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carey commented on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down   idiallo.com/blog/teaching... · Posted by u/firefoxd
WA · a month ago
No smokers in my neighborhood, but people use their goddamn fireplaces too much and it’s kinda impossible to get fresh air in winter evenings and often during the day. Not sure how to train them. And unfortunately, there are too many. Burning wood should be forbidden in residential areas. It’s similar to smoking in restaurants, except you can’t escape them.
carey · a month ago
The atmosphere above Christchurch, NZ tends to form layers in winter that trap the smoke and make this worse, and new fireplaces have been restricted to clean-burning log burners and dry wood by law.

It seemed like the biggest change in air quality in recent years came from the tragic earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 knocking down all the unreinforced-masonry chimneys, though.

carey commented on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first   github.com/zedless-editor... · Posted by u/homebrewer
bigfudge · 7 months ago
How is this true if it’s actually GPL as gp claimed?
carey · 7 months ago
The FSF also typically requires a copyright assignment for their GPL code. Nobody thinks that they’ll ever relicense Emacs, though.
carey commented on Jemalloc Postmortem   jasone.github.io/2025/06/... · Posted by u/jasone
int_19h · 9 months ago
> windows def allocator

Which one of them? These days it could mean HeapAlloc, or it could mean malloc from uCRT.

carey · 9 months ago
malloc in uCRT just calls HeapAlloc, though? You can see the code in ucrt\heap\malloc_base.cpp if you have the Windows SDK installed.

Programs can opt in to the _segment_ heap in their manifest, but it’s not necessarily any faster.

carey commented on Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong   wonger.dev/posts/pronunci... · Posted by u/twapi
acheron · a year ago
I have never heard anyone say "regex" with an /eɪ/ sound like "RAY". It's /ɛ/ like in "meh", or indeed the first syllable in "regular". (though "regex" has a "soft g" /dʒ/, not a "hard g" /g/ like in "regular").
carey · a year ago
Could it be an accent thing? Trying to learn foreign language pronunciation as a New Zealand English speaker is frustrating; I should not be pronouncing 에 as the vowel in “bed” the way I say the latter, but that’s what every description of it says.
carey commented on Learn perfect pitch in 15 years   moderndescartes.com/essay... · Posted by u/yuppiemephisto
dberst · a year ago
Ah thank you for the correction, I'm just a hobbyist and have not practiced in a few years
carey · a year ago
It’s accurate to say that there are twelve intervals, anyway, which is the point you were making.
carey commented on Learn perfect pitch in 15 years   moderndescartes.com/essay... · Posted by u/yuppiemephisto
dberst · a year ago
I think you could definitely do the same thing to learn relative pitch. In western music theory there's generally only 12 notes. And #1 and #12 are the same, an octave, which many people can recognize implicitly

Furthermore, while a piano might have 88 keys (still doable with practice) most actual music rarely jumps more than an octave or two.

Generally, music is also further restricted to a key/mode of 8 notes, again with 1 and 8 being the octave, which you probably already know

If I were to teach myself again, I would first find a reference for the intervals 1-8 in a major key and in a minor key. Or learn the full 12 at once if that's more sensible to you. For example the main theme from "Jaws" is a minor 2nd (2/12. Or the song for Happy Birthday (in the USA) starts with a major 2nd (3/12). I had a few more examples, but this Wikipedia article seems to have far better information than I could give you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_recognition

You could also just try to listen to music, possibly at half or quarter speed (easy to do on YouTube), and try to write down the notes, and checking your answers, I'm sure that could work.

Best of luck!!

carey · a year ago
You have a fencepost error; the notes in Western music in equal temperament are C, C♯/D♭, D, D♯/E♭, E, F, F♯/G♭, G, G♯/A♭, A, A♯/B♭, B, then c an octave higher is the thirteenth.

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carey commented on The case against a C alternative   c3.handmade.network/blog/... · Posted by u/lerno
speed_spread · 4 years ago
> trying to write new code for IBM RPG servers

Hey, I know that! Challenge accep... Eeeeh, nevermind.

carey · 4 years ago
All the modern AS/400 servers can run unmodified AIX programs these days anyway.
carey commented on Official IE11 end-of-life in 2 days   death-to-ie11.com/... · Posted by u/frob
2OEH8eoCRo0 · 4 years ago
I was working a defense project last year where the whole UI is a java applet that requires IE. I wonder if they're still charging ahead with the implementation.
carey · 4 years ago
If it’s just for Java that’s not really a problem. They might be able to run the applet directly with appletviewer, or repackage it for Java Web Start. Otherwise, CheerpJ has a solution for continuing to run the applet in the browser by converting it to WASM.
carey commented on A capability-safe language would have minimized the Log4j vulnerability   justinpombrio.net/2021/12... · Posted by u/justinpombrio
fiddlerwoaroof · 4 years ago
I’ve always used the various log4j adapters and then excluded log4j from the transitive dependencies.
carey · 4 years ago
Same. Gradle even lets you configure replacement dependencies, so if anything depends on Log4J it automatically gets the adapter instead.

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