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by bazzargh 6y ago
Or alternatively, back then entry level was the Tascam 244 Portastudio, with whatever instruments/mics you could find at a pawn shop. Reverb? Sing in the shower. Way less than 10k. And a lot bands did this... https://en.m.wi
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by bazzargh 6y ago
https://twitter.com/crimeaday/status/739973139539632128 "31 USC §5111(d)(2), 31 CFR §82.1(b) & 82.2(a)(2) make it a federal crime to leave the US with more than $25 worth of pennies in your pocket."
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by bazzargh 6y ago
Donate blood, they'll tell you. The test is pretty simple and you can get home testing kits online if you want to do that instead; but giving blood helps other people too.
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by bazzargh 6y ago
Nope. For example, any issue of the New Yorker is replete with uses of diaresis (see eg https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-... ), and the OED does list fiancé; née and naïve are also pretty
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by bazzargh 7y ago
It predates smartphones by at least a decade, maybe several decades. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/488450/etymology...
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by bazzargh 7y ago
A couple of things: - the 'noon' photo is taken at night - the '10:26am' photo shows shadows on the windowsill from the south and west - Pier 38 runs almost west->east from shore. (something on the shore reflecting li
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Measuring mutexes, spinlocks and how bad the Linux scheduler is(probablydance.com)
331 points by bazzargh 7y ago|93 comments
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by bazzargh 7y ago
There's a copy of the same effect at a lower pitch without the 'twinkly bits' under the name 'Electronic Signals. (Computer atmosphere.)' - I guess that's the original. There's a few with this name, and th
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by bazzargh 7y ago
They're both there, but under Stews. https://www.tasteatlas.com/Stews ...I grew up eating Irish Stew and thought of it more as a soup too
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by bazzargh 7y ago
You can also visit the National Library of Scotland Map Room in Edinburgh - they have a mindboggling 1.5 million sheet maps. https://www.nls.uk/collections/maps While they don't sell originals, they do reproductio
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by bazzargh 7y ago
sorry I didn't see your replies sooner, thanks for taking the time to respond. As the other response said, it's about not knowing where to begin. The nephew I had in mind is a complete newb, if he hit this site he'd be lost i
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by bazzargh 7y ago
there's something very messed up with the organisation here. I tried two articles as entry points to see if this would be good for some of my nephews an nieces; the first was the first article in the 'Beginner' tag, which tur
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by bazzargh 7y ago
you can see the strange claim here: http://web.archive.org/web/20110702084440/http://www.ambigra... "The Ambigram deck itself seems impossible at first, and in fact, it would have been impossible j
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by bazzargh 7y ago
The Aria attributes can be used to block at least some of the junk, eg in ublock origin: twitter.com##div[aria-label="Timeline: Trending now"] twitter.com##aside[aria-label="Who to follow"] twitter.com##a[aria
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by bazzargh 7y ago
The title and slug are related but not tied together. It's quite common to visit slug-based sites and find the slug is a relic of the original title. In addition, slugs have to be unique when used this way, but titles don't. eg a
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by bazzargh 8y ago
you're not wrong, but I installed bookmarklets on my ipad mini to increase and decrease font size because of _HN_, which sets lower-than-normal font sizes. My eyesight isn't great, but this site is the absolute pits for undersized
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by bazzargh 8y ago
The data linked in the article suggests a different, less headline-grabbing cause: perhaps Oath's obnoxious cookie banner? The statista figures showed the downturn starting well before december: https://www.statista.com&#x2F
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by bazzargh 8y ago
Since the problem is the aspect ratio, I just turned on the dev tools sidebar, so the content area is now taller than it is wide, that worked.
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by bazzargh 8y ago
My reading of that is that they compared apples and oranges. They didn't use NLP there at all (stemming, parts of speech tagging, etc); they just relaxed handling of whitespace. The Nevod 'equivalent' was a less general expre
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by bazzargh 8y ago
on the maps front it annoys me they're all silos, and there isn't, at the very least, easy switching between map apps for the same coordinates&zoom. The location api exposes a notion of 'here'/'location&#x2
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by bazzargh 8y ago
He talks about the process here (for Karateka) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnutf4XObWk Not mentioned in the video, but the process for getting from the tracing paper to digital was a Versawriter tablet, which looks like
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by bazzargh 8y ago
As well as other things people have mentioned, it's more complicated than that. The Land Registry doesn't cover the whole UK - just England and Wales - and only about 85% of property. It registers mostly transfers by sale, or long
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by bazzargh 9y ago
I recall seeing some computer animation to this effect in a documentary (in the UK) about the Millennium tower tilting - searching on that brought up some confirmation in the form of a press release by the TJPA: http://tjpa.org&#
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by bazzargh 9y ago
On the basis that the information simply isn't available, it doesn't appear in any court publications. eg a recent UK Supreme Court case was: 'R (on the application of HC) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for Work and Pension
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Mezzo is a Haskell library and embedded DSL for music description(github.com)
7 points by bazzargh 9y ago|0 comments
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by bazzargh 9y ago
That noise is missing in clients like Tweetbot, but to use the website these days I have a bunch of ublock rules: https://gist.github.com/bazzargh/7fced928736890eef1f4bd302c7... ... including those annoying favourites-
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by bazzargh 9y ago
If any of y'all liked the idea of this project for your kids but not the roadkill aspect, "Make Your Own Dinosaur Out of Chicken Bones" http://www.levins.com/bonebooks.shtml ... is a fun project. And instead
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by bazzargh 9y ago
Not that hard. I wrote a thing... jeez... 20 odd years ago https://ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pstab?lang=en ... which let you typeset guitar tablature, chords, and so on. I expect you really mean: find a way to
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by bazzargh 9y ago
Orwell isn't wrong in this case... because the quote wasn't Orwell. Who actually came up with it is lost to the mists of time https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/20/news-suppress/ Orwell did
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by bazzargh 9y ago
The article says the longest Christmas song is 16.5 mins... not even close. I know, it's just the songs that matched their keywords... but Lindstrøm did a Christmas-cheer-draining 42 minute long version of Little Drummer Boy a few year

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