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savoyard

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    Comment #49001361

    A most welcome addition to a webmaster’s toolkit. Congratulations!

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    Comment #48467124

    This is exactly right; the phenomenon is known as axial parallelism.

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    Comment #48455322

    > It should be a white flag. And it will be.

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    Comment #47507484

    Relevant: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/

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    Comment #45600295

    Just wait till you hear Geoffrey Hinton’s “little pink elephants” routine; it will all make sense then (it won’t). The mystery is almost rivaled by that other mystery of why some o…

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    Comment #42760048

    Library Genesis is living up to its name.

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    Comment #42009706

    “Twain never said it.” https://marktwainstudies.com/the-apocryphal-twain-things-we-...

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    Comment #40892256

    https://idp.bl.uk/collection/51FDAEAFB4A24E2E9981692A98130BC...

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    Comment #39721262

    Curiously, “Sunlight” was the codename for the original CT spec: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-laurie-pki-sunlight/0...

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    Comment #37637442

    That would be F7. The same works in Chrome.

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    Comment #37563113

    > What's the name of the law where the longer something has already been around, the longer it will likely stay around in the future? The Lindy effect.

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    Comment #36699833

    Not always. Here is Isao Takahata [1]: “The response was different depending on which film was shown first. My Neighbor Totoro would make them happy, then this Grave of the Firefli…

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    Comment #36524636

    A Vickrey auction is what effectively happens when bidders “snipe” on eBay.

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    Comment #36023497

    > For file encryption, there's age. This uses all modern crypto and does authenticated encryption. GnuPG offers AEAD encryption since version 2.3.0.

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    Comment #35810485

    For command-line use, there is oathtool, which is part of the OATH Toolkit by Simon Josefsson. https://oath-toolkit.nongnu.org

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    Comment #35534539

    > Even the name of the island itself derives from Sanskrit: dvipa-sakhadara means the “Island of Bliss.” Foreign Sailors on Socotra: The Inscriptions and Drawings from the Cave Hoq…

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    Comment #31512980

    One can definitely play Pong on MAME: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/machine...

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    Comment #28948464

    “Examining Load Average” by Ray Walker: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9001

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    Comment #24704763

    Notes on implementation: https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/casestudies/100000st...

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    Comment #23934556

    “And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night.”

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    Comment #23409288

    BlackHole [1] is a modern alternative to Soundflower. [1] https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

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    Comment #23304880

    We’ve been using JackTrip for a couple of years. I would recommend it to anyone looking into telematic performances.

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    Comment #23014390

    Your song is amazing. It’s been a decade since I heard it, and the chorus would still occasionally play in my head.

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    Comment #22997955

    Take a look at Mlmmj [1]. I found it well documented and easy to set up. [1] http://mlmmj.org

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    Comment #22859842

    From “The Tragedy of the Commons” by Garrett Hardin [1]: “The National Parks present another instance of the working out of the tragedy of the commons. At present, they are open to…