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roberto··on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
I think you mean "empathy"?
roberto··on Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix
The simplest solution is having a dedicated audio interface for music production (I assume that's why you want to use jackd). Run jackd on your pro audio interface, and Pulseaudio on the onboard sound card for everything else.
roberto··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
It's not censorship, it's free market. These are private companies.
roberto··on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
> Why not every other politician? They are all the same.

Please elaborate.

roberto··on YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
That's like saying blocking anti-vax videos but showing science videos talking about the how vaccines work is showing one side only.
roberto··on Running a full desktop environment on a Kindle (2019)
You can write a proxy that creates a new page on Wikipedia with the requested URL. A remote machine then monitors the page, downloads the URL, and adds to a new Wikipedia page.
roberto··on Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
Their password is "john"
roberto··on A US Visa in 937 Days
Each visa type has a different duration, and you can't study on a tourist visa.

I've had a visa that allowed me to work for 3+ years in the US, but was valid only for 90 days. Every time I left the country I had to renew it, a process which takes an indeterminate amount of time.

roberto··on Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account
Sign up to Facebook?

Just don't use the account for anything else.

roberto··on Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content
This is what I do on my blog, with some additional metadata:

    <p>
      <a 
        data-archive-date="2020-09-01T22:11:02.287871+00:00"
        data-archive-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20200901221101/https://reubenwu.com/projects/25/aeroglyphs"
        href="https://reubenwu.com/projects/25/aeroglyphs"
      >
        Aeroglyphs
      </a>
      <span class="archive">
        [<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200901221101/https://reubenwu.com/projects/25/aeroglyphs">archived</a>]
      </span>
      is an ongoing series of photos of nature with superimposed geometrical shapes drawn by drones.
    </p>
roberto··on Desolate English path has killed more than 100 people (2017)
RIP Google Street View driver
roberto··on Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
> Nominated 84 times.

Interesting, the article says that "Poincaré was nominated a record 51 times for the Nobel Prize but never won."

roberto··on Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
For my first scientific article, in 2007, I created a Subversion repo with a Makefile. Running `make` would recreate the whole paper: downloading data, running analyses, creating pictures (color or BW, depending on an environment flag) and generating the PDF.

I'm going to try to find the repo and see if it still works.

roberto··on How Are Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's Changes Affecting Workers?
Indirectly it is.
roberto··on Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
Because they never get taxed and they only get richer.

https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-got-565-billion...

roberto··on A new and improved Twitter API
The way clients usually do this is by fetching all mentions to the user after a given timestamp (of the original tweet), and collecting only those that are replies to the tweet. Since there's a limit on how many mentions you can get, you might not get all the replies.

It's been like that at least since 2013.

roberto··on New species of fungus identified via Twitter
Pisenotecus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piseinotecus

The scientist had a dog called "Teco", and he stepped on him by accident. In Portuguese, "pisei no Teco".

roberto··on Text exceeding maxlength will no longer be truncated when pasted in Firefox 77
Something similar was used to parse URLs: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6168260/how-to-parse-a-u...
roberto··on Ultimate Guide to Switch Debounce
...and also when 2+ people are trying to talk during a remote meeting.
roberto··on IKEA Frekvens LED box hack
Pocket operators are pretty cheap, but still very powerful.
roberto··on Berlin Clubs stream live electronic music
I saw the same thing happening in Brazil, bars are paying their artists to stream live.

Here's one of the feeds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2M9IRp0zRg

roberto··on Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)
> Looks like a lot of people on HN have left-leaning views despite the name "HACKERnews"

This makes absolutely no sense. Whats does being a hacker have to do with being leftist or rightist?

roberto··on Magic Roundabout (Swindon)
There's a tunnel. I was there with my dad in 1993, and we only discovered the tunnel after we crossed the 8 lanes to get to the monument.
roberto··on Flyte: A Cloud Native Machine Learning and Data Processing Platform
No, I mean type annotations in the functions defining the tasks. If you look at their first example, they define a function called `get_traintest_splitdatabase`, and the input and outputs are annotated using two decorators.
roberto··on Flyte: A Cloud Native Machine Learning and Data Processing Platform
Any plans to support Python type annotations, instead of using the @inputs and @outputs decorators?
roberto··on A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Stories (2018)
> I wonder if any of our current practices will be viewed as barbaric.

I became vegan after asking myself that same question.

roberto··on JSONCrush – Compress JSON into URI Friendly Strings
Rison (https://github.com/Nanonid/rison) is a nice alternative that seems to be more readable IMHO.
roberto··on A Mystery of Unix History
> Once you do that, the F11 key will function as an escape key.

This photo seems to corroborate that: https://external-preview.redd.it/SiLVPTrm_c8MfLplX48AxZySG5x...

roberto··on How to run your own mail server (2017)
I have the same problem. I've been running my own mail server since 2000, and last year my sister's account started being used to send spam (I assume she reused her email credentials in another site that got hacked, and spammers used the credentials to authenticate as her in my SMTP server to send spam).

Google shows that my domain has a bad reputation, but I can't fix it because it doesn't have enough traffic. https://www.mail-tester.com gives me a 10/10 (I have DKIM, DMARC, SPF, everything), but my email still gets flagged as spam by Google.

roberto··on Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids
> It's a shame they were using it to promote their products rather than a product that is good for you.

Those don't need to be promoted, usually.

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