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couchand

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    Not just you. There's been a huge pushback in the local music community around this. Concerts listings now prominently feature the name of the poster designer! Humans FTW.

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    Comment #49006903

    Radio is still cool! But it's just not really on the FCC-licensed bands anymore. Independent Internet radio stations keep the spirit alive. Look around, there very well might be a …

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    Comment #49006768

    And in truth it's a paradox. The better a company is (generally correlated to an empowered workforce with a sense of agency and purpose), the harder it is to extract profit for the…

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    Comment #48993353

    The argument being made here is really incredible when you unpack it. 1) The construction of the Empire State Building was particularly effective due to the depth of human-to-human…

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    Comment #48630505

    > I tried learning to play a recorder (flute) using some internet howtos as a guide, but got stuck at the first lesson, when the sound produced by the flute didn't match what the F…

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    Comment #47797394

    I can tell you as a resident of New York City that the negative effect of the automobile on the built environment is very much present here as well.

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    Comment #47713083

    If your implication is that stencil art does not take effort then perhaps you may not fully appreciate Banksy. Works like Gaza Kitty or Flower Thrower don’t just appear haphazardly…

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    Comment #47609775

    Fortunately they do, and in fact the article makes that clear. +1 for reading to the end of the paragraph that was quoted.

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    Comment #47591878

    I think camp 1 would rather see ten useless things than one useful thing.

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    Comment #42480086

    Interesting that your first counterexample is Charlie Parker. I've been listening to a lot of Phil Schaap's Bird Flight recently ( https://www.philschaapjazz.com/sections/bird-flig…

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    Comment #42219429

    FWIW It's not at all clear to me how this requirement would be implemented in practice: "This syntax would explicitly be limited to orphan implementations."

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    Comment #42119485

    The classic AVR instruction set does not include multiplication, you have to be targeting a device that supports AVRe+, such as an ATmega rather than an ATtiny. Try adding -mmcu=av…

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    Comment #42086197

    What an incredibly on-the-nose anecdote, I love it! The term of art for this strategy is "size to the horizon". Imagine you're looking across an open plain. The trees and rocks clo…

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    I apologize if my comment came off as snark. Your comment was nothing but pasted text which ommitted relevant detail, so it was not clear what the intent was. In context, to me, it…

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    Comment #40368051

    That's decidedly not a data race, however.

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    Comment #40366456

    On the one hand, we like to encourage learning here. On the other, we prefer not to copy-paste a bunch of possibly-irrelevant content. Well, forgive me for pasting in a StackOverfl…

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    Comment #40342055

    Test code is code. It's as much of a burden as every other piece of code you are troubled with, so you must make it count. If you're finding it repetitive and formulaic, take that …

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    Comment #40342028

    This. The right way to structure database access is a result type per tuple, not an object type per table.

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    Comment #40341985

    Wouldn't standard ANSI SQL's information_schema be sufficient to build such an interface? I'm struggling to see how an ORM is necessary.

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    Comment #40324167

    Curious, MIDI is a decidedly digital protocol...

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    Comment #40318627

    Lots of folks are doing front panels in PCB these days. They're precision and sturdy and you already have the workflow set up.

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    Comment #40302989

    My guideline with pointer tricks is: if you're not just masking bits it's too complicated for real use.