amingilani
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Comment · 1 month ago
Like a time-out timer (TOT) on radios?
> When activated, the Time-out Timer starts counting the moment a user begins transmitting. If the transmission continues beyond a pre-set duration, the timer automatically cuts off the transmission. This mechanism compels users to be concise in their communication and relinquish the channel, allowing others the opportunity to transmit.
— https://talkpod.com/blogs/two-way-radio-wiki/what-is-time-ou...
Edit: No, it's more like a scheduled lockout. You can only talk when it's your turn. And the assumption is that the clocks on each node are synced:
> Every node has a notion of the global time and uses this notion along with the static schedule to establish when it should send messages.
Comment · 1 month ago
I know the trope. My first guitar teacher taught me how to play songs but didn’t know the notes on the fretboard. It’s a bit like being able to drive a car without understand what the clutch and gears actually do.
But personally, I couldn’t handle not knowing why the clutch needed to be pressed, or why a chord shapes is the why it is.
Comment · 1 month ago
I like to think about it as an opinionated framework. Once you have the basics, you can take an unpredictable sounding song and deconstruct it to understand why it sounds so good.
I don’t really have a problem with systems.
Comment · 1 month ago
> How much do you see a path from A(rticle) to S(ound in your ear).
Very clearly. The author constructed a melody from first principles in the article. You can take any song, deconstruct it using the information in there and begin to see why it sounds nice.
> This article is trivializing music down to a few not-so-important facts
This is a music theory lecture with code examples. Hardly “not-so-important”.
> mistaking some math for anything that would help `programmers` (?) understand music.
Compared to the lessons on https://www.musictheory.net this is definitely programmer/engineer friendly. It’s better than my old go-to at https://www.lightnote.co
Comment · 2 months ago
> The translation did not land cleanly. Please try again.
I get this everything, including the examples.
Comment · 2 months ago
A seam is a place where you can alter behavior in your program without editing in
that place
“Chapter 4: The Seam Model”, Michael C. Feathers, Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Comment · 2 months ago
> They’re time- and battle-tested
All conjectures are until someone with the time and energy proves or disproves them.
Comment · 3 months ago
Ruff/black support and enforce this. Just do ‘'z': 2,’
If you add an extra dangling comma at the end of the last item, ruff/black will auto-format to the line-by-line style you like.
Comment · 3 months ago
Would you consider releasing these under a permissive license?
I run a (Canadian) ham radio training site[0] and would love to put them in the lessons. With attribution of course.
Edit: Oh gosh, your whole site is full of wonderful illustrations. My niece might finally get her license with these :)
[0]: https://clares.ca
Comment · 3 months ago
I literally just finished playing Detroit: Become Human and now this is a real world headline.
Comment · 3 months ago
...in mice.
> Therefore, this study examined the effects of late middle-aged (18-month-old) male and female C57BL6/J mice receiving two intranasal doses of hiPSC-NSC-EVs on neuroinflammaging in the hippocampus at 20.5 months of age.
— https://isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jev...
Comment · 4 months ago
Further to your point, it harms the existing wonderful sites like https://radio.garden/—which has been featured on HN several times over the past few years.
> First-year TLDs under $2 is one of the best indicators of likely abuse. Some TLDs like .xyz are truly fighting abuse while others feign ignorance.
I don't understand this. The first year being discounted (or free) helped .me, and .xyz in the past. This is one year of data. Surely more time is needed?
> It is unlikely that there are valid business reasons for network environments to allow .garden domains;
What do you mean? What is this likelihood based off of?
> highly recommend defenders completely block the .garden top-level domain, and allowlist items as needed.
Holy overreaction, Batman.
Comment · 4 months ago
You’re conflating offsite backups, a type of backup, with the class of backups. Backups can be on-site. Is it as durable? No. Is it a backup? Yes.
Comment · 5 months ago
What was the motivation for this? Why this particular tablet?