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by Anthony-G 11mo ago
I'm more a fan of atmospheric black metal, 80's thrash and prog metal, myself but the psychological effects of listening to death metal have been researched. As previously discussed on Hacker News: Dissecting the Bloodthirsty Blis
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by Anthony-G 11mo ago
Thanks for that. I hadn’t come across Jim Lill before. For someone who’s “just a performer”, he knows a lot (about circuits). I found the comparisons of different order of Equalisation and Distortion to be interesting and I loved his Tackle
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by Anthony-G 11mo ago
Upvoted because that seemed like a genuine apology other than this phrase > Whilst we can never put into words how deeply sorry we are To my European ears that comes across as hyperbolic and insincere but maybe it’s fine for an American
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by Anthony-G 11mo ago
Ah. Sorry to hear that. That's very annoying frustrating but I'm glad you were able to restore from backup. I found it confusing that there are now two different sets of profiles and had panicked at first when my original profile
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by Anthony-G 11mo ago
After shutting down Firefox and restarting, I tried the new profile manager UI just now and also thought I had lost my existing profile. Luckily, it was still available from the hamburger menu (just below the “Synchronise all your devices”
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
I upvoted your comment earlier but I figure thanking you explicitly for that advice would be more courteous. So, thanks!
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
Thanks for the clarification about playing to a loop. I have an iPhone and was thinking I could probably learn enough Garageband to create some simple loops that I could play along to. I’m currently at the stage where I’m still working on m
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
Thanks. As a beginner guitarist just starting to get into ear-training, that all sounds like good advice. However, I’m curious as to what you mean by “Put on a loop”? I also looked up Transcribe! and see that they have a Linux installer (
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
I find man pages to be useful when I’m already familiar with the command or topic. For long man pages, I usually get on fine by `grep`ing for relevant key-words. I agree that they are daunting and not so helpful for users who are new to the
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
In addition to the other responses, ChatGPT is more wasteful and uses a lot more computing power than a locally run Base 64 decoder. When masses of people use LLMs for such trivial calculations, the environmental cost adds up.
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
A viral video? (I'll see myself out).
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
I’d broadly agree with this critique but I’ve had some success with Duolingo. About 10 years ago, I used it with the aim of learning enough Spanish to get by for a two-week holiday. While learning useful language constructs (gender of nouns
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
Not true. Until a couple of decades ago, there was very little surveillance of Western European, and if citizens thought about guns at all, antipathy would have been the dominant attitude. Nevertheless, there was very little “bad behaviour”
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
I had never seen Kimmel until I watched the YouTube clip¹ linked elsewhere in this thread earlier today. After doing so, I cancelled my Disney+ subscription, giving “cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel” as the reason and won’t be in any hurry to r
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
I had only heard of Belgravia from watching the Sherlock Holmes TV episode, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scandal_in_Belgravia It looked like a fancy area from that.
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
Also referenced in the article: https://www.npr.org/2010/03/06/124397021/the-woman-behind-my...
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
That was probably de Valera’s worst judgement call and he was strongly advised against it at the time. Still, the actual history is a lot more nuanced than that. There’s no evidence that de Valera was anti-Semitic. His 1937 constitution for
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
I’m reminded of the film Falling Down but I’ve given you an Internet point (upvote) for fighting the good fight. If good people do nothing, evil will triumph. In Ireland, we don’t (yet?) have such devilish instruments of torture but I ima
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
My preferred dash is the en-dash – with a space on either side. I find that many people don’t notice the difference between an en and em-dash but a huge amount more just don’t care.
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
I’ve had similar issues running the latest Firefox (currently 142 as per this discussion) on the latest Fedora (42). I used to be able to lock the screen and go home but I’ve recently had a couple of mornings where I’d come into work and fi
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
The article mentions streams as being a safe source of drinking water for rural communities — as most of the population were during the medieval period. My mother from rural north-west Ireland drank water from a stream for the first 25 year
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German court declares Karl Marx's teachings unconstitutional(harici.com.tr)
56 points by Anthony-G 1y ago|57 comments
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
I saw this earlier today and thought it might be of interest, considering that other German court decisions are currently being discussed on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44912085 Note: the headline is s
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
I bought her the laptop a few years ago from a local, independent retailer who also specialise repairs as I try to support local trade and retailers as much as possible. It came with Windows 10 and the retailers had configured it with local
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
Fair points. Thankfully, I haven't had any of those issues. I run GNU/Linux on all my personal computers but the Windows 10 laptop from work came with Bitlocker installed and other than entering the PIN on start-up, it stays out o
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
> https://xkcd.com/538/ I’m a big fan of XKCD but, in reality, what most people (and employers) worry about is unauthorised third-party access to private data in the event a laptop is lost or stolen (most often by o
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
Me too so I reckon it’s sarcasm.
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
I haven’t followed this issue closely but would lying in court about their ability to remotely modify data not be perjury?
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by Anthony-G 1y ago
Well, resigning to play sudoku is certainly preferable to seppuku. :)
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Never employ a cat. They are 'unreliable, capricious and liable to absenteeism'(irishtimes.com)
7 points by Anthony-G 1y ago|0 comments

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