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by pilaf 3y ago
Are you talking about firsthand accounts? Because Venezuela in the last decade has seen close to 20% of their population leave [1]. Argentina's emigration is nowhere near those numbers (yet). 1: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by pilaf 3y ago
As someone who's used to using open source video editors which tend to feel pretty lightweight (Shotcut, Kdenlive, Olive, even Blender), but who sometimes needs slightly more advanced features than those can offer, my initial impressio
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by pilaf 3y ago
I think both you and the article are correct. Here's a bit more context [1], it seems both Ruby and Coral were considered in part due to their connection with Perl, and in the end Ruby won because it "sounds better" and also
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by pilaf 3y ago
They may have them, it just didn't cross my mind so I went straight for the junk hardware stores. I had an afternoon to kill anyway and had fun looking at all the weird Japanese retro hardware.
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by pilaf 3y ago
I recently went looking for floppy disks in Akihabara, Tokyo. I needed them for a photography project and I didn't want to buy an entire box off Amazon (yeah, they are still available) since I only needed 2 at most. Despite Akihabara h
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by pilaf 3y ago
> And not that it is even an interesting question but my take is no this is not a simulation. Way too much detail. Even if some civilization had the resources to run a simulation the size of our universe it would be a massive waste to do
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by pilaf 3y ago
Perhaps not you or I, but collectively wouldn't we want to try to communicate with those outside running the simulation?
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by pilaf 3y ago
Exactly. It was also one of the first mainstream web apps to make widespread use of XMLHttpRequest. The term AJAX hadn't even been coined at the time of Gmail's release, and it was probably a major factor in the popularization of
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by pilaf 3y ago
I've had a couple "scares" like that, i.e. an entire window full of open tabs disappearing (usually closing it by mistake), but normally they come back with just a Ctrl+Shift+T. Not saying that's what happened to you, ju
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by pilaf 3y ago
Is your JS clone published somewhere?
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by pilaf 3y ago
Jump'n'Bump was awesome. I played it so often back then that I made a GUI launcher for it, since you could change various settings through command line flags only. Brainchild Design[0], the studio that made it, had some other fun
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by pilaf 3y ago
There is also GUSANOS[0], which is no longer maintained, but from my understanding OpenLieroX merged many of its features into its codebase. [0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/gusanos/
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by pilaf 3y ago
Open letters considered harmful?
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by pilaf 3y ago
He didn't even resign, he asked for PTO until the end of his mandate (December 10).
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by pilaf 3y ago
I thought that my use case was too particular, since Ardour's focus is in music production, and that made me shy away from reporting it as I wasn't even sure I could call it a bug. But you're right, I should've.
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by pilaf 3y ago
Japanese is the only script I'm familiar with (other than Latin), and it's very clear to me that the person who drew the hiragana characters in this book wasn't familiar with them as they only vaguely resemble the actual char
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by pilaf 3y ago
Hey Paul! Thanks so much for Ardour first of all, and double thanks for this awesome generosity. I didn't know about interview mode, I'll read up on it. Looking forward to 8.1!
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by pilaf 3y ago
I just realized you're an Ardour developer, so thank you for the awesome piece of free software, and I hope my comment didn't sound too whiny. I love Ardour and still recommend it to other podcasters at every chance I have, especi
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by pilaf 3y ago
In Ardour 5 I am able to simply slide the playback speed slider ("shuttle speed control") to start playing at >1x speed, and after releasing the mouse button it keeps on playing at that speed. In v6+ the sliding part still work
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by pilaf 3y ago
I'm not a musician, but I've been happily using Ardour to edit a podcast for many years now (paying for a subscription the whole time too) and I really like the workflow I arrived at with it. One particular feature I like is the a
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by pilaf 3y ago
Why is Esperanto in the natural languages list? Is it not constructed?
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by pilaf 3y ago
The second version of the Sally prompt reported on the benchmark has GPT4 giving the correct answer: > Sally has 3 brothers. Each of these brothers has 2 sisters. This means that there are 2 girls in the family, including Sally. Therefor
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by pilaf 3y ago
Just to add clarification: 柔術 is the martial art, while 呪術 means sorcery. The first kanji in 呪術 means curse, so while "sorcery" could be a cool name for a software project in English, a Japanese speaker would probably have apprehe
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by pilaf 3y ago
I think it's safe to assume that the Portuguese "pão" (bread) was pronounced much closer to "pan" around the time they made contact with Japan, and that's what stuck in Japan while the Portuguese pronunciation
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by pilaf 3y ago
That was technically impressive no doubt, but I think it was itself probably inspired by Windows' explorer.exe, which used to work the same way: you could enter an HTTP address in the file explorer address bar and suddenly it became a
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by pilaf 3y ago
TIL, thanks for the explanation.
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by pilaf 3y ago
That doesn't sound right, 4000 tons is more than 10 times the maximum takeoff weight of a 777.
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by pilaf 3y ago
For any Spanish speakers in here, I got inspired by this and borrowed Mark Dominus' code to find the "best anagram" in Spanish, my results are here: https://github.com/pilaf/anagramas And here are the to
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by pilaf 4y ago
> But Fairbanks told the Los Angeles Record that he intended to show “the South Americans as we think of them rather than as they are.” Reminds me of another movie, Down Argentine Way (1940), which literally opens with Carmen Miranda doi
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by pilaf 4y ago
> You can't build a modal with Rails. I must've dreamed up the dozens of times I did. Unless you mean you still need JS to build the modal, which is true but I doubt GP was implying that you shouldn't use JS whatsoever. Yo

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