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jeffalyanak
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About jeffalyanak
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Comment #49145336
He also has a fantastic ProTracker clone as well as a bug fixed version of the Amiga ProTracker. Together, they make for a great way to write Amiga tunes that you can still edit an…
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Comment #48770696
Monetization is the easy part, a plugin that adds advertisements, paid subscriptions, or some other form of monetization could easily be made if there was a demand for it. The real…
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Comment #48714459
Even if one thinks we need to bail out the _companies_ to prevent more severe economic collapse, we could still arrest plenty of those who were in charge of these organizations.
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Comment #47986214
At least queryquinton is still around: https://queryquinton.com/
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Comment #47986201
At least queryquinton.com is still alive.
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Comment #47914160
If your plumber was doing regular work for you that brought you significant, expensive-to-replace value then you _should_ pay him more.
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Comment #47771812
Rather than outright disabling it, I wish it was a permission the site would have to request. That way trusted sites that used it responsibly could be given permission, but it coul…
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Comment #47416011
I could definitely see value in filters for "has RSS" and "has recent posts"—maybe even as the default view—but I absolutely agree that this is much less interesting to me without …
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Comment #45963435
I'm pretty sure that NobodyNada knows this, but for pedants out there using Bb instead of A# is specifically a classical European music notation thing. There's nothing wrong with u…
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Comment #45947612
Okay, semantics aside, companies will not make things more repairable if they aren't required to do so.
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Comment #45945163
Corporations will do anything they can get away with. Without consumer-friendly regulation I don't really see why all corporations _wouldn't_ eventually do this type of thing in ma…
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Comment #45869896
Ideally build it in away from your house, as others have said, but in terms of actual safety systems: -get a high quality BMS from a reputable source, it should supports current li…
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Comment #44792004
In the language learning world there are some great tools already for adding content-awareness. AnkiMorphs[1] will analyze the morphemes in your sentences and, taking into account …
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Comment #42628031
If you really want to allow for another browser to authenticate a login request, you can at least limit it to sessions coming from the same IP. That would let you authenticate your…
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Comment #42545736
That paper doesn't disprove my point. It indicates ~7% home vacancy, which means the total number of vacant homes is higher than the number of people without homes.
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Comment #42542194
Most expensive homes yes, but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of livable homes and apartments that are _empty_ at any given time. Canada has a lot of vacant houses.
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Comment #42058215
They replied to a comment about the bimetalic switch in this cooker with "I thought the circuit that powers the cooking was …". While both you and they are correct that more modern…
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Comment #42032575
> I'm getting multiple downvotes here. Am I wrong? What am I missing? I wouldn't have downvoted you for it, but it sounds like you missed this from the article: > While the rice co…
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Comment #42032466
> How about a clock? How would the rice cooker know when to start the clock? It needs to be started only after the water reaches a boil.
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Comment #41966734
I only knew of them because the top-level comment specifically references the financial updates and some of the numbers from them.
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Comment #41963009
I'm not sure if you actually read their previous financial reports, but their expenses were somewhere around $50,000-60,000, that doesn't indicate an inflated dev budget. If you ad…
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Comment #41875622
It's an OS or API emulator, not a computer system emulator. It's a different scope, but still fits the definition of an emulator.
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Comment #41479382
I work for an on-prem cloud provider and while AI is part of the reason we're seeing growing adoption, it's as part of a wider move to data and compute sovereignty.
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Comment #41308582
No, it's like saying "why take a cab where you have to provide the driver so much guidance on driving as to be equal or greater than the effort of driving yourself."