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my favorite story about quincy is that at as a 22 year old he was selected as the music arranger for dizzy gillespie’s band, and they all went to iran and gave a series of concerts…

Bach is the best proof we have that advanced aliens visited earth and took human shape :). like in that episode of star trek, The Traveler. and based on the complexity of Fugues he…

not directly relevant, but was riding my motorcycle in the boonies, and lost the phone which was on the handlebar (bumpy rocky path). Looked for it several times on the path with n…

speaking of monetization, i’d happily pay a $10 monthly fee for these features as a biker: - weather along route Google knows the weather, it knows the route… Just add a layer! bet…

seems to be fast and accurate. thx will use.

yes definitely home page. it’s the first thing i looked for, didn’t immediately see, hit the back button. i would also consider a trial pic for free tied to email.

nice! is this in reference to composer javad maroofy?!

brilliant! many chuckles. i hope people try it out.

tested on a few pics. excellent colorization. pls provide patreon etc link so the site stays up! thxxx

definitely. i used to run the visual studio / vs code teams for python, R, nodejs, jupyter etc at microsoft. working closely with and hiring from the os community was both delightf…

:). i see seemingly random people keep posting their experiments with it. i guess they’re all in the inner circle or something

thx will try!

is there a hosted version of dall-e that people can play with? free or paid. thanks!

yes it’s quite bizarre that key functionalities are split between the built in Editor and iMovie. almost all videos have to be done using both. doing vertical videos + text is very…

tarare is also the name of an opera by antonio salieri (of the amadeus movie fame) that takes place, of all places, in the hormoz island of the persian gulf…

Hello HN. I’d like to set up a webcam on a public tennis court so people can visit a URL and see if the court is occupied before heading there. If you have ideas how this can be do…

they are! once i found a baby spider in the jacuzzi and just let it stay there out of laziness. it set up shop in one of the water jet holes. it gradually grew and started catching…

love paint.net. so many advanced features for a “basic” app. but why is rotating still unintuitive? is there a trick that i’ve missed or using the layers menu still the way?

thank you aho & ullman. your dragon book got me hooked & started a 40 year career in compilers/languages. first job, an algol68 compiler on burroughs hw back in the middle ages.

Definitely. The OS, HW and Extended Algol had some nice features that were ahead of their time. I haven’t kept up, but their mainframes were very popular with banks etc.

The Burroughs OS (“Master Control Program”) in the 70s had a routine from which all other processes were started. Its name was MotherForker(). It was eventually renamed when HR fou…

Hah. Came to post the same video :). He didn’t actually visit a lot of the “beautiful” parts of the country, but it does paint a good picture of the peoples’ attitudes (even in rea…

Related: this guy rode through iran on 90cc bike and talks about his experience: https://youtu.be/_2LEgowbzSc

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