Urban Dictionary by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
What you Google-into when trying to understand English slangs as of 2020.
Fiat currency by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
A useless piece of paper (or digital version of it) that you can pay taxes with :)
As opposed to:
NLab by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Decent encyclopedia of mathematics. Not much motivation, mostly statements though.
Unlike Wikipedia, they have a more sane forum commenting system, e.g. a page/forum pair:
Meal deal by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
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A while ago a Singaporean taxi driver asked me what a UK hawker centre lunch might cost. I explained that there aren't any. He asked what office workers ate, and I explained the concept of Meal deals. And he looked at me with such a powerful combination of pity and revulsion.
Singaporean taxi drivers are the cutest.
ALSA can be thought as analogous to physical wires linking up machines.
Except that instead of machines, you have separate programs. One such typical link is:
The advantage of this setup is that separate programs can collaborate to make complex sounds.
The disadvantage of this setup is that it makes it very hard to reproduce results, you basically need a Docker image with the exact same version of everything. And some script to launch and connect all programs correctly.
Some composition systems like LMMS reduce that problem by having synthesizers as plugins, so that you don't have to setup any connections yourself.

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