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by smcnally 4y ago
Topics include Issues and activities across projects. These topics are quite active, e.g. https://github.com/topics/crawling https://github.com/topics/web-scraping https://github.com&#x
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> … the sort of spit & polish that doesn't happen, IMO, anymore, because everything is an MVP feature, before the agile scrum PM moves on to the next MVP feature. "Polish" just accumulates in the JIRA graveyard.
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> I use FFmpeg every few weeks, which is not often enough to remember all the commands I need. Very Much this. Even the `ffmpeg` incantations I use frequently are tough to recall -- like creating a gif `ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vf &quo
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https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut exposes more ffmpeg params.
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by smcnally 4y ago
> You can see this issue in play easily on soundcloud where people will tag their music with whatever tags they think will get their tracks played. When a Lo-Fi Chillwave stream also includes Grindcore Death Metal tracks, it’s an especia
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by smcnally 4y ago
I like The Last Kingdom a lot and have watched Russian Doll, Rise of Empires, and Roman Empire through, but tastes vary and inference is difficult.
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Netflix has worked to infer predictable returns by using ratings and habits from its 222MM subscribers. They model potential market size against production and marketing costs, assess risk, and make decisions informed by all of it. Lots tha
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> Shows need to be pitched and run for three seasons max with this as the case, they’ll likely be wrapped at the end of S03. There’s not much to be done if they’re cancelled before S03.
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macos Preview.app is a good bar. If Okular helps Crop screenshots, Rename image files from the thumbnail side panel or title bar of the same screen I’m viewing them, and Easy “Create Copy” from an image I’ve already changed, I’ll be happier
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by smcnally 4y ago
“And And! And.” was Outspan Foster’s band before joining “The Commitments”[0] and later The Frames (as Glen Hansard). The screenplay was written before gDocs. [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101605/quotes/qt
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> This is one area where incentives don't align correctly for open source projects that offer commercial support. This is true in some[0] cases. It's also true that documentation is key source of customer acquisition and retent
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It’s more organic than most available fonts. It gets smudgy, but Year 1 is widely usable and Years 2 through 4 will have their places.
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A release would be good, but there are build instructions https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive#developer-instal... Not clear on what the build gets us from the roadmap https://github.com/spacedri
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There’s much to dive into here — ty — from Steve’s “Systems … where it is all about interfaces and trade-offs” to points you make throughout supporting his conclusion > we define a stable interface > reproduce behaviour reliably >
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To <7 degrees! > … down to its final operating temperature of less than 7 kelvins
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by smcnally 5y ago
> code review workflows I see nothing about review workflows in Eden’s README. Any pointers to example tooling — Presentations, code, screenshots — in the wild?
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by smcnally 5y ago
It’s interesting how many iMovie defaults you have to un-check — Ken Burns, Stretch to Fit, Fit length to Soundtrack, e.g. — to produce what you want because the defaults were selected by people who know what they’re doing. VLC logs its ffm
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by smcnally 5y ago
100% re ProTools, Logic and other DAWs that share core UX paradigms with analog tape recorders like Tascam. When GarageBand moved away from this core, I dug into Live. Amazing, powerful and complicated. “Plug in, arm track, record” is still
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by smcnally 5y ago
After giving birth, lactation continues for ~as long the mother is healthy and being milked.
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> Of the original Commodore 64 design team … Albert Charpentier, Robert Yannes, and Charles Winterble, along with David Ziembicki and Bruce Crocket … left Commodore in the spring of 1983 and formed what became Ensoniq which became part o
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by smcnally 5y ago
There’s a release available in the store[0]. It’s been working well. [0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zotero/id1513554812
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> an iOS app! And Zotero’s on the `Share Sheet` —- saving to Zotero works from Firefox iOS which doesn’t do plugins. Excellent.
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c.f. “It’s raining.” “What's raining?”
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~no regwall https://medium.economist.com/why-are-the-economists-writers-... and previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14015708
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by smcnally 5y ago
That’s a specific editorial decision[0] to present work in The Economist’s voice rather than the individual journalists’. [0] https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/09/04/...
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gTakeout[0] also includes this file meta and allows incremental downloads. Ingesting from a local Takeout archive as an additional source for your tool mitigates some of this auth wonkiness and depreciations. [0] https://takeout.g
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HTML specs say you can do what you’re saying. The tools and most publishers haven’t focused on implementing annotations and edits well.
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Making docs discoverable is good, and this works well for retrieving mostly static documentation and tickets. It gets complicated when when resulting items are used for troubleshooting or new documentation and tickets. When results, e.g., i
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> Let's hope Verizon doesn't fuck it up. The owner is now Automattic https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20804894/tumblr-acquisiti...
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There are very clever contextual UI / UX features, gestures for fine-grain control of faders, levels, balance. JP Music UK video from LoopyPro.com https://youtu.be/zz2Ggzd1QDo

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