richardjs

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by richardjs 2y ago
If you'd like to improve, definitely! There are all sorts of things involved in singing that some do naturally and others (like myself) do not. Having a knowledgeable teacher who's able to observe you, identify areas of improvemen
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by richardjs 2y ago
Under $1000: Voice lessons at the local community school of music. I'm a lifelong musician, but was an almost entirely solitary one. I taught myself different instruments, but I never felt like I could get to basic competency teaching
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by richardjs 3y ago
Standard Ebooks also has an edition: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/p-t-barnum/the-humbugs-of-...
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by richardjs 4y ago
Dagnabbit! Thanks for pointing that out. Would edit if I could.
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Cartoonist Tributes to Charles Schulz(schulzmuseum.org)
186 points by richardjs 4y ago|28 comments
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by richardjs 4y ago
Standard Ebooks does modernize language; it's step 14 on the production guide[1]. [1] https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-ste...
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by richardjs 5y ago
I was a heavy Google Reader user and mourned it for years. At some point, though, I discovered Miniflux [1], and haven't really missed Reader since. What I do miss from the Reader days, though, is widespread RSS support. I wonder if
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Arch Linux manual pages indexing service(archlinux.org)
8 points by richardjs 6y ago|0 comments
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by richardjs 6y ago
It's not Escape Velocity, but Maelstrom was open-sourced [1]! A while ago I forked a version and changed the braking power-up to be controlled by a button press, instead of always active [2]. It was cool to fix something that always bu
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by richardjs 6y ago
It looks like the subject has come up a couple times on the mailing list [1] [2], but in my (admittedly casual) searching I didn't find anything since 2017, with the most relevant answer being "not at the moment". Since it ha
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by richardjs 7y ago
Accepting that we're just throwing out interesting-sounding ideas, I wonder if having a powered runway rail (or something of the sort) to provide takeoff power could work. With that you wouldn't have to worry about dropping anythi
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by richardjs 7y ago
Wacom also sells drawing tablets with integrated displays [1]. I've never used them or an Apple Pencil, so I don't know how they compare, but Wacom isn't totally caught out here. On the other hand, I can see a lot of people b
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One man’s quest to create a bespoke suit from scratch(suitingmyself.com)
3 points by richardjs 9y ago|2 comments
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by richardjs 9y ago
People do. That's what the pledge drives and "brought to you by viewers like you" commonly heard on PBS are about. Different local stations rely on difference funding sources. Stations in smaller or rural markets would have a
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by richardjs 9y ago
PBS has underwriting spots that are only shown between programs and are subject to more restrictions than commercials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwriting_spot No programming is interrupted, and the only marketi
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by richardjs 10y ago
I glossed over it a bit in my first post, but the data on the drive is actually always encrypted. The system decrypts the data on the fly as it's read into memory, and encrypts when it writes to disk again. This has less of a performan
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by richardjs 10y ago
Sorry for your experience. One standard approach is to set up full disk encryption. A common setup would encrypt every partitions but your /boot partition, so a thief would be unable to access your system if it were powered off. (If yo
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by richardjs 10y ago
What's your source for that? The CDC estimates 1 in 6 people a year get sick from food eaten in the US, and I can't imagine that none of that food is from a modern supermarket. Poultry, for example, "often contains harmful ba
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by richardjs 10y ago
Van Gogh is most known for his painting, but he also created drawings. For example, he drew a pen and ink version of Starry Night [1]. I particularly like Windmills at Montmartre [2]. I think it'd be easy to argue his talent and sk
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by richardjs 11y ago
Any user can become a developer if he or she chooses. The user may decide it requires too much work to learn to code in order to implement a given change, but the option is there nonetheless.
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by richardjs 11y ago
At least they're not as dangerous as pool halls.
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by richardjs 11y ago
Are you thinking of sleet? Hail is associated with severe thunderstorms,[1] which definitely occur in areas with mosquito populations. [1] http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/hail-or-sleet-h...
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by richardjs 12y ago
I'm a little confused about the issue. I understand the problems you have with the reprompt option, and if that causes you to switch from LastPass, it's your decision. But could this issue be solved by keeping your computer locked
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by richardjs 12y ago
But not enough to buy a smaller, more durable phone? One with a thick, rubber or plastic exterior case? No? I didn't think so. I only just recently upgraded from an old feature phone to a Moto G. One of the major reasons I selected i
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by richardjs 12y ago
When did durability stop being a factor used to assess a phone's quality? As someone who is somewhat accident prone (and who doesn't want to spend too much time fretting about protecting my phone), it's something I care about
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by richardjs 12y ago
Get a license with something like ASCAP[1]. I think that's what most businesses using music in a public setting do. Legally using copyrighted music is not exactly an impossible task. I mean, it's basically the entire business of s
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by richardjs 12y ago
That's a good suggestion. Yeah, index directives will cause a redirect loop in my above configuration. The try_files directive is effectively taking the place of an index.
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by richardjs 12y ago
Your specs look a lot like ours (we have a CMS that adds a trailing /index to every page that is part of the core navigation, and we don't want that). Here's the three primary rewrite rules we use for the issue; they don&#x27
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by richardjs 12y ago
It's also mentioned on his blog, or at least the statement "I’ve resigned as CEO and I’m leaving Mozilla to take a rest..." [1]. Doesn't explicitly say he's never coming back, but certainly says he's leaving Mo
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by richardjs 13y ago
Link to the paper: https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2... The paper says it targets older iSight cameras, found in models until 2008. Anyone know if modern cameras better protection?

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