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muxator

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    Comment #48215189

    Google pre 2010 was perfectly functional. No realtime search suggestions, advanced search parameters that were actually working, possibility of doing an exact string search if need…

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    Comment #45484679

    Hi, could you give some pointers about this? Thanks!

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    Comment #45376901

    > - nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR, period [...] > > - “every commit must compile” - again, unnecessary overzealousness. [...] In my part of the world…

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    Comment #45364777

    Hi, fellow compulsive selectors! Thanks, I am no longer feeling alone!

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    Comment #44307420

    Neat method. However, the frequency range for the device is 7600-13600 Hz: less than an octave.

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    Comment #43863002

    Kudos for mentioning the second season of The Wire. At first, when watching the season, the theme felt misplaced, but it ended up being a very well done sociological exploration on…

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    Comment #41976164

    With all its present and past limitations, Brazil is a democracy. I do not know India enough, but it is not a regime either.

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    Comment #40769412

    Agreed! In Rome for some time now one can top up his paper NFC ticket; there is no reason to throw it away.

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    Comment #40559661

    How come is a 15% IPC increase generation for generation a disappointing result? There might be greener pastures, I agree, but a 15% increase year over year for the quality factor …

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    Comment #40528861

    > Firefox was bad when Chrome came out Funny how different people's experiences can be. When Chrome came out in 2008 I remember trying it just for fun (more than once), and it neve…

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    Comment #40305812

    Just a single data point, but when I copy & paste a snippet from Stack Overflow, I always add a comment "// source: https://stack overflow.com/questions/xxx#yyy". I both find it re…

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    Comment #40104389

    > if the user installs an extension that breaks the web It does not break the web. It may break single sites that were written on naive assumptions; I see a lot of sites break beca…

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    Comment #40070679

    The way a sound evolves in time contains a lot of timbrical information. Different harmonics have different ADSR curves (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release). Above all, one cannot ove…

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    Comment #39935840

    That's probably true. Maybe there is a point to trade computational/energetic efficiency for attainability of a result. Let's see how this unfolds.

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    Comment #39935826

    I'll try to give a serious answer, even if I suppose yours was a nice joke :) Music is a language, even if with no semantic. It has conventions, dialects, a syntax, a grammar. Ther…

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    Comment #39934937

    I suppose the focus was on voice synthesis here. I won't add anything about it since other commenters have already said significant things about this wonderful feat. Musically, how…

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    Comment #39878589

    And now decoding a jpeg takes the blink of an eye, but we wait five seconds for a widget to render. When it does, we click somewhere else, because in that exact moment the layout w…

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    Comment #39759809

    No big deal, but instead of running "wakeonlan" as a subprocess: import subprocess [...] result = subprocess.run(["wakeonlan", "MY:MA:CA:DD:RE:SS"], capture_output=True) The magic …

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    Comment #38533323

    > Signal is the same, [...], the only official clients are the CLI and the ones they release Is there an officially supported CLI for Signal? Please tell me it's true, that would m…

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    Comment #38450739

    The article ends with: > In a fiercely hierarchical world of bosses and middle managers and underlings, is the very idea of such openness a naive pipe dream? A habdbook case of a f…

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    Comment #38377197

    I think Matt Harbison takes care of Windows builds. They are bundled with the official TortoiseHg download: https://tortoisehg.bitbucket.io/download/ I did not use them because I a…

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    Comment #38377070

    > Aside: I prefer Mercurial myself, and I hope to keep using it for personal projects until I die (: ... > you could! let me show you TortoiseHg... Same here. I use TortoiseHg dail…

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    Comment #38320979

    The turistic center has big pedonal areas. However, the rest of the city is as full of cars as it may get. I have to say, it mostly remains walkable. It just would be so much nicer…