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by wtbob 10y ago
> But unless the music also contains some 1Hz modulation (or a power-of-two multiple thereof) then the 432 base frequency isn't related to anything fundamental in musical terms. Presumably the music's timing is based on seconds
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by wtbob 10y ago
> You have to actually make something good in order to get customers to come back. Well, that's not strictly true, is it? You have to make something which actually feels good. And iPods definitely ended up doing that.
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Lisp-BINARY, a binary-format–parsing library illustrating the power of macros(github.com)
2 points by wtbob 10y ago|0 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
I still can't get over the fact that AMP breaks the img tag and requires JavaScript. My long-running browsers instances are bogged down by JavaScript (and I have NoScript on whitelist mode, with it only allowed where necessary!). Requ
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Unfortunately, in the United States I don't think we have a good regulatory framework for handling this situation Why do we even need a regulatory framework? It's a plant: let people grow it if they want; let them ingest i
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The c2 wiki was down(c2.com)
196 points by wtbob 10y ago|39 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
> How does Clojure or ClojureScript do as they are built on top of JVM/CLR or JavaScript? I don't know, but what you wrote sounds right. I don't really think of them as Lisps, although they have some Lisp-like features.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Does any programming language get Unicode right all the way? Lisps with Unicode support seem to. This is a case where the Common Lisp standard's reluctance to mandate certain things paid off bigtime.
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by wtbob 10y ago
It's newsworthy because Apple have owned the education market for so long, since the days of the Apple II. Also, I don't think Apple are the Lamborghini of computers — more like the Cadillac: overpriced; ugly but no-one is willing
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by wtbob 10y ago
SHA1? SHA1 SHA1 ‽ I'd always thought that OWS had incredibly good crypto — why are they using SHA1? If it's to support relatively short hashes … I just can't even. There's simply no excuse to choose to use SHA1 in
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by wtbob 10y ago
As it happens, I'm very slightly younger than you indicate. So your theory that folks roughly our age dislike it holds. It may be that folks younger than we are don't mind it — but they also don't mind riding bicycles wit
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Feels like you're inside the Death Star inside. Is feeling as though one is inside a soulless death-machine a desirable quality in a legislature?
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by wtbob 10y ago
They do share a common root in the Latin brūt, meaning heavy, animal, raw.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> You clearly do not understand what objective means. No, I'm saying that your taste is objectively wrong, 'in the same sense that someone who thinks Steve Buscemi is more handsome than George Clooney is objectively wrong.&#x27
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by wtbob 10y ago
> You might find Riverside Plaza (aka Cedar Towers) in Minneapolis an interesting bit of colorful Brutalism. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Riversid... The colour does remind me a
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The first thought that struck me when I saw it was "that is a visual expression of Orwellian thought". Yup, exactly. There is little more care for the inhabitants inside than there is for the ants, the ivy, the birds, the ea
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by wtbob 10y ago
The first one looks like Baby's First Architectural Mistake; the second one looks like Where Life Goes to Die.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Personally, I adore the brutalist aesthetic, for example, everything in this photo: http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/5356556-3x2-940x627.jpg I think that anyone who prefers that to https://www.rhod
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by wtbob 10y ago
No, hashes generally require twice as many bits in order to avoid birthday attacks — that's why one uses SHA-256 for 128-bit security. 98 bits is still plenty, of course, but it's not 128 bits.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The 'all or nothing' take on security is a very childish or naive point of view. I disagree; indeed, I think the idea that cryptography and security can be flawed-but-useful is itself naïve. If something is breakable, it wi
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by wtbob 10y ago
> They're relatively compact. Users compare 12 groups of 5 digits with each other, which is half the size of our previous hexadecimal format. 60 digits have 199 bits of security, so I suppose that's mostly okay, right? Does th
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by wtbob 10y ago
And then there's: * Weeks always start on Sunday vs. * Weeks always start on Monday
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by wtbob 10y ago
> If we're talking about open-source (I can't see why not), you can just fork the library in question and adjust it to fulfill the missing 5%. You're not wrong, but you are assuming some things: 1. That the library is w
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by wtbob 10y ago
I think a system which relies on drivers to check blindspots for small, light vehicles while turning (when their attention is focussed on the large, heavy vehicles on the other side which can kill them) is broken. Bikes are vehicles: they b
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by wtbob 10y ago
Yes, that's why I wrote 'mis-spelt.' I was making a point about their use of JavaScript to load fonts to display glyphs, which of course fails miserably if one has JavaScript disabled (as anyone who cares about privacy and s
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by wtbob 10y ago
The oceans are orders of magnitude more hospitable to mankind & human life than is Mars, and yet we have, to my knowledge, absolutely no undersea colonies. The idea that we'll colonise Mars before we colonise the oceans (a full th
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Elephants take at least 20 years to start growing tusks but the 'big tuskers' are ~50 years old. Trees also take decades to grow, and yet tree farms are a viable economy. > Also, you won't be able to produce ivory che
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by wtbob 10y ago
Weird that their header over 'Run Anywhere' reads 'S Q R.' Is it perhaps a mis-spelt allusion to the senate and people of Rome?
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by wtbob 10y ago
> A lot of cars turn right without checking for bikes. What's up with that? Why are you to the right of the turning lane? If you are a vehicle, act like a (slow-moving, natch) vehicle: get in the right-most through lane, and hol
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by wtbob 10y ago
The issue is that ozone purification cleans the water at the source, but it's free to pick up contamination in the pipes as it makes its way to the tap; chlorination works right up until the water is drunk. The downside is that chlori

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