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This sensitivity to intonation is why all the great quartet composers were either deaf, Hungarian, or both.

Classical guitarists are used to pushing nylon strings into consonance by compressing the string either towards the nut or the bridge. Not so easy with steel, where players will ju…

In the USA, it is open season on feral swine all year around, no permit required, as they are a very noxious pest. In Texas, you can even go heli-hogging!

At the time, Ireland was indeed a wealthy country, having made its fortune selling leather to the Romans three centuries before, because the semi-nomadic Irish cultivated large her…

Why did they remove tilde '~' as a convenient shortcut for the Home directory?

There are claims that Signal has already been compromised by the Five Eyes Intel Agencies, albeit through bribery rather than the overt coercion we see here. The key change is that…

Given the intensive surveillance state set up by the CCP, it would be very hard to hide such benefits.

From experience, I would agree that the first thing activists who wish to take over a group will do is to behave badly, and then use this as the pretext to demand a Code of Conduct…

The minimum standard of good behavior need not be explicitly stated, and violations can be dealt with as they arise. The problem with written sets of rules is that they can be subv…

But the festering garbage is entangled with essential material so that attempting to take out the trash can brick the OS.

Aristotle's actual writings are lost. The books attributed to Aristotle are comprised of lecture notes collected by his students, later compiled according to topic, so you get the …

You have just provided links. That is not an argument.

That is one plausible scenario, but another is that Breton, by all accounts, an arrogant, petty autocrat, is simply attempting to impose his will, not just on Musk, but everyone el…

Thierry Breton, the author of the letter, appears to have a personal grudge against Elon Musk, and has directed several aggressive ultimatums towards him such as, "In Europe, the b…

Stevie wonder was one of the pioneers of the Fairlight Synthesizer, which was possible for him to use because it used a text interface navigated by arrow keys, rather than a fiddly…

As the blog post says, most SQL databases won't accept a name given in double quotes as the name of a table.

Forth was created to control the aiming of a radio telescope. It was used in the original Star Wars movie to direct the complex motions of the model space ships.

The British Flat Earth Society is a joke society in this vein. They amuse themselves by writing very erudite debunkings of the nefarious Spherical Earth conspiracy theory, and send…

In must cultures of the world, shared history is a consensual fiction, which is regarded as being truer than the truth.

You can use the Polynesian palm scallop, which attaches itself to the damp bathroom wall in picturesque clusters like roof shingles. It is an aerial filter feeder, capable of subsi…

Red is mostly written in Rebol 2.7 whose final release was in 2011 when most software was 32-bit. Until Red becomes fully self-hosting, it looks like there will not be a 64-bit ver…

Red is based on the Rebol language and is said to be 95% compatible with Rebol 2.7. The Red website includes links to the tutorials and code examples for Rebol alongside Red specif…

But do those languages permit rapid Lisp-like development in the way Red does? I am not sure I see the problem. The slow static compilation is reserved for the final deployment of …