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I've been using pedalboard to manipulate voices for https://github.com/jason-kane/coh_npc_voices/ (TTS for game characters) and it is a very easy library to use/integrate. Kudos to…

Totally, the non-XT is the medium soda.

Excellent point -- goodwill in a hyper-high demand dev community is invaluable.

If you want to write javascript, use javascript. There are ways to get what you're asking for depending on your use case. types.SimpleNamespace in the standard library provides one…

Two reasons seem obvious. F-strings are relatively new -- the code is maturing and the edge cases are being filled in. Second, everyone can't be working on the GIL and start-up tim…

faux is easier to remember

Cannibals are legal in Colorado? Can't wait for the next Top Chef -- Denver edition.

Is it reasonable to assume that the wealthiest people are more interested in optimizing society for what is best for the country as a whole or optimizing it so they can acquire mor…

Add a category for what they are famous for? willsmith with a blue checkmark and "Podcaster" compared to will_smith with a blue checkmark and "Assaulted Chris Rock"?

Perhaps not a popular opinion, but the overwhelming majority of "gifted" kids seem to be near the middle of the bell curve with parents that are convinced little George is the next…

don't apologize for using a great word. :)

It is not an ongoing issue; I do appreciate the offer of assistance. If we see attacks coming through hyperbeam again that we can't address through other means I'll reach out.

Spent some time blocking a big pile of abuse from users utilizing hyperbeam.com for IP anonymity. It left a bad taste for legitimate uses of the system.

With Winnie the Pooh entering the public domain in the US next year (per: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh_(book) ) Won't Mr. Hoff be free to publish again through wha…

Description: We are experiencing an issue with Google Compute Engine VM Instance creation in us-central1 beginning at Thursday, 2021-02-18 12:13 US/Pacific. Our engineering team co…

Even if the rent was subsidized or more likely rent-controlled -- you still have to pay those four employees enough to live in commute range. That forces the margins you have to ch…

1. Is it reasonable to expect a very specific list of questions to be addressed in the introduction to a book?

I liked the first trilogy of mistborn but lost interest in the sequels. There were parts of the first trilogy that .. well, were better than others. I think the Stormlight archive …

It's significant to a human that wants to know what has changed.

The new-ish ordered dictionary is actually faster. It is also completely backward compatible for any but the most contrived example. Now wasting computation on randomizing... that …

when you are diffing the serialized output?

Note -- nobel peace prize 2007 as part of the Gore team for work on climate change. There is no implied credibility regarding RF or biology.

Programming is somewhat unique in the size and complexity of the structures expert practitioners have to hold and maintain. But only somewhat. It would be certainly be interesting …

https://utopia-game.com/ is in some sense the great great grandchild of SRE. Mehul Patel created it a few years after the BBS scene died. I'm not exactly advocating it as a game, I…