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3y ago
I haven't seen it mentioned here, but Drill Rap from the UK has had an explosion in popularity in recent years. Hip-hop has always been a huge trend setter in American culture, and for once, one of the strongest influences to the curre
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4y ago
There's a reason my personal PC's name is 'theseus'
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6y ago
"For me, the biggest question is whether visitors will be able to get travel / health insurance to cover them in New Zealand." Or the NZ healthcare system could just cover visitors with the understanding that the benefit outw
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6y ago
You have an assistant though? How is my uber eats driver any different in that case?
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7y ago
The best example of this is Tommy Cooper, a British magician / comedian known for his slapstick style. He'd often stumble steps in his act, or mess up on purpose so you could never really tell what was planned or not. When he had
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7y ago
this is great advice!
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7y ago
or just: cat -n file
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8y ago
I can't speak highly enough of RA, they've been a key part of my music discovery and insight into so many of the artists I follow.
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8y ago
Its more like a software interrupt that prevents the bytes in memory being read or executed. That's a level of safety over what you get in C, where a buffer overflow can lead to remote code execution or data leakage.
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8y ago
I used to have a math class in the building housing this, used to walk past it a few times a week :D
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8y ago
^ Your line of code is 85 characters though.. Would you bother to split this line somewhere? (if trying to conform to an 80char limit)
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8y ago
> We technically have some programming "simulators" for Assembly programming puzzlers. I'm guessing you've seen / are referring to TIS-100? http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/
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8y ago
Super helpful comment! Thanks for taking the time to outline that so clearly.
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8y ago
I found this site for comparing my mixes to the requirements of different streaming sites before uploading: https://www.loudnesspenalty.com/
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8y ago
I had the realization that I may lose some specific music one day, but I'll always have access to new music
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8y ago
I'd be interested to check out a couple examples too
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8y ago
cloc is another commonly used package. It handles multiple languages and has a nice, readable output format.
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8y ago
(Full disclosure: I run a small business making and selling flavoured e-cigarette liquid) The levels of diacetyl from a conventional cigarette can be around 750x that of what you'd get from an e-cigarette containing such a flavouring.
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8y ago
Nexus 6p from late 2015
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8y ago
I lived as both the youngest (older brother and sister from my mother) for the first half of my childhood, and then the oldest (younger brother and stepsister from my father) for the latter half. I never once lived with both older and young
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8y ago
Parent comment could refer to self study in a domain until they know enough about what's in front of them to better tackle the problem.
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8y ago
close enough? :P https://www.winehq.org/
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9y ago
I disagree from personal experience. Smoke is harsh and never tasted appealing to me. Vaping at a low nicotine level is a much more enjoyable experience.
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9y ago
"how much of an audio API can you have if you stipulate that all user-specified code must run in the UI thread?" I just threw up in my mouth a little :/
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9y ago
Perhaps a more relevant question would be: If you found out your kid tried mushrooms, do you think they'd deserve criminal charges and jail time?
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9y ago
This is exactly what should have been done, but requires a longer term commitment, as well as releasing _some_ control while still alive. (both of which I think are a good thing in context)
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9y ago
> Do you remember Lotus Notes? looks at dock icon Unfortunately, yes :P
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9y ago
> There's a natural progression from Bash to Perl to Python, each more powerful than the previous. As someone who moved in the opposite direction, I can't disagree more strongly. Python is great if you want to write programs, b
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10y ago
Adding to the suggestions here, there's another benefit to playing with hardware. If they start plugging in basic effects pedals, they'll learn about signal flow and signal chains that are relevant to all styles. There's no f
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10y ago
There are restrictions, but they're quite flexible. I have a main PC and a couple laptops I switch between, and have no issues. You can activate 2 systems permanently, which is managed simply from the web UI. (revoke activations) Oth
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