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my favorite story about quincy is that at as a 22 year old he was selected as the music arranger for dizzy gillespie’s band, and they all went to iran and gave a series of concerts. around 1954. RIP.
Bach is the best proof we have that advanced aliens visited earth and took human shape :). like in that episode of star trek, The Traveler.
and based on the complexity of Fugues he was probably the world’s best multi-threaded programmer too :).
not directly relevant, but was riding my motorcycle in the boonies, and lost the phone which was on the handlebar (bumpy rocky path).
Looked for it several times on the path with no luck. Then I remembered my old iPhone was in the backpack. Did a Find my phone on the backup phone and it showed exactly where it had lost touch with the primary phone. This is all without cell or Wi-Fi service. Saved me a $1000.
speaking of monetization, i’d happily pay a $10 monthly fee for these features as a biker:
- weather along route
Google knows the weather, it knows the route… Just add a layer! better yet suggest a reroute. i pay for a separate app for this currently.
- motorcycle friendly features
bigger buttons for usage with gloves; selection of straight, curvy, unpaved etc roads; right now it’s just Highway or non Highway
- ability to create a group and show their live locations on the map.
Something better than WhatsApp live location. The current approach that Google maps uses is cumbersome and non-intuitive. also if a route is updated, an option to update everyone else’s shared route.
- local info, POI, etc
you know my location and interests, tell me some interesting stuff over Bluetooth about the city or POI’s i’m passing by.
seems to be fast and accurate. thx will use.
yes definitely home page. it’s the first thing i looked for, didn’t immediately see, hit the back button.
i would also consider a trial pic for free tied to email.
nice! is this in reference to composer javad maroofy?!
brilliant! many chuckles. i hope people try it out.
tested on a few pics. excellent colorization. pls provide patreon etc link so the site stays up! thxxx
definitely. i used to run the visual studio / vs code teams for python, R, nodejs, jupyter etc at microsoft. working closely with and hiring from the os community was both delightful and a priority for me. several key employees were hired that way.
:). i see seemingly random people keep posting their experiments with it. i guess they’re all in the inner circle or something
is there a hosted version of dall-e that people can play with? free or paid.
thanks!
yes it’s quite bizarre that key functionalities are split between the built in Editor and iMovie. almost all videos have to be done using both. doing vertical videos + text is very awkward.
tarare is also the name of an opera by antonio salieri (of the amadeus movie fame) that takes place, of all places, in the hormoz island of the persian gulf…
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smortaz on Monday January 03, 2022 @10:54PM
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Hello HN.I’d like to set up a webcam on a public tennis court so people can visit a URL and see if the court is occupied before heading there.If you have ideas how this can be done relatively cheaply please lmk!Some background info:There is no power, so it has to be solar.It’s outdoors, so weather resistant.There js no wifi, so cell network.Only needs to work 6am to 11pm.Video feed is not...
they are! once i found a baby spider in the jacuzzi and just let it stay there out of laziness. it set up shop in one of the water jet holes. it gradually grew and started catching the real enemy, the mosquitoes.
as a “thank you”, once every couple of days i’d catch a fly and feed it to him. i’d tap the electric fly swatter on the jacuzzi wall to drop the fly. this tapping sound quickly became sort of a pavlovian affair. as soon as i’d tap the fly swatter, he would rush out of the hole and grab its treat!
here’s the video
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0SkC9zuEe9JKh4t2M4DEz2A1w
love paint.net. so many advanced features for a “basic” app. but why is rotating still unintuitive? is there a trick that i’ve missed or using the layers menu still the way?
thank you aho & ullman. your dragon book got me hooked & started a 40 year career in compilers/languages. first job, an algol68 compiler on burroughs hw back in the middle ages.
Definitely. The OS, HW and Extended Algol had some nice features that were ahead of their time. I haven’t kept up, but their mainframes were very popular with banks etc.
The Burroughs OS (“Master Control Program”) in the 70s had a routine from which all other processes were started. Its name was MotherForker(). It was eventually renamed when HR found out.
Hah. Came to post the same video :). He didn’t actually visit a lot of the “beautiful” parts of the country, but it does paint a good picture of the peoples’ attitudes (even in really harsh economic times under a brutal regime)
Congrats to the team! This is a major productivity milestone for teams using Jupyter.
and chopin. several of his most beloved works were to be bruned. if i had a time machine, my 1st stop would be paris, 1840, with pills for tuberculosis.
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smortaz on Friday January 25, 2019 @03:44PM
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smortaz on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @04:25PM
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smortaz on Thursday November 08, 2018 @06:21PM
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