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arthurdenture

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    Comment #46331841

    This is way more pleasant than the kazoo version by famous children's author Sandra Boynton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U14IBek-wNU

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    Comment #44304668

    There's also a Youtuber who did this type of journey from San Francisco to Seattle ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OQwA95sMbg ) and to Los Angeles ( https://www.youtube.com/watc…

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    Comment #39543504

    > Something that surprised me is that [1] is of a minor key, but the solfege marks are for the relative major Major and minor keys use the same shapes / solfege system. The major s…

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    Comment #39543446

    One limitation is that the shapes are really only useful for singing, not for instrumental music. They also would not be meaningful for music that switches keys or that isn't tonal…

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    Comment #38779422

    Is it possible that many of those uses predate the current zoning? There are numerous buildings in Chicago that would not be permitted by their current zoning.

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    Comment #38630148

    I asked imagen 2 to generate a transparent product icon image, and it generated an actual grey and white square pattern as the background of the image... https://imgur.com/a/KA2yWH…

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    Comment #32077199

    Extremely useful .gitconfig snippet: [alias] git = !sl catches e.g. `git git status`, which I run shockingly often.

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    Comment #26486183

    That was the case many years ago (extremely customized perforce server), but after that there was a full rewrite as a distributed system built on Bigtable etc. - https://cacm.acm.o…

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    Comment #24976704

    You're comparing regional rail terminal stations, which serve many lower-frequency lines, to subway platforms, which typically serve a single higher-frequency line. (2-10 minutes b…

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    Comment #22819106

    I completely agree with the more general point, that consuming external data requires a validation layer. But oh boy do I have feelings about class-validator. Here's what it looks …

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    Comment #21539031

    The alternative would be to write a side effect inside your `render()` function, which is illegal -- it breaks the new Concurrent mode rendering, which can call render() speculativ…

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    Comment #21495920

    Interactions can be extremely negative without making the news.

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    Comment #20829395

    That is very good to hear. I've used Emacs for a decade, but I recently switched to VS Code because JSX support in Emacs was such a mess.

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    Comment #20757895

    That's great as long as the insurance company deigns to cover you. Before the ACA, that was not guaranteed.

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    Comment #20420799

    For instance, the polonaise attributed to Kosciuszko might have been composed by someone else. Wikipedia reports the composition as fact, but https://polishmusic.usc.edu/research/d…

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    Comment #20396001

    Heh, be thankful you figured out the problem before taking it in for hardware repairs: https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/11/macbook-pro-problem/

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    Comment #20053969

    Origin: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural

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    Comment #19951183

    lit-html is context-aware and safe, just like JSX. It's not a raw string templating library. https://lit-html.polymer-project.org/guide/template-referenc...

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    Comment #19721574

    +1 to freetaxusa. I started using them a decade ago when I first had to file taxes, and I've been pleasantly surprised that they have remained a good choice this whole time. The pr…

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    Comment #18908185

    Eb is probably disproportionately popular due to the common practice of tuning guitars down a half step, making Eb instead of E the natural/easy root chord. I'm not sure why F woul…