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by mmastrac 2y ago
> 5. Archiving the converted perfectly tagged FLACs to Bluray discs, as soon as the archive size hits 25GB Do you have a rec for any long-life BR discs?
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The Embedded Rustacean Issue #20(theembeddedrustacean.com)
1 points by mmastrac 2y ago|0 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
It's a miraculous project. I have something like 300+ albums from 170+ artists and it tooks me only a few days to cleanly retag everything, with about 99% of the albums just working.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40312895
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When allocating unused memory boosts performance by 2x(quickwit.io)
5 points by mmastrac 2y ago|0 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
That is a blast from the past. MP3tag is older than Web 2.0, Twitter, Facebook and is still actively maintained. https://web.archive.org/web/20010502171211/http://www.mp3tag... My workflow back in the da
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by mmastrac 2y ago
They seem to have a union already. From what I can tell FTA, the ones who got a raise are "UAW 2865" and the ones who didn't are "The University Council-American Federation of Teachers".
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by mmastrac 2y ago
No implication. One union got a raise and the other seems to be following suit. The whole thing seems to be unfair right now but will likely be fixed: > The University Council-American Federation of Teachers, the union that represents UC
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by mmastrac 2y ago
It sounds like they are just two different unions? > That’s because after 48,000 graduate students, postdocs, and researchers in the University of California system went on strike in 2022 and won pay increases and expanded benefits, some
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by mmastrac 2y ago
4089460. No idea why that number is stuck in my brain.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
The League of Nations existed, but was an abject failure for a number of reasons and failed to prevent WWII. The UN is probably the most successful international union because of its pragmatic approach, but it seems like most international
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Lithium Ion fires are no joke but I thought the crews on international flights were able to disassemble the seats? I've only ever done a trip once on a lie-flat seat, but it was malfunctioning and the attendants basically had to work t
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466429
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I don't think I'm contradicting myself - I think the UN is a mutually-beneficial, shared illusion that works only when the major powers that go into it believe that it works. The most cynical view of the UN is that it is a club of
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This is sad news. I spoke with him about one of the startups he founded/invested in (clect) a few years back. He was an extremely smart guy, very nice, and a wonderful human. Regardless of what you think of his documentaries, he was an
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466590
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by mmastrac 2y ago
It's just how things work. The League of Nations failed largely because it lacked the participation and support of major powers. The United States, despite being a principal architect of the League, never joined [1]. This lack of parti
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by mmastrac 2y ago
One of the interesting reasons that the UN Security Council has vetoes is to prevent this sort of situation with Israel and Russia where the court appears powerless because the powers simply ignore the rulings, or retaliate against the cour
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Breakdown (2018)(futilitycloset.com)
26 points by mmastrac 2y ago|3 comments
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Apple: Password Manager Resources(github.com)
2 points by mmastrac 2y ago|1 comments
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BitKeeper, Linux, and licensing disputes: How Linus wrote Git in 14 days(graphite.dev)
8 points by mmastrac 2y ago|3 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Sheesh - the dude sounds like he's just making up excuses now that he was caught. > Kramer defended his actions after his role was revealed by an NBC News article. "Kramer claimed he planned the fake robocall from the start as
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This is great, but the laws need the companies to demonstrate that they actually intend to pay individuals the rates at the high end of postings. There's enough meme pictures of jobs with a salary in the range of 9,999-999,999 that thi
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Ask yourself: is this really a productive comment? You've got an open-source author that has put a lot of effort into providing something people can use, for free, and your comment above is the toxicity they get in response? Are you re
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by mmastrac 2y ago
The whole drama was pretty silly, and the fact that everyone got upset that a feature that is inactive by default, consumes no processing power, memory or anything else and bullied the author of the open-source program should make everyone
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Papers with Code RSS Feeds(jamesg.blog)
3 points by mmastrac 2y ago|0 comments
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Biden Moves to Secure CHIPS Act Funding for Kenya(datacenterknowledge.com)
2 points by mmastrac 2y ago|0 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Headline was click-baity "'Absolute miracle' breakthrough provides recipe for zero-carbon cement" but science is interesting. Paper's title is "Electric recycling of Portland cement at scale" https:/
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Mixing old concrete in steel furnaces purifies iron and makes reactivated cement(newatlas.com)
1 points by mmastrac 2y ago|2 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Ah yes, the two modes of disk erase failure: 1) the "quick format" that just re-wrote the FAT and root directory, leaving data, and 2) the immediately recognizable 0xE5 (σ in the 437 codepage). I used to use the Norton disk editor

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