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Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S.
on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @06:27PM (#43260838)
Taiwan can still blow up their TSMC plants and fire conventional missiles at the three gorges damn to inflict near nuclear results on China.
Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has Collapsed
on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @06:56PM (#39833766)
I’ve see pictures of the barriers before the accident and they were there, but they looked like they were tailored to 70s era ships not the container laden ships of today
Re:New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy
on Saturday August 05, 2023 @07:42PM (#37017365)
If this means I have to abandon my clicky keyboard I give up.
Re:CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and M...
on Saturday August 05, 2023 @07:30PM (#37017278)
People in 1000 BC is maybe not the best example here considering practically the entire population of Egypt was tasked with building or supporting the building of the pyramids among many other projects.
Re:Japanese steakhouse in Florida closes after customers test positive...
on Thursday July 13, 2023 @09:27PM (#36718338)
I can't believe I'm linking pensapedia on hacker news, but this wouldn't be the first time a drug ring in a beloved restaurant was exposed in the county which I grew up.
Presenting Cancun Mexican Restaurant in Gulf Breeze, within walking distance of the high school I went to.
https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Rogelio_Galvan_Chavez#cite_r...
Re:CircleCI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers’ source code
on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:02PM (#34391439)
I've never seen a Jenkins instance that did not need to be open to the public internet in order to support GitHub webhooks. Granted they were using IP based restrictions but it's still not behind a corporate network by any stretch in that setup.
Re:Elon Musk says only ‘exceptional’ Twitter employees can work from home
on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:41AM (#33624906)
How does this square with "Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade" from his latest tirade/email
Re:Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.
on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @12:04AM (#33605517)
According to Twitter employees on platforms like Blind and news sources, Twitter (the website) is the only datapoint for communication with their new boss.
Re:Twitter Suspends Kathy Griffin After She Changed Her Handle to ‘Elo...
on Monday November 07, 2022 @08:54AM (#33505769)
It being an asshole thing to do to people in positions of power has been the reason for parody for literally thousands of years.
Re:Thoughts about Twitter
on Saturday November 05, 2022 @11:16AM (#33482269)
Ceding territories in a forced negotiation to only set the stage for the next conflict is not peace, it's appeasement.
Re:Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs
on Friday June 03, 2022 @09:28AM (#31607946)
I keep hearing references to this study that precipitated the famous “no more WFH Fridays” decision but I can’t actually seem to find it. Do you have a link?
Re:Eye contact between musicians
on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @09:58AM (#31581877)
When I directed the local univeristy basketball team's pep band for a time we had a blind musician. All he needed was a recording of his part done on any instrument (which took me under 5 minutes to prepare per song) to participate fully. He was even able to take auditory cues for things like signaling an early cutoff. I don't remember him carrying over once.
Re:Eye contact between musicians
on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @12:21AM (#31578028)
That's because everyone in those groups backing them up had to keep their eyes glued on them!
Re:Eye contact between musicians
on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @12:19AM (#31578022)
Interviewing the Guarneri quartet is about the most extreme example they could've found in this regard. They are one of the most longstanding and in lockstep chamber ensembles on the planet. Most chamber groups engage in enough eye contact to get them through changing elements of a piece, like ritardandos, accelerandos, fermatas, etc.
Re:Eye contact between musicians
on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @12:16AM (#31578004)
I play classical and jazz (which extends to every other genre), and while I think eye contact is somewhat overrated, it is so vastly more important to establish communication "out of the page" in classical music due to the many many more ritardandos, accelerandos, tempo changes, subdivision changes, meter changes, cessuras, fermatas, and the list goes on, all not uncommonly happening in the same movement of a larger work. The only genre that could exceeds what classical music requires would have to be the many more rhythmically complex world music traditions. What I see on a daily basis in popular music or even jazz doesn't hold a candle to any of those.
Re:Eye contact between musicians
on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @12:09AM (#31577968)
Can confirm.