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  1. Comment on I’ve ‘run out’ of notes on TickTick in ~tech

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    Joplin is where I dump my brain. I've got somewhere around 700mb of data in there.

    Joplin is where I dump my brain. I've got somewhere around 700mb of data in there.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Looking for more pop / rock songs with sick sax solos! Got any ideas? in ~music

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    That's a spectacular solo, thank you!!

    That's a spectacular solo, thank you!!

  3. Comment on Looking for more pop / rock songs with sick sax solos! Got any ideas? in ~music

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    You win the award for "wildest genre mashup" so far today. I... like it? I think?

    You win the award for "wildest genre mashup" so far today. I... like it? I think?

  4. Comment on Looking for more pop / rock songs with sick sax solos! Got any ideas? in ~music

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    And I love them all! The sax was much more popular pre-2000, which is why I'm using that as the date cutoff :(

    And I love them all! The sax was much more popular pre-2000, which is why I'm using that as the date cutoff :(

  5. Comment on Looking for more pop / rock songs with sick sax solos! Got any ideas? in ~music

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    That's a fabulous song, but it doesn't fit the requirement of being released post 2000 :(

    That's a fabulous song, but it doesn't fit the requirement of being released post 2000 :(

  6. Comment on Looking for more pop / rock songs with sick sax solos! Got any ideas? in ~music

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    I'm always open to exploring! I will listen to all of these, thank you so much for the recommendations!

    I'm always open to exploring! I will listen to all of these, thank you so much for the recommendations!

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Looking for more pop / rock songs with sick sax solos! Got any ideas? in ~music

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    Excellent choice, and it's already on the list!

    Excellent choice, and it's already on the list!

  8. Looking for more pop / rock songs with sick sax solos! Got any ideas?

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    I've been working on a playlist for a while of rock / pop songs with sax solos. The rules are: Must be from this millennium sax can't be a primary instrument pop or rock genres preferred Here's...

    I've been working on a playlist for a while of rock / pop songs with sax solos. The rules are:

    • Must be from this millennium
    • sax can't be a primary instrument
    • pop or rock genres preferred

    Here's what I've got so far: https://link.deezer.com/s/323YPvabsQgEuS8BOTCXj

    27 votes

  9. Comment on Finishing the toy that Nintendo abandoned -- breathing new life into Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit in ~games

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    The Switches actually aren't the issue — older Switch 1s are plentiful, and it also works with the Switch Lite. Console hardware usually arrives in batches at the hospital, so we'll just look up...

    The Switches actually aren't the issue — older Switch 1s are plentiful, and it also works with the Switch Lite. Console hardware usually arrives in batches at the hospital, so we'll just look up one day and there'll be 6-10 Xboxes / playstations / Switches / etc new in box that we'll have to set up and get into rotation. The hard part is getting the karts. The last two (that I rebuilt into Toad and Yoshi) I actually had to import from Japan, and that was actually the cheapest option.

    6 votes

  10. Comment on Finishing the toy that Nintendo abandoned -- breathing new life into Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit in ~games

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    Thank you!! That's a long-term goal — our specific hospital has a space sponsored by Garth Brooks' Teammates for Kids Foundation, and we're in tight communication with the other spaces that also...

    Thank you!! That's a long-term goal — our specific hospital has a space sponsored by Garth Brooks' Teammates for Kids Foundation, and we're in tight communication with the other spaces that also have Mario Kart Live setups to share and refine what we've learned over the past year. I've taken these karts apart so many times that I can practically do it in my sleep now, so I'm hoping that I can share what I can.

    (Side note: reverse engineering injection molded parts was a PAIN IN THE ASS. 0% fun.)

    edit: grammar

    8 votes

  11. Comment on Finishing the toy that Nintendo abandoned -- breathing new life into Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit in ~games

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    Nintendo's Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit was an innovative system that used the Switch as a control surface for camera-enabled RC cars. The release was plagued by issues, mostly relating to price...
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    Nintendo's Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit was an innovative system that used the Switch as a control surface for camera-enabled RC cars. The release was plagued by issues, mostly relating to price (~$450 investment required per player, up to four players) and the fact that it's up to four players, but they only released Mario and Luigi as playable karts.

    As a home product, these are effectively dead, but they've found a home in hospitals as a toy that can set up once and entertain lots of kids in small doses. I've been maintaining a fleet of these karts for our local children's hospital, and though it's hard to find spare parts, we'll keep these running as long as we can.

    18 votes

  13. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Reworked my personal site so that it uses github pages for hosting, but the content is fetched dynamically from my joplin notes at build time, so I can get the best of both worlds — free github...

    Reworked my personal site so that it uses github pages for hosting, but the content is fetched dynamically from my joplin notes at build time, so I can get the best of both worlds — free github pages hosting, but private content. It feels magical, honestly.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Making React ProseMirror really, really fast in ~comp

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    On stock latest android and latest firefox, replacements using the Gboard buttons (like "we're" -> "were") take upwards of a full second to insert into the text area on the new version. Typing...

    On stock latest android and latest firefox, replacements using the Gboard buttons (like "we're" -> "were") take upwards of a full second to insert into the text area on the new version. Typing seems to be pretty fast, though.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Thinking of getting Proton and using it as my day-to-day email, but I have concerns in ~tech

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    Same, and the ability to have unlimited domains linked to one account has been a life-saver for adding "professional-looking" email addresses to projects.

    Same, and the ability to have unlimited domains linked to one account has been a life-saver for adding "professional-looking" email addresses to projects.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on Reddit is going to enforce rate-limiting the API's free tier as well as charging for higher rates in ~tech

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    Yep, that's me. And since then I've had even more calls with Reddit leadership, and it was just as fruitful as the first calls.

    Yep, that's me. And since then I've had even more calls with Reddit leadership, and it was just as fruitful as the first calls.

    8 votes

  17. Comment on So, what have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Mostly as a target of frustration when the daemon inevitably crashes and takes all the containers with it. It's great for testing, awful for prod.

    Mostly as a target of frustration when the daemon inevitably crashes and takes all the containers with it. It's great for testing, awful for prod.

  18. Comment on So, what have you been working on? in ~comp

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    piholes are amazing -- make sure you set up the extra blocklists! I'm a huge fan of mine. Can't help on the audio side, though :(

    piholes are amazing -- make sure you set up the extra blocklists! I'm a huge fan of mine. Can't help on the audio side, though :(

    2 votes

  19. Comment on How do you manage your dotfiles? in ~comp

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    I use yadm and I've been pretty pleased with it so far. I like that I can be very explicit with what goes where.

    I use yadm and I've been pretty pleased with it so far. I like that I can be very explicit with what goes where.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Name a cool, mostly unknown feature of your OS of choice in ~tech

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    The Windows Step Recorder is an amazing little program that automatically records everything you do while reproducing a problem, then bundles it all up with screenshots and everything. It's...

    The Windows Step Recorder is an amazing little program that automatically records everything you do while reproducing a problem, then bundles it all up with screenshots and everything. It's fantastic and I wish more people knew about it.

    15 votes