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Of course, if we went by the original law of 30,000 people per congressperson, we'd have over 10,000 representatives.

I'm not sure adding more reps would make the system work any better - part of me thinks it would be even more expensive and chaotic.

"The electoral college system is an absolute sham that deprives a significant number of people of their Constitutionally-guaranteed right to fair representation at the federal level."

Yet the constitution defines the presidential election as being done by the representatives of the state's electoral college: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors."

The NPV interstate pact may not even itself be constitutional as it ignores the Article I, Section 10 requirement that interstate compacts receive congressional consent.

"But the House hasn't reapportioned representation by population in a century."

Not sure where you live, but since 1914 in Colorado:

1914 - four representatives

1973 - five representatives

1983 - six representatives

2003 - seven representatives

So clearly seats are added as population changes in a state.

See also: https://www.insightsassociation.org/article/states-expected-...

Firstly, I'm an independent - I actually have a great deal of issues with both major parties. My concern with abandoning the college starts with this observation:

Swing states are the states most likely to have divided government. And if divided government is good for anything, it is accountability. So with the Electoral College system, when we do wind up with a razor-thin margin in an election, it is likely to happen in a state where both parties hold some power, rather than in a state controlled by one party. The Electoral college system focuses a great deal of energy on states in this condition when an election is close.

National Popular Vote (NPV) rewards states with high population - the higher the turnout, the more power for that state. Additionally, under NPV, each state would certify its own "national" vote total. What would happen when there are charges of skullduggery? Would states really trust, with no power to verify, other state’s returns?

I have other concerns as well but feel the EC system is superior. Just as an observation, the parliamentary systems of the UK, Canada, Israel, (& others) have the parliament elect the Prime Minister and likewise don't elect their leaders by popular vote.

[edited: removing poor wording about 'lax laws', seems I implied things in a FUD way that I didn't mean to]

Looks like it only does reading at this point - I can find docs or entry points in the code for writing png.

Minority Report in action. P.K. Dick was a prophet.

Agreed, I have a first edition. There was a followup book, “The Algorithmic Beauty of Seashells”, which is also pretty good.

Additionally for iOS, Synth One is excellent, and free (open source even). I also really like "Unique" by Sugar Bytes and NLog Synth by TempoRubato.

Don’t know about the poster above, but I have two so far (Analog 4 and Analog Heat) and am planning on acquiring more. They are a blast!

It was pretty amazing. I recall Doyne Farmer was there too - he had this crazy custom coprocessor card for his cellular automata explorations. I got to write some stuff to run on a CRAY Y-MP. Got to to play with NeXT black box serial no. 36. (LANL had the first 50 I think). Lots of crazy cool people and tech!

I was an undergrad CS intern (and Chaos enthusiast) assisting the physicists at Los Alamos Natl. Labs Center for Nonlinear Studies when he visited to give the monthly “Tea Talk” on some subject in nonlinear mathematics/ chaos theory back in ‘88. I didn’t understand most of what he said. I asked the Deputy Director, a long-time PhD Theoretical Physicist, about the gist of the talk afterwards. He said “I didn’t understand most of what he said. Maybe if I had been collaborating with him for a few months...”

Feigenbaum was a fascinating man and some of his writing is what made me want to get an internship at the Center. I never dreamed I meet the man over tea.

A great man.

The whole cartoon about "martini - gin + whiskey" cartoon isn't great, as "cocktail" really is the best answer it could give. (A manhattan would also have to switch from dry vermouth to sweet vermouth, and change the garnish from an olive or lemon peel to a cherry, and traditionally it would not use just any whiskey, but use rye specifically.)

100% agree. Distrokid makes it cheap and easy to get unto pretty much all the streaming services. (disclaimer: I am a customer in the musician with no label category)

Well first cousin anyway.

Direct link to paper: http://www.musicinformatics.gatech.edu/wp-content_nondefault...

I’m with you. My Mini with 10 speaker Harmon Kardon audio and a free three month Siruis sub has made me realize Sirius audio quality is horrible. Mostly still listen to HQ Spotify with my premium sub. It might be better using SiriusXM’s app and doing data but I like being my own DJ.

Plus I get dropouts in south metro Denver area on Sirius and never on Spotify using Verizon.

