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I just listened to Tatsuro Yamashita's City Pop classic "SPACY" and at the end of the Track "Umbrella" (at 3:22) I heard a snippet that sounded incredibly familiar. That guitar slide with the harmonics.

Some other track must have sampled it, but I can't put my finger on it. I think that the sample was used at the start of the track and that the track had a mostly ambient vibe. Does anyone know who sampled this?

What's your opinion on hydro modding? I just picked up some silicone oil (slightly more viscous than commonly recommended, but I think it will be fine) to hydro mod my casio digital watches (F91W, A168WA).

Frage an Elektriker: Ich habe einen Ofen gebraucht gekauft und nach einmaliger Nutzung ist er defekt. Der Ofen wurde falsch angeschlossen. Es wurden 230V angeschlossen, aber die Brücken haben gefehlt. Eigentlich hätten sie an die grünen Stellen gemusst. Die durchgestrichenen Leitungen sind nicht angeschlossen.

Nun ist der Ofen defekt als wäre kein Strom angeschlossen. Es tut sich absolut gar nichts. Meine Frage: Wenn man den Ofen so anschließt, ist es dann zu erwarten, dass er nach einmaliger Nutzung kaputt geht, oder sollte der Ofen so eigentlich mit geminderter Leistung laufen. Ein Mitarbeiter eines unabhängigen Miele Reparatur-Service meinte zu mir, dass mein Defekt vermutlich nichts mit meinem falschen Anschluss zu tun hat. Ist die Aussage so korrekt? Kann ich davon ausgehen, dass der Defekt nicht meine Schuld war?

I often find myself defining function args with list[SomeClass] type and think "do I really care that it's a list? No, tuple or Generator is fine, too". I then tend to use Iterable[SomeClass] or Collection[SomeClass]. But when it comes to str, I really don't like that solution, because if you have this function:

def foo(bar: Collection[str]) -> None:
    pass

Then calling foo("hello") is fine, too, because "hello" is a collection of strings with length 1, which would not be fine if I just used list[str] in the first place. What would you do in a situation like this?

Ihr wisst schon: Bootloader kaputt, fstab kaputt gespielt, GUI will nicht mehr. Passiert hin und wieder mal und dann hilft es ein Live Linux zur Hand zu haben. Was nutzt ihr? Einfach Ubuntu? Oder irgendwas spezielles?

It was sold to me as a 2011 gushu sheng puerh. Would be grateful for any further information. It's around 80g without the box and heavily compressed. I haven't unwrapped it yet.

Sometimes when I am using goto definition I get errors like this one

E5108: Error executing lua: ...t_nvimeitLsr/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/lsp/util.lua:1964: Invalid window id: 1000
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'nvim_win_get_buf'
	...t_nvimeitLsr/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/lsp/util.lua:1964: in function 'make_position_params'
	...nvim/lazy/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/builtin/__lsp.lua:147: in function 'v'
	...nvim/lazy/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/builtin/__lsp.lua:391: in function 'v'
	.../nvim/lazy/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/builtin/init.lua:541: in function 'lsp_definitions'
	/home/user/.config/nvim/lua/user/plugins/ide/lspconfig.lua:80: in function 

What could be the cause of an error like this? Whenever this happens I have to restart nvim.

the config in lspconfig.lua:79 looks like this:

        opts.desc = "LSP: Jump to definition of symbol"
        keymap.set("n", "gd", function()
          telescope.lsp_definitions(ivy)
        end, opts)

Any ideas?

I have seen some people prefer to create a list of strings by using thing = list[str]() instead of thing: list[str] = []. I think it looks kinda weird, but maybe that's just because I have never seen that syntax before. Does that have any downsides?

It is also possible to use this for dicts: thing = dict[str, SomeClass](). Looks equally weird to me. Is that widely used? Would you use it? Would you point it out in a code review?

Looking for recommendations in the ambient genre.

My favorites are (in no particular order):

• Brian Eno - Mixing Colours
• C418 - Minecraft Volume Alpha
• Jon Hopkins - Music for Psychedelic Therapy
• The KLF - Chill Out
• Experialist - Excessive Refinement
• Biosphere - Substrata

What are your favorite ambient albums?

I use OpenWrt on x86. I use this build but added a WiFi card and antennas. At first the WiFi performance was very good giving me great speeds and range. Some time ago performance degraded. The signal range is extremely limited giving me disconnects on my phone when I'm 4 meters away.

How could I debug what the cause might be. Any ideas?

After learning about TYPE_CHECKING i made it a habit to put all imports that were only needed for type checking into an if TYPE_CHECKING: guard. But now I am wondering if that is actually intended to be used like that. Checking whether an import is only needed at type checking time can get quite tedious and sometimes you run into situations were you introduced some code that made the import a requirement at runtime.

How do you use TYPE_CHECKING? Whenever it is possible or only when using it actually solves a circular import?