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Really disappointed that that page is semi'd so we can't add
Jeff Atwood (1979 - 2015), killed by autodefenestration following an attempt to use Discourse, which was alleged to be forum software in the ramblings of his diary.
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But discourse only runs on Linux! In a fucking container!
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So... Students got triggered by the professors telling them not to microagress anyone?
No, that's not what happened. The sequence was basically this:- Email was sent by the Intercultural Affairs Committee to the entire Yale student body saying "Don't microagress anyone. Here's what you should be thinking about, here are some costumes that are OK, here are some costumes that are not OK" - but much longer and much more formally worded, of course. Relevant quote from the article:
Although the email was allegedly supposed to serve as a recommendation rather than a formal policy, to some, its length, tone, content, and the list of 13 signatories seemed to indicate otherwise.
- A number of students complained privately to their professors about this, including the husband and wife pair who are respectively the master and associate master at Silliman College.
- The wife sent out an open letter to the Silliman College community to the effect of "look, I understand that we want to be culturally sensitive, but should we really be trying to exert this level of control over the students? Is it really that bad if they wear a distasteful costume on Halloween?"
- OMGWTFBBQ
-- including a public meeting (after an open forum and other activities in which the issues were discussed) at which the students pressed the husband for an apology, but instead got a defence of free speech; now many of those students are calling for the pair to be fired from their positions at Silliman because, apparently, college should be a safe space where you never, ever have to encounter an unpleasant idea.
What I hope for is that Yale tells its students that they absolutely, categorically will not sack someone for telling them
to consider others feelingsthat maybe they need to be able to deal with something unpleasant happening occasionally, and that when some members of the student body insist on behaving like petty fascists instead of championing everyone's free speech, they're going directly against the ethos of the university and should feel ashamed.
- Email was sent by the Intercultural Affairs Committee to the entire Yale student body saying "Don't microagress anyone. Here's what you should be thinking about, here are some costumes that are OK, here are some costumes that are not OK" - but much longer and much more formally worded, of course. Relevant quote from the article:
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students pressed the husband for an apology, but instead got a defence of free speech
Unfortunately, I think they got an apology! now they have to change diaper before going to their next baby-proof safe space (used to be called a classroom).
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Aww, somehow I thought the two were the authors of the letter. Too bad, would've made for a much funnier story.
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fucking container [...]
We should ship him in a container full of purple dildos to Svalbard?
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Silly man College
...is the obvious joke does must have been done to death many times over already.
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Guy explains what sound is in the way I can understand.
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That doesn't answer the question I wanted to know, which is what makes the difference between a guitar playing a middle C and a piano playing a middle C and a singer singing "a" at middle C sound different when underneath it's all frequencies and vibration.
I've just chalked it up to the same deficiency in which I can understand how every part of an electronics system functions independently, from basic circuits to logic diagrams and so on, but I can't wrap my head around how tiny electrical impulses somehow make Minecraft happen. The sheer magnitude of the number of electrical impulses needed to run Windows and the JVM and Minecraft refuses to make sense in my head.
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The sheer magnitude of the number of electrical impulses needed to run Windows and the JVM and Minecraft refuses to make sense in my head.
Oh boy, just wait 'till you hear about neurons!
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Shh, if I think too hard about brains I get existential and have to go lie down for a while
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This entire thread:
Nginx + discourse
Let us know what prior research you’ve done in the future so we can skip recommending anything you might have already seen. See: Do you mean app.yml ? From my linked article: So, I would say that while your proposed app.yml file might work, it would not be the preferred/supported method of...
@codinghorror said:
Post is not cut off, it is a summary generated from the link. Click through to view. Like any other link on the web..
@Honey said:
I do apologize. I'm new to discourse and your post appeared to be cut off. So from my limited perspective it originally appeared to offer no information.
Discodesign! Not good for new users.
Then, to top it off:
@wesochuck said:
Do consider my warning though that while your method may work, you might encounter support issues that this community won't be able to help you with because your setup is different than the one recommended by a Discourse team member.
Followed by:
@codinghorror said:
Seems like @honey knows what s/he is doing. Good work!
Jeff: asshole to newcomers, master of technology, contradicter of his own community.
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Do consider my warning though that while your method may work, you might encounter support issues that this community won't be able to help you with because your setup is different than the one recommended by a Discourse team member.
Even using a recommended setup, no support is guaranteed.
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I think the real kicker was Jeff's implicit encouragement to use an unsupported setup, because we know he's going to vomit
everywhere when the user comes back later for support. It's like he doesn't want customers.
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It's like he doesn't want customers
This Job Would Be Great if it Wasn't For the F'N Customers – 01:37
— Mike Abitabile
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I bet Jeff sucked 37 dicks.
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I hear he closed meta.d so he could play hockey on the roof
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In a row?
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what makes the difference between a guitar playing a middle C and a piano playing a middle C and a singer singing "a" at middle C sound different when underneath it's all frequencies and vibration.
