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hey! i'll try to be succinct: i'm a recovering programmer trying to get waveform-playlist to work. i haven't used node since probably 2012, and i've never used react. learning curv…

could be artificial precision coming from degs min sec to decimal??

to anyone confused why others find this fun or worthwhile, i will quote brak's dad: "you just don't get it, das all"

my birthday's tomorrow, and a friend said she'd make me any desert i wanted. i knew exactly what i wanted: my grandma's creme de menthe cake. i hadn't seen the recipe in a couple o…

i'm glad they got excited about number theory, but how would improved factoring algorithms destroy capitalism??

like finishing a comment with, "we walked away with all our fingers -- perfect to flip the safety officer the bird"

hopes and seams

that's what i was going to say. and while you can use barn doors and lenses to hone the throw (the size of the beam on stage) -- it's not collimated like a laser is. even with para…

time preference slash discounting. so not sure what you mean by "have no market price" bezos is worth XX billion, but not if he tries to sell it all at once

cops still stealing skateboards? i explained packet switching to my friend today, he got it which was cool -- but on the ebb of the topic i said that without it, the world today wo…

in the music world, variacs are used to bring old tube amplifiers up to power slowly for that reason. not after being repaired or refurbished generally, but certainly when the amp'…

so are ICEs

i'm a musician and audio engineer who encounters iPads for work regularly. my fine motor control is good enough to get paid to mix or play -- not good enough to reliably bring all …

get my band The Jephries a gig so we can come down from Anchorage and eat some of your Turkish dishes! hehehe

i can't speak for app stores, but my band, based out of Anchorage, Alaska, makes good money from streams. we are completely independent. we don't use cdbaby, but distrokid who char…

if renting use is viable, then why isn't construction or maintenance? i mean this honestly: an investor may not get crazy returns every year, but they get stable returns every year…

humor is independent of language edit: there are jokes that rely on a specific language or culture. but i think (correct me if i'm wrong) sarcasm and hyperbole span language

compression. encryption. handshakes. datetime. rng or prng. i'm right there with ya but nontrivial tasks require nontrivial knowledge. i don't have an answer for obfuscated backdoo…

as an alaskan, those aren't mutually exclusive

A few years ago, my band was putting our manager on our LLC account. The credit union, then Alaska USA but now Global , sent us all docusign links to add her. She had moved out of …

you're right. i think that's the difference between cynicism and consideration. one immobilizes, one prepares.

we need more of this brand of silly in the world, thank you

the checkout fallacy: waiting in line compresses your perception of time. when your items are being rung up, and it's time to pay, your perception of time dilates. i pay cash mostl…

my name is timothy basket -- you're saying people have stolen my weave?! end sarcasm. but seriously -- claiming you made something you didn't isn't ok. but it happens, regardless o…

considering there's only one of them, i'd imagine getting replacement parts is just as hard as getting common parts out bush here heh. minus the reality tv stuff of course