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Well... It depends. Think about your goals first, and don't worry about cost yet. There is plenty of free or low-cost software options out there that can teach you the basics of either system.

If you would like to just get your head wrapped around the basics of synthesis, it helps to limit what you have to deal with.

With modular, to get a usable sound, you need to have at minimum: a gate/CV source (telling it when notes fire, and at what pitch), a VCO (voltage controlled oscillator), an VCA (voltage controlled amplifier), an envelope (to control the volume of the VCA), and an output (somewhere to send the signal - in this case, the audio-out of your computer.

Then you have to deal with routing the CV signal to the VCO so it knows what pitch to produce, the gate signal to the envelope so it knows when to fire, the CV signal from the envelope to the VCA so it knows when to turn the volume up and down for each note, and audio signal routing.

So it's a big bite to chew just to get started, BUT you learn a lot going this route, and there are a plenty of tutorials out there on modular that take you through it a step-at-a-time, most of which would apply to VCV Rack as well as to real modular equipment. If you start with the basics, tweaking knobs on a non-modular synth will be a piece of cake.

But if you would just like to learn the basics of how the various components work together first, you can start with a simple subtractive software synthesizer, of which there are plenty of free options. Once you get your head wrapped around oscillators, filters, and modulation, you could then dive into modular to gain a more in-depth understanding of what is happening "under the covers."

A lot also depends on what kind of music you would like to produce. If you are into generative music, where you are using devices to produce patterns in interesting and often unexpected ways, go modular, and don't look back. If instead your are mostly interested in driving a synthesizer with a keyboard, IMO, start with a basic subractive synth. Just keep in mind that no pre-packaged synth, no matter how flexible, can rival the sound-design possibilities of modular.
I agree, these judgements can only ever be made relative to one's own perspective. It's important not to take at face value someone else's notion of "modest worker", and even more important not to take your own notion at face value either.
While AMZN might grow into their valuation eventually, there are many other equities that are seemingly undervalued given their current fundamentals. I wouldn't try to short AMZN, but I would look elsewhere for investment opportunities; and, while trite, the advice to invest using ETFs that spread your risk is probably a better strategy.
I second that book. Well worth the small price and very accessible to read
I know this is a joke but Billy G is probably a significantly better person than you will ever be.
The node is never one block behind. Block verification is instantaneous on my VPS. You seem to be under the false impression that when a block is announced, a node has to suddenly verify 2-3k txns in a brief moment. This is not how things work. Txns are verified incrementally as they are added one at a time to the mempool.
I do in fact run it with uBlock.

So here are my notes for the previous version, I literally went to type this up only to find NoScript updated itself in the past day or two.

You have Default, Trusted, Untrusted and Custom.

Double-Clicking on either of those will give you more granular control ranging from scripts to media to fonts and webgl, which is nice. Untrusted has everything unchecked by default, Default seems to have scripting and most other things turned off by default, and Trusted and Custom you have to set yourself, with Trusted I think having Scripting on by default.

Now if you change the settings for any of these, at least on the previous version, your changes will apply to all domains under that category, so if you have scripting on for Custom, you'll have Scripting on for all domains you've set to Custom. Now whether this is still the case for the latest version, I couldn't tell you at this exact moment, but hopefully that's enough to get you started.

"Temporarily allow" also seems to have been replaced with a clock icon which you can find next to the Trusted and Custom category markers, which I only knew about from reading the blog updates. The latest update added three icons to the top right which are fairly self explanatory, one is options, one is for temporarily allowing all of the page and one is for revoking temporary permissions.

All in all I wouldn't say it is the most intuitive UI, particularly after having used NoScript for about 10 or 11 years. That said, if you're willing to allow yourself a bit of time to get used to it, most of the core functionality is retained, and is in fact a little bit more granular than before. When I have a little bit more free time, I intend to test out Custom a little bit and see if I can use it to allow some websites to render custom typography without having to run JavaScript. Theoretically that should be done completely in CSS, but I haven't kept on top of web standards since deciding not to be a web developer about 10 years ago so I'm not sure to what extent websites still depend on JavaScript for typography.
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The reddit thread has the following calculation. "At a spin rate of 1 rotation every 7.3 hours and a radius of 200 metres, an object on the inner surface of the very end of the "spaceship" would experience gravity at 0.000001g"

That's really far to small to simulate any type of artificial gravity.
Which profession is that?
In the last week I’ve read great posts by a pilot, a beekeeper, an HVAC engineer, a programmer and someone who does something with economic forecasting.
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> Maybe one day i'll productize it and sell it as a package, but honestly my bills are paid and I don't feel the need to make more money than I do right now. Why take on the stress?

