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kblev··on How to Start Your Blog in 2023
Is there a way for SSGs to support viewer comments?
kblev··on Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples
It's really cool that I place the dots just randomly, and the rythm still sounds good.
kblev··on The limits of "computational photography"
Is there a way to disable this extra processing?
kblev··on OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down
Also it's fairly common to not be able to use ChatGPT because they're at capacity
kblev··on On why I gave up drinking in my early twenties
This literally changed my life
kblev··on Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year
What about Sapient?
kblev··on Ask HN: Can I strip out the EULA from an open source project to use it?
Thanks a lot for taking the time to respond. This is how I interpreted the situation as well.

What complicates matters is that the product name is a registered trademark, and the holding company also has patented the tool. I raised these concerns with my management but they still want to proceed, so I saved well the written confirmation. We'll be using the tool internally, no plans to sell it.

kblev··on Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
I have been thinking about this the other day, and I think buyouts and mergers should be illegal.
kblev··on The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal
Banning international sales is a politically damaging move because it would crash the market value of existing housing, affecting those residents who own one (or more), particularly if they're on a mortgage. It also reduces the tax income from properties and propert sales. Banks probably wouldn't be too happy either that the security on the loans no longer cover the outstanding balance.

Things will probably shift when the proportion of renters significantly outnumber the home owners.

kblev··on Winamp Is Back from the Dead
I'm still using winamp to this day, mostly for listening dowoaded YouTube playlists during work, it's brilliant.
kblev··on Apple Interview – 1995
Funny how I'm reading this on an app called Glider
kblev··on Ask HN: Leaving Germany – where to find quality of life as experienced engineer?
VAT + Income Tax + Socials?
kblev··on Lofi.co – Relax and Focus
Anyone knows a good radio for dub techno? Something like CMYK's uploads on YouTube.
kblev··on BitTorrent Site Magnet Database Archives Available via Torrent and Direct DL
Or use a seedbox
kblev··on After roasting Apple about headphone jacks, Google dumps it from Pixel 6A
The biggest thing that bothers me in Bluetooth is the lossy audio compression
kblev··on Cities with Nice Weather
Op really dislikes snow..
kblev··on Airbnb Q1
Same in UK, price is 2.5 - 3x of the long term lease rate
kblev··on rand() may call malloc()
And too much repetition
kblev··on Ask HN: What is your Git commit/push flow?
We just squash the commits in Gitlab at a Merge, so the sequential commits won't matter.
kblev··on Zelensky video deepfake
You can see how his shoulder isn't moving, only his head on that still body.
kblev··on Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
It's good that Iraq and Afghanistan was worth a war, just Ukraine not so much
kblev··on New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
Heat pumps are rather inefficient according to this video [1]. Are you not bothered by all the noise it generates? Why not just use electric heater instead of a heat pump?

1 - https://youtu.be/GhAKMAcmJFg

kblev··on Defrag Like It's 1993
That's an obvious sign of OCD.
kblev··on Americans are rethinking where they want to live
What are some better options in CA?
kblev··on Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground
May I please ask which city is this ?
kblev··on Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
What is a vim emulator?
kblev··on Winamp source code leak
Winamp has a media library feature, it can keep track of what you're listening to and builds playlists of your most listened and top rated tracks. Quite handy.
kblev··on Winamp source code leak
I'm using Winamp on my Surface Pro 6, switched from foobar2000 for the Media Library feature. (I've been also using Winamp in my teens starting with the first versions up until last ones, then stopped listening to local music files).

It's an amazing low resource player. The YouTube playlists I'm listening to in Firefox consume 1.6GB of RAM and significant CPU, the downloaded opus files with Winamp take up a few megs of RAM (and bunch of disk space on my SD card).

I tried WACUP but it doesn't work well for me. Very complicated UI, too many settings, it also corrupted my real Winamp library.

Regarding the leak - perhaps the founders aren't happy with the direction of the app in the upcoming release (we can notice the ugly website update) so they may have leaked the code. Great news.

kblev··on The Stroad
Great channel, have been following it for some time, a few takeaways from there:

- It's the cars that make the cities undesirable

- I was shocked how the historical center of London, ON was demolished to the ground and replaced with shacks

- Kids should be able to walk to school alone in safety

- I live in Europe and I was baffled to learn that multi-purpose developments are disallowed in most of North America. This alone makes me reconsider my plans to move to the States. I love how I can just jump on a bike here and be at a large supermarket in 5 minutes

kblev··on IBM PS/2 Keyboard Modification
It's ridiculous how they don't position the Alt and Win keys properly. That's the only thing holding me from buying one.
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