JasonFruit

I've been using it, and it's not bad, but I do fall back on Google fairly often.

I'll bite: the standard response to a nuclear attack ends human life on the planet. Nothing — not even a nuclear attack — justifies that response.

Well, yes and no. It's not hacker-good to dismiss others' cool and interesting work by saying, "That's dumb; a machine could do it easier." But it is hacker-good to see inefficiencies that could be eliminated, even if it's an exercise in missing the point here.

I can totally tell the difference in sound between a long-pattern Strad and a golden-period one, so you just back off, champ.

My younger self would have loved to see this. I obsessed over the Joukowski sections when I was very young, but never really managed to understand their derivation until much later. This would have pointed me in the right direction.

Not every analogy is significant. This one is just plane dumb.

I'd take that bet. I'd bet you that backing by full-blooded, real bowed strings, with plummy vibrato and all, will come back in style at some point in the next thirty years.

You have apparently not been around stoners much. Thinking you're cleverer than you are seems to be a common side effect of marijuana use, and far from my favorite characteristic of people who do so.

I think you and I have different definitions of "can't".

I'm... honestly not sure. I think I got the right word, but I don't know a breath of Japanese, so I might have copied the wrong one. At any rate, the results of trying it just now were seriously underwhelming.

I build and play lyres, and there's a thriving community of lyre players in Japan who have put a lot of videos on YouTube. None of them show up in my searches for lyre music, which quickly devolve into people playing funk bass and flying homebuilt airplanes, both of which I like, but still! I had to use NewPipe to search for them, go to YouTube, search for the user name, and subscribe to them before I could find them through YouTube's interface.

Maybe you aren't relevant to Oxford University Press — very seriously, no insult meant. You're not the audience, and whether you understand it is not their concern.

Relevant to what? Things aren't relevant in isolation.

We're talking about the logo of an historic institution, part of an institution with an even deeper history, the sort of place where you might expect a person chosen at random to be able to understand that motto.

Take it to the extreme: if you were enslaved, forced to care for critically ill people, would you be acting wrongly to run away if you could? I don't think so. The difference is a matter of degree, not of kind.

More practically, not every nurse's threshold is in the same place; each nurse decides they've had enough at a different point. It's not as though — barring coordinated effort — every nurse is going to quit the same day. The problem will manifest itself as declining staffing, not a sudden depopulation of the hospital, and it will not go unaddressed.

The author should have jumped to the end immediately: follow the rats off the sinking ship. There's no winning on one of these projects, and if you find yourself in one, run away immediately. Knowing it was a doomed project and still accepting any sort of responsibility for it is dazzlingly naive; the ship will not make port, and you will all drown.

I've often considered constructing a series of instruments and recording an album of "field recordings" of Ruritanian folk music, maybe with singing in Esperanto or another constructed language. That would be project enough, but it sounds like this guy went a lot further (even though I think his "artifacts" betray their origins a little too clearly for my taste).

Or we innovate elsewhere.

They revel in it, and Gruber at least isn't just some kid anymore. He's old enough to have learned better.

Hi, dad.

Doesn't sound like he was that devoted to it: he bought it because it was cheap, and later moved to a white-lacquered Selmer that looked similar but played better.

Sure did. Searched it, and am not disappointed to have missed it.

The best thing I've found for serving long pasta is the "pasta claw", a sort of deep spoon with fingers around the rim.

At risk of finding out, what is a "drama site"? Do people actually have websites devoted to… drama?

He lost two of the three during launch, and even if he had kept them, there's no evidence they had any steering effect, and no reason to believe they could have had any. That is, their contribution to the failure of the expedition was increased overconfidence.

On the other hand, it was a pleasure to open a page and not have my less-young eyes scream, "C-+!"

That's a reasonable question, and one I asked myself. I considered some options:

- "Piece of art" didn't communicate engagement with the item as art

- "Work of art" is often used to mean a masterpiece

- "Artwork" is a neologism of the sort I avoid

Finally, "objet d'art" communicates appreciation as art, but not necessarily any artistic quality, and it's a phrase people use in this context.

While we're asking irrelevant questions, why are the majority of your comments questions and criticisms of trivial matters of wording? Obviously, we agree that words are important, but it's equally important to engage with the intended meaning of those words.

The home page is careful to point out that it lacks a lot that would be needed to make it capable of doing interesting and useful things:

> …the software is currently at a very early "proof of concept" stage, requiring the addition of many operations (such as basic number and file operations) and optimizations before it can be considered useful for any real-world purpose.

I don't know, maybe someone wanted to try writing a program in it, which seems not irrelevant to programming languages. To most people, even an experimental programming language isn't just an objet d'art; it's more like an ornate tennis racket, and it doesn't look like this one will ever be strung.

The obvious solution — using connectors that cannot be fastened to the wrong cable — reminds me of Bob Hoover, an absolutely stunning test and display pilot, who had a forced landing after his fuel tank was filled with jet fuel rather than standard avgas. He devised a bell-shaped nozzle that is now universally used to dispense jet fuel, and cannot be inserted into a standard fuel filling neck.

In this case, though, better design, better tooling, and better training are probably the best fix; there are too many variations in stick-to-aileron connection for a single standard to be accepted.

Size 9, as I recall.