I really admire that you made something "useful" with Haskell! When you say you're making enough does that include savings for retirement? That's my biggest worry as someone who just started saving for retirement (I'm 27).
Also they still haven't figured out consistent urls.
I'm not suggesting it will last forever, I'm just saying it has already survived far longer than most people realize and therefore it's more resilient than people probably realize.

That said, I think saying that bitcoin will be gone in 15 years is a bit like those people who thought the internet was just a fad. People who "get it" understand its usefulness and as long as there are enough of those people then it will remain.
True. I live a minimalist lifestyle by design but I don't live on a farm or anything. Unless your main source of pleasure is having the nicest car, newest gadgets, various status symbols, etc, then you can trade your labor hours towards those things in for more time doing what you really enjoy.
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I was using scaled resolution. Switched to default; will report back.

Edit: Been at 100% for 10 minutes. Much, much better. If anyone knows how to set default zoom on Firefox it'd be greatly appreciated.
Come to Canada! There is a young and booming tech industry here and our immigration laws are very friendly to skilled workers.

I'm a Canadian who was on an H1B working in the valley for the past 6 years working at VP Eng. level for various technology startups. This year, I gave that up and returned home.

It was quite clear over the last year that the US is closing it's doors. They no longer want immigrants working/living in their country. Read the comments in the article. Look at the changes coming from the Trump administration. Even crossing the border you get a sense that you are not welcome.
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A organization the size of Mozilla is at a huge disadvantage compared to Microsoft, Google and Apple who can afford to buy marketshare.

Internet Explorer was just bad enough that they lost about 20% (from 90%) to Firefox. Don't expect that to happen with Chrome.
Neither fixed rate mortgages nor index funds are particularly complex.

The idea behind an index fund is that it invests in the components of an index. Generally, that is a specific basket of stocks or bonds. Stocks are perhaps the most straightforward financial instrument: pieces of ownership of a company. Bonds are a bit more complex, but they're just the right to repayment of a loan (principal plus interest). Complexity arises if the fund can't directly invest in the components of the index and most replicate it with other things instead but that's an implementation detail and an individual is perfectly capable of buying the individual components themselves if they're worried about that.

A fixed rate mortgage is a loan with a fixed, compounding interest rate and a fixed term. The mortgage payment is determined based on an amortization schedule but that's an implementation detail - it could just as easily be monthly interest plus a fixed portion of the principal or something else.
I say have the courage of your convictions, study authors, and volunteer to relocate to the next nuclear accident site.
Not trying to be too literal, but a large part of the point of Lego is to be a creative medium, no?
> “If functional programming is so great, why is it still niche? We have a product that can practically eliminate runtime errors, make refactoring much easier, lighten the testing burden, all while being quite delightful to use. What’s the hold up?”

I think they are over-estimating how much people care about runtime errors.
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Page 96 onwards deals with the repeal of Title II

"We make clear that as a result of our decision to restore the longstanding classification of broadband Internet access service as an information service, Internet traffic exchange arrangements are no longer subject to Title II and its attendant obligations"

"For many years, both ISPs and edge providers largely paid third-party backbone service providers for transit, and backbone providers connected upstream until they
reached Tier 1 backbone service providers which provided access to the full Internet. In recent years,
particularly with the rise of online video, edge providers increasingly used CDNs and direct interconnection with ISPs, rather than transit, to increase the qual
ity of their service. At the same time,
ISPs have increasingly built or acquired their own backbone services, allowing them to interconnect with
other networks without paying for third-party transit services."

"We welcome the growth of alternative Internet traffic exchange arrangements, including direct interconnection, CDNs, and other innovative efforts."

"If an ISP were found to possess market power, the antitrust laws provide antitrust agencies with all the necessary tools needed to preserve and protect compe
tition.

In addition, the backstop of generally-applicable consumer protection laws continues to protect consumers and edge providers.

These laws, particularly antitrust laws which
prevent certain refusals to deal, will also protect small, rural ISPs which may face difficulties
interconnecting with edge providers, transit providers, and larger ISPs.

Furthermore, major edge providers, including Netflix, YouTube, and other large OVDs, are some of the “most
-loved” brands in the world. Their reputations
and the importance of reputation to their business and brand gives them significant incentive to inform consumers and work to shape consumer perceptions in the event of any
dispute with ISPs.This incentive mitigates potential concerns that consumers lack the knowledge and
ability to hold their ISPs accountable for interconnection disputes.

Accordingly, assertions that public-utility regulation of Internet traffic exchange arrangements is necessary to allow consumers to reach content of their choice are unpersuasive
"
At least it wasn’t the email from a relative that’s been forwarded so many times you can’t read the subject and the content is indented 86 times.
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"Smart hard working people succeed much more often than they don't."

