely fix it. You might not like what it takes but others don't like their culture being replaced either.” I think he’s implying he has some pretty, shall we say, interesting views on the matter.
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by strenholme 2mo ago
Talking to myself: I enjoyed the novelette at https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabbit-test/ It’s probably a bad prediction of the future, but having an exaggerated dystopian view of the future is a classic
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by strenholme 2mo ago
You’ll have to ask @account42, but I will bet you it’s the same answer I came up with: Take away people’s freedoms and have a hard, strongly enforced (i.e. Orwellian levels of enforcement) ban on contraception and abortions. Both @account42
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by strenholme 2mo ago
Depends on what you mean by “work”. It worked: The birth rate exceeded the rate of deaths until Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown in 1989. There was some level of circumvention in the 1970s and 1980s, but birth rates continued to outpace de
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by strenholme 2mo ago
The “proposed solutions” are very misogynistic. They include repealing the 19th amendment (not letting women vote), repealing sex discrimination laws, and enforcing “patriarchy”. See, for example https://archive.ph/2026062
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by strenholme 2mo ago
With my own MaraDNS, I aggressively optimized the memory usage of blacklist entries by having a single really big malloc() to allocate the memory for the entries, then traversing that memory block for potentially blacklisted entries. When I
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by strenholme 2mo ago
Very few. 0.5% to 0.7% of all births. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9nz5qwl8jo
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by strenholme 2mo ago
There is an entire cohort of misogynists on Twitter/X these days who argue we should repeal the 19th and not let women vote. https://archive.ph/AEfUQ - https://x.com/Schtal2/status/20692170608
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by strenholme 2mo ago
Make abortion and contraception illegal, and strongly enforce those laws. It worked with Romania in the 1960s and 1970s. Mind you, it caused a bunch of other problems to crop up, but Romania did solve their low birth rate problem. https:&
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by strenholme 2mo ago
It is very much possible to use government force to solve the birthrate problem. Romania did it in the 1960s. Mind you, this would cause a lot of misery and suffering but it has been done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by strenholme 2mo ago
Atkinson Hyperlegible, like Nebula Sans (or, if you will, Source Sans) is an open source font available under the OFL license.

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