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Re:Prices and wages in Medieval England (2014) on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @12:29PM (#29894573)
Huh? How does that work?
Re:Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:43AM (#26862082)
As a musician, I’d say no. Sure, you don’t get the significance of “what is this Dorian thing” unless Scarborough Fair is playing, but nothing in the article really applies to hearing music.
Re:The Invention of a New Pasta Shape on Saturday March 20, 2021 @10:24PM (#26527656)
Have never tasted it in my life and it already looks delicious. I love thick, flat noodles. I undercook fettuccine and ensure they stick together but I wonder if that would provide the same experience.
Re:Atari Transputer Workstation on Thursday March 18, 2021 @05:16PM (#26507644)
Didn't foresee the inefficiencies and overhead of modern programming.
Re:Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972) on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:45PM (#26426785)
Before I look up `man cat`, what can you do with `cat` other than just see what's in a file?
My cat died recently and I didn't get that experience before then. He always knew when I was ready, somehow.
Re:The Therac-25 Incident on Monday February 15, 2021 @03:25PM (#26146886)
Apparently this is the seventh one. I've never worked on a safety critical system but this is the story that makes me wonder what it's like to do so.
Re:Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:25PM (#26094242)
Filter means to remove, not to add. Like `filter()` in Python or Swift being given a condition and a list and returning everything that meets the condition.
Hold on, what? Okay, return false if they aren't equal, then open another process to repeat this method once again in the shell... I can't guess the reason. Would you know if there is any reason this might have been done?
Re:Wild lynx could be reintroduced into Scottish Highlands on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:30PM (#25875993)
Saw "Wild lynx could be reintroduced" and I wondered what environment used to have a browser but then didn't.
Re:Ragya – Indian classical music played by time of the day on Thursday November 26, 2020 @08:33PM (#25224864)
The meaning of "classical" with a lowercase 'c' refers to elite music with theory built around it from any culture; most people are not referring to the "Classical" with a capital 'C' period of European culture.
Re:Email a Dumpster Fire on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @05:46PM (#25203897)
Why not support the printer so that it has more elevation than the fire?
Re:Ask HN: Have you tried leaving social media on Saturday November 21, 2020 @04:54PM (#25173025)
I haven't. I have deleted some accounts, but a trail of forums, typically writing forums, with my email and some one-off password, has followed me for about half a decade. Honestly don't know how to fix that. Of the big ones, I have like a Facebook and a CraigsList, which I use for selling, plus YouTube for music.
That sexuality of a character in a game is even known is problematic; this implies the sexuality is being acted on. I wish developers would stop exploiting the four Fs to induce us to buy, and sadly my minimal consumption of video games is only a splash against the tide.