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This is delightful. I replaced the battery on my 2011 MBA some years ago, but it's been sitting (replaced for family use by a Framework). You're inspiring me to do something with it.

Kyle Gann's Arithmetic of Listening goes deeply into this. Given an infinite number of ways of dividing the range from f to 2f, some other equal-division temperaments (31 or 53, for example) get closer than 12TET to maintaining low-integer ratios across key centers, but each additional pitch adds complexity. I'd recommend that book in particular. https://www.kylegann.com/Gannbooks.html

There is no "why it's worth reading".

On the contrary--every individual reader gets to determine this. I found that it wasn't.

This seems to have been written with the assumption that everyone will share the writer's understanding of why it's worth reading.

That's surprising and alarming. Thank you for bringing that up, though!

Perhaps not:

https://www.oprfhs.org/news/1742090/statement-regarding-grad...

The Jack Johnson outtakes with Sonny Sharrock were a revelation to me. Well worth seeking those out.

He worked with a lot of white musicians and arrangers. In the 1962 Playboy interview, he famously said, "I think prejudice one way is just as bad as the other way. I wouldn't have no other arranger but Gil Evans -- we couldn't be much closer if he was my brother. And I remember one time when I hired Lee Konitz, some colored cats bitched a lot about me hiring an ofay in my band when Negroes didn't have work. I said if a cat could play like Lee, I would hire him, I didn't give a damn if he was green and had red breath."

Alex Wellerstein, author of the NYer article, has a bit more info on his blog (http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2016/05/23/the-blue-flash/), including an answer to the question of what happened to the core. (It was melted down into the overall plutonium stockpile, apparently.)

A lot of good advice here. Whenever I was laid off, I tried to send out a minimum of ten new contact emails a day. (Longest layoff, two months. Shortest was 14 days.)

Make sure that you sign up for unemployment compensation immediately--sign up before you need it. If you're in the US, there's (often?) a waiting-week period you won't be compensated for; if you sign up immediately, you can get that out of the way first thing. Good luck!

With the title "Cold Email Opening Lines," I was half-expecting things like "I don't care if you live or die," or "Millennia from now, when the sun engulfs the earth, nothing we do now will have mattered. Buy my service."

I'm 90% sure that there's a lot of Boontling in Pynchon's novel _Vineland_, set in northern CA, though I haven't seen a full glossary. This one doesn't mention it, but as I recall, a "Wheeler" is a tall tale, and the protagonist has that last name--possibly a coincidence, but I remember having found a few others as well.

This is great. I see it as more about the aesthetics than about airtight security, anyway. As an aesthetic project, it's perfect. Well done.

I disagree with the writer's conclusion that one should't mention other interviews or other offers. In my most recent search (after a layoff), my best leads were two companies who'd gotten in touch while I had been with my former company. One came in with a low offer, which I declined--they countered with a higher one. That was also followed up by the other company coming up with a higher offer. I told the first company about it, and they ended up exceeding the other offer.

My experience may have differed from the author's because of how I presented the situation. He says, "So I told both of them that I had other offers and they must give me a revised and a better offer." That reads a bit smug to me. The way I said it was, "I'd like to work with you guys, but I'm looking at an offer from (other company) that's $X higher. How can we make this work?" I mentioned some concerns and reservations I had about the other, what I liked about each, and they came up enough to make a difference.

I didn't ask the other company to counter--I think that I would have worn out both companies' patience and probably had the same result the author had. In the end, money was important, but fit was also important, and if one of them had been a clearly bad fit, this process wouldn't have been productive.

Perec's _Life, a User's Manual_ is an inspiration. Meticulously structured, continually mysterious, always several steps ahead of you, and yet it doesn't beat you over the head with how "clever" it is. Highly recommended.

Are you referring to the hammer mechanism clicks? (They're rhythmic, along with the notes, as opposed to random noise.) I think the exposed mechanism makes that sound more present in the recording. The outer body of a conventional piano serves to muffle that.

From the Safari console:

   SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<' [ace.js:0]

   ReferenceError: Can't find variable: ace

   TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'this.state.editor.getSession')

(Nearly) full text of what Steve said here: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/17/steve-albinis-k...

When a company I worked for tried Joyent for hosting, I found it strange that Joyent's own package manager didn't offer the latest stable version--in fact, their confusingly named plans at that time came installed with a few different then-old versions as default options. That read to me like a lack of support or investment in Node as a technology.

Same error here, with the same empty response, followed by {"name":"RqlDriverError","msg":"Object field 'id' may not be undefined","message":"Object field 'id' may not be undefined"}

I have to say I was kind of hoping someone had replaced the Helvetica Neue with the old bitmap San Francisco face.

I managed to get (first name)@(popular).com, and man, it's a core sample into what a bunch of people all over the world are doing. Signing up for cable or satellite tv, buying iPads/iPhones, sending each other family photos, ordering dinner, taking cabs, buying bus tickets, getting divorced, offending their condo association, signing up for dating/hookup sites, opening stock-trading accounts, applying for jobs, posting jobs for people to apply to, and more. And none of them know their own email address.

It depends on the nature of your project(s) and the data you want to store, as well as what you want to do with it. If you're storing and retrieving things that make sense as persistent documents with JSON-like structures, sure. If you're going to be editing those documents frequently (and changing their attributes or--most importantly--their size), then you might want to look at some other database structure, or some blended solution.

Very nice work--great textures and atmosphere. Thanks for sharing it!

If you're ever inclined toward a productivity challenge, you might want to check out http://weeklybeats.com (not my site, but I am a participant). The idea is to write, record, and upload one piece per week. (My stuff's at http://weeklybeats.com/#/onezero/ )

This is a really great idea--bravo, xtrmntr! Are you traversing a SoundCloud playlist, or pulling randomly based on tags? It's quite cool.

If the police feeds are too dramatic, there's that excellent (archival) NASA audio one as well: http://youarelistening.to/nasa