I've been having a lot of fun getting started with Max/MSP following Cipriani & Giri's "Electronic Music And Sound Design" books. Max is a paid program though; Pure Data is similar but open source.
Call me old fashioned, but I would absolutely like to see autocorrect turned off in many contexts. I much prefer to read messages with 30% more transparent errors rather than any increase in opaque errors. I can tell…
What does productivity have to do with wages, hours, or conditions? The labour movement, which got us the weekend and the 8-hour workday, has had its power greatly diminished. That is why we don't work less.
I disagree with that. Sure, wrong documentation can mislead and confuse, but it can also be very helpful. Lying comments have often helped me because it's often useful to know that a particular person at a particular…
It's definitely annoying that users can't opt-in only to the types of notifications they want on installation, but Uber and Uber Eats are not guilty of what Starbucks is doing in the article (at least on Android); you…
Hanlon's Razor is, I believe, a good rule of thumb, but people keep using it in situations such as this one where it's not just potentially malice (wanting to harm someone for little other reason than wanting to see…
I actually quite like the standard d4. Lands with an air of finality without faffing about. Also, I'm clumsy with dice and roll them off the table far too often.
I was not starting such a discussion. I'm baffled by your comment and can only assume you're reading my comment through an American lens, which is half foreign to me (only half because I'm exposed to so much of it on…
No, it doesn't. I can't tell from their comment whether their city/town has good cycling infrastructure or not. Even if it does, the app would still incentivize using it (and roads and sidewalks) incorrectly and…
Want workers to have more personal time? Encourage people to "be political" at work.
Squarespace's "ESC to go to Squarespace login" is a huge pain for me as well. I think it's on by default. I CTRL+F pretty often. I press ESC to clear it. I get redirected to Squarespace if I'm on a Squarespace site that…
"PFS" sounds a lot like the MERGE operation of minimalist (natural language) syntax, which Chomsky has similarly linked to behavioural modernity. https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/06/20/noam-chomsky-the-sc... (not too…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/vermilion-alberta-sa... The CBC article differs in two important aspects. The BBC article says they "enlisted the help of experts", when the CBC article says they just called a…
The jury's still out on the Critical Period Hypothesis the last I checked. But in any case, you're right that there is a big difference between acquiring natural languages and learning a programming language. Language…
People confusing this terminology is one of my pet peeves. And it's not a petty one. It often impedes the conversation they're trying to have.
I've been having a lot of fun getting started with Max/MSP following Cipriani & Giri's "Electronic Music And Sound Design" books. Max is a paid program though; Pure Data is similar but open source.
Call me old fashioned, but I would absolutely like to see autocorrect turned off in many contexts. I much prefer to read messages with 30% more transparent errors rather than any increase in opaque errors. I can tell…
What does productivity have to do with wages, hours, or conditions? The labour movement, which got us the weekend and the 8-hour workday, has had its power greatly diminished. That is why we don't work less.
I disagree with that. Sure, wrong documentation can mislead and confuse, but it can also be very helpful. Lying comments have often helped me because it's often useful to know that a particular person at a particular…
It's definitely annoying that users can't opt-in only to the types of notifications they want on installation, but Uber and Uber Eats are not guilty of what Starbucks is doing in the article (at least on Android); you…
Hanlon's Razor is, I believe, a good rule of thumb, but people keep using it in situations such as this one where it's not just potentially malice (wanting to harm someone for little other reason than wanting to see…
I actually quite like the standard d4. Lands with an air of finality without faffing about. Also, I'm clumsy with dice and roll them off the table far too often.
I was not starting such a discussion. I'm baffled by your comment and can only assume you're reading my comment through an American lens, which is half foreign to me (only half because I'm exposed to so much of it on…
No, it doesn't. I can't tell from their comment whether their city/town has good cycling infrastructure or not. Even if it does, the app would still incentivize using it (and roads and sidewalks) incorrectly and…
Want workers to have more personal time? Encourage people to "be political" at work.
Squarespace's "ESC to go to Squarespace login" is a huge pain for me as well. I think it's on by default. I CTRL+F pretty often. I press ESC to clear it. I get redirected to Squarespace if I'm on a Squarespace site that…
"PFS" sounds a lot like the MERGE operation of minimalist (natural language) syntax, which Chomsky has similarly linked to behavioural modernity. https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/06/20/noam-chomsky-the-sc... (not too…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/vermilion-alberta-sa... The CBC article differs in two important aspects. The BBC article says they "enlisted the help of experts", when the CBC article says they just called a…
The jury's still out on the Critical Period Hypothesis the last I checked. But in any case, you're right that there is a big difference between acquiring natural languages and learning a programming language. Language…
People confusing this terminology is one of my pet peeves. And it's not a petty one. It often impedes the conversation they're trying to have.