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SamWhited
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About SamWhited
Fuck AI and cryptocurrencies.
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Comment #47504306
Reminds me of the first company I worked for out of school. We had a big drive with the source of truth image used to boot all our machines on it, and we added rsync to the init im…
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Comment #47067368
They actually have a (very new, still alpha, probably not a ton of data yet) database for books: https://bookbrainz.org/about I haven't looked into what their schema is like, but i…
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Comment #46126157
Doesn't help fix your problem, but I have a similar issue with Google Cloud Platform. Years ago I had a free workplace account that I had some small company emails and what not on,…
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Comment #44825236
Also if there's a tiny network blip before buffering is complete everything goes to hell. I don't get streaming DJing in general, seems like something serious DJ software should av…
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Comment #44824713
Every user who uses a screen reader has been asking for this. Also, though I can't speak to this personally, apparently the theming engine is much easier to maintain in QML which i…
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Comment #44824652
FYI this is not a new major release, this is work starting on a new major release. At least two more versions of 2.x are planned and 3.0 is not yet actually scheduled. May not have…
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Comment #44824621
FWIW I've found mixxx to be much more stable than serato or traktor (commercial stuff). I can't say whether they focus on bugs or features like your criticism suggests.
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Comment #43962362
Organic Maps is a way to distribute OSM data, but it also has a lot more than just the OSM maps it uses (code to curate and collect those maps into downloadable packs, code to disp…
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Comment #42770946
Even if there's not a mapping Mixxx has a "MIDI Learning Wizard" (I forget what they call it) where, assuming it speaks MIDI, you can plug it up, choose an action, and then move th…
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Comment #42501488
Find definition of Foo(): grep -IR "func Foo(" Show uses of Foo(): grep -IR "Foo(" Hmm, what were the methods in that field again? Open a split pane in Vim and scroll down in the s…
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Comment #42367369
I had actually forgotten about this, I had a friend who had the exact same thing happen (dropped because "you have to use real names" or whatever, but they did use their real name,…
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Comment #42366789
That wasn't even the one I was thinking of; sounds like this has been happening a lot.
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Comment #42365570
Indeed; no one ever seems to consider that before defaulting to them though :(
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Comment #42365561
Good point, I wonder if you even can get a real person instead of an idiot stochastic parrot to review it anymore?