If you look at this link, specifically the first few pairs of graphs, it should give you an idea of why instruments playing the same pitch sound different.
Alternatively, imagine that I have an instrument tuner and I have it set to play a tone of 440 Hz, a very common pitch for tuning. That corresponds to this note:
Assuming the tuner is playing a perfect sine wave, you are only hearing a 440 Hz sound. Nothing else. Nothing is perfect though, so you end up hearing something more like this:
The vast majority of what you are hearing is that 440 Hz pitch. There are some other pitches buried in there, but they are very quiet compared to the main one.
What frequencies do a vocalist or instrumentalist output when they are singing or playing a note? Something closer to this:
The loudest sound is still that 440 Hz pitch. However, you can see that it is joined by a lot of other pitches. Those additional pitches are what give your voice, or a guitar, or a saxophone, or an ocarina, or any other instrument it's distinct sound.Now how do all of these pitches blend together and produce that voice or instrument that you hear? That's exactly what the original question was asking!
I do live sound mixing as a hobby, so I think about sound in terms of frequencies all of the time. I hope I did a good enough job explaining this, it's not a topic I explain to people regularly.
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I do live sound mixing as a hobby, so I think about sound in terms of frequencies all of the time. I hope I did a good enough job explaining this, it's not a topic I explain to people regularly.
Just a like is not enough for your explanation. Thanks!
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The vast majority of what you are hearing is that 440 Hz pitch. There are some other pitches buried in there, but they are very quiet compared to the main one.
I believe this is correct:Sometimes the frequency you think you're hearing isn't even there, being only an illusion produced by how the other frequencies mix.
Which is why you can play chords without the root note actually being there, but still sounding "the same".
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Sometimes the frequency you think you're hearing isn't even there, being only an illusion produced by how the other frequencies mix.
It's one of many examples of psychoacoustics and is one of the reasons that lossy audio compression works so well.
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Psychoacoustics would be an excellent name for a heavy metal band.
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These guys appear to agree with you
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That's the worst heavy metal I've ever listened to.
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OK, I had half a reply drafted here, but
ate it, because of course it did and fuck me for owning a phone, that's different.I wrote something to the effect that a given note at frequency n (e.g. 440Hz), there are overtones for every integral multiple of n (e.g. 2n -> 880Hz, 3n -> 1320Hz, etc). When a 1m long guitar string oscillates, the primary standing wave is has a dead zone at 50cm along the string, but a secondary wave has additional dead points at 25cm and 75cm as well, hence overtones. Anyway, a pure sine tone is nothing but n, a sawtooth wave has overtones of strength 1/i: n -> 1, 2n -> 1/2, 3n -> 1/3, 4n -> 1/4 etc. A square wave follows the same pattern as sawtooth, but every even multiple is zero: n->1, 2n->0 3n->1/3, 4n->0, etc... Every type of instrument generates a unique pattern of overtones, which is why they all sound different.
My first reply was much better than this, shame you never got to read it. CIVILIZED DISCOURSE!!
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##Which language has the brightest future in replacement of C between D, Go and Rust? And Why?
The author of D writes an interesting article comparing the three C replacement wannabes.
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The author of D writes an interesting article comparing the three C replacement wannabes.
Prediction: None of them will replace C because C does very well at what it does and doesn't try to be something else.
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Which one of you Windows fan
ers here is in charge? Windows 3.1 Is Still Alive, And It Just Killed a French Airport
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in charge
You're assuming they haven't disappeared and said death is being covered up?
Also, loving the article's generic pictures of Windows 3.1. Clearly the article writers don't have their own copy to use.
Filed under: Anyone want to donate one to them? I'm sure they'd appreciate the four or five floppy disks needed for the install!
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I believe I still have a box with Windows floppies around somewhere. I don't think the article authors have a USB-powered 5.25" floppy drive though...
Filed under: Neither do I
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USB-powered 5.25" floppy drive
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Someone on hackaday should totally make one though.
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Stuff exists, see e.g. DiscFerret for a USB-powered floppy drive controller (though it's actually a "drive analyzer" meant for copying disks). I heard about it through an article on archiveteam.org.
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Stuff exists, see e.g. DiscFerret for a USB-powered floppy drive controller (though it's actually a "drive analyzer" meant for copying disks). I heard about it through an article on archiveteam.org.
USB-powered 8" floppy drive or GTFO
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The Case of Moulay Ismael - Fact or Fancy?
Textbooks on evolutionary psychology and biology cite the case of the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty (1672–1727) who was supposed to have sired 888 children. This example for male reproduction has been challenged and led to a still unresolved discussion. The scientific...
##The Case of Moulay Ismael - Fact or Fancy?
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In the first model we calculated how many copulations per day would be necessary to reach 1171 offspring in 32 years, and how the constraints delineated above modulate this number.
