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What is the difference between saying that the brain is two organs, as in the title, or a "composite organ" as in the actual paper? What makes an organ a single autonomous organ?
Re:Fastmail offers EU data region on Saturday August 08, 2026 @07:42PM (#49226955)
This may not have much practical consequence, but still there's some symbolic value which is welcomed in today's geopolitical climate.
Re:Ancient Roman Board Game on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:45PM (#48898586)
It should be "novus ludus" not "nova ludus". (now go and write 100 times...)
Re:Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @05:07PM (#47785239)
Fwiw that post states:

> It has been pointed out to us that since we have our servers in the US, we are under US jurisdiction. We do not believe this to be the case. We do not have a legal presence in the US, no company incorporated in the US, no staff in the US, and no one in the US with login access to any servers located in the US. Even if a US court were to serve us with a court order, subpoena or other instruction to hand over user data, Australian communications and privacy law explicitly forbids us from doing so.

"Mental content" seems way to broad for what is rather the sensorimotor part of speech.
Re:2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web on Sunday December 14, 2025 @05:10PM (#46267574)
https://listenbrainz.org/ is an open source scrobbler, with the advantage that it leverages the musicbrainz database and connects listens to artist and track IDs instead of names, avoiding duplicate confusion. You can keep last.fm and submit to both of you like.
Re:Trying to play an isomorphic piano [video] on Monday July 28, 2025 @09:50AM (#44710871)
> Not sure how much difference this makes over the long run

I tune in all fourths as well. For me it has made a huge difference since I made the jump some years ago. Putting voicings, patterns, etc., into muscular memory is faster and a lot less work. For my purposes, it makes the instrument more intuitive with a better ear-hand connection. Even very advanced players trip on the G-B strings oddity (with things like playing a fast, angular melody on different string sets, without preparation, for example).

Or just clone into local-projects and quicklisp will load from there.

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