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Yes. You get a generated patch file for the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer.

How on earth are these metrics defined even somewhat objectively? How is it justified that countries such as China, India, and Russia occupy only one point despite being stunningly…

Commentary Magazine isn't exactly known for its wokeness, I'm afraid.

I hung around #lichess on freenode (where the wonderful dev team exists, including the founder Thibaut) a lot at the time (and I still do) and I was more or less definitively told …

There's a variamt of chess created by GM Yasser Seirawan wherein he seeks to stoke the heady flames of tactical attacking chess where he introduces two new pieces: the hawk (which …

You have to be good at slow chess to be good at fast chess, because slow chess builds that intuition you then cash out on in time trouble.

People particularly love attacking chess (possibly because expert, constricting, prophylactic chess is a slower burn and takes more skill in a lot of cases to appreciate), and with…

The reason (in chess at least, which is what I'm familiar with) is to encourage more women to play chess, to close the gender gap formed in the first 150 years centuries of interna…

In my opinion, World War II started on September 18, 1931, when Japan invaded Manchuria, because 1) the Chinese and Japanese didn't stop fighting until 1945, and 2) it had much the…

My point was that the 'average' computer user is easily bewildered by many things, and using an IRC client isn't especially difficult compared to them. Using a link to a ready-made…

No regular person ever renames files. No regular person ever uses a browser that didn't come with their system. No regular person ever properly navigates an average website without…

I would imagine most non-technical people could scrape by with a certain client, even a web one. As someone who's on Freenode, Lord knows they do.

I still really do not get why technical people don't just use IRC with a decent client (Hexchat?)

I'd like to hear your reasoning for why it's relevant enough to have added value to the results.

One minor thing: consider showing motherboard.vice.com as a separate domain?

This is irrelevant, I think.

It was Chrome. http://readwrite.com/2012/01/03/google_forced_to_punish_itse...

I'm sure he used said language in a provocative and mocking manner, not because he was actually racist or racially insensitive. I'm sure the stress and pain of the situation didn't…