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https://soundcloud.com/mstep_sndfunc https://m-step.bandcamp.com

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mstep··on Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language
related: https://opusmodus.com/forums/blogs/entry/4-connecting-an-ai-...
mstep··on The Zettelkasten method in Obsidian
the zettelkasten of niklas luhmann is currently being digitized. you can browse it online. zettelkasten II is the more interesting one.

https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/bestand/zettelkasten/inhalt...

mstep··on Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)
according to this video [0] the frequency was 84.2. that-s not unplausible.

a known problem in cutting vinyl records are sudden bursts of high volume frequencies around 100 hz, that have the potential to make the needle skip with a normal amount of weight on the tone-arm.

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[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3RGeaxksY

mstep··on Tom Stoppard has died
i don-t think so. the stage direction before that dialogue is:

(ROS and GUIL ponder. Each reluctant to speak first.)

if the dialogue should be clearly about who speaks first, wouldn-t the stage direction have been something like:

(ROS and GUIL ponder. Each reluctant to speak first. ROS tries to say something but does not) ?

i mean - you could play it like that. But then to me some of the beauty of that dialogue is lost, that comes from the fact that for the spectator it-s not clear what is the subject of it.

mstep··on Tom Stoppard has died
GUIL: Hm?

ROS: Yes?

GUIL: What?

ROS: I thought you...

GUIL: No.

ROS: Ah.

mstep··on [dead]
n 1978, at the University of London, the Physicist David T. Kemp made an unusual discovery. Kemp noticed that faint sounds, known as Otoacoustic emissions (OAEs), revealed the existence of the cochlear amplifier, a mechanism responsible for sound sensitivity and frequency resolution. This discovery proved that the ear is an active rather than passive organ. Following this discovery the experimental music world embraced these findings by incorporating them into sound works.
mstep··on Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth
look here: https://github.com/ahihi/sapf
mstep··on Ask HN: How do you discover new music?
i can recommmend: https://hardwax.com (legendary berlin based record shop) https://bleep.com (founded by warp records) https://boomkat.com (another fine online music store from the uk)
mstep··on Cats are (almost) liquid
related (german) https://noe.orf.at/stories/3272194/
mstep··on 2024-01-01 Emacs News
maybe this helps:

"This is a minimal Emacs starter kit. Like, really minimal. Here's the short of the philosophy:

    Focus on using default, built-in Emacs behavior

    Yes, we all love our fancy third-party packages. This starter kit focuses on what is built-in to Emacs. Why? Because there are too many good packages and picking and choosing the best is a joy we leave to the user.

    Explain every customization and encourage modification

    The goal of this starter kit is to encourage end-user adaptation and growth. All of the .el files should be legible and, more importantly, justify in plain English the rationale for adding the configuration they do.

    No magic

    We keep things crushingly simple here. That means no fancy loadable modules or whatnot. Everything is as straight-forward as can be."
https://sr.ht/~ashton314/emacs-bedrock/
mstep··on Gilles Deleuze – What is Philosophy? [audio]
szepanski reactivated the label some years ago. new releases can be found on bandcamp [1]. from 2014 onwards he also wrote several books on financial capital and marx based on laruelle, deleuze and lately especially baudrillard [2]. last year he published a "new theory of financial capital" [3], that also got published in china [4].

[1] https://forceincmilleplateaux.bandcamp.com/ [2] https://shop.laika-verlag.de/search?search=szepanksi [3] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-93151-3 [4] https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/wg-EOZVGC2EpSZR7k_Eqbg

mstep··on macOS Sonoma Boot Failures
does anyone have info if this is fixed in ventura 13.6.1? https://support.apple.com/de-at/HT213985
mstep··on Ask HN: Is writing a math proof like programming without ever running your code?
i remember vaguely that bettina heintz in her sociological study of the field of mathematics from 2000 noted the growing number of proofs that relied on computer programs as potentially problematic for the field.

https://www.hsozkult.de/searching/id/reb-2446