A smart hard working person today might be a hard working computer scientist.

Their skills would be absolutely worthless even a few centuries ago. Their skills would be absolutely worthless even today depending on where they are born and to the parents they are born.

I'm not convinced "smart and hard working" are not post hoc descriptors themselves.
Fantastic idea!
I'm beginning to wonder about Amazon in the long run.

I know it's sacreligious, but Wallmart brought most of their prices down to Amazon levels, and offer free shipping on orders over $35, and no Prime yearly fee.

Brick and mortar businesses are stepping up to the competition.
I'm so glad to start seeing more and more apps come out on Android first. What a big change from a couple of years ago.
If you poke around, you can easily find newly launched listing with hundreds of reviews ranking on the first page of popular keywords. E.g. search "earbuds". There will be a handful of results on the first page from no name brands, with all reviews within the last month, many unverified. That first page placement gets them thousands of sales before it falls off and they go launch a new product.

I don't know the methods but it's more than just reviews.
I'm in a similar boat waiting for decent alternatives to 'Speed Dial' and 'FireGestures' addons. The existing 'VimFx' replacements like Saka Key are also only partially there in terms of features.

I'm wary of switching to Waterfox because it's a single developer project and might be more buggy than it seems from the outside, but I might end up there after all, if equivalent addons don't rise up.
> IIRC, browser synchronization was a thing on Firefox well before it landed on chrome.

Aye, it was. It was called Mozilla Weave, and it worked with the very early versions of Fennec (the original name of Firefox Mobile).

Also, your data is securely encrypted at Mozilla, and isn't being profiled (if you disable those features in Firefox).

In Firefox 58 (you can run it today on Android by installing Firefox Beta app) you can run PWA (Progressive Web App) which allows you to turn a website into basically an app. Not every website will work though.
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"Rather, the increase in inflation was due to things like tax increases, exchange rate fluctuations, oil price moves, etc."

It seems to me that tax cutting could lead to increased consumption and therefore a reduction in GDP slack and upward pressure on prices (inflation). Why is it that tax increases would lead to inflation?
But the story you're describing isn't accurate. His story is more like "I studied hard, did not do well, as a result my parents sent me to a good school in a different country, and got a great job".

If he had done better than he did in his Chinese High School, his parents may not have sent him to the UK, in which case he may not have been as successful. So it still aligns with the idea of the story that we really discount the value of luck in our successes.
This is just blogspam, linking to an article discussed here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15755555
You are over-simplifying, he says.
> As an aside, one silly thing that tarnished Mozilla's brand for me was the treatment of Brendan Eich. I may not agree with his donation of money but I think impinging on his rights is a far more fundamental immorality than what he was accused of.

Well, and Chrome's maker fired someone for a certain inflammatory manifesto. I don't think that at this point it is realistic to run a tech company of any sort in the US without some amount of displays of political loyalty to the vocal majority of your recruitment and customer base.
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So his net worth is now more than the GDP of my country. Scary.
Just got this game a few weeks ago on the Switch and it's given me these daydreams of doing just what the character does in the game - leaving soulless corporation and running a little farm...
Now this is what I'm talking about! Really cool stuff!

I think this was kind of a wake up call that we don't have any kind of rapid-response system ready and waiting to intercept interstellar objects. Even if we don't get this one, we should damn sure be ready for the next one.
Fyi, the topic was discussed a few months back in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15163528 after the _Quantamagazine_ article was reprinted in _Wired_.
True, and it's also not for everyone. Maybe things will change when I'm older but speaking from my perspective, I was born and raised in a dense suburb, moved to the countryside because my folks grew up in the country and wanted to leave the dense suburb/corporate dystopia or what have you. Its just not for me, I'm a city boy. I like being close to other people. I feel comfortable with busy areas (like a downtown district or a beach). My teenage years spent on a 1.5 acre lot was filled with lots of manual labor (help build a retaining wall, care for horses and other livestock) so in my mind I see living in a metropolitan area as an easier life.

That's not to say I don't appreciate the outdoors and nature, I do immensely. I just think the whole 'gotta get away from it all' attitude is interesting because it's the exact opposite for me, what I guess could be described as the 'feeling of missing out'.
Oh, the memories! Delta Force 2 over multiplayer, with, I think, 30 players or more, on 56K was surprisingly fun! Advanced voxel engines are quite impressive.
Well from the beginning, the author only claims to offer "my candid observations" and not verifiable statements that are true or false. In fact, the whole article is clouded with ambiguity, probably because he doesn't want to come off as arrogant even though he secretly is, so he dials back on definite judgments.

