troutmskreplica

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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
Huge fan of the Keychron K2. Also like the K3, but not nearly as much. I have the medium-clicky keys on the K2.
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
I’ve read through parts of the Wikipedia page several times in the past. It’s not ideal. I haven’t studied music theory systematically but I believe all the modes that contain a minor third above the root are technically considered minor sc
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
lcc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCC_(compiler) PBRT: https://www.pbrt.org
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
This “law” was never really reasonable or sensible. I’ve been working on optimizing compiler backends for nearly 30 years. The reality is that you hit a wall of diminishing returns pretty quickly, within say 5-20 person-years of effort (so
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
I don't think they have a choice either way, but you're right, and I have a friend who recently did this, but not between Apple and Meta. He was working at another well-known tech company that is suffering from a brain drain and h
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
Sorry I cannot tell what “this” is since that article neither mentions downplaying grades or interviewing students. I believe the specific things I am talking about were discussed in relation to introversion and The Ivy’s specifically wanti
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
Invest the money in relatively stable/safe investments. Some real estate, index funds, etc. Leave yourself enough for a year or so, and take that time to figure out what you’d really like to do without putting too much pressure on your
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
Sorry, but I don’t think your idea of meritocracy is very much in line with what most Universities are looking for. That’s why they have things like essays and consider extracurricular activities. Most of the selective Universities specific
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Ask HN: Is RISC-V getting any real traction, and if so where?
2 points by troutmskreplica 5y ago|9 comments
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
I was going to make the same point, more generally about electronic music gear. People greatly favor knob-per-function and minimal menu diving. Having some kind of screen and minimal menus for rarely used features is fine, too, but anything
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
The religious right elected Trump. Without their support he would not only have lost the popular vote, but also the electoral college. He spent his presidency attempting to keep them happy and in particular working with them on Supreme Cour
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
To be very contrarian and sound like a bit of a neo-Luddite, I have been a photographer for more than 30 years and have never taken photographs as good as the ones I take with my Leicas, which are the most feature-poor expensive cameras you
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
Interviewed there a few years back. This was right after one of the many Facebook crises became public (sorry, forget which). I wasn’t super interested in the role or working there but was interested in seeing what an offer might look like.
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
Interestingly, Monk’s own version of Caravan from “Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington” was also derided by many critics (well the album as a whole, really), but it’s one of my favorite versions of that tune, and I think more people have c
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
There’s nothing strange about going to a restaurant alone. Or a movie. Or a play, concert, etc. I’ve done all the above many times, in addition to doing all the above with other people many times.
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
This is true in the US as well, at least where I live. Judges specifically inform the jury that they cannot treat a police officer’s testimony with any more weight or as any more correct than any other witness. Whether juries actually pay a
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
If you bought a PC-compatible clone in the 80s you had a good chance of being able to find documentation of some kind to tell you about how pieces of the hardware itself worked. Not at all the case for other kinds of hardware, or any softwa
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by troutmskreplica 5y ago
Under what legal principle would this be based on, and why haven’t we already seen this happen over say the last 50 years of consumer electronics?