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by thirteenfingers 2y ago
MusicBrainz is great. I stumbled upon it about a year ago while trying to figure out how various open-source desktop music apps populate track info... and was delighted to find that some random Internet stranger had helpfully catalogued all
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by thirteenfingers 2y ago
That was seven years later. Maybe the problem is that Google stopped reading what Google wrote.
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by thirteenfingers 3y ago
I also started getting that yesterday, but curiously I was still able to watch videos after closing the popup (without turning off my ad blocker).
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by thirteenfingers 3y ago
And I literally just dropped my album this afternoon. I don't know whether I should be worried now.
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by thirteenfingers 3y ago
I personally agree about the whole point of Lego being free form building - and I still have some Lego magazines from the days when that was explicitly encouraged by Lego - but you need kits and instructions to get to the point where you
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by thirteenfingers 3y ago
What I don't understand (speaking of Vimeo) is why doesn't YouTube offer a plan where individual content creators can choose to pay a monthly fee to keep ads off of their own videos for all viewers. Speaking for myself I would ha
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by thirteenfingers 4y ago
Me! First Christmas at my new (fully remote) job on an SRE team and I'm on call through most of this coming week. Not complaining though, I actually asked for this stretch, due to awkward timing with other commitments during other week
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by thirteenfingers 4y ago
Obligatory Matthias Wandel video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHOx39xJack
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by thirteenfingers 4y ago
I'm taking the Solutions Architect exam. Arguably I should have waited until I had a few more months hands-on experience, but I kind of felt like jumping off the deep end.
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by thirteenfingers 4y ago
Procrastinating on studying for my AWS certification next week. I was unemployed for several months of this year and knowledge of AWS or any of the major cloud providers was the most glaring hole on my resume. Happily, my new employer pays
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by thirteenfingers 4y ago
@rachelbythebay's HN spoof is still my personal favorite: https://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/
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by thirteenfingers 4y ago
IIRC the system Bach was pushing wasn't actually equal temperament, but "well temperament" which was some sort of compromise between equal temperament and having pure fifths everywhere. The result was that all twelve keys sou
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by thirteenfingers 5y ago
Over the years I've gone from Ubuntu to Debian to Slackware and back to Debian. I took a chance on Slackware for a few years precisely so that I could force myself to understand *nix from the bottom up. Unfortunately I didn't have
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by thirteenfingers 5y ago
Indeed. Just last week there was a whole thread here on HN about the problems with toxicity detectors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30066720 I'm not sure if this is the system youtube is using, but it would cer
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by thirteenfingers 5y ago
I'm actually in a very similar situation - in fact I'm trying to go on unpaid leave as a preemptive measure . I would happily undertake other mitigation measures, including working remote, biweekly testing, masking etc., and my (
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by thirteenfingers 5y ago
Between stuffing non-monetized videos with ads, the dislike button thing, and capricious censorship, I'm seriously looking into self-hosting[0] my video and streamed content. Disregarding the difficulty of maintaining a following outsi
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by thirteenfingers 5y ago
One question that I, as a non-Finn who has had more than a passing interest in Finnish history, have never seen a compelling answer to is how reconciliation was ultimately achieved after the civil war. The accounts I've read refer in
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by thirteenfingers 5y ago
"The air hoses between the locomotive and the cars were not connected, as is normal during this kind of switching operation. The air brakes on the cars were therefore inoperative." This part confuses me. I was under the impression
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
Who said it had to be writing code? If finding joy in work is unrealistic, then take up a musical instrument, build a model railroad, write short stories, or something totally unrelated. (I've been a full-time code monkey by day and mu
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
@jacquesm's efforts in this direction may interest you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14226889
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
This. Fellow pianist-with-smallish-hands here. The string players' paradigm of having differently-sized instruments as one grows up works well because they carry their instruments with them. Pianists are cursed with having to play what
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
Examples? Happy to be proven wrong on this.
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
Speaking for myself, I would be willing to pay YouTube to opt out of ads. I post mostly classical music videos, which are totally ruined if video advertisements are inserted in the middle. (Granted, YouTube doesn't seem to do that to c
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
If you're referring to in-video ads, then no. At present, if you choose not to monetize a video, no ads get shown unless a third part makes a copyright claim on your video. I'm not quite sure about the situation with ads that
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
Oh man. I posted here about this before, but almost exactly four years ago a friend and I put on a concert of our own favorite Tom Lehrer songs to great enthusiasm. By what must be total coincidence, just a few days ago I had posted some vi
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
This bit in particular resonated with me, as someone who's had problems with nervousness giving piano recitals: I have a psychological approach to nerves as well. We have to consider the so-called importance of our little place in the
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
Man what an extraordinary guy. I love reading about people like Mr. Edquist who kind of live in the shadow of great artists like GG and make their art possible, especially when dealing with such artists requires a bit of head-butting. Highl
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
Ms. Delaney has also written a full-length book, "Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem", which I haven't read all the way through but which appears to be a more thorough treatment of the material covered in this article. (Dis
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
There's no shame in moving back in with your parents, as long as they and you get along, and as long as you keep making something of yourself. I lived with my parents for seven and a half years after getting my bachelor's degree.
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
What are some of the UX problems you're thinking of? Personally I've been pretty happy with it so far. (My main point of comparison is Sibelius, which I used until I went all-Linux three or four years ago.)

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