I saw it as more of an expression of irony, that it was unexpected to learn the ideals of the "American Dream" in communist China, and essentially unlearn them while actually living in America. The whole "learned" rather than "taught" was the way he arrived independently at his personal beliefs contrary to what he was forced to learn in school or college.
Reminds me of this classic 4k demo which blew my mind back in 1993

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=4662

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zSjpIyMt0k
That’s true but navigating in and around ports isn’t part of this competition it’s 100% open water sailing. The start lines are defined as lines of longitude with an autonomous run up of 40 nautical miles before hitting the start latitude and it’s roughly from a ways off the coast of Newfoundland to off the north coast of Spain both well away from land.

http://www.microtransat.org/rules.php
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They're doing more or less what Mozilla is doing: spyware.
Read that as "all day breakfast tripe" and thought surely black pudding would make more sense..
Org-mode was the thing that really got me into emacs. Nowadays I don't even use org-mode as much, but I couldn't imagine a life without emacs.
This seems like Tesla bashing all over again. Maybe it won't work out exactly as they plan, but at least they're trying to make something awesome. Why is this article so negative?
Does it still allow you to see the password in the settings? I think that’s a not so great idea. I remember messing with friends by getting their saved passwords.
By your standards, MBS are also not particularly complex. They're not that different from pools of mortgages. In fact they have a lot of similarities with index funds and tranches are similar to options on the index. The complexity is precisely in the details.

How much is the pre-payment option on your fixed rate mortgage worth? How much is the embedded interest rate swap that differentiates a fixed rate mortgage from a floating rate mortgage worth?
I'm quite partial to this implementation of deep dream: https://github.com/ProGamerGov/Protobuf-Dreamer

Feel like something similar should be possible with a style transfer as well.

Also: https://distill.pub/2017/feature-visualization/
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Maybe you'd enjoy John Lilly's book "simulations of god". It's a meditation on human attempts to grasp life and existence.
Same. In Ireland we have loads of places to get sandwiches freshly made. When I moved to London I was shocked by the lack of options. Greggs etc - what a pile of horrible crap
If you're buying a better product for a price you're considering fair, you're not meaningfully "buying local" - the product you prefer just happens to be locally produced (and possibly can only be locally produced).

The kind of buying local that you need campaigns to encourage people to do, is generally either more expensive or poorer quality than the non-local alternative.
> Even worse is Google’s policy of prohibiting the installation of 3rd party web browsers on Chrome OS devices. Firefox simply can’t be installed on any Chromebook.

The Android version of Firefox can be installed on Chrome OS though.
In my mind this is a feature, not a bug.
some of it
It’s okay, we can wait for the next one. They come in threes anyway. ;)

Unfortunately the biggest hurdle to such a mission would be aligning political will and agency goals on a short time frame. NASA plans thingsnon 5 and 10 year horizons, so sending this mission means delaying something already in progress, which jeopardizes that project as everyone who was working on it goes off to do other things :( Can it be reached by a nearly empty payload on a Falcon Heavy or BFR certification flight? Getting a fully private mission might be the only option.

Edit: just realized SpaceX might not be able to recover any stages from such a launch, so maybe not so enticing. With cross fueling they might get he first set of ejected stages though.
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Try: toad in the hole, yorkshire puddings.
That's kinda my point, if there are aleph_0 polygons, then surely the length of a side has to tend to 0. As you increase the number of vertices then the difference between the points occupied by the vertices and those of a coincidental circle reduces, ultimately the vertices must describe a circle if they form a set of size aleph_0?

If you want the sides of the polygons to have a length then the polygons, to me, seem necessarily to be unable to have an infinite number of vertices, they could only have a very large number but one necessarily less than infinity.

Perhaps it's my misunderstanding how a curve works? If you form a second set from an infinite number of equally spaced points between two arbitrary points on a continuous curve (the first set) then it seems, to me [ie intuitively, always a risk in maths], that the second set must also be a continuous curve? The corollary of that would seem to be that if you have an infinite number of vertices for your polygon it also forms a circle, to not form a circle it simply has to have a number of sides less than infinite.

My contention would then be that either the set of polytopes in 2D is < aleph_0 or the set in 3D is 6 (ie applying the same rules makes circles and spheres both parts of the set of polytopes in the particular n-dimensional space).
Flow of goods can also spread the pain, no region is spared. Reliable agriculture with better efficiency means overproduction doesn't happen as much, so there's less cushion. Rome was better at shipping cheaply than previous societies, and better integrated, so it suffered much more widespread (although less frequent) famines that could affect nearly the whole empire.