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New comment by parenthesis in "Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year"

parenthesis — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:33:29 +0000

What about Microsoft 366?

New comment by parenthesis in "Robert Redford has died"

parenthesis — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:08:23 +0000

Sneakers is from 1992.

New comment by parenthesis in "After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine Is No More"

parenthesis — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:39:13 +0000

Sound on Sound

New comment by parenthesis in "Aristotle – How to live a good life"

parenthesis — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 19:57:02 +0000

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.

New comment by parenthesis in "Casio VZ-1 Algorithms"

parenthesis — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 12:47:17 +0000

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

New comment by parenthesis in "I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened"

parenthesis — Thu, 30 May 2024 09:35:18 +0000

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

New comment by parenthesis in "Fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music (2022)"

parenthesis — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 10:40:13 +0000

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).

New comment by parenthesis in "Atari Falcon030"

parenthesis — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:08:07 +0000

Some contemporary reviews:

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

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

New comment by parenthesis in "Films about virtual reality"

parenthesis — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:46:15 +0000

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

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

New comment by parenthesis in "Apple declares last MacBook Pro with an optical drive obsolete"

parenthesis — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 10:04:26 +0000

I'm typing this reply on this

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

which I use for DVD watching every day.

New comment by parenthesis in "C23: A Slightly Better C"

parenthesis — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 22:15:04 +0000

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

New comment by parenthesis in "Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982)"

parenthesis — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 19:43:38 +0000

man operator

New comment by parenthesis in "Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke on Ableton (2016)"

parenthesis — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 19:09:32 +0000

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

New comment by parenthesis in "Synthesis Methods Explained: What Is FM Synthesis?"

parenthesis — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 09:39:47 +0000

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

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

New comment by parenthesis in "Interactive tour of James Clerk Maxwell's house"

parenthesis — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:27:42 +0000

The David Hume Tower has been renamed 40 George Square.

New comment by parenthesis in "The case for never reading the book jacket"

parenthesis — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:12:03 +0000

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

New comment by parenthesis in "I Am Sitting in a Room (1969)"

parenthesis — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:22:59 +0000

Look Mum no Computer did two versions of this:

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

New comment by parenthesis in "Netflix prepares to send its final red envelope"

parenthesis — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:59:41 +0000

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

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

for watching DVDs.

New comment by parenthesis in "Why do so many people hate EU bureaucracy?"

parenthesis — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 17:44:24 +0000

Why do so many people hate the US federal government?

New comment by parenthesis in "An abandoned cabinet full of Kodachrome slides in San Francisco"

parenthesis — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 23:36:19 +0000

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