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Excellent work and very interesting to read. DX9s very occasionally pop up for sale for silly small money, and now I would seriously entertain getting one just for the fun of havin…

'Laser-trimmed resistors' will be the next selling point on a boutique guitar FX company's 57th clone of a Tubescreamer.

8 months is not that long; these days the wait is longer. However, you are aware of how long the wait will be, there information is right there on the Australian Immigration websit…

I remember when blue LEDs started appearing in guitar FX pedals just out of novelty,resulting in a pedals becoming harder to use as when the pedal was on the brightness meant visib…

I've just stuck with a single printed page, placed inside the bag and it's outside pockets, with my flight and multiple sets of contact details. However, I haven't lost a bag over …

Might I suggest that swearing to learn to improve your swimming skills may be more beneficial to your long-term survival? Plus a lot more fun once you have more confidence in the w…

Not to mention saved significant hospital costs as people were unwell but not sick enough to require more intensive and expensive treatment.

They've been working on those things in Tallinn for years, and I've only ever seen them operate in a very limited area, and even then it's not unusual to see them seemingly stuck a…

In that case, I'm happy to be 'just' a good developer who has used an ORM to create a product that runs an entire company, and has been doing so reliably for 12 years and counting …

Sounds quite human.

A few things: 1) I went through Stripe checkout to upgrade to the $10/month plan, but it's still showing me as on the free plan on the billing page. 2) I guess related to 1), but I…

Graham's writings and book helped me make it through Covid isolation and a relationship breakdown. He and his partner have done very good work for many people in the area of mental…

No mention of 'voting' to spend time with friends or family, getting outdoors, giving to charity with one's time or money, painting or trying to learn how to? Perhaps the author do…

Australia (my home country) is another that comes to mind in terms of multiculturalism, and I also took it for granted before I spent time in a very different country (Estonia).

"Joining Megaco also means you join our corporate wellness program, via which we track your important life parameters and help you achieve Maximum Happiness and optimise Life Satis…

I live in Estonia, hence my confusion.

So this 'Bolt' is the same as or different from 'Bolt' the taxi/scooter hire company?

With ORMs I tend to write things with their native syntax, and then if necessary go back and speed up critical sections with SQL; it's not an either/or situation.

"Imitate, Assimilate, Innovate" - credited to jazz trumpeter Clark Terry (b 1920), so hardly a new concept. Also, these days I see a lot of content creators only making it to the f…

Hmmm, I would never use such a system as for one thing - if people aren't contacting me, why should I care about contacting them? I have several 'best friends', maybe twice that 'f…

Crohn's sufferer here. I have lost track of the times people have said "I tried this diet, and then my Crohns / UC went away".. and then some time later their symptoms reappeared. …

Hmmm, I started programming in 1982 on a TRS80 Color Computer, and am still at it building web and desktop apps. I agree if you were out of the scene for a while it'd be a hard tas…

Looks like they sell via distributors, so they are then another step removed from the con, eg: https://www.audiotherapyuk.com/brands/entreq/entreq-ground-b...

If only this wasn't necessary - a lot of online stuff has had a single 'take' done and minimal editing out of such time-wasting utterances or silences. And once you start to notice…

Actually, the key-click occurred not for those reasons explicitly, but "...was caused by the audio signal being routed directly through the key contacts. As a key was depressed, th…