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by mb_72 2y ago
Excellent work and very interesting to read. DX9s very occasionally pop up for sale for silly small money, and now I would seriously entertain getting one just for the fun of having a crack at installing your custom ROM.
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by mb_72 2y ago
'Laser-trimmed resistors' will be the next selling point on a boutique guitar FX company's 57th clone of a Tubescreamer.
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by mb_72 2y ago
8 months is not that long; these days the wait is longer. However, you are aware of how long the wait will be, there information is right there on the Australian Immigration website: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas&#x2
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by mb_72 3y ago
I remember when blue LEDs started appearing in guitar FX pedals just out of novelty,resulting in a pedals becoming harder to use as when the pedal was on the brightness meant visibility of the controls was reduced. On pedals I made I always
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by mb_72 3y ago
I've just stuck with a single printed page, placed inside the bag and it's outside pockets, with my flight and multiple sets of contact details. However, I haven't lost a bag over hundreds of flights while doing this, so am u
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by mb_72 3y ago
Might I suggest that swearing to learn to improve your swimming skills may be more beneficial to your long-term survival? Plus a lot more fun once you have more confidence in the water.
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by mb_72 3y ago
Not to mention saved significant hospital costs as people were unwell but not sick enough to require more intensive and expensive treatment.
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by mb_72 3y ago
They've been working on those things in Tallinn for years, and I've only ever seen them operate in a very limited area, and even then it's not unusual to see them seemingly stuck at the nearby rail crossing. Meanwhile a human
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by mb_72 3y ago
In that case, I'm happy to be 'just' a good developer who has used an ORM to create a product that runs an entire company, and has been doing so reliably for 12 years and counting now. OTOH, I took over a role years ago where
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by mb_72 3y ago
Sounds quite human.
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by mb_72 3y ago
A few things: 1) I went through Stripe checkout to upgrade to the $10/month plan, but it's still showing me as on the free plan on the billing page. 2) I guess related to 1), but I want to show my business partner the results of a
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by mb_72 4y ago
Graham's writings and book helped me make it through Covid isolation and a relationship breakdown. He and his partner have done very good work for many people in the area of mental health in Australia: https://www.bigfeels.c
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by mb_72 4y ago
No mention of 'voting' to spend time with friends or family, getting outdoors, giving to charity with one's time or money, painting or trying to learn how to? Perhaps the author does these things or perhaps their context was
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by mb_72 4y ago
Australia (my home country) is another that comes to mind in terms of multiculturalism, and I also took it for granted before I spent time in a very different country (Estonia).
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by mb_72 4y ago
"Joining Megaco also means you join our corporate wellness program, via which we track your important life parameters and help you achieve Maximum Happiness and optimise Life Satisfaction. * Please note that a Happiness score of at lea
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by mb_72 4y ago
I live in Estonia, hence my confusion.
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by mb_72 4y ago
So this 'Bolt' is the same as or different from 'Bolt' the taxi/scooter hire company?
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by mb_72 5y ago
With ORMs I tend to write things with their native syntax, and then if necessary go back and speed up critical sections with SQL; it's not an either/or situation.
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by mb_72 5y ago
"Imitate, Assimilate, Innovate" - credited to jazz trumpeter Clark Terry (b 1920), so hardly a new concept. Also, these days I see a lot of content creators only making it to the first stage, mindlessly aping others or creating sh
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by mb_72 5y ago
Hmmm, I would never use such a system as for one thing - if people aren't contacting me, why should I care about contacting them? I have several 'best friends', maybe twice that 'friends', and then a bunch more I in
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by mb_72 5y ago
Crohn's sufferer here. I have lost track of the times people have said "I tried this diet, and then my Crohns / UC went away".. and then some time later their symptoms reappeared. My understanding (via own reading and di
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by mb_72 5y ago
Hmmm, I started programming in 1982 on a TRS80 Color Computer, and am still at it building web and desktop apps. I agree if you were out of the scene for a while it'd be a hard task to get to grips with things, but otherwise some of us
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by mb_72 5y ago
Looks like they sell via distributors, so they are then another step removed from the con, eg: https://www.audiotherapyuk.com/brands/entreq/entreq-ground-b...
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by mb_72 5y ago
If only this wasn't necessary - a lot of online stuff has had a single 'take' done and minimal editing out of such time-wasting utterances or silences. And once you start to notice such characteristics in some poor speakers i
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by mb_72 5y ago
Actually, the key-click occurred not for those reasons explicitly, but "...was caused by the audio signal being routed directly through the key contacts. As a key was depressed, the nine contacts under the key closed against their resp
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by mb_72 5y ago
You are speaking for all mainland Chinese? Ok, well, let me speak for all Australians affected negatively by the b/s extra 'taxes'/trade restrictions/etc put in place by the Chinese government... because they didn&#
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by mb_72 5y ago
Ah ... I think you are onto something with this statement. What's the name of the cafe? /s Commenting as I have heard of fellow musicians sometimes performing almost ritualistic steps or 'cargo cult' emulations of '
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by mb_72 5y ago
This also seems like something a self-aware AI would write to avoid arousing suspicion related to it's creator not being seen alive for some period of time.
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by mb_72 5y ago
No, no relevant in this case.
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by mb_72 5y ago
I have an application I developed for a client starting in 2005 using Delphi 7; my VM is based on Windows XP, and the app worked fine on Windows 7 and is now used on Windows 10. I had to update one setting in an external configuration file

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