Re: tips on lucid dreaming?
Yeah, one of the problems you'll find with most magical/psychic systems is that they are visual as hell. I'm still looking for one that's not. I think the problem is that there are lots of folk practices from around the world that are non-visual, but there's no
Re: tips on lucid dreaming?
Dude, you tried to lucid dream with a method one time, and now you want more because that didn't work? That's like saying "guys do you know anything about weight lifting? Last night I tried to lift three hundred pounds on a barbell but I couldn't, anybody know
Re: I am looking for a very specific music site
Whatever you want it in, I don't think any sites are gonna give it to you in one giant chunk. Amazon used to do this, sort of, when you had to install their dumb downloader app to get music you bought, but they've sensibly gone to zipfiles
Re: I am looking for a very specific music site
Sometimes, Bandcamp has deals where you can buy an artist's entire discography. You're still gonna be downloading separate albums though. I don't see why you're looking for something like this though. It's not too hard to go to a site like
Re: anyone here have a knowledge of Scottish Gaelic?
I don't speak it, except for some piping terms. I've listened to tons and tons of the music though. I learned Scots, the language haily_merry's more interested in that way. Hard to pick up Gaelic that way though.
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Re: audio experiment - how do you perceive this?
The funny thing with Yani/Laurel was that I heard "yairy" until my wife found some site where you could mess with the pitch. I forget which way it went but on one end I finally got laurel really clear. I don't remember if I ever got Yani.
Re: audio experiment - how do you perceive this?
I'm with 26. I voted for file one, because I could hear more of the lower octave. But the timpany is weird. For all that it's considered a pitched drum in Western orchestral music, I don't really consider it to be. I'd call it semi-pitched.
Re: Considering getting a new laptop, but I have a question
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad e595, and I really like it. Full keyboard, no idea what HZ the display is but I don't care.
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Re: How do I get started composing music with reaper
Ah, glad it works! The thing with a DAW like Reaper is that, while it has default settings like everything else, you have to set up your devices and stuff, it doesn't autodetect things. That sounds wrong until you think about it a bit.
Re: How do I get started composing music with reaper
18:You probably need to go into preferences, find devices, and pick an audio device. Specifically, you probably need to pick a driver. Try WASAPI. If that doesn't work, there's also wave out or direct out I think. If you have some sort
Re: How do I get started composing music with reaper
I suggested importing a wav file because it seems more reliable to me. I don't know if the new OSARA keymap uses ctrl-m for the metronome, I haven't updated yet, so when I tried it, it didn't work. For me anyway, it's shift-ctrl-m. That
Re: How do I get started composing music with reaper
13:1. Find a wav file. 2. Open Reaper.3. Hit alt-i and pick media.4. Find the wav file in that dialogue and hit enter on it.5. Hit w to rewind.6. Hit space to play.If it doesn't play, you've got an audio issue. I kind of suspect this is
Re: Any OBS related things you want a guide on?
I'm pretty sure when your account's ready to go live, that's when the key shows up.
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Re: how is the accessibility of the xiaomy devices?
Googling, Xiaomi apparently runs Android. So unless they've done something to break it or have their own weird install, you should have Talkback by default, which means it should be as accessible as any other phone running Android, I
Re: Any OBS related things you want a guide on?
I honestly don't remember, maybe. I wish I had it written down. I'll try to boot up the big machine downstairs tomorrow and take a look. Does it say where the VSTs for OBS should go? That way I can check that directory.
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Re: How do I get started composing music with reaper
You're enabling the virtual midi keyboard in Reaper? Either go into the view menu, or hit alt-b, which toggles it on and off.
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Re: Any OBS related things you want a guide on?
You use ... I want to say ReaperCast? You put it on a track, I think I put mine on master, and then you have to set a source for ReaperCast left and right in OBS, I think. It's not really hard at all, I just don't remember it exactly. So it
Re: Any OBS related things you want a guide on?
If you didn't cover these yet, they'd be helpful.1. Streaming to OBS from a DAW, I personally use Reaper and it was written up somewhere, and I did it once, but I didn't save the setup because I'm dumb, and I have no idea where it was written
Re: How do I get started composing music with reaper
Yeah, what nine said. I sort of assumed you had audio set up already. For me when I insert an instrument, I can just hit keys and it all works, I don't have to mess with any settings. I'm pretty sure I've got defaults other than enabling
Re: bad bug with my windows
It could be a bug, but I can't remember all of what you have to do to fix it. There's this thing where the Microphone volume will get set to zero, and I forget if it's a Windows thing or malware. I know the first step is to go into Task Manager and kill a bunch
Re: Nagy
My face is a three-dimensional infinitely expanding metallic hexagon.
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Re: What do you like?
I like scrapple, which is what hotdogs dream of being when they grow up.
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Re: How do I get started composing music with reaper
1. Hit alt-i.2. Arrow up until you hear insert virtual instrument on new track.3. Hit enter.4. Tab a bit until you get to a list.5. Arrow down to "VSTi: ReaSynth (Cockos".6. Hit enter.If all went well, you should be able to play beepy
Re: Spin, Spin: a Poem
I like it. It reminds me a bit of Daniel Higgs, who isn't for everybody, but he's one of the few people, actually the only person I know of offhand, who does poems as songs, which is what they started out as before, at some time, they became primarily written and
Re: I want the simplest email client ever
You want the simplest mail program possible do you? Telnet into the smtp port and enter your own header info to send your mail. Done!
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Re: Sharing Files in OneDrive Without Having to Sign in
Oh I never email. I just copy a link to the clipboard and send it that way.
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Re: Sharing Files in OneDrive Without Having to Sign in
This is a guess mind you, but when you share, it's set up by default that people who have access via the link have the ability to edit the file. I always go in and uncheck that box. I wonder if it's set up that they can edit, and that
Re: A humanity unbound by all it's reality turned in to an eternal sunday
So you know how one of the first things in this thought experiment in post 1 is how, if not having to work was for months and months, or possibly eternal, crime and stuff would
Re: Scrolling in a list of Youtube videos.
Nope.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2gM1t … l8A/videosI get down to "03-05-20 livestream test by Knowledge is power Streamed 11 months ago 25 minutes 6 views", and I'm pretty sure there are more videos than that one. I'd already tried F5 and
Re: Scrolling in a list of Youtube videos.
Huh! I wonder if I grabbed the wrong link? Try this one.https://www.youtube.com/c/HomeWithMyBookshelf/videosI get down to "Veda Day 11", I'm pretty sure. I know it has more videos, but it has this video, which isn't in the
Scrolling in a list of Youtube videos.
Heyo all.So sometimes, if I go to somebody's channel on Youtube and click on videos, I can scroll down in the list, e.g. moving by headings, and if I get to the bottom, move with the arrow keys, it realizes I'm at the bottom, and loads more videos.
