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

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    There's never too late to the party! Somehow this post is on the front page again, and I will happily take a listen. Thanks for the suggestion!!

    There's never too late to the party! Somehow this post is on the front page again, and I will happily take a listen. Thanks for the suggestion!!

    1 vote

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

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    Both of these are incredible songs, but they don't meet the requirement of being post 2000 :(

    Both of these are incredible songs, but they don't meet the requirement of being post 2000 :(

  3. Comment on The literary world’s DEI checklist in ~books

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    I just disabled JS with ublock origin on desktop and the whole thing loaded perfectly. Granted, it was kind of a waste, but it did load.

    I just disabled JS with ublock origin on desktop and the whole thing loaded perfectly. Granted, it was kind of a waste, but it did load.

  4. Comment on Using ASCII art to prove that I, not an LLM, wrote something in ~tech

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    Never heard of this channel, but also, what the hell, Tom7? What the hell. Very impressive way of tackling the problem.

    Never heard of this channel, but also, what the hell, Tom7? What the hell. Very impressive way of tackling the problem.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Using ASCII art to prove that I, not an LLM, wrote something in ~tech

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    I'm claiming that mostly they can't generate something where each line is the same length, and the ASCII art (that is topical and relevant to what you're writing about) is the cherry on top. (And...

    I'm claiming that mostly they can't generate something where each line is the same length, and the ASCII art (that is topical and relevant to what you're writing about) is the cherry on top.

    (And there's a little bit of yelling at the world thrown in there too.)

  6. Comment on Googlebook revealed and ready for pre-order in ~tech

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    I mourn my Pixelbook. It's a beautiful machine. I installed Ubuntu on it after ChromeOS stopped getting updated, but then it bricked and it's been collecting dust. Even though the screen was 4:3,...

    I mourn my Pixelbook. It's a beautiful machine. I installed Ubuntu on it after ChromeOS stopped getting updated, but then it bricked and it's been collecting dust. Even though the screen was 4:3, I loved using it. The keyboard had incredible feel.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Using ASCII art to prove that I, not an LLM, wrote something in ~tech

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    Every single freakin' time.

    Every single freakin' time.

    6 votes

  8. Comment on Using ASCII art to prove that I, not an LLM, wrote something in ~tech

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    I knew someone was going to point that out before I fixed it The build that fixed it failed before I noticed, and it's re-running now. >_< edit: it's fixed now!

    I knew someone was going to point that out before I fixed it

    The build that fixed it failed before I noticed, and it's re-running now. >_<

    edit: it's fixed now!

    8 votes

  9. Comment on Using ASCII art to prove that I, not an LLM, wrote something in ~tech

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    This is a blog post that I spent the last two months working on. I've run into a situation at work where there are several people who aggressively vibe-code all the things, and while I think that...

    This is a blog post that I spent the last two months working on. I've run into a situation at work where there are several people who aggressively vibe-code all the things, and while I think that LLM usage is helpful in some cases, I don't believe that outsourcing your brain to it has any real usefulness. This post is about the techniques that I've adopted at work, and the history behind them, for proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the documentation I write is by me and me alone.

    I'd love to know your thoughts!

    11 votes

  11. Comment on A computer mouse that you control with your tongue in ~comp

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    That's absolutely incredible. I do a lot of work with custom-building gaming devices for folks with various types of movement disabilities at a children's hospital, but I never thought about...

    That's absolutely incredible. I do a lot of work with custom-building gaming devices for folks with various types of movement disabilities at a children's hospital, but I never thought about something that might go inside the mouth entirely. I'm gonna have to look more into this.

    6 votes

  12. 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

  13. 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!!

  14. 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?

  15. 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 :(

  16. 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 :(

  17. 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

  18. 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!

  19. 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

  20. 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