abap_rocky

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by abap_rocky 3mo ago
> Can you imagine a venue refusing entry to former clients 2% of the time just because they’ve “improved their experience”? This reminds me almost precisely of the dynamics of pro sports in the US and how fans are getting priced out of a
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by abap_rocky 6mo ago
Yeah, also the fact that most venues take a cut of merch sales really dampens the idea that buying merch directly from artists is the best way to put money in their pocket. I even recall going to a show many years ago where the lead singer
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by abap_rocky 6mo ago
I was reading an interview with the band "Agriculture" recently and they had a really interesting take on this. From this interview https://www.treblezine.com/agriculture-interview-quiet-viole... : "DM: We ex
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by abap_rocky 1y ago
Sure, when you compare a "nice suburb" to a "rough area" of the city you'll come to such conclusions. But if the city you lived in is anything like mine, that disorder you experienced is likely highly localized to t
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by abap_rocky 1y ago
This music video perfectly captures the essence of 16-inch softball. I believe Serengeti still plays in a Chicago 16-inch league to this day.
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by abap_rocky 1y ago
One of the most recent inter-city routes to open, the Borealis service between Chicago and St. Paul, far surpassed expected ridership levels in its first year servicing 212K passengers over a projected 155K [1]. This comes despite the fact
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by abap_rocky 1y ago
Literally had the same experience this past weekend driving out to the Chicago suburbs. Doesn't matter if general traffic is going 15 over, you're still going to have a handful of unsatisfied daredevils just blowing past at 30 or
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by abap_rocky 2y ago
I'm glad you mentioned Genesis because they're the subject of one of my favorite samples. OutKast's famous track "SpottieOttieDopaliscious" contains a sample from Genesis's "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
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by abap_rocky 2y ago
My personal favorite is a provider that opted to have a separate endpoint for refesh tokens rather than following the spec and using the token endpoint with a refesh token grant type.
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by abap_rocky 2y ago
The author of this article lives in La Grange which is a relatively wealthy Chicago Suburb (this is public information on her Twitter profile). Using those same 2019 FBI crime stats referenced in that Wikipedia article, you can find that La
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by abap_rocky 3y ago
This is precisely what I do and it's great. Built myself a workstation desktop last year that I wanted to access remotely via an older laptop and it's worked beautifully, even when I was out in Europe for a week last summer.
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by abap_rocky 4y ago
When my then 4 month-old was hospitalized with RSV last year, the medical staff told us the main issue with RSV in very young children (under 6 months) is that their respiratory system is still immature. That is, their airways are still ver
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by abap_rocky 4y ago
My favorite thing about the touchscreen on the used car I bought 2 years ago is how the lower third of the screen no longer accepts any input. Given that many important buttons and options are only present on this region of the screen, I&#x
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by abap_rocky 4y ago
It's easy to imagine how Twitter can be worse because you can just look at Facebook.
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by abap_rocky 5y ago
The pandemic really helped me confirm that I prefer the office. I always sought to establish a clear distinction between my work life and home life and the enforced work from home due to COVID has made the two blur to a point now where I fe
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by abap_rocky 5y ago
Yep, I remember that post as well. Was described as "Do-nothing scripting" and I've applied the concept as well. Original Article: https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-...
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by abap_rocky 5y ago
Presumably you don't park all of these cars at your residence. If so, I can imagine that factors into your difficulty in finding rentals.
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by abap_rocky 5y ago
I think there's merit to deliberately teaching concepts like analyzing the source of a particular news story. Coincidentally, it was an AP Euro course I took at my Illinois Highschool that first made me aware of such a concept. My teac
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by abap_rocky 5y ago
The problem with aggregators like this is they themselves have their own implicit bias in how they define the boundaries of the left and right. While sites like The Federalist and Breitbart may offer an accurate sampling of palatable far ri
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by abap_rocky 6y ago
I agree 100%. I think hip-hop in particular makes it very easy to trace these relations with it's heavy use of samples and collaboration. For example, Common's Album "Be" is the album that started me on my path back in 2
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by abap_rocky 7y ago
Is there a reason you chose a link to the Media Research Center for the polling on healthcare rather than the poll itself[1]? The Media Research Center (MRC) is unapologetically opposed to left-wing ideas. From their About Us[2] section: &g