organman91 | 9 months ago | on: The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I (2021)
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organman91 | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best way to play old games that require Windows 98/XP?
It's a long shot, but some old games are available via https://www.scummvm.org/
organman91 | 2 years ago | on: Atomic Tourism
I visted EBR-1 last year - this is definitely a hidden gem!
organman91 | 2 years ago | on: Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password
It looks like this is a wrapper around public/private keys stored on a device: https://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/so-long-passwords-th...
organman91 | 3 years ago | on: We updated our RSA SSH host key
> Nobody ever commits a private TLS key to a GitHub repo
Oh how I wish this were true...
organman91 | 3 years ago | on: The organ as a wind instrument
In addition to being thought of as a wind or keyboard instrument, there's another component to all pipe organs that makes each of them unique in a way (almost) no other instrument is - the room they are installed in. With very rare exceptions, pipe organs aren't mobile, so the acoustics of the room matter almost as much as the pipes do.
Here's Rob Scallon exploring the largest pipe organ in the midwest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeB3JnKp8To
Here's a more in depth look at all the sounds of that same organ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1S42E1BW9w - this channel has documented a number of organs over the years.
organman91 | 3 years ago | on: AT&T Long Lines – A Forgotten System (2018)
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-2
organman91 | 3 years ago | on: Chaos Bernie: Delete Azure resources by playing Doom
Looks like yes, from the README:
Chaos Bernie was written during an internal hackathon as a fun way to clean up Azure resources. Users are great at spinning up compute resources but often require nagging to deallocate or destroy them. As Bernie would say "Once again I'm asking for you to clean up your compute resources"organman91 | 4 years ago | on: Rockstar: a language for programs that are also hair metal power ballads
When I originally saw the talk this line killed me. Gotta be in my top ten favorite puns I've ever seen.
organman91 | 4 years ago | on: Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit
If you are willing to do ALL of the leg work yourself, https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...
organman91 | 5 years ago | on: T-Mobile: Are you blocking specific words and suspending accounts?
It's just a single phone, but google fi has worked pretty well for my use case. I was impressed how well it worked when I went on vacation to Canada last year. If you don't need to have a half-dozen devices on one account there's really very little that gets you as much bang for your buck - unless I'm really burning through data my bill is usually $30/month.
organman91 | 7 years ago | on: How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry
To explain my username, I'm an organist. I'm not interested in going to a service that's nothing but a rock concert, but we've successfully incorporated some of these songs (Shout to the Lord comes to mind) successfully into a service that also includes standard liturgy, and I definitely enjoy them in that context. I'm not saying the genre isn't full of empty songs, but there are a few with merit in the lyrics.
organman91 | 7 years ago | on: The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world
CGP Grey discussed this on a recent Hello Internet episode [1], that he was concerned by his inability to maintain focus on a single task (such as reading a book) for more than several minutes. He specifically notes that Reddit and HN were major contributors to this.
1. http://www.hellointernet.fm/podcast/108 (about the 1 hr 15 min mark)
organman91 | 7 years ago | on: Abstract of the NTSB Report on Air Canada flight 759's taxiway overflight at SFO [pdf]
As a private pilot, small planes going down occasionally are just a fact of life. But this incident scares me. There were four planes lined up on the taxiway the Air Canada narrowly missed. The worst aviation accident ever was a collision of two 747s resulting in 583 deaths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster - this could have doubled that number.
organman91 | 8 years ago | on: The Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades
An aviation accident case study pinpointed a similar issue with in-cockpit weather displays. In this case the delay was less than 10 minutes, but it was enough to be fatal: https://youtu.be/83uvKWJS2os
organman91 | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Not strictly about separation, but a similar chain-of-links phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
organman91 | 8 years ago | on: Neutron Star Collision Data Falsifies Dark Matter Emulators
Could someone explain this in layman's terms? I'm confused as to what is meant by a "Dark Matter Emulator".
organman91 | 9 years ago | on: The sudo fraud
There's one very good reason to use sudo instead of being in a root shell: audit trails. sudo logs its invocations. While you could always see who is becoming root, you'd have to look through root's shell history to see what's happening (which isn't hard to purge - one of the many reasons a remote syslog server may be called for).
organman91 | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Streisand – Silence censorship, automate the effect
I hope that, besides Starcadian, you also listened to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VQdVA2hjsA
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I'd also like to plug the album released by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, who did a double album of the Art of Fugue and the Musical Offering, and used a variety of different scorings for each movement.