sackbut | 1 year ago | on: TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
Taiwan can still blow up their TSMC plants and fire conventional missiles at the three gorges damn to inflict near nuclear results on China.
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sackbut | 2 years ago | on: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
I’ve see pictures of the barriers before the accident and they were there, but they looked like they were tailored to 70s era ships not the container laden ships of today
sackbut | 2 years ago | on: New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy
If this means I have to abandon my clicky keyboard I give up.
sackbut | 2 years ago | on: CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft
People in 1000 BC is maybe not the best example here considering practically the entire population of Egypt was tasked with building or supporting the building of the pyramids among many other projects.
sackbut | 2 years ago | on: Japanese steakhouse in Florida closes after customers test positive for meth
I can't believe I'm linking pensapedia on hacker news, but this wouldn't be the first time a drug ring in a beloved restaurant was exposed in the county which I grew up.
Presenting Cancun Mexican Restaurant in Gulf Breeze, within walking distance of the high school I went to.
https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Rogelio_Galvan_Chavez#cite_r...
sackbut | 3 years ago | on: CircleCI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers’ source code
I've never seen a Jenkins instance that did not need to be open to the public internet in order to support GitHub webhooks. Granted they were using IP based restrictions but it's still not behind a corporate network by any stretch in that setup.
sackbut | 3 years ago | on: Elon Musk says only ‘exceptional’ Twitter employees can work from home
How does this square with "Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade" from his latest tirade/email
sackbut | 3 years ago | on: Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.
According to Twitter employees on platforms like Blind and news sources, Twitter (the website) is the only datapoint for communication with their new boss.
sackbut | 3 years ago | on: Twitter Suspends Kathy Griffin After She Changed Her Handle to ‘Elon Musk’
It being an asshole thing to do to people in positions of power has been the reason for parody for literally thousands of years.
sackbut | 3 years ago | on: Thoughts about Twitter
Ceding territories in a forced negotiation to only set the stage for the next conflict is not peace, it's appeasement.
sackbut | 3 years ago | on: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs
I keep hearing references to this study that precipitated the famous “no more WFH Fridays” decision but I can’t actually seem to find it. Do you have a link?
sackbut | 3 years ago | on: Eye contact between musicians
When I directed the local univeristy basketball team's pep band for a time we had a blind musician. All he needed was a recording of his part done on any instrument (which took me under 5 minutes to prepare per song) to participate fully. He was even able to take auditory cues for things like signaling an early cutoff. I don't remember him carrying over once.
sackbut | 3 years ago | on: Eye contact between musicians
That's because everyone in those groups backing them up had to keep their eyes glued on them!
sackbut | 3 years ago | on: Eye contact between musicians
Interviewing the Guarneri quartet is about the most extreme example they could've found in this regard. They are one of the most longstanding and in lockstep chamber ensembles on the planet. Most chamber groups engage in enough eye contact to get them through changing elements of a piece, like ritardandos, accelerandos, fermatas, etc.
sackbut | 3 years ago | on: Eye contact between musicians
I play classical and jazz (which extends to every other genre), and while I think eye contact is somewhat overrated, it is so vastly more important to establish communication "out of the page" in classical music due to the many many more ritardandos, accelerandos, tempo changes, subdivision changes, meter changes, cessuras, fermatas, and the list goes on, all not uncommonly happening in the same movement of a larger work. The only genre that could exceeds what classical music requires would have to be the many more rhythmically complex world music traditions. What I see on a daily basis in popular music or even jazz doesn't hold a candle to any of those.
sackbut | 3 years ago | on: Eye contact between musicians
Can confirm.
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