jaystraw

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by jaystraw 8mo ago
hey! i'll try to be succinct: i'm a recovering programmer trying to get waveform-playlist to work. i haven't used node since probably 2012, and i've never used react. learning curve. so i signed up for claude, to get wav
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by jaystraw 2y ago
could be artificial precision coming from degs min sec to decimal??
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by jaystraw 2y ago
to anyone confused why others find this fun or worthwhile, i will quote brak's dad: "you just don't get it, das all"
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by jaystraw 2y ago
my birthday's tomorrow, and a friend said she'd make me any desert i wanted. i knew exactly what i wanted: my grandma's creme de menthe cake. i hadn't seen the recipe in a couple of years -- her handwritten notes made my
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by jaystraw 2y ago
i'm glad they got excited about number theory, but how would improved factoring algorithms destroy capitalism??
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by jaystraw 2y ago
like finishing a comment with, "we walked away with all our fingers -- perfect to flip the safety officer the bird"
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by jaystraw 2y ago
hopes and seams
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by jaystraw 2y ago
that's what i was going to say. and while you can use barn doors and lenses to hone the throw (the size of the beam on stage) -- it's not collimated like a laser is. even with parabolic reflectors like par cans. we're talking
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by jaystraw 2y ago
time preference slash discounting. so not sure what you mean by "have no market price" bezos is worth XX billion, but not if he tries to sell it all at once
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by jaystraw 2y ago
cops still stealing skateboards? i explained packet switching to my friend today, he got it which was cool -- but on the ebb of the topic i said that without it, the world today would be way, way different. i dunno, i dunno what you expecte
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by jaystraw 2y ago
in the music world, variacs are used to bring old tube amplifiers up to power slowly for that reason. not after being repaired or refurbished generally, but certainly when the amp's condition is unknown. the author of tfa said his new
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by jaystraw 2y ago
so are ICEs
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by jaystraw 2y ago
i'm a musician and audio engineer who encounters iPads for work regularly. my fine motor control is good enough to get paid to mix or play -- not good enough to reliably bring all open apps up (used to be a long press on the one button
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by jaystraw 2y ago
get my band The Jephries a gig so we can come down from Anchorage and eat some of your Turkish dishes! hehehe
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by jaystraw 2y ago
i can't speak for app stores, but my band, based out of Anchorage, Alaska, makes good money from streams. we are completely independent. we don't use cdbaby, but distrokid who charges a flat fee to upload, and publishes to all ava
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by jaystraw 2y ago
if renting use is viable, then why isn't construction or maintenance? i mean this honestly: an investor may not get crazy returns every year, but they get stable returns every year. why is owning and maintaining infrastructure unattrac
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by jaystraw 2y ago
humor is independent of language edit: there are jokes that rely on a specific language or culture. but i think (correct me if i'm wrong) sarcasm and hyperbole span language
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by jaystraw 2y ago
compression. encryption. handshakes. datetime. rng or prng. i'm right there with ya but nontrivial tasks require nontrivial knowledge. i don't have an answer for obfuscated backdoors like here, or bad code that happens, but i do k
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by jaystraw 2y ago
as an alaskan, those aren't mutually exclusive
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by jaystraw 3y ago
A few years ago, my band was putting our manager on our LLC account. The credit union, then Alaska USA but now Global , sent us all docusign links to add her. She had moved out of state, but either way I think they would've done it tha
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by jaystraw 3y ago
you're right. i think that's the difference between cynicism and consideration. one immobilizes, one prepares.
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by jaystraw 3y ago
we need more of this brand of silly in the world, thank you
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by jaystraw 3y ago
the checkout fallacy: waiting in line compresses your perception of time. when your items are being rung up, and it's time to pay, your perception of time dilates. i pay cash mostly. if i don't organize my change at the register,
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by jaystraw 3y ago
my name is timothy basket -- you're saying people have stolen my weave?! end sarcasm. but seriously -- claiming you made something you didn't isn't ok. but it happens, regardless of laws or regulations or norms. i don't
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by jaystraw 3y ago
considering there's only one of them, i'd imagine getting replacement parts is just as hard as getting common parts out bush here heh. minus the reality tv stuff of course
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by jaystraw 3y ago
in say the late 90's, i remember getting an email with a link to a webpage that explained, "your CRT can be used as a camera, and if you stay in position in front of your screen we'll take a picture of you and display it&quot
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by jaystraw 3y ago
iirc, a rogue wave is 2x the local max. 2x or greater, yes, but 10x...i'm unaware of recorded examples.
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by jaystraw 3y ago
As someone with two and a half -- yes, and a half -- felonies for computer trespass from when I was in highschool, at 17, freshly 17, in 2003...I feel for you. Longer story, obviously. But no one knew how to deal with the situation, so &quo
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by jaystraw 3y ago
i don't disagree, but were it that advantageous, there would be islands in the pacific where this happened
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by jaystraw 3y ago
i see what you did there. and smiled :-)

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