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When tuning down those two strings, would the player need to "relearn" the positions of fingers on the strings when playing? Or would they play at the same positions and ignore the conflict in expected and actual sound?
Comment · 1 year ago
I was tired of constant popups in stock apps for features I don't want.

Fossify apps get the job down surprisingly well, no more no less.

I use their apps for messaging, gallery, file manager, paint, contacts

Comment · 1 year ago
In your situation where LLMs can cover most material better than the university, what benefits does the university still provide you, if any?
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Do you happen to know how the Braille website's style is called? The high contrast, button shadows with big offsets. I've seen it in several places now and would like to use it myself
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Comment · 2 years ago
Succinct and rigorous. This article has a clear problem statement, explicitly calls out assumptions and expected properties, shows how to express them in TLA+/PlusCal, and even adds a sanity check by refining the mutex model. I wish I had seen this article when writing my BA thesis.
Comment · 2 years ago
Can you elaborate on how you made the connection between the article and BEAM languages? I suppose you experienced a lot less friction when working with Erlang or similar, care to share your experience?
Comment · 2 years ago
> He gives some examples of ways that programmers, even after being taught in intro classes not to use magic numbers, still litter their code with constants like 404. But I wish he’d tell Python programmers to stop designing APIs where you write string constants like “r--” and “bs” to denote that your scatterplot should use red dashes and blue squares.

Intriguing. I assume the author would prefer a stronger-typed alternative like explicit parameters and enums. Yet I wonder if having a small DSL-like syntax is actually the better for a scripting language. Most of these plots will be hacked together in a local notebook anyway.

What would be a better alternative to this terse DSL in such case?

Comment · 2 years ago

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