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I haven't seen it mentioned here, but Drill Rap from the UK has had an explosion in popularity in recent years. Hip-hop has always been a huge trend setter in American culture, and for once, one of the strongest influences to the current sound is coming from Brittain. I've heard the "drill rapper" accent filtering in over the last year especially as a lot of local artists and fans jump on the trend.

Just an anecdotal observation.

There's a reason my personal PC's name is 'theseus'

"For me, the biggest question is whether visitors will be able to get travel / health insurance to cover them in New Zealand."

Or the NZ healthcare system could just cover visitors with the understanding that the benefit outweighs the cost?

You have an assistant though? How is my uber eats driver any different in that case?

The best example of this is Tommy Cooper, a British magician / comedian known for his slapstick style. He'd often stumble steps in his act, or mess up on purpose so you could never really tell what was planned or not.

When he had a heart attack on stage, people thought it was part of his act and the curtain closed to a standing ovation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8zi7vcnjVc

this is great advice!

or just:

  cat -n file

I can't speak highly enough of RA, they've been a key part of my music discovery and insight into so many of the artists I follow.

Its more like a software interrupt that prevents the bytes in memory being read or executed. That's a level of safety over what you get in C, where a buffer overflow can lead to remote code execution or data leakage.

I used to have a math class in the building housing this, used to walk past it a few times a week :D

^ Your line of code is 85 characters though.. Would you bother to split this line somewhere? (if trying to conform to an 80char limit)

> We technically have some programming "simulators" for Assembly programming puzzlers.

I'm guessing you've seen / are referring to TIS-100? http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/

Super helpful comment! Thanks for taking the time to outline that so clearly.

I found this site for comparing my mixes to the requirements of different streaming sites before uploading: https://www.loudnesspenalty.com/

I had the realization that I may lose some specific music one day, but I'll always have access to new music

I'd be interested to check out a couple examples too

cloc is another commonly used package. It handles multiple languages and has a nice, readable output format.

(Full disclosure: I run a small business making and selling flavoured e-cigarette liquid) The levels of diacetyl from a conventional cigarette can be around 750x that of what you'd get from an e-cigarette containing such a flavouring. Most concentrate manufacturers have removed or replaced any flavours that contain this or other known irritants wherever possible, and provide material safety data sheets for all ingredients. As far as I am aware, there have been no reported cases of "popcorn lung" from vapers or smokers.

If I am mistaken or unaware of any contradictory information, I would really appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/12/new-study-finds-...

Nexus 6p from late 2015

I lived as both the youngest (older brother and sister from my mother) for the first half of my childhood, and then the oldest (younger brother and stepsister from my father) for the latter half. I never once lived with both older and younger siblings, they were essentially different families.

Parent comment could refer to self study in a domain until they know enough about what's in front of them to better tackle the problem.

close enough? :P

https://www.winehq.org/

I disagree from personal experience. Smoke is harsh and never tasted appealing to me. Vaping at a low nicotine level is a much more enjoyable experience.

"how much of an audio API can you have if you stipulate that all user-specified code must run in the UI thread?"

I just threw up in my mouth a little :/

Perhaps a more relevant question would be:

If you found out your kid tried mushrooms, do you think they'd deserve criminal charges and jail time?

This is exactly what should have been done, but requires a longer term commitment, as well as releasing _some_ control while still alive. (both of which I think are a good thing in context)

> Do you remember Lotus Notes?

looks at dock icon

Unfortunately, yes :P

> There's a natural progression from Bash to Perl to Python, each more powerful than the previous.

As someone who moved in the opposite direction, I can't disagree more strongly.

Python is great if you want to write programs, but that adds a huge overhead over time, even in a simple language.

When I started using Perl, I feel like I really became a DevOps engineer. I built an automated test framework, deployment and monitoring tooling. I wrote scripts to automate processes large and small. It was the perfect scratchpad for getting an idea down with a working implementation, it was as free form or structured as I wanted it to be at any time.

Over time, my familiarity with Bash started to cover a lot of the smaller Perl tasks I was used to.

To automate some simple testing of a REST API, is Python / Perl _really_ needed?

A simple bash script could read data from a text file, then run curl commands in parallel while logging failures. Hell, use jq and you can process the JSON responses trivially too.

If Bash lacks power, I haven't ran into many situations where this was my issue.

Adding to the suggestions here, there's another benefit to playing with hardware.

If they start plugging in basic effects pedals, they'll learn about signal flow and signal chains that are relevant to all styles.

There's no fundamental difference between a microphone, a guitar or a drum machine plugging in to a delay pedal. Learning the basics of EQ (bass, mid, low) gets them on the path to studio mastering if they're interested in that side later. If they decide they don't like the creative side, they have the basics to learn live sound tech or sound engineering.

Good luck and have fun :)

There are restrictions, but they're quite flexible. I have a main PC and a couple laptops I switch between, and have no issues.

You can activate 2 systems permanently, which is managed simply from the web UI. (revoke activations) Other systems can be activated temporarily with your email/id + pass on startup.

FWIW, the small team has been fantastic and responsive since the beginning. (I've been on the betas and helped develop some of the early controller scripts. check the community pages to see what we've done)

I got a NFR license for helping out early on, and ran into the activation limit initially. (testing on all platforms, etc...) I emailed them a few times to deactivate my current systems initially, then they added the option to their account management page.

If its a deal breaker, I suggest emailing them and seeing what they say. It wouldn't surprise me if they upped the limit or did something to help you out. They're an awesome group who really want to work with the community and users.

Not affiliated besides what I mentioned above, just a happy user. Best of luck, if you have any questions PM me or reply here if you think relevant to others :)