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In 1968 a British newspaper ran a competition for English translations of "Spleen - Je suis comme le roi..." The poet Nicholas Moore - motivated by a belief that translating poetry…

I'm just about old enough to remember (in the UK) foolscap paper, an imperial size also a bit longer than A4. You never see it any more (at least I don't) but foolscap sized box-fi…

There's a link to the Perl code hidden in the third para of text ("The [Perl source] for this script is available...") Of course a big reason it still works is that it was written …

This was my attempt at doing something a little bit like it, 27 years ago. It's mostly interesting as a historical artifact - certainly yours is a lot more sophisticated and much m…

> I think that's probably what chordify.com does [...] I don't think they are using chordino I think they were initially using the Chordino chroma features (NNLS-Chroma) but a diff…

Oh this is very nice, I hadn't seen it before. A few random thoughts: - The Vamp Plugin Pack for Mac finally got an ARM/Intel universal build in its 2.0 release last year, so hopef…

> No-one ever called a real program an "app" before that, did they? Yes. Apple called them apps in the 80s, at least on the Mac - this is Apple II but it's plausible they were also…

The April 1984 issue of the British magazine "What Micro?" (70p from all good newsagents) contained a spoof review of a revolutionary new PC, the "Victori XZ64/4A". A paragraph in …

QString::toUpper/toLower are not locale-aware ( https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qstring.html#toLower ) Qt does have a locale-aware equivalent (QLocale::toUpper/toLower) which calls out to I…

> HN comments were dismissive of the Google SRE "no heroes" article recently If (like me) you hadn't seen this one, I think it is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41172531 (Som…

> imagine if McLaren did this In some sense car manufacturers do do this - their designs are famous for being full of functionally empty retro cues that customers nonetheless go fo…

(Amateur cellist) Instinctively I find this absurd too. I always thought it was funny that, at least at the level of student instruments, the more you spend, the more beaten-up you…

She's still playing and touring and if you get a chance to hear her, she's an absolute delight.

> My greatest "unnecessary Firefox UI change gripe" is the removal of browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll 4 years ago Totally agree. Four years on, and it still trips me up daily. Ironi…

> It's nice this works fine on your white-on-black terminal I was curious about this as well, as I found the images in the README a bit hard to read. In fact the program itself see…

Same here, I had it checked out from the library continuously for a couple of years and referred to it constantly. A terrific explanation of a super cool piece of work, full of ins…

With CPU, totally. As an example I can look at my own Sonic Visualiser application, largely written 15-18 years ago and entirely CPU-driven. Relative to then, it's now horrible on …

> It's not too hard to get an AppKit/Cocoa project from the early 2000s compiling on modern macOS, but Cocoa had already accrued 20 years of age by 2005 That's a mindboggling thoug…

Very nice! For other readers, the link is a lot more relevant to HN than you might guess if you are just skimming by.

There is the slightly awkwardly-named idagio ( https://www.idagio.com/ ), which has been doing the same kind of thing for a while. (I'm not well placed to compare them, since I let…

I was once on a London bus that got stopped by the police for jumping a red light. It was at Hyde Park Corner, heading north toward Park Lane - the light guarding the intersection …

The same author wrote another very useful post in 2010 that also involved mediants: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/10/20/best-rational-appr...

Global Dream II https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/01/global-dream-ii-worlds-bigges... It's a sad story from many angles - technical, environmental, political, economic.