twangist

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by twangist 4y ago
If you don't have an eye you shouldn't be doing this stuff except under duress. Asking for rules is asking for an algorithm that would let you "design" (ok, lay-out) mindlessly and sightlessly. Mostly, people don't
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by twangist 4y ago
In fact, a tutorial in the author's design taste. I bailed after the first step, on reading "we can do better" for my font choice. It seemed at least as good and appropriate as the author's, whose justification amounted
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by twangist 4y ago
> Coming from an academic background, hand-written sites with no css nor js are a strong marker of ultra-high quality content. Those non-features are also a hallmark of a site that hasn't been updated in 25 years -- or at any rate,
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by twangist 4y ago
time.com, pages simply didn't appear -- at least this was the case in recent versions of FF, can't swear it's so in latest. Other sites can lack "Search" buttons that appear in Chrome & Safari, or their forms do
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by twangist 4y ago
There are no "obsolete sounds".
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by twangist 4y ago
Well, it really rather isn't. Punks aren't renowned for musicianship and appreciation of finely crafted instruments. Most 'punks' would have little idea of what to do with a Brian May model Gretsch. But making your own
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by twangist 4y ago
"Mad scribblings" (WaPo title) is terrifically offensive – and misleading. If they were incoherent and inconsequential, why review the new book that collects his late notebook writings? The review is favorable. I'm guessing s
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by twangist 4y ago
The doctoral candidate didn't "dedicate their life" to the topic, merely wrote a thesis on it. So, just an intense part of their life. Perhaps they'll remain focused on bells, perhaps not. Probably all PhD theses are &#
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by twangist 4y ago
You're assuming there's such a thing as "historical Jesus". There's basically no evidence.
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by twangist 4y ago
Pascal might not be weird but it is unpleasant. It has many inconveniences to offer the modern programmer. In its day, in comparison to C -- by programmers for programmers -- Pascal was derided by one computer scientist as "a police-
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by twangist 5y ago
Thank you, this is not easy to find in its entirety.
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by twangist 5y ago
> FYI, matrices transform between vectors within a vector space. Square ones do, but m x n ones represent linear maps from an n-dimensional to m-dimensional vector space (over the/a field containing the elements of the matrix).
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by twangist 5y ago
Assange ought to know. He's just jealous.
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by twangist 5y ago
Thank you for the link to Messiaen's book!
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by twangist 5y ago
Yeah, but they were when thinking about what to work on.
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by twangist 5y ago
Can't wait to ignore his forthcoming 2022 volume too. This ethics-free "thinker" can't be taken seriously.
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by twangist 5y ago
Confirming this: FF 94.0.1 can't upload an image. Same error: no such thing as navigator.sendBeacon().
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by twangist 5y ago
The title should also drop the "the", which makes you brace for a document by a non-native speaker.
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by twangist 6y ago
This seems like a flawed approach. These days, $8 bottles are a mass-produced affairs, generally full of additives for body, color, 'legs', and other attributes. They're very consistent affairs, as consistent as Bic pens or C
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by twangist 6y ago
Given that it was posted on the eve of the Super Bowl, and that the title promises to examine a dimension of "football" that hardly exists in futbol aka "soccer", I think your point is disingenuous.
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by twangist 6y ago
There are no mentions of Trump in the first two paragraphs. In the first, the author likens Suetonius, author of "The Twelve Caesars", to Michael Wolff, author of a book about a Trump WH scandal and intrigue. In the second, he ref
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by twangist 6y ago
I get nothing but "Error code 422: Server error", even on input "Hello", in FF, Safari and Chrome.
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by twangist 6y ago
> Wonder if people who eat chili pepper generally consume less food because of the spiciness. No, we don't (consume less food).
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by twangist 6y ago
>> “You can think of the roots of a polynomial as negatively charged particles that repel each other with a force that decays when the distance increases,” Breuillard said. > No, you can't. Well, yes, you can, and a profession
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by twangist 6y ago
People who are that far removed from "what is going on" aren't going to think about it at all. This is a popular article about math which uses a suggestive analogy. Analogies are not "misconceptions", and are not
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by twangist 7y ago
"Oracle's DB2" - Do you mean Oracle's DBMS? DB2 is an IBM product.
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by twangist 8y ago
I hope merely satire. I don't find it convincing at all, so I wouldn't suspect malice, nor of course a serious attempt at forgery :)
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by twangist 8y ago
Oh, hardly. This is nothing like good , in the sense of "successful forgery", let alone "really, really good". Did you write the program? At a distance of 10 feet, the document the program produces seems to nail the fo
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by twangist 8y ago
Unfortunately, this is behind a paywall.
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by twangist 8y ago
What language is the author trying to write in? Not off to a great start, with that headline.

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