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Connecting through music has been a part of every relationship throughout my life.

I actually connected with people through last.fm in real life. I remember the site telling me that I had a lot in common with someone so I sent a message since we lived in the same city. After lots of chatting through the site we eventually met and dated for a bit.

Everything needs limits otherwise someone will figure out how to or accidentally break it.

This is the best. I use it for work as well.

Where's the Era 500? :(

Veritasium covered this story recently.

https://youtu.be/Q56PMJbCFXQ?si=GmVD26JBJlot-dff

I do the same thing with friends who use IP TV that gets it's from a friend of a friend of a friend.

The room of my house that I use as an office did not receive much sunlight from the window that faces a brick wall. I recently had a skylight installed and wow, it's been life changing. I don't even need a light on anymore during the day. I highly recommend installing a skylight to add more natural light to a room if it's possible.

I'm a web dev by day so playing around with Unity has been really fun. Having to consider time, i.e. what does everything like at time t=0, t=1, etc., adds a new dimension I don't get it my day job.

It's not programming but playing around with Blender has been really fun too.

It most certainly is.

I worked at Wal-Mart in Canada for seven years when I was younger and during the summer, when I worked more hours, I would see the department managers and the upper level store managers do it every morning during the week. Wal-mart really pushes the idea of winning. Everything is about being the best at generating profit and beating the local competition into submission. The location I worked at completely destroyed a Zellers, Eatons, Bi-Way and possibly others that I'm forgetting.

I worked in the electronics department and my manager had the discretion to price big new movie releases below the competition (he would actually check out the competition himself). We had a line that snaked through the entire store for days when Titanic came out since we had the best price for a large radius. Having the best price on an item would be something that would be mentioned during the morning meeting and would be something everyone in attendance would get excited about.

I've been puzzled by this myself.

Maybe it's to discourage people from holding up their phones and observing the event through their phones.

Incredible stuff. I could use a few new joints myself.

Only that kind of person would want to live off the grid...

I saw this tool mentioned recently along with the release of https://github.com/ExOK/Celeste64 . It's mentioned as a tool that was used during Celeste64's development so it's clearly not just for Quake engine based games.

You should try the Jackbox party games. They require a certain level of engagement and are quite fun.

Actually, if the attacker is determined enough they can use enough IPs and make it really hard to detect and defend against.

I work on combating credential stuffing on a regular basis... it's quite challenging.

cURL

Microsoft Surface laptops are pretty close to MBPs.

I tried enabling this recently and I immediately noticed that websites started appearing in light mode instead of copying my system settings and displaying in dark mode. It seems like in it's efforts to make my fingerprint the same as everyone else's Firefox stops telling websites about my display settings. The issue immediately went away when I changed the setting back to privacy.resistFingerprinting = false.

This has been the trend lately for games that are multiplatform.

It's better than making 100M copies that contain the PC version, 100M copies that contain the Xbox version, etc. and then having them sell at different rates and having 3-5 different SKUs.

Last.fm has a special place in my life since I actually met someone I was quite fond of through the site. I kept seeing her profile pop up as someone with similar musical tastes. I noticed we lived in the same city so I sent her a message. We corresponded back and forth for awhile, eventually met and then dated for a few months.

My friends and I have had a LAN party every year for the last 20+ years. Usually around Christmas or early the following year.

Since the pandemic hit we moved them to be online over Discord and I'd say that they've been just as fun as the in person ones. There are obviously pros and cons but given we're all much older now and many people have moved away I doubt we'll ever have an in person LAN again.

Keep in mind that if the user doesn't speak English natively they may be coming across more aggressively than they actually mean to.

Beanie babies are actually a tangible object though. :)

This is very interesting to hear. In 2014, my wife and I went on a vacation in Germany and I found that it was cheaper and more convenient to rent a car than it was to use trains as we've typically done countries like Italy and France for our vacations. I chalked it up to Germans being a big fan of cars.

Here, take my Google Survey money. Best of luck!

Using --i-am-a-dummy is the best recommendation:

  root@localhost [main]> update user set password = 'abc123';
  ERROR 1175 (HY000): You are using safe update mode and you tried to update a table without a WHERE that uses a KEY column.

Twitter seems to be showing the popup every time you follow a link within Twitter. The simplest way around this is to just reload the page.

You've probably never needed to work with really large files or edit/examine a fie in HEX, it really shines for these use cases.

It's not really an IDE and I've never used it to write code.