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It's okay to cover Hallelujah ‘badly’ – Re Tantacrul, and the interpretation of music
In a 2017 video titled Hallelujah – How to Cover it Badly, designer, composer and music YouTuber Tantacrul (Martin Keary) explains how 40% of covers of Hallelujah are ‘bad covers’ and ‘[screw] up’. I greatly enjoy Tantacrul's content on the whole, but I couldn't… »
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Using apitrace with GStreamer 1.x to convert OpenGL captures to video
Background
apitrace is a set of tools to trace and replay OpenGL API calls. Using it, we can capture the output of applications like glava (an OpenGL-based audio visualiser), and later replay it or save it to a video file.
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ledger-pyreport: Formal accounting reports for ledger-cli
Ledger is a powerful command-line plain-text double-entry bookkeeping system. It is agnostic as to higher-level accounting principles, which makes it a very versatile tool for a wide variety of use cases, but does create challenges when extracting formal accounting reports. For example, Ledger struggles to… »
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Incorrect accounting of unrealised gains in ledger-cli
Problem 1
Consider the following Ledger journal:
… »2019-07-01 Opening balances Assets:Current:Cash at Bank $1000.00 Equity:Opening Balances 2019-07-02 Application Assets:Current:International Account 100.00 EUR @ $1.10 Assets:Current:Cash at Bank 2019-08-02 Application Assets:Current:International Account 100.00 EUR @ $1.05 Assets:Current:Cash at Bank 2019-09-02 Redemption Assets:Current:Cash at Bank $57.50 Assets:Current:International -
Broken Uno house rules; or, the importance of systems thinking, rather than ‘reasoning by Lego’
House rules are a staple of card and board games, and Uno is no exception. Recently with friends, we played some games of Uno, observing a common house rule:
… »House Rule 1. A player who incorrectly calls ‘Uno’ must draw two cards.1 (Each player