eddieroger

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Comment · 2 days ago
> Formerly “LYNX”: renamed LYNX SHARE in v0.1.20 (it was easy to confuse with the Lynx text web browser).

Glad they're already aware of the name use, though I'm not sure "LYNX SHARE" is going to be distinct enough to differentiate. That said, the project looks cool and I hope it sticks around a while. I'm not super experienced at software DAWs, but I'd be excited to play with this one and learn some.

Comment · 4 days ago
It'd be interesting if they used that power brick tether to drive the display similar to the Samsung Frame, which takes power and signal from a fiber optic cable that runs really easily in a wall. If they could shuttle Ethernet up the power cord, they could send video signal back, too.
Comment · 6 days ago
Yeah she checked a lot of boxes. But maybe the room made by no longer elevating the unworthy would shine a light on those who do.
Comment · 6 days ago
That just points out that another real problem with the internet is that everyone's voice carries the same weight in ways it didn't used to. Every city has a few folks who believe aliens walk among us or otherwise wear tinfoil hats, but their message was limited to AM radio and cable access, and it was clear their content was not of the same journalistic level as the three major networks used to be - used to, because they've also changed. For example, there is conclusive, repeatable and verifiable evidence that the world is not flat, and it shouldn't be so easy to make convincing content that seems like it is.
Comment · 6 days ago
We should celebrate people like Dolly and not people unworthy of celebration or celebrity.
Comment · 8 days ago
I had a Gen 1 iPod with the physical, moving click wheel. It was amazing, and I remember the surprise I had when it would make that little piezo click on scroll. As the iPod aged, in my case around two years, I'd notice that my music was getting louder as I walked to class because the physical wheel was gaining momentum and scrolling. Luckily the iPod also had a hold switch.
Comment · 9 days ago
The analysis is interesting, but I think the premise that human error is a defect to be corrected is flawed in that bands have consistently always strived to play in time together. Humans tolerate a certain amount of variance, and may even like it, but if you have a drummer who can't keep time, you don't have a band. Big Band music made it a spectacle of keeping so many instruments in time and tune with each other.

I think the thing that has changed is that the tools to "fix" the bugs are better and more commoditized, so they're used more. And similarly, production costs have gone down as hardware is commoditized, so there's more music to choose from. The last piece is that social media has made it popular to all like the same thing and make dance videos to the same songs, so already perfect little pop pieces climb up faster.

Comment · 10 days ago
Fines are just permits for companies that can afford it.
Comment · 10 days ago
Absolutely recommend Mario 64. I am of the age and fortunate enough to have the means to have played the flagship Mario game on nearly all of the Nintendos (starting with the NES), and my mind was blown regularly with the leap to SM64 easily being the biggest.
Comment · 10 days ago
You have happier memories of the camera system than I do. The game is amazing, but "masterpiece" is a bridge too far for me given how many times the camera caused me to mess up.
Comment · 10 days ago
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three wrongs also don't make it right, it just makes Nintendo last. If anything, it proves the market will bear it, and the only people who really care about actually owning a game are those who have done it before.
Comment · 10 days ago
Drupal is a name I haven't heard in a long time, so the reputation that they're light-years ahead of is probably a low bar for me. I just recall every time I tried to adopt it or learn my way around it, the curve was high, not even compared to anything, it was just a lot. I'd love to give it another chance, but there are so many good options and such different ways of doing web dev these days, I'm not sure what benefit this would have.

Also, what an amazing day to pick to talk about anything PHP.

Comment · 11 days ago
Have flakes stabilized? I thought those were one of the points of contention, while also being the kind of thing that I was the most interested in as a way of hopefully managing a small fleet of VMs. I had trouble getting the idea to stick because I really believed in the single-config ideal reality, but couldn't bend my config far enough in.
Comment · 11 days ago
It's not clear if the way it worked before was the way Apple intended or not. Usually the app in the foreground controls displays, which wasn't a problem on iPads until the definition of foreground changed. It could be that an app was /supposed/ to let go of external displays when leaving foreground, and not it's just enforced. Unfortunately, Apple gets to decide what is the correct behavior, not the user.
Comment · 15 days ago
If you're comfortable doing that, and plenty of folks are (especially us oldies who remember the shared hosting days), then that's a great way to go. I think that many who pull a docker compose file probably aren't ready to also be a PG admin, and if not shared, Postgres is probably overkill for most things. But, I've also had bouts of "just use a single PG/MySQL instance" myself. I get it.

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