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You can wax poetic all you want about anecdotal values differences between the first and third worlds, but speaking in terms of actual practical impact: what you are saying is simp…

the reason they are named differently and are notated differently is that they serve different functions. they're more or less homophones. or, perhaps to keep it within the artisti…

The tradition of using shift registers for automated music generation very much lives on! These days they are typically called "Turing Machines" (I know, kinda of confusing for us …

This seems to be exactly the definition given in the article?

a documentary presenting an impersonator as the real person has always been unethical, yes. this one is newsworthy because it was done in a new way.

I figured that, but I wanted to give the chance at clarification, because we were mainly discussing operational expenses, and there's no way data centers even clears 1% of the cost…

Of course! The point was to put the number next to a number known by the typical HN reader, not to imply the businesses were at all similar. > Most universities get by with a dozen…

Invests it, and runs the university on the returns. Assuming a 4% yearly rate of return, then that's around $1.5B a year in money available for operating expenses. As a point of co…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13226078 When I'm in my working tab group, that's like 8 tabs or so. Most of the tabs in the storage groups are months old (more like bookmarks…

Ctrl+tab'd thru all 56 tabs in this group, waited for them to finish loading, opened activity monitor: CPU at 20%, RAM at 811MB. So yea, a fair amount weren't loaded, but loading t…

Firefox with Tab Groups and AwesomeBar fits very nicely with my workflow-- 1. I dont have to think. I Cmd+Click links as I find them interesting, switch tabs as my attention change…

Mmmm that's true, I don't. I tend to close GMail tabs once I'm done with them because I also noticed they tend to leak and are poorly optimized for non-Chrome browsers.

Mac El Capitan, FirefoxDeveloperEdition (which iirc is basically equivalent to Firefox Beta), not many addons (Tab Groups, uBlock Origin, No More 404s). I can screenshot my Activit…

Mac El Capitan, FirefoxDeveloperEdition (which iirc is basically equivalent to Firefox Beta), not many addons (Tab Groups, uBlock Origin, No More 404s).

> But I remember the times when we had the amazing Opera browser. In Opera, I could have a hundred open tabs, and it didn’t care, it worked incredibly fast on the hardware of its e…

In most contexts, an entertainment event being "presented by X" just means that X funded the event in exchange for having their name associated with it. E.g., "Thursday Night Footb…

The one issue I see with bringing Flux/Redux to iOS is that iOS shipped with unidirectional data flow from day 1 with KVO: view => IBAction on controller => model method (incl. any…

...which is why I spent my entire last paragraph discussing why addressing inequality is often considered as a way to tackle inequality. We don't get to pretend they're separate th…

> Ignoring [the mental state of the people being optimized for], what is wrong with inequality between groups? A bit cheeky, I know, but I don't think you can just write off emotio…

> The corollary is that you have to worry about the DAC in the phone if you have an analog jack, and they're not good. So with digital only, you have the option of buying a good of…

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/08/is-jazz-enteri...

well maybe listen to more than one ;D I included that one as an example of how artists are merging instrumental hip hop back in with Jazz; there's plenty of other styles of Jazz in…

different senses of innovation /shrug for stuff in the more progressive vein, check out: Jaga Jazzist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVIFUQV20NM or https://www.youtube.com/watch…

dead on. for more examples of what goes by "jazz" these days: Takuya Kuroda - Rising Son : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mUymaxWmMw Hiatus Kaiyote - The World It Softly Lulls : …