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Fun fact, I guess: I acquired a cutting of that same Sigmund Freud begonia that was successfully propagated into three big plants that live in my house. My fiancee worked at the Fr…

Just came here to say "Mickey Mauser"

I saw it too in the 90s, unfortunately I can't remember the game's name.

Thanks! Re: 1, the docs are not really deep on that, but from your answer it seems it possible to self-host y-sweet on Cloudflare workers (I guess) with Durable Objects as storage?…

How does it scale? What happens if you have many users or a bunch of users with huge history on their data? If you haven't hit these limitations, what do you plan to do when (if) y…

A couple of questions about y-sweet, based on the experiences I had with CRDTs: 1) Does the server keeps in memory the "active" documents? In other words, does the server need to o…

That's really cool. What is pic.sh's funding plan?

I remember it was hard-core techno with heavy basses and short spoken vocals intermixed. Very good quality, more on the "real music production" than on the "videogame track" side o…

Long shot, but I remember a friend playing a beautiful digital tune made with a tracker from an Amiga demo. I remember the chorus had a sampled voice saying something like "Amphora…

In general, Sicily has a very tight economic and cultural bound with oranges and lemons. Citrus fruit are extremely difficult to grow where winter gets cold (that's why the richest…

If we want to go even backwards, the sudden demand for citrus fruit in Sicily was due to the high incidence of scurvy in long-distance sea expedition in the 1800s, that were in tur…

You can do leader election[1] in that case [1] https://greenvitriol.com/posts/browser-leader

What you did is essentially re-create an offline sampler using Python libraries. Professional samplers do pretty much the same - they take pre-recorded notes, choose which note to …

Implementing simple auth is not that hard, with JWTs. But you need to use a service anyway for mail (confirm password, reset password etc.), so in the end it's not worth. These day…

If Safari is the better browser, they should allow competition. Users will choose the better browser anyway.

They're not "not working and not searching", they're working under the table to not pay taxes and they're officially unemployed to get the minimum income guaranteed by the State.

I posted the commit here since the repo was flagged as "dupe". Sorry for the confusion. Repo description seems also to have been changed to "What really happened with Aaron Swartz?…