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So I looked up where this came from: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/b70wbb/brazil_x_pluto_23km_or_14_miles/ For some additional interesting info: somewhere in that thread they say the total surface area of Pluto is a little bit more than Russia's. So now you know.
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Given that North Korea is a sub third world hell hole where people are indoctrinated to hate the South I’m not sure I would call them “cunts” for this. ”Re” uniting the two will be an insanely difficult and long lasting procedure, not to mention extremely costly. Looking at the resounding success that was the reunification of East and West Germany, I’d say an alternative solution for dealing with two much more divergent Koreas would at the very least be worth exploring.
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Played Nijmegen a few times because I was there, pretty great, Zagreb, like Nijmegen with some differences but Dublin: wow. The finale chords were better in the other two (much dirtier) but that’s only a minor detail. *what* a wonderful piece of music.
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kill it with fire
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What do you think of Godspeed You! Black Emperor?
Limo replied to beerwolf's topic in Music Discussion
With GYBE! it’s the other way around for me. Their albums (well, the first two or so) were quite good, with enough detail to keep things interesting. Live you miss out on the detail and it just becomes one half hour crescendo after another. -
What do you think of Godspeed You! Black Emperor?
Limo replied to beerwolf's topic in Music Discussion
Funny. I was going to add “as opposed to Autechre” but decided not no. GYBE! are much more limited than Autechre, IMHO -
What do you think of Godspeed You! Black Emperor?
Limo replied to beerwolf's topic in Music Discussion
They do their schtick well, but because they keep repeating it, it becomes tacky. -
I think so too, but I'm not a doctor, just a human being and we all know human beings are very good at seeing patterns even where none exist, so ...
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Not underestimating it at all. The disease, that is. Students of mine that catch it, healthy early 20 somethings, report they’re spectacularly out of breath as a result of it, to the point where climbing up a single flight of stairs leaves them gasping for air. These symptoms clear up after a few days to a week, but clearly this virus can do some serious damage and not only to overweight, sick and / or elderly people. But all the hurried, sloppy research papers that are coming out now? Probably best to underestimate or ignore hem for now until we know more. Check this one out, for example: research on COVID-19 antibodies was (possibly) ruined when the wife of of one of the researchers sent out an email to friends and family urging participation in the study, claiming it would tell them if they were immune or not : https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Wife-s-email-may-have-tainted-Stanford-15225414.php
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As far as the strokes are concerned: the research article CNN links to is about strokes *in patients in intensive care*. Incidence might be higher than you’d expect but the effect is small and, hey, lying face down in an IC bed for weeks is pretty bad for you with or without corona, so it might just turn out to be some noise in the signal. Also, statistics is hard, medical research is notoriously sloppy when it comes to statistics *and* everyone doing research on the corona virus is in a bit of a rush these days. The corona virus wrecks your lungs. That is pretty much certain. The rest?
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I’m in stitches. Thanks!
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In China the regular beer is not only low quality, but low alcohol as well, around 2% or so. Very good at the end of one of those damp 36 degrees Chinese summer days.
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Yeah, that’s the one. Huge mother of a book.
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True. You came in late, didn’t last long, but definitely made an impact ... in what was easily the most unfashionable slice of African coast. That was a really interesting read, thanks! If you haven’t read it, this guy’s book on the start of WWI is interesting as well, with some amusing bits thrown in, such as how the government of Serbia, a nation with barely 35% literacy, when confronted with the question whether to tax home alcohol production or school books opted for the latter.
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Don’t talk about things you know nothing about, you inhabitant of a nation that at the height of its power had colonized no more than a handful of rocks in the Pacific, some barely habitable slivers of the coast of Africa and the swampiest and most unpleasant bits of the island of New Guinea. IPA is bitter to make the quinine colonial administrators had to drink to ward off malaria seem sweet in comparison.
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Yup. Was a member of a brewing society for a while and all of the members looked down on IPA’s for exactly this reason. Another reason I myself don’t like them (other than that too much bitter makes something taste disgusting) is that they’re essentially just sugared soda with alcohol. The hops mask the fact that they are often ridiculously sweet. (which in itself is another sign it’s not brewed properly)
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Very nutritious. Boring, but you could live off them.
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They did this for the famous Dutch tulip fields as well, which are in full bloom this time of year: cut off as many flowers as they could to deter the thousands upon thousands who decided it was a good idea to go view them (even though they're really just large scale industrial farms and not meant for tourism at all).
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Likewise, don't grow soft fruit in city parks. Those are called "pee pee berries" for a reason.
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Been thinking about live coding and after looking into some options decided it would be a fun project to see how far I could get with whipping up something of my own in a programming language that, unlike Haskell (TidalCycles), I already know and that, unlike Max/MSP, does not make me throw up. So tonight after about an hour or two I built something in Racket that can send note data via MIDI. This was the hard, getting wonky tooling to work part. From now on things will start to get interesting, I expect.
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Our garden is small and surrounded by walls so it's very dark. This conflicts with my wife's (especially) horticultural ambitions. You would be amazed at how many plants require a good deal of sunshine. That doesn't stop her from trying, though, and, to be fair, some of her projects work out quite well. We've had an amazingly colorful set of spring flowers this year, some of the trees she's planted are doing well, others are growing in all sorts of bizarre shapes to get some sunlight and the dozens of tomato plants she nurtures so very carefully yield at least a handful of extremely small but very tasty tomatoes every year. But her salad either wilts away or gets eaten by the birds before it grows to any usable size, since she's planted cabbage varietals we've learned there are butterflies that specifically lay eggs on those, destroying them before they become anywhere near edible and she has never once manage to grow enough spinach to use as garnish even though she tries again every year. Meanwhile in my little corner of the garden I've dumped in some mint, some Chinese chives and some other herbs and it's all just a big swampy mess. But we do it from it. Except for the parsley. That never seems to want to grow. Don't know why.
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Oh, I think you are ? But this is really interesting. Thanks for the writeup. So if I’m reading you correctly you’re using TC as a programmable sequencer rather than as a programming language for sequencing. This makes sense. However, my preference would be to use a programming language I find pleasurable to use (Racket or Scheme) for sequencing. This might be too much to ask. Will give it some more thought but you have been very, very helpful. Thanks!
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Can any of you TidalCycles wizards say something about what TidalCycles brings to the table that you can’t get from plain vanilla SuperCollider? I’m considering delving into live coding but I’d prefer to use Scheme (for which there’s a SC library available) rather than dealing with Haskell.
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Thanks. Really. But after a thoroughly unpleasant experience with their RMA / support department I'm going to take my business to another low priced box pusher that does not offer service. Bax can go f* themselves, as far as I'm concerned. (sorry, just had to get that off my chest).
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