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  • I’m trying to figure out if you have a misplaced modifier with “obscure, lesser known”. You have it modifying “country” in the title. In other words, you want musicians of any level of renown who come from a lesser known country.

    However, you mention Fela Kuti, who is from Nigeria, which is not a lesser known country. You would have to be very ignorant of basic world geography to not have heard of Nigeria.

    And, as usual, commenters are completely ignoring your criteria by mentioning musicians from Germany and New Zealand and Columbia and Vietnam.

    So perhaps you meant obscure musicians instead of obscure countries, but that would still leave me wondering what subset of countries you intended? Just countries other than your own? But if so, I don’t know what country you are in.




  • I’m not debating. It is not a matter of opinion. I’m doing you the courtesy of informing you how the entire rest of the world uses the term.

    If action A looks for thing X, and it finds thing X, then the test is positive. If action A fails to find thing X, then the test is negative.

    If action A claims to find thing X, but later confirmation determines that thing X is not really there, then this situation is called “false positive”.

    If action A claims fails to find thing X, but later confirmation determines that thing X is actually there, then this situation is called “false negative”.

    That thing X may subjectively be considered an unwanted outcome has **nothing ** to do with the terms used.











  • After all these years I still don’t know how to look at what I’ve coded and tell you a big O math formula for its efficiency.

    I don’t even know the words. Like is quadratic worse than polynomial? Or are those two words not legit?

    However, I have seen janky performance, used performance tools to examine the problem and then improved things.

    I would like to be able to glance at some code and truthfully and accurately and correctly say, “Oh that’s in factorial time,” but it’s just never come up in the blue-collar coding I do, and I can’t afford to spend time on stuff that isn’t necessary.