bench_soup | 8 years ago | on: Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator
Not to mention you get banned from trying to use any unofficial client if your device/OS happen to not be supported.
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bench_soup | 8 years ago | on: The Lost Pleasure of Reading Aloud
I find that most writing is really NOT meant to be "heard" in reality
As a counter-example, Flaubert used to scream his texts in his "gueuloir" as a way to perfect them.
wrong written sentences do not resist this test; they oppress the chest, hinder the heartbeat and thus are apart from real life conditions.
bench_soup | 8 years ago | on: It's Never Too Late to Learn Guitar
Powerchords are usually only fundamental + fifth. you can play those on 2 strings only.
As long as you have 3 notes available you can make a full major or minor chord as it only involved a fundamental, third and fifth.
It will sound different on a ukulele especially because of the bourdon and wont sound as rich as it will hold less harmonics (no additional higher/lower strings to repeat the note) but that's still plenty of possibilities.
Too bad you had a bad experience with it but it still is a full fledged instrument capable of playing decent music. Of course trying to play guitar songs on it will sound disappointing most of the time.
bench_soup | 8 years ago | on: It's Never Too Late to Learn Guitar
"miss out on the unusual tuning quirk present 6-stringed instruments tuned to thirds"
A ukulele is tuned to thirds as well. It is basically the same as a four string guitar with a capo on 5th fret (with the typical quirk of having the lowest string being an octave higher)
"I'd also say go with 6 strings because the typical chords can have more than 4 notes."
Typical chords for a beginner are minor and major chords which uses only 3 notes. And the augmented 7th have 4 notes which leaves you with quite some chords to play.
You will be limited by extended dominant 9th,11th and 13th but I wouldn't call those typical.
I think a ukulele can be fine to start as you'll get some very quick progress, but its limitations will come very quick as well.
bench_soup | 9 years ago | on: Ultimate Linux on the Desktop
You can bind mount folders between the host and container. (--volume option with docker for example)
So that when you write in container's Download folder it would also actually be in your host's filesystem.
bench_soup | 9 years ago | on: Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX
Well, the article implies 'pwning coworkers' which is indeed quite immature.
Do you do all your development in closed/isolated environment because of your coworkers posing threats? That sounds a bit paranoid.
bench_soup | 9 years ago | on: A Formal Security Analysis of the Signal Messaging Protocol
The LibreSignal fork is available on sailfishOS.
bench_soup | 9 years ago | on: Time to Dump Time Zones
You can start using the 'calendrier pataphysique' :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Pataphysics#Pataphysical_cale...
bench_soup | 9 years ago | on: Docker in Production: A History of Failure
I would like to add another factual error to the list
- you can get linux 4.4 on debian stable with the backports instead of switching to an unstable release, and the current ubuntu LTS (16.04) runs 4.4 as well.
It seems that they started to use docker while it was changing a lot, I didn't have any issue in the past few months with docker, but I don't use it in production.
bench_soup | 9 years ago | on: Billionaire founder of Free launches free coding college
>Obviously it is a great alternative because the selection process in other universities is tedious
That's not true, in France going to the university is open to anybody that obtained the "Bac" (not necessarly a general or scientific one, doesn't matter, you can get in mathematics there with a mechanics degree) and if you don't have it there are some formations to get an equivalence, opening the doors for you. (of course it will be extremely difficult to catch up in compsci for someone without a scientific bac but he can try) And the university is almost free (less than 500e a year if you don't get any social help)
It is true however that you need good grades to get to the top engineering schools.
As you said the bigger issue anyway is the cost of living.
bench_soup | 9 years ago | on: The New Prostitution Economy
It's not about saying if it's ok or not, of course it's not.
It's about stating a difference because sex work being seen a mainstream practice is arguably not a good thing. (be it legal or not, that's not related here)
bench_soup | 9 years ago | on: The New Prostitution Economy
>“If prostitution is really just physical labor, if it’s no different than serving coffee or fixing a car, then why would we see rape as such a traumatic thing? If there’s nothing different about sex, then what’s so bad about rape?”
That was my thought too, I found this story to be really depressing.
But I feel like the author is trying to present this as a general and wide-adopted trend when it's probably quite marginal.
bench_soup | 9 years ago | on: UK votes to leave EU
>Le Pen will win the next elections in France and then they'll leave too.
They have no intentions to actually leave, their economic program doesn't even make sense.
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