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by ofalkaed 3y ago
The BSDs are largely not caught up in the battle for becoming a widely used consumer desktop which makes them remarkably consistent from the user/admin standpoint. I have played with FreeBSD on and off for the past 20 years or so and i
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
I did read it and it leaves the question of hardware somewhat up in the air, they seem to be pushing for people forking and modifying their software more than people building new projects from their hardware. They leave open the chance of t
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
I like this, keeps me from forgetting about my favorites and all that I have put in there. Everytime I add something I browse them and generally end up reading a thread and researching a topic instead of sitting on HN.
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
My question would be if they are going to take the time to write a good reference for the hardware so people can use it to develop new projects or will they just dump their software and call it good? They might be able to get me interested
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
While I remember those times fondly and with great nostalgia, I think the Apple ecosystem of the system 7 days hindered my learning, it was just too easy. I could open up AppleScript and hit record, perform some actions and then naively cha
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
BBEdit is one of the few apps I miss from the Mac world. ResEdit/Resourcerer are up there as well, being able to naively open up the resource fork and customize applications and sometimes make massive changes to them was great fun.
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
I would probably question them about their writing process but it would really depend on which Nobel laureate it is. You might want to ask them for proof reading advice. Couldn't resist.
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
The sub title explains it fairly well >Celebrating the Æsthetic Collapse of a Xoomer Subculture He seems to be alluding to how the scene changed in the late 90s and does so throughout the article while giving a brief history of it all. T
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
They are referring to the genesis of the Latin American literary movement commonly referred to as Magical Realism not the general idea of essentially realist stories with magical and fantastic elements which is ancient. Sure we can call mos
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
The Guitar Player Repair Guide by Erlewine is pretty good and goes over a great deal of information, probably would cover most if not all of your needs and will cover most of the information required to fix your mistakes when you make them.
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
The luthier in me cringes at how he goes about this and his considering a cracked soundboard reducing an instrument to firewood, it would not be terribly difficult or expensive to replace a sitar soundboard. I will not comment on the paint
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
They are an invaluable resource just don't get too caught up in trying to understand everything they present, they are introductions and about giving you the tools needed to pursue the study of the field, not about giving you a full ed
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
When ever I am getting into a new topic I try to start with OUP's Very Short Introduction series [0]. They generally do not give good understanding but they orient you in the field and provide extensive bibliographies along with the kn
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
When you provide a quote whose general thrust seems to support your general thrust, and attribute it for both speaker and target, and that speaker's general thrust seems to support your general thrust, and the names dropped essentially
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
And Truman Capote said that regarding a novel which Kerouac worked on for nearly a decade. The scroll for On The Road was the performance of the piece which he had been rehearsing for all those years and had worked everything out before h
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
>I have to think a market will emerge soon for real writing from actual people That market already exists and has existed for quite some time, you make it sound like literature has always been an AI dominated market and salt of the earth
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
So it is the same as every other addiction, not a surprise.
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
Being replaced by technology should give an author a wealth to write about, especially in a time when fears of being replaced by technology is a major topic, AI lacks this simple human connection and will likely always lack it which offers
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
I use ... for user and []_ for root, I would rather not fill up terminal space with information I generally know. I really hate when the prompt causes things to wrap and I do not mind putting pwd or the like to use on those occasions I do n
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
>Hi-Fi recorded the audio as FM on the tape alongside the video signal, if I remember correctly. So they broke the format when HiFi came out, tapes recorded on a HiFi VCR could not be played on a pre-HiFi one? Something like that may hav
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
Don't currently have anything (that I know of) on the web but my current project will get posted here when it is ready, it has aspects which should be of interest to enough people here to make it worth posting. The VCR recordings are m
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
They were most likely hi-fi (weren't all the non-hifi ones coax?) but it would not have mattered if I had used a 2" Studer, bouncing down is not a good way to maintain quality, especially how I was doing it. Most of my gear was fr
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
I think this one is on you and it is a $200 lesson. You might be able to get your money back if you make dealing with your less of a hasel/cheaper than refunding your $200 but do you really want to become one of those people who finds
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
This entry has much to be desired, but at least it has a link to their site. Will have to visit this place some day. http://www.historyingranite.org/
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
My linux setup has barely changed in 20 years and many of my configs are 20 years old now, fairly proud of that. Been using Slackware with ion/notion wm and it frees me from having to relearn things every major release, stays out of th
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
Back in the previous century I used three VCRs as a multitrack audio recorder, I kept spending more money on synths instead getting a proper multitrack and mixer. It started out as a 6 track setup but mixdown was troublesome to say the leas
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
This article is a little misleading and makes vague allusions to water getting shipped from the great lakes to places like California but the agreement we have with Canada prohibits sending the water outside of the watershed (or was it basi
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
US is far to lax when it comes to cars/driving, just take the car and or licence of repeat offenders, make them earn it back. My neighbor was recently complaining to me about how it was unfair that his unpaid parking tickets amounted t
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
The act is not why one becomes a writer, it is the result and the sharing of that result, communication. He complains about one extreme and then swings to the opposite fence and starts talking about natural talent which leaves the overall p
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by ofalkaed 3y ago
They are not difficult to tune and they do tune them but they are used like any other fixed pitch instrument in Indian music, the more easily tuned instruments tune to the more difficult to tune instrument.

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