HuggableSquare

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by HuggableSquare 7y ago
I buy FLAC from digital stores pretty regularly and my favorites are (obligatory) Bandcamp, 7digital, HDTracks, and TIDAL. I also end up buying physical cd's pretty often and just ripping them to FLAC (this is actually my preferred met
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by HuggableSquare 7y ago
I recently discovered Coder's open source version of their web-based IDE ( https://github.com/codercom/code-server ). It's pretty much VS Code in the browser, which is almost exactly what I was looking for. You
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by HuggableSquare 8y ago
I currently pay $68/month for 3Mbps down, 1Mbps up from Verizon DSL. They're my only option for internet except for satellite. Our local cable company would need to run half a mile of cable to our house to hook us up, so they refu
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by HuggableSquare 8y ago
I'm just going to throw in my experience here as someone who never went to college but currently writes software for a living. I do mainly frontend web development with EmberJS, and occasionally work on our backend which is also JS, an
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by HuggableSquare 8y ago
Amtrak wifi is typically pretty bad because it's cellular, so it ends up roaming between towers constantly and you have a ton of people all on the same network. As for it smelling like a sewer, that is not normal, no.
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by HuggableSquare 9y ago
Here's a reply I posted elsewhere in the thread about this: Although there hasn't been a release in two years they're currently working on releasing 1.14 this year. In case you're interested the core devs have been doing
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by HuggableSquare 9y ago
Originally it was pretty much just a fork of Litecoin, but since then Dogecoin has considered the economic viability of it as a real currency. It's one of the few inflationary cryptocurrencies, it has a block every minute which is good
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by HuggableSquare 9y ago
Although there hasn't been a release in two years they're currently working on releasing 1.14 this year. In case you're interested the core devs have been doing a pretty good job on keeping people informed on the status of th
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by HuggableSquare 9y ago
The arguments I've read is that ISPs would like to investigate traffic priority solutions. e.g. I'm a business that needs low latency (maybe I'm League of Legends or something similar), so I could pay Comcast to prioritize my
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by HuggableSquare 9y ago
With regards to exempting services from data caps, it's called "zero-rating" and as far as I am aware, the net neutrality laws we have on the books don't mention it (which is why mobile carriers have been doing it for ye
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by HuggableSquare 9y ago
YouTube does actually have video categories that the uploader selects, although historically it has led to people mis-categorizing their videos on purpose. For example, before gaming was a category that was embraced by YouTube, many popular
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by HuggableSquare 9y ago
At work I have two external monitors attached to my 13" MBP, and I almost exclusively use the laptop screen. I also use the trackpad and keyboard attached to the laptop, which is probably the reason I use the laptop's screen so mu
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by HuggableSquare 10y ago
There was a paid version of something like this called Digital Lifeboat. IIRC it ran on top of the BitTorrent protocol, and users would store some pieces of other users backups. It didn't really catch on and shutdown a few years ago.
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by HuggableSquare 10y ago
DVDs at Walmart would be covered by sales tax, as would satellite and cable TV, unless it's a basic subscription. From Pa. Code § 9.2. Sales and use tax changes: (2) Pay television. Pay television except for ‘‘minimum pay television’’