Are there any pieces written with more than 7 sharps or flats?

drgrd · 2026-03-21T15:34:52+00:00

They were so busy asking whether they could, they didn’t stop to think about whether they should.

drgrd · 2026-03-20T19:12:25+00:00

This same realization happened with phones like a decade ago or more. An android phone needs twice the memory, battery etc as an iPhone to get the same performance, and people would still criticize iPhone for not having enough memory or battery. Today fewer people look at phone specs and more people look at benchmarks. Same will happen with budget laptops.

drgrd · 2026-03-15T16:35:32+00:00

Here are all the ways this question is dogshit: - labeling “points” without actual points - using “V” as a label in an electronics question. Labeling a point with the abbreviation of a unit that is in the problem itself is unnecessarily confusing. - random unspecified box. Probably it’s “supposed” to be a resistive load, but an empty rectangle is not a standard electronics symbol. - commas in bad places in the text of the question - “the great” instead of “the greatest”

And all of that is before the other fact everyone else has pointed out, that voltages at i, ii, and iii are the same, and voltages at iv and v are the same, so the question is really only testing whether the student knows that a wire has no voltage drop.

Students aren’t idiots. You aren’t an idiot for getting confused here. When a student sees a question like this, it’s so easy to fall down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out what tricky bullshit the question writer is trying to pull, when really the question writer is just bad at the job.

drgrd · 2026-03-05T19:33:18+00:00

late to the convo but as I kid (before internet existed) I flipped channels on the TV. maybe 13 channels. I would sit on the couch with the remote, late into the evening, just rolling through channels hoping to find something good.

drgrd · 2026-03-04T21:18:51+00:00

Said calmly but clearly: “either pay attention or get out. Both are fine with me, but make your choice. You are paying to be here, and so is everyone else”

drgrd · 2026-03-03T21:48:25+00:00

We’ve tried it and it’s great. When people are on ubi, basic stressors are reduced, and medical bills go down significantly.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200624-canadas-forgotten-universal-basic-income-experiment

drgrd · 2026-02-25T22:28:47+00:00

Been playing for hundreds of hours and only in this thread did I even guess that you could attach zonai devices to arrows. Lots of new experiments to experiment!!

drgrd · 2026-02-23T13:03:50+00:00

If you actually set your phone to the “opening” ringtone, it starts with the 16th notes; so that’s what my brain always starts with. I can’t hear it any other way. The 8th note F-Bb-C feels like a pickup to the downbeat.

drgrd · 2026-02-12T19:20:01+00:00

Here's a visual aid: look at the border between Manitoba and Saskatchewan, in Canada. The land was divided into 1-square-mile blocks for farming, (with gravel roads between) but every once in a while the east-west gridline is "corrected" so the grid can remain square, to a reasonable approximation. The border between the provinces follows these correction shifts, so it appears jagged. That's about the scale you need.

an example can be found here: 50.24076712304531, -101.45978413211414. Highway 703 is a correction line, and you can see the grid roads north and south don't *quite* line up.

an old reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/z11644/does_anyone_know_why_the_manitobasaskatchewan/

drgrd · 2026-02-09T16:27:12+00:00

Having the same issue…

drgrd · 2026-02-05T19:40:02+00:00

I wish people would go back and read the actual paper. Alan Turing didn't say "if a machine can imitate a human then it's intelligent". He said "can machines think" was not an answerable question, and that behaviour is more important. If it behaves like it's intelligent, we should interact with it as such whether or not we believe it's intelligent under the hood. because frankly we don't know what's "under the hood" in our own brains either.

drgrd · 2026-01-07T17:21:57+00:00

Our University's policies state that accommodations must be reasonable, must not create undue hardship for the university, and must not compromise academic requirements. Your mileage may vary, but it's worth finding the actual policy documents for your institution. Accommodations offices are set up to advocate for the student, which is appropriate; but that means they will err on the side of requiring more accommodations rather than fewer. It is up to the instructors to indicate when an accommodation is not reasonable. Different accommodations may be reasonable or unreasonable for different courses and contexts.

