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Hoy, entrando a Sambil, me detuvo una señora de unos 80 años. —“Tú eres el de radio que yo oigo y veo todos los días”. Se llama Victoria, aunque enseguida me aclaró: —“Dime Vicky”. Me contó que cada mañana se levanta a hacer sus oficios escuchando el programa. (Coño… qué temprano empieza la doña con el fregao y la brega 😂). Me dijo también que es su hija quien les pone el programa en YouTube todos los días. Luego me preguntó por mi salud. Y después vino esa frase que tantas personas me han repetido en estos meses, pero que nunca deja de tocarme: —“Oramos mucho por ti”. Vicky no lo sabe, pero con esa conversación sencilla me alegró el día… y quizás la semana completa. Uno nunca empieza en esto imaginando en qué se va a convertir. Yo soñaba con la radio desde hace casi 30 años, pero la imaginaba de otra manera: solo música, canciones, emociones y compañía. La vida me llevó por otro rumbo, aunque la música sigue siendo una de las grandes pasiones de mi alma. Y al final, ahí está la magia de la radio: entrar en la rutina de gente que uno probablemente nunca había visto, acompañar silenciosamente mañanas, trabajos, tristezas, risas y soledades. Es gratificante saber que uno logra llegarle a un espectro tan amplio de personas. Gracias a Vicky por recibirme cada mañana con entusiasmo y cariño. Ese, al final, sigue siendo el interés primario de todo esto.
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You’re not a bad writer, you just haven’t lived enough
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If you're chasing happiness, open your Photos app and browse through your pictures. You've already found happiness. Thank me later.
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Los arreglos sinfónicos le dan un nuevo brillo a esta obra maestra que relata parte del vía crucis de Cristo.
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Severance: The Anime Please enjoy each image equally. Created w/ GPT 4o
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How to get the MAC address of your NIC with #Python using the `uuid` module:
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1/6 Bastante bueno el capítulo de @TeDeJagua con @radikeltotel. A propósito de uno de los temas que tocaron, agrego que Pedro Henríquez Ureña, nuestro gran lingüista y quizás el dominicano más purista del idioma, afirmaba que esa forma característica del cibaeño hablar, es decir
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I worked on MS-DOS, but not this one! Microsoft has open-sourced MS-DOS 4.00 on Github, but it might not be what you think it is. MS-DOS 4.00 was an attempt at a multitasking MS-DOS, but OEMs weren't really interested, and it was only ever in limited release. So it's almost certainly not the one you used back in the day. MS-DOS 4.01, on the other hand, was the one you all know and "love". Actually, it was much maligned. It included the DOSSHELL. People did not love it, as opposed to MS-DOS 5 and 6, which were very well received! More info can be found on Scott Hanselman's site: hanselman.com/blog/open-sour……
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Pencil us in for May 7! ✏️ #AppleEvent
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El nivel de bots que hay en Twitter llegó a tal punto que me gustaría un feature para poder mutear tweets usando regex Normalmente publican el mismo tweet una y otra vez pero ponen símbolos especiales de por medio para que las palabras que muteas no encajen 😡
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Writing tests is not free. - You have to set up mocks. - You have to maintain your tests. - Sometimes, you have to seed your data. But I would rather spend 1 hour writing tests than 5 hours fixing bugs in production.
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VHS-Decode has to be one of the most interesting software projects I've stumbled upon recently. It replaces the decoding process of a VHS tape with a software stack, bypassing most of the original hardware. Using an FPGA device for RF capture like the MiSTer, it creates a "lossless" digital archive, which then runs through demodulation, noise filtering, chroma decoders, and more to create an archive in significantly higher quality than could ever be made with traditional methods. Multiple tapes can even be combined and merged to create a capture that is better than any one individual tape. This is amazing for archival purposes; instead of storing tapes which are just going to continue to get worse with age, imagine backing up multiple RF-copies to the cloud!
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Guess who...⚡️😈
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Vitest 1.1.2 fixes severe performance regression introduced back in 0.34.0 among other fixes! If you are using jsdom/happy-dom you should see a noticeable speed improvement depending on the number of test files you have. github.com/vitest-dev/vitest…
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Some exciting news for customers: Amazon.com will be launching online vehicle sales in the U.S. next year, starting with @Hyundai. Will be part of our strategic partnership with them to help make the buying experience easier, add the Alexa experience into their next-gen vehicles, and help them transform their customer experiences and business operations through their move to AWS. Looking forward to inventing together for many years! aboutamazon.com/news/company…
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Winamp Skin: kevito ampdeck v2.0
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In @pyconse I was able to fanboy @bagder, the person behind Curl. 😎 Curl is an open source tool to communicate with HTTP. It's probably the most installed software in the world... I mean, solar system. 🚀
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