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Strongly seconded. Great radio, independent, opinionated, kind, reasonable, 100% listener supported. My main go-to for music in the last couple of years (since I discovered it)

heh, beat you by three days, ID 65973, 2009-03-23 :)

How were you able to diagnose it yourself? Just through the error codes, or is there another interface available for non-technicians?

Non paywall version: https://archive.ph/pEGqq

Cambodia's specifically 30-50% of the economy can be directly attributed to scamming plus casinos

Are you saying that 30-50% of Cambodia's economy can be directly attributed to scamming and casinos? I find that shocking and hard to believe. Do you have a source for that statement?

I had similar feeling over the past few years, trying futilely to escape the algorithm.. I recently discovered radiop aradise[1] which is exactly what I needed - free, old style, very little talk, human-curated radio. They have a vast selection of titles, and they simply play good music - stuff I know, stuff I don't.. it's just great.

They also have a world music channel, which I couldn't find any parallel anywhere else. They have wonderful music there when I'm in my "world music" mood. All in all, it's a gem, highly recommended for any music lovers who prefer curated over algorithmic.

[1] https://radioparadise.com/home

By quoting the word "Decent" you mean it is actually excellent, or is it actually poor?

Obligatory link: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

That's not a useless project! It's a silly piece of code, but it gave joy to people, so I would say much more useful than most stories in this thread.

Back in the nineties my dad had the notion that if you make the computer select numbers at random many times, and you run statistics on the results you gain some "legitimacy" to these selections. So he asked me to write a "lotto number selector program", but it needed to run for a few hours and select many numbers and then output the ones that were selected the most or some such. Maybe it was more sophisticated, but I can't really remember the details. I guess I could just add a delay instead of actually selecting the numbers, but I wouldn't lie to my dad :)

It was super silly, but like you said, why not, I was a teen/tween and I didn't mind playing around with silly software.

He actually used it and actually filled out the lotto numbers based on it. No, we never won the millions :)

Also - I just visited a casino in Spokane, WA for the first time ever. Isn't that what all the machines there are doing? A random number emitter thingy with random delays, animation, music and flashing lights?

You've basically summarized David Graeber's book - Bullshit Jobs[1]. Highly recommended.

[1] https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bullshit-Jobs/David-G...

Hey, thanks for making this! And thanks for posting here.

I was wondering if you are willing to share some of the innerworkings of this. You mention in the FAQ that it works for almost any site, so I am guessing you are not developing a per-site scraping script, rather something more generic? Maybe AI? How do you protect from AI mangling results unexpectedly (I don't know if this is a risk, I have no AI experience)

Care to share more?

Oh, it's a huge effort! These bodies meet and discuss what the proper spelling of words should be, or they make up new words, and then they publish those guidelines for journalists, authors, and anyone who wants to speak "properly" to follow.

It gives the language a good balance between spelling and pronouncing - that's why you can pronounce most words in German and Spanish exactly how they are written (I think there are very very few exceptions, if at all). But this comes at a price of losing ability to track meaning some times.

Sometimes it is not going so well, for example, look at the tumultuous German reform of 1996.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1...

There is no such thing as "English pronunciation". English does not have a regulatory body like Spanish or German have.

There are many English dialects, and sounds (and meanings) vary, A LOT. It's up to you whether you want to try and assimilate the local dialect of where you live right now, or you want to simply understand and be understood.

There are many non-native speakers who are extremely easy to understand, even though it is clear that English is their second (or third) language. I believe the hardest part is to learn how to make sounds that do not exist in your native language (both consonants and vowels). But the good news is that there are ways to learn that. The human mouth is capable of pronouncing all human sounds, it is only a matter of practice.

The English spelling is guided by meaning, not by sound. So trying to make the sounds out of the letters will always be a frustrating endeavor, as there will never be a single rule you can follow.

I still am unable to get resume from deep sleep to be less than 12-15 seconds. I dug the forums, contacted support, did all the things, but nothing works. If I go to s2idle it is instant, but that takes way too much battery.

Even with deep sleep the battery life feels very short. I haven't done formal tests, but I also have a macbook for work, and the difference is quite noticeable. I very often come to open the framework after a few hours of sleep and it just ran itself out of battery. This never happens with the macbook.

Don't get me wrong, I love the framework, and I love that it's "open", and fixable - so I'm willing to live with that. But just comparing it to another laptop, I'm not sure I'd give it 10 out of 10.

(I run archlinux on framework w/ 11th gen i7)

Same here, been hosting for over a decade now. You do need to be on top of all the latest technologies, and still some problems will arise once in a while. But all in all, it's a pretty smooth operation.

Have you been using ssh at all? How's that experience? That's my main use case.

How about video/audio calls? does Wi-Fi calling work well?

"Golden Apple" is still the word used today in modern Hebrew for orange, albeit in abbreviated form. I've always wondered where it came from.

I had a legit call a few months ago from the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency). He was nice enough and sounded calm, and I explained that with all due respect, since he called, I have no way of knowing if he is a scammer or not, so I'd like to call back. He was somewhat taken aback, but not annoyed. I asked where to call, and what to say to get to the matter at hand. After hanging up, I looked up the number, called them back, and got the issue settled. But I was truly surprised that he expected me to talk to him when he called. The CRA is probably the number one pretend-caller in Canada (Or two, after the RCMP - the federal police), so I was surprised they do not employ this as a standard practice and education for people to protect against scam calls. I was lucky to keep my wits about me, and that the call indeed was legit, but it shows there's a huge opening for scamming less savvy people.

Tartine by Chad Robertson was THE book for me. It took me from so-so sourdough bread, to amazing and consistent one that constantly gets praise and is a pleasure every time.

It's sourdough bread. It's way more filling then your average supermarket-bought white.

That sounds way too short. Until a few years ago you needed to be a resident (=reside) three years before you can apply (which takes about another year). I think now it's four + application processing time.

The facebook extension by mozilla solves this: https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extensio...

I don't remember this from the "Destroyer of worlds", but hey, 6 hours, it might have been there somewhere and I just missed it.

BTW - it's not the recent one anymore, there's a new one. Yay!

I agree, musicbrainz is absolutely awesome.

I use it daily for a couple of year now (to clean up the tags in my collection - quodlibet integrates nicely with musicbrainz for that) - and very rarely I am playing something that's not there.

When this is the case I try to add/edit the metadata, but most of the time, they're way ahead of me.

I don't know specifically about RainLoop, but I usually put services like that behind a BasicAuth on the web server. It's a simple but effective way to protect myself from PHP/application vulnerabilities - at a minor annoyance to the users (authenticating twice, every once in a while).

This is a favourite of mine. I watch it every once in a while.

Heh, I did the same. The mine tracks though had the best coin-to-playtime ratio, so we focused on those :)

wow, this document is redacted quite poorly

I'm replicating @nnf's response - never donated till now, figured I'll do $10 monthly, but bumped it to $15 for you.

He hasn't been hiding his frustration with the committee's progress. However, when asked about that, he also said he values the democracy and committee process more than his own ideas. On the option of being a "Benevolent C++ Dictator for life", he said "Power Corrupts".