In terms of relative purchase power, in 1987 you could build a "newest processor" 80386 with a then-huge 80Mb drive in a tower case with you basic setup and pay about $3,000 when building it yourself. According to my inflation calculator, that's $6,182.61 in today's dollars.

In 1987, PC's Limited (later renamed Dell) 386-16 included a 16MHz Intel 80386 CPU, 1MB RAM, a 1.2MB floppy drive, a 40MB hard drive, and a monochrome video card for $4,799.

We just tend forget how powerful and cheap Moore's law made things. In terms of relative inflation-adjusted dollars, many of us old-timers have already spent as much or more than Apple is asking multiple times on 'prosumer' machines.

I have a "nose pillows" type CPAP mask - about as small and low-profile as they get. I hated the other types. You have to be able to keep your mouth shut for it to work... I tend to now always sleep on my side because of this. I sleep so well now, I actually look forward to putting the ugly thing on.

I had that problem. Even 9 hours wouldn't rest me, as I wasn't getting quality sleep. Went to an ENT, who scheduled a sleep study. I have sleep apnea. Got a CPAP (on my third now, 14 years later). Since then, I'm fully charged with 6.5 hours of sleep. Consider a sleep study.

Caffeine after ~3pm is a no-go for me (other friends of mine have different cutoff times)

Also don't forget that alcohol can make sleep lower quality as well.

Working out regularly also helps, as well as avoiding screens for 1 hours before bed.

One of my first jobs was working with devices that emulated paper tape via a serial connection to talk to CNC machines that had a device installed into the old papertape reader to give it a serial port instead. G-Code was loaded by one of the old terminal emulator serial connect software (Procomm? Telix? I can't recall) via a cheap old PC and modem. The machine didn't know it wasn't paper tape. They will probably need to hack up something along the same lines to pretend to be a card printer/reader. Sounds like a job for a Raspberry Pi or similar.

An example of Byzantine notation of the 15th antiphon of Holy Thursday (with English instead of Greek!)

http://www.agesinitiatives.com/dcs/m/dedes/en/tr/d069/hw/b/a...

While PDF uses different syntax, it is conceptually similar to the IFF file format from 1985 (the basis of which is still used in some file formats like PNG and AIFF) in being a format that can contain multiple types of data. PDF is a little bit more focused on being an object-based file format in specific, but one could have made PDF fit into IFF boxes easily in an alternative universe.

I’m in Centennial and get ~45Mbps down 7Mbps up with Verizon. Who are you with?

The couple places I found some it was about $570-$860 per 64Gb memory module, so ~$2280 to ~$3450. NewEgg is having a sale, looks like real street is about $2000 if the modules they carry are compatible. But officially, for RAM upgrade, the iMac Pro is not user-serviceable, you have to take it to a service center to get the memory upgraded -- and if you go to Apple, they will probably not install 3rd party RAM.

Does he have any other hobbies?

Based on my hobbies, I know I plan on writing plugins for DAWs and writing more experimental electronic music, and to keep on playing guitar and bass until I can't for some reason like bad arthritis.

While I have nothing against coffee shop working (done it myself plenty) I respectfully submit that irritating worker-sitters is the actual reason for the repetition and irritation. They'd rather free up our seats.

Funny, I haven't heard any Skinny Puppy[1] at Starbuck$ recently. (Ironically, I'd find that a reason to go there...)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/07/skinny-puppy-p...

Weird article. The eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) went on almost 1000 years longer after Rone fell and this article acts like it was all over in the late 400s.

As a developer who gets paid to write code, when I find an app I really like, I also pay for it, if it seems reasonable.

Like Overcast for podcasts, Nlog Synthesizer for use with my Korg nanokey for on-the-go music composition, filimic pro forr video and others.

When mastering, after I'm happy on my high-end near-field monitors and acoustic room, I haul my studio laptop into every other system and environment I have and tweak accordingly. (i.e. Bose Companion 3, an older JVC shelf stereo, my car stereos, various headphones including ATH-M30, cheap iPod, and Beats, etc etc etc) for this very reason... almost nobody is listening on a nice set of nearly-neutral near-field monitors except other musicians. When done, I make sure I'm still happy on the main rig.

Someday I hope to be experienced enough to just know what to do though, without all the extra work. I haven't found a systematic answer yet.