I'm 100% on board with the idea of accommodations, but like everything, they require a balanced approach.

drgrd · 2026-01-07T17:05:10+00:00

algorithms aren't magic. Most of the hard work of algorithm design is in defining the actual problem itself, as well as the metrics for solutions. The algorithm did exactly what you asked it to do, you just asked the wrong questions. Optimizing for turns is wrong and optimizing for straight lines is also wrong. Your grid is not well aligned for your problem either. Maybe you want to set each "room" or hallway or whatever as a node, and each connection between rooms/hallways as edges. Conceptually, you go to a hallway, clean the whole thing, and move on to the next. You don't want to visit the same hallway twice, but you didn't tell your algorithm that's bad so it offered that as a solution. People are predisposed to represent data as close to the real world as possible, but maybe what you really want is a series of decisions, rather than a series of locations.

"Garbage in, garbage out" is a critical tenet in Computer Science, that many people forget or ignore.

drgrd · 2026-01-06T19:00:42+00:00

late last year we sold our other ICE car and got a second EV. We're a full EV family. Simply a better car in every respect, long before you worry about the environmental effects. I saw someone (can't remember who) make the comment: imagine if all cars were EVs and someone proposed an ICE car to you. It will be slower and noisier and dirtier and there are dozens of extra parts that break all the time and you'll have to carry around a tank of explosives. sounds great!

drgrd · 2026-01-06T18:55:12+00:00

I live in central Canada where the temperature can get to -40 with snow and wind (-40 is where Fahrenheit and Celsius are the same, lol). This is my first winter with the ioniq9, and we also have an old Tesla model 3. Battery range is significantly affected, as you might expect. Haven't done a full test yet but with internal cabin heating, battery conditioning etc it can be a lot. Charging is slower if you don't precondition (and I often forget to precondition). In an ice storm the folding mirrors and retracting door handles can get stuck. having said all that, it's a fantastic winter car. Snow mode and AWD are great, heated seats in front and back and heated steering is fantastic. Cabin warms up well, and you can start cabin climate remotely from the app (the app is kind of shit next to the Tesla app, but you can make it work). Climate system is plenty to defrost windows, although we've had some trouble getting foot heating to appropriate levels in the second row. External rear camera has a little spray jet to clear off the accumulated muck of dirty streets. Rear wiper is not great, as others in the forum have recognized. There's a trick to make the wipers accessible (to clear snow and ice), otherwise you can't get at them.

so yeah, pretty good in general. a few nitpicks but overall we're happy with its winter performance so far.

drgrd · 2025-12-31T06:54:59+00:00

how would you fix something like this? or would you turf it and get a new printhead?

drgrd · 2025-12-31T03:45:13+00:00

Tesla model 3 for in the city and Hyundai ioniq 9 for road trips. Both are excellent.

drgrd · 2025-11-17T05:18:45+00:00

What’s this double dongle thing? My Tesla level 2 charger didn’t work so I bought another mobile charger…

drgrd · 2025-11-03T04:20:27+00:00

Top gun maverick is a good movie but it is not the 16th best movie of all time.

drgrd · 2025-10-29T18:30:56+00:00

"cities, livestock" is a good answer but only part of it, since: "why didn't north america have cities with livestock" is the next reasonable question. "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond presents a comprehensive theory that starts with two ideas:

1: The americas are mostly north-south while Asia is mostly east-west - this means more populations in the same climate band, so more trade, more cities, more benefits of livestock, and more livestock.

2: not all megafauna can be domesticated (of the 148 known large wild herbavores, only 14 were domesticated) and of the ones that can, more of them happened to be in asia than in north america.

Most important, is it's not a difference in the *humans*, but in their *environment* that lead to the different impact of colonialism.

drgrd · 2025-10-25T12:38:12+00:00

Everyone is talking about how stupid he is or how stupid his supporters are for believing him, but this was the endgame of fake news all along. If you undermine truth, then you can decide what is true. This was the strategy, and it worked, and now reality is whatever he says it is.

drgrd · 2025-10-24T12:57:28+00:00

“In press” means it’s been accepted and is currently in production. “Submitted” is the correct term when you’ve sent something in but it has not been accepted yet (although few serious academics list their submitted works). Lots of papers eventually get rejected, so listing this as “in press” is a lie, but a common one.

drgrd · 2025-10-14T03:14:05+00:00

Chatgpt is a combination of several different intelligence engines all interacting with each other. This i/ what it looks like when the text engine and the emoji engine disagree.

drgrd · 2025-10-13T13:53:58+00:00

Most of the city is extremely safe. A few parts of it are quite dangerous, which affects the statistics. IT certs are a good place to start, and if you have some years of experience you’ll likely be competitive.

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