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by mastazi 5y ago
Because I think that on a theoretical level, both el. piano and tonewheel organ are a solved problem (honestly I don't think that there are aspects of simulating a Rhodes that we're not aware of because they haven't been disc
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by mastazi 5y ago
Yes I can see why you would say that, however I wouldn't go as far as saying "solved". Personally, I certainly can't hear the difference between the real thing and a (good) simulation, but are we sure that if you give a
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by mastazi 5y ago
> I guess there are enough in existence for those that want them I guess you are in North America, which is probably the only region in the world where this is the case. Here in Australia you can get a Hammond from the US but you have to
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by mastazi 5y ago
I wonder if anyone will resurrect the classic tonewheel organ. AFAIK Hammond Suzuki is currently focusing exclusively on digital emulations and the only mechanical devices they still produce are rotary speakers under the Leslie brand.
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by mastazi 5y ago
the mention of "staff" in the last sentence of the post suggests that it's about a prison
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by mastazi 5y ago
I think that parent was describing life inside a prison, but out of solitary confinement, not life in general, this sentence of their post suggests it: "and totally not just because the staff were lazy and this allowed them to do zero
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by mastazi 5y ago
I come from Italy where controlled fires are not common because there is a widespread belief that forests should be left "untouched" as much as possible, and that it would take many years for a forest to recover from fire, even a
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Fighting fire with fire: can Aboriginal knowledge save the world from burning?(economist.com)
2 points by mastazi 5y ago|1 comments
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by mastazi 5y ago
Freetube can play age restricted videos (it has worked for me so far). I'm not sure how they do it, I suspect it has to do with the Invidious API somehow.
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Cloudflare to Acquire Area 1 Security to Expand Its Zero Trust Platform(cloudflare.com)
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by mastazi 5y ago
On desktop: https://freetubeapp.io/
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by mastazi 5y ago
> right-wing Ask a few self-professed conservatives if they agree with the Economist and see what they say.
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by mastazi 5y ago
> the Economist seems to hide their agenda I think that they are pretty clear about their agenda to be honest. E.g. they explained and even gave a name to their stance ("extreme centre"), they openly endorse candidates in many
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by mastazi 5y ago
Why do you have to express your opinion in the form of a personal attack? Been a long day? I hope you have a better one tomorrow.
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by mastazi 5y ago
> wasteful business that is, honestly at this point, simply making more landfill. I'm pretty sure that, on average, web pages rot much faster than the time it takes a book to reach the landfill. I have lots of books that I got used,
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by mastazi 5y ago
You will probably have to uninstall the Google Play version and reinstall through sideloading
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Year later, Ingenuity helicopter still going strong on Mars – Space(space.com)
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by mastazi 5y ago
Wow this is very interesting, thank you for the explanation > "it applies a diff between a specified commit and its parent on top of your current work" this is in line with my intuitive understanding which was based purely on u
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by mastazi 5y ago
> Many people have a naive trust of free services. I don't think that that's particularly true of HN readership though. If GP's comment was on a more mainstream forum e.g. Reddit, then I would agree with you, but as it sta
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by mastazi 5y ago
Yes, I agree about distant commits and turning it into a patch. Thank you for explaining the three-way merge between baseline, commit and common ancestor, makes sense.
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by mastazi 5y ago
> In git, every commit is a snapshot and not a delta. I know this, but also I cannot reconcile this whit what happens when you cherry-pick a commit from another branch. I'm confused because cherry-pick really seems to be taking out
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Volta Trucks raises $260M to fund electric vehicle launch(reuters.com)
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by mastazi 5y ago
my biological clock seems to be 4 or 5 years max in an organisation and about 10 years max in a given career (sw development is my third "career" so to speak, what I did before was completely unrelated; I'm already planning t
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by mastazi 5y ago
Nice, thank you I will look into those
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by mastazi 5y ago
Thank you good list, and yeah I get that it's a closed source system but wouldn't it be cool if the FOSS community was able to reverse engineer it? Thanks I'll look into the alternatives you linked
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by mastazi 5y ago
Is there something like a chromecast "server"? What I mean: I have a Linux box connected to my TV - I want to know if there is a way to cast from a phone to the Linux box, by installing some software on the linux box that makes it
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by mastazi 5y ago
Yeah, I was wondering the same, I know for sure it's not the industry I'm in, which is now "mature" and boring. It's probably something we're not even familiar with because it's so niche. Or maybe it is so
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by mastazi 5y ago
> In these years, Cherry recalls, the potential of the computer had barely been tapped, and if asked what she did for a living, she would say that her job was to “see what kind of neat new things I can make the computer do, and in those
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by mastazi 5y ago
Congrats Linode. I switched back to Linode after a few years on Digitalocean (I wanted the server to be located in my country and Linode offers that), I was really happy to see how much it has evolved since the last time I had used it circa
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by mastazi 5y ago
I have a similar habit, I often search "[topic] forum" - I'm not fond of Reddit specifically due to accessibility issues although in some cases I still go there because it's the only good source.

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