Why are there 3 Minor Scales? | School of Composition

Because we started with one which is just the aolian mode (natural minor), then sharpened the 7th to get more satisfying harmonic progressions, particularly when leading from chords involving the 7th to the tonic (harmonic minor), then sharpened the 6th as well on the way up to make it sound less weird when singing, but reverted to aolian when desending (melodic minor).

Basically, because they sound good in different contexts.

Wish I'd learnt more music theory.

Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml - The Linoscope Machine

Picrew｜つくってあそべる画像メーカー

doll design via k

Canon Cat - YouTube

The Canon Cat, designed by Jef Raskin and released in 1987, stores what it was displaying when you switch it off, so what when you switch it on again it can show you that screen quickly while it boots in the background. Very funny that Apple ripped *this* feature off, too, when designing how iPhone apps would work in the face of app suspend (send to background) and resume.

Yuna Chun

Artist.

Rosenkrantz (noble family) - Wikipedia

Rosenkrantz Tower in Bergen, and the Hamlet character.

Observations on a strange vegetable - the snake gourd | Kew

Even snake gourds become Buddhas — Shiki

Designing a new PRNG. Rust needs a better non-cryptographic… | by Tom Kaitchuck | Medium

Every so often I revisit the pcg-random vs xoshiro-family rng feud.

Project Zero: A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution

This is so cool. The exploited code is in the JBIG2 image compression algorithm, which lets you apply arbitrary logical operators to arbitrary portions of the image. So the exploit builds a small computer out of logic gates which it can then "run" by applying logical functions to various parts of the image at decompression time.

Gochujang Sauce aka Bibimbap Sauce | The Subversive Table

magic bibimbap sauce.

Easy bibimbap recipe | BBC Good Food

food for my rice cooker

Donut Dilemma 2019

One of the first games I ever played was re-released in 2019 with upgrades to make it work better on the original machine I played it on

Nextstrain / ncov / gisaid / global

covid-19 variant prevalence over time.

SABO tea

This looks nice, includes mugicha, and their stockists also all look like fun places to visit.

A Day in Autumn, by R. S. Thomas

It will not always be like this,
The air windless, a few last
Leaves adding their decoration
To the trees’ shoulders, braiding the cuffs
Of the boughs with gold; a bird preening

In the lawn’s mirror. Having looked up
From the day’s chores, pause a minute,
Let the mind take its photograph
Of the bright scene, something to wear
Against the heart in the long cold.

Sexy weasels in Renaissance art

Famicom Party

Making NES Games in Assembly (hn)

A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine

The joke being that it's easy to find meth but hard to find pseudoephedrine. (HN)

How to Make Writing a Lot Easier | Forge

The manic relentlessness of this is endearing. (HN)

How to disable SMB client-side caching » #bogner.sh

Disable samba caching for Windows talking to Linux

Moiré No More | Hacker News

Really interesting discussion of using inverse Fourier transform to denoise images.

Implicature - Wikipedia

"""
Take for example the following exchange:

A (to passer by): I am out of gas.
B: There is a gas station 'round the corner.

Here, B does not say, but conversationally implicates, that the gas station is open, because otherwise his utterance would not be relevant in the context. Conversational implicatures are classically seen as contrasting with entailments: They are not necessary or logical consequences of what is said, but are defeasible (cancellable). So, B could continue without contradiction:

B: But unfortunately it's closed today.
"""

This is not the first time that B has acted like a jerk on Wikipedia. I think they should start consulting someone else for their examples.

Gallery | executable.graphics

4K graphics gallery, via flopine's shader coding talk

So you want to study philosophy

Interesting to see Meditations listed at the top of the 'most accessible' books.

What's available for you | IDNet

Fibre broadband recommended by an HN person. a) fibre now available to me. b) one-month contract

GitHub - GoogleContainerTools/distroless: 🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system.

GitHub - nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim: Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.

Apparently this plugin will change my life... but only when Debian includes NeoVim 0.5. Life so far unchanged.

Reason · Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.

Interesting ocaml variant which can be compiled to JS, and thus use JS modules. Includes JSX support.

Otta | The only job search that does you justice

Apparently a London-specific (for now) LinkedIn that doesn't suck? I'm sceptical, but not sceptical enough not to bookmark it.

Riga Nativity of Christ Orthodox Cathedral | Latvia Travel

Was a cathedral + observatory, now just a cathedral. Via N

Byzantine Revival architecture - Wikipedia

Cultural unification via N

Home - ftfy: fixes text for you

"ftfy fixes Unicode that’s broken in various ways." (HN)

Why Pakistani Mangoes Are Near-Impossible to Find in the U.S. - Eater

Only last week I was being taunted for not knowing about the perfection that is Pakistani mangoes.

Olivier Messiaen - Wikipedia

"French composer, organist, and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century." (via N)

Shodan Search Engine

This is the public web vulnerability search engine whose name I always forget.

Forever misquoted, Donald Horne dies

"The Lucky Country" is to Australia what "Born in the USA" is the America.

"I was about to write the last chapter of a book on Australia," recalled Horne, who died yesterday, aged 83. "The opening sentence was, 'Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck."'

History of CRPGs

Ongoing project. Via Bryn.

The Signal State on Steam

Nerdy video game recommended by Bryn

Hyenas Hoarded Thousands of Human, Animal Bones in Saudi Arabian Lava Tube | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

“It’s always just the skullcap that survives,” Stewart tells Gizmodo. “[Hyenas] seem to not really be interested in skull caps. We found maybe five or six skullcaps with gnaw marks on them at the site, but only the skullcaps. Nothing else.”

Urban Dictionary: Lucky Pierre

Just learned a 1960s era Tom Lehrer song (I got it from Agnes) contains a reference to slang for 3-way homosexual sex. It’s actually in the context of 3 way homosexual sex, so not too surprising, I guess, but I thought he’d made it up.

Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch

Massive (30x and beyond) sound stretching, written by my colleague at Owlstone.

Nginx: Everything about proxy_pass - DEV Community

Terrible hacks to get nginx not to panic if its upstream isn't resolvable.

RevK®'s ramblings: How not to QR (NHS COVID-19 App)

Fun rant about the NHS Track and Trace QR code.

Home | g Heavy Industries

Keyboards and more via bryn / programming pittance

112 Gripes about the French

Surprisingly level-headed WW2 pamphlet for American soldiers. Via HN.

Kim Lim | Tate

Really like these abstract and geometric woodblock prints.

Franz West: Paßstück, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, March 18–April 26, 2008 | Gagosian

In the early 1970s Franz West began making small-scale assemblages incorporating found materials such as cardboard, bandages, and wire, which he then covered with a coat of plaster and white paint. He called these sculptures Paßstück. West maintained that the viewer must engage with, handle, the sculptures in order to fully experience their "ergonomic" nature. Subsequently Paßstück has been translated as "adaptive" but this does not fully capture its original source as a technical term meaning "parts that fit into each other."

Rummikub - Wikipedia

Rummikub is a tile-based game for 2 to 4 players, combining elements of the card game rummy and mahjong.

PI - Emergence@ASU

Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist interested in the origin of life and how to find life on other worlds. While there are many things to be solved, she is most interested in whether or not there are ‘laws of life’ - related to how information structures the physical world - that could universally describe life here on Earth and on other planets.

Alexander piano- the longest piano in the world

Extra-long piano means that the bass strings can be thinner and looser, meaning they are less "inharmonic" (I think this means the harmonics are not unpleasant) and sound less muddy (especially in chords) than a regular piano. (HN)