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by wheels 6y ago
To resolve the confusion: that's British usage. In North America, the thing you're thinking of is called a "camper", and the association most Americans have with the word "caravan" is to a Dodge minivan.
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by wheels 6y ago
Just to throw out an example from a friend's company: online piano lessons. MIDI input in the browser makes it possible for them to tell if you played the correct notes on your keyboard.
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by wheels 6y ago
I'm considering switching to the Air as well. How have the first impressions been? I'm somewhat worried about using an Air for development performance-wise. For me the big factors are that I actually use functions keys (in Emacs
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by wheels 6y ago
There are a few major differences: For the most part, American towns are built next to the roads. If there's not a road, there's not a town. (Alaska is a notable exception.) In Europe, said roads and towns often long predate SU
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by wheels 6y ago
> Think chromium-quality software quality [...] There's an irony somewhere in there that Chromium is a descendant of KHTML, KDE's rendering engine, which became WebKit and was originally written using Qt. And Google and Appl
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by wheels 6y ago
You can install Qt with HomeBrew, and then building (I did it) is just: $ qmake && make Then you'll get a GitQlient.app.
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by wheels 6y ago
In a lot of those cases, the company has decided that the lower tiers do not exist, because they lose money, and part of the point of the sales process is to weed them out. (And even if they do have lower tiers, they don't want to hur
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by wheels 6y ago
I've known more companies start with utility pricing and move to "high touch" sales than companies move the other way. Companies don't want to have that kind of sales process. They usually have to . Some of the mech
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by wheels 6y ago
I find these things horribly annoying too, but here’s what they’re for: They’re there so that the sales person can extract a variable amount of revenue from you based on how much value you’re getting from their system, and how much you can
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by wheels 7y ago
The Food Lab has an article on sous vide eggs, including pasteurizing them with a sous vide circulator: https://www.seriouseats.com/2013/10/sous-vide-101-all-about-... Generally it's a great resource for nerd
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by wheels 7y ago
> It also shows that the administration was listening to experts right from the beginning [...] In times like this, it doesn't hurt that Merkel is a scientist. (She's a former professor of quantum chemistry.) That said, as a
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by wheels 7y ago
You can to some extent. There are a number of tools that attempt to convert from audio to note information (MIDI). As someone who's done some experiments with those, there are some major caveats: - Most people can't sing a melody
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by wheels 7y ago
> The lack of good drum kits and patterns is my current pain point. If you mean electronic drum samples, and are on a Ubuntu-based distro, give Sitala a shot: https://decomposer.de/sitala.html
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by wheels 7y ago
Things have come leaps and bounds on Linux in the past 5-ish years. Linux is now viable (if not recommendable) for professional audio production. It wasn't before. Not only has Ardour gotten better, but also Bitwig is available, and
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by wheels 7y ago
I did this for a while, with a couple modifications: I tried to replace the topics I was reading about in the news with books on those same topics. You'll get far more about, say, the Israel-Palestine conflict from reading one 300 pag
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by wheels 7y ago
I buy both. For the most part, it's nostalgia, not sound quality. In fact, if sound quality is the goal, CDs or losslessly compressed audio files are preferable. Virtually everything is mixed and mastered in digital now, so any noti
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by wheels 7y ago
I know people often refer to C as portable assembly, but really it's not. That sounds like the sort of thing gets repeated by people who neither know C nor assembly. C is incomparably higher level than assembly and lacks the quirkine
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by wheels 7y ago
I've often wondered how this should be dealt with in countries (specifically thinking of Eastern Europe) where large potions of the economy are off the books. I've assumed it would significantly skew GDP / GDP per capita fig
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by wheels 7y ago
Their standard socket bulb prices aren't bad (about $15 if you get a 6-pack), and they do produce bulbs for the slightly different European sockets, but shipping to Europe is about $40 (plus I'd then have to deal with picking them
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by wheels 7y ago
It sounds like we're similar. My personal, entirely unscientific self-diagnosis is that I have a well-defined circadian rhythm like most people, but it's easier for me to override by obsessive interest than for most people. Even
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by wheels 7y ago
Eek, yes, meant Edmonton -- typed too fast. Corrected.
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by wheels 7y ago
> I absolutely hate LEDs. I don't know why, but... I'm really interested in the why . Most people don't seem to care. My in-laws have CFLs in their living room that just feel horrible to me, but they're none th
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by wheels 7y ago
Hmm, that's sounds interesting and is at least an avenue to chase down. Sadly, next to my stockpile of halogen bulbs, I also basically have a lifetime supply of LEDs and CFLs that didn't pass muster. Maybe someday I'll have
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by wheels 7y ago
I usually eschew labels, preferring simply "sleep weirdo", but I fit the pattern of "Non-24 Sleep-Wake Disorder", with my sleep and waking times drifting progressively later at semi-regular intervals. The result is that
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by wheels 7y ago
Which is in fact one of the case studies in the classic business strategy book, "Blue Ocean Strategy".
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by wheels 7y ago
No. My rent won't go down in Euro just because the Euro is strong. The strength or weakness of a currency mostly dictates how it interacts with goods and services from outside of its currency zone. So I might be able to buy more con
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by wheels 7y ago
That's false. I'll give you a very easy example of how it's benefited me (and many, many Germans): I sell SaaS software on a subscription basis to customers all over the world. They pay for our service in USD, which is then
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by wheels 7y ago
I read this long essay, "Germany Must Lead or Leave", by Soros himself, seven years ago when it first came out: https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/george-soros-on-... My memory of such isn'
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by wheels 7y ago
The gist of it is that if Germany were still on the Mark, then the Mark would be significantly stronger than the Euro is today. Having weaker economies on the same currency causes Germany's currency to be artificially weak, which make
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by wheels 7y ago
Wow. This is a truly horrifying attempt to normalize racism. "If you don't like it, just go home." He's been there for a decade. The author likely sees Japan as his home. The social mechanics of Japan are certainly

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