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This is delightful. I replaced the battery on my 2011 MBA some years ago, but it's been sitting (replaced for family use by a Framework). You're inspiring me to do something with i…

Kyle Gann's Arithmetic of Listening goes deeply into this. Given an infinite number of ways of dividing the range from f to 2f , some other equal-division temperaments (31 or 53, f…

> There is no "why it's worth reading". On the contrary--every individual reader gets to determine this. I found that it wasn't.

This seems to have been written with the assumption that everyone will share the writer's understanding of why it's worth reading.

That's surprising and alarming. Thank you for bringing that up, though!

Perhaps not: https://www.oprfhs.org/news/1742090/statement-regarding-grad...

The Jack Johnson outtakes with Sonny Sharrock were a revelation to me. Well worth seeking those out.

He worked with a lot of white musicians and arrangers. In the 1962 Playboy interview, he famously said, "I think prejudice one way is just as bad as the other way. I wouldn't have …

Alex Wellerstein, author of the NYer article, has a bit more info on his blog ( http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2016/05/23/the-blue-flash/ ), including an answer to the question of …

A lot of good advice here. Whenever I was laid off, I tried to send out a minimum of ten new contact emails a day. (Longest layoff, two months. Shortest was 14 days.) Make sure tha…

With the title "Cold Email Opening Lines," I was half-expecting things like "I don't care if you live or die," or "Millennia from now, when the sun engulfs the earth, nothing we do…

I'm 90% sure that there's a lot of Boontling in Pynchon's novel _Vineland_, set in northern CA, though I haven't seen a full glossary. This one doesn't mention it, but as I recall,…

This is great. I see it as more about the aesthetics than about airtight security, anyway. As an aesthetic project, it's perfect. Well done.

I disagree with the writer's conclusion that one should't mention other interviews or other offers. In my most recent search (after a layoff), my best leads were two companies who'…

Perec's _Life, a User's Manual_ is an inspiration. Meticulously structured, continually mysterious, always several steps ahead of you, and yet it doesn't beat you over the head wit…

Are you referring to the hammer mechanism clicks? (They're rhythmic, along with the notes, as opposed to random noise.) I think the exposed mechanism makes that sound more present …

From the Safari console: SyntaxError: Unexpected token ' Aha: hosting ace.js on rawgithub has earned you a blacklisting for abuse, on the grounds of too many requests. Using cdn.ra…

(Nearly) full text of what Steve said here: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/17/steve-albinis-k...

When a company I worked for tried Joyent for hosting, I found it strange that Joyent's own package manager didn't offer the latest stable version--in fact, their confusingly named …

Same error here, with the same empty response, followed by {"name":"RqlDriverError","msg":"Object field 'id' may not be undefined","message":"Object field 'id' may not be undefined…

I have to say I was kind of hoping someone had replaced the Helvetica Neue with the old bitmap San Francisco face.

I managed to get (first name)@(popular).com, and man, it's a core sample into what a bunch of people all over the world are doing. Signing up for cable or satellite tv, buying iPad…

It depends on the nature of your project(s) and the data you want to store, as well as what you want to do with it. If you're storing and retrieving things that make sense as persi…

Very nice work--great textures and atmosphere. Thanks for sharing it! If you're ever inclined toward a productivity challenge, you might want to check out http://weeklybeats.com (n…

This is a really great idea--bravo, xtrmntr! Are you traversing a SoundCloud playlist, or pulling randomly based on tags? It's quite cool. If the police feeds are too dramatic, the…