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parenthesison Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year

What about Microsoft 366?

parenthesison Robert Redford has died

Sneakers is from 1992.

parenthesison After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine Is No More

Sound on Sound

parenthesison Aristotle – How to live a good life

There are these books:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greek-Philosophical-Terms-Historica...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greek-Philosophical-Vocabulary-J-Ur...

I have the second one, which I found useful when studying ancient Greek philosophy in English translation.

parenthesison Casio VZ-1 Algorithms

Did Casio make things a bit weird on purpose to circumvent the Stanford/Chowning/Yamaha patent(s) on FM synthesis?

parenthesison I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened

Can someone quote the whole thing here? Not everyone has a twitter / X account.

parenthesison Fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music (2022)

There are other music steaming platforms. I use Tidal, finding it to be the least annoying of the ones I've tried (Spotify, Amazon, Apple).

parenthesison Atari Falcon030

Some contemporary reviews:

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/atari-falcon-030

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/cubase-audio-atari-f...

parenthesison Films about virtual reality

Don't forget the Murder, She Wrote episode "A Virtual Murder" (from 1993):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0653453/

parenthesison Apple declares last MacBook Pro with an optical drive obsolete

I'm typing this reply on this

https://junocomputers.com/product/nyx-17-v3/

which I use for DVD watching every day.

parenthesison C23: A Slightly Better C

ckd_add(), ckd_sub() are ckd_mul() are what I'm looking forward to using.

parenthesison Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982)

man operator

parenthesison Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke on Ableton (2016)

You might want to look at https://www.irealpro.com/ and Band in a Box ( https://www.pgmusic.com/ ).

parenthesison Synthesis Methods Explained: What Is FM Synthesis?

Have a look at the filter code in Csound, for example:

https://github.com/csound/csound/blob/master/Opcodes/butter....

parenthesison Interactive tour of James Clerk Maxwell's house

The David Hume Tower has been renamed 40 George Square.

parenthesison The case for never reading the book jacket

I think a movie trailer should be a mini-prequel to the movie, with no footage from the movie itself.

parenthesison I Am Sitting in a Room (1969)

Look Mum no Computer did two versions of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIlT7U0ILu4

parenthesison Netflix prepares to send its final red envelope

It's 17", not 15", but I recently bought one of these

https://junocomputers.com/product/nyx-17-v3/

for watching DVDs.

parenthesison Why do so many people hate EU bureaucracy?

Why do so many people hate the US federal government?

parenthesison An abandoned cabinet full of Kodachrome slides in San Francisco

The other day I found an unused Kodachrome film I'd forgotten I had. Kodachrome 64 is my all time favourite film.

parenthesison Shit life syndrome

Are you using it to avoid deprived areas, or to find them and hence cheap houses?

parenthesison PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

As a company, or in your opinion of their products?

parenthesison Sinead O’Connor has died

This Sinead O’Connor performance has stayed with me since watching its original broadcast:

Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home (Live at Top of the Pops in 1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJWbPBp3QA

(Hadn't seen it again until just now.)

parenthesison WWDC 2023 Livestream

Just make it easy to move the kids' accounts to their own iPhones/iPads for when you finally give in and give them their own.

parenthesison WWDC 2023 Livestream

I miss Steve.

parenthesison The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition

This book (the 1st edition) gave me exactly what I needed when writing the garbage collector for my programming language.

Besides the great technical content, I found it to be a very enjoyable, readable book.

parenthesison Letter to Pixar President Ed Catmull [pdf] (2004)

Alvy Ray Smith studied in New Mexico ...

parenthesison Is artificial light poisoning the planet?

Criminals like to be able to see what they are doing as much as anyone else.

parenthesison Is the Living Computer Museum dead?

There's also the Micro Museum in Ramsgate (https://www.themicromuseum.org/).

parenthesison Gattaca is still pertinent 25 years later

I thought it was super fun to see Gore Vidal acting in a movie.

I haven't seen it in a long time, just looking up the cast, and Dean Norris plays — you guessed it — a cop.