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Taking all constraints into account leads to an average of 1.43 (Wilcox), 0.83 (Jöchle) or 1.63 (Barrett-Marshall) copulations per day. (see Table 1)He was emperor of Morocco, 1672–1727.
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The science thread is
way.
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The absurdity of dishonest liberals:
It's like a bad Monty Python sketch:
- "We did this because our holy texts exhort us to to do it."
- "No you didn't."
- "Wait, what? Yes we did..."
- "No, this has nothing to do with religion. You guys are just using religion as a front for - social and geopolitical reasons."
- "WHAT!? Did you even read our official statement? We give explicit Quranic justification. This is jihad, a holy crusade against pagans, blasphemers, and disbelievers."
- "No, this is definitely not a Muslim thing. You guys are not true Muslims, and you defame a great religion by saying so."
- "Huh!? Who are you to tell us we're not true Muslims!? Islam is literally at the core of everything we do, and we have implemented the truest most literal and honest interpretation of its founding texts. It is our very reason for being."
- "Nope. We created you. We installed a social and economic system that alienates and disenfranchises you, and that's why you did this. We're sorry."
- "What? Why are you apologizing? We just slaughtered you mercilessly in the streets. We targeted unwitting civilians - disenfranchisement doesn't even enter into it!"
- "Listen, it's our fault. We don't blame you for feeling unwelcome and lashing out."
- "Seriously, stop taking credit for this! We worked really hard to pull this off, and we're not going to let you take it away from us."
- "No, we nourished your extremism. We accept full blame."
- "OMG, how many people do we have to kill around here to finally get our message across?"
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"Huh!? Who are you to tell us we're not true Muslims!? Islam is literally at the core of everything we do, and we have implemented the truest most literal and honest interpretation of its founding texts. It is our very reason for being."
So if I stone a woman to death and cite a relevant bible passage, I suppose you'll just accept that all Christians are evil? BRB, going to buy me some rocks...
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rakkuguy
semiauto14: “ daissychainss: “ dilfweed: “ jennaavh: “ madmints: “ takesabeating: “ cheshireinthemiddle: “ ginzers: “ spoopy-roxxi: “ ginzers: “ spoopy-roxxi: “ ginzers: “ Teach children that this is...
One of those idiotic "cultural appropriation" people rekt in a very satisfying way.
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So if I stone a woman to death and cite a relevant bible passage, I suppose you'll just accept that all Christians are evil?
No, we'll blame the rocks. Didn't you pay attention to the skit?
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So if I stone a woman to death and cite a relevant bible passage, I suppose you'll just accept that all Christians are evil? BRB, going to buy me some rocks...
No, but I would not tell you that you are not a Christian either. It is in your book and you chose to act on it.
I do not see where you got all from.
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BRB, going to buy me some rocks...
Rocks are everywhere, and they're free. You're spending money you don't have to. What kind of a Jew ARE you?
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https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2015-November/105002.html, quoted below:
[vlc-devel] [PATCH 0/1] freetype: handle non-Latin family names and non-English style names in Windows
Salah-Eddin Shaban salah at videolan.org Mon Nov 16 22:38:59 CET 2015Previous message: [vlc-devel] [PATCH 2/2] vlsub: improving messages. Next message: [vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/1] freetype: handle non-English family and style names in Windows Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
Hello,This patch aims to fix handling of localized family and style names correctly in Windows, where the names are provided to the EnumFontCallback() function by Windows using the local names, whereas the name to file lookup in the registry should be performed using the English full font names.
So this hopefully fixes #6350, and another less-noticeable issue on other locales such as German, where only the regular fonts were found by VLC. Since other fonts were provided with names such as "Arial Fett Kursiv" instead of "Arial Bold Italic".
P.S: I'm not sure this is the right place to say this, but I really have to say it somewhere.
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris were horrible, and even more so to us since they were executed in the name of Islam.
We have been suffering for years from the Jihadists. Only here they do not just perform terrorist attacks, they have veritable armies (multi-national armies), and their own state. They control large areas of land, have their own oil fields, and receive direct support from many countries in the region. Namely from rich oil-producing countries. So they are never in short supply of funding, fighters, heavy weaponry, or even media outlets.
They have the power to wage wars and to invade cities. We in Aleppo, or more accurately in the western part of the city still under the control of the Syrian government, were at one point under siege by them, and they were on the verge of breaking in. It's only through God's mercy that we are not under their rule now.
We are Moslems too, you know. But we are still considered infidels by those lunatics, because we are against their so called Islamic state, and against their retarded, barbaric version of Islam.
I just wanted to assure you guys that we are as disgusted by these atrocities as any one of you. That those lunatics do not speak for anyone or act on behalf of anyone but themselves.
My condolences to all those affected in any way by these attacks.
Salah-Eddin Shaban (1):
freetype: handle non-English family and style names in Windowsmodules/text_renderer/fonts/win32.c | 186 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 184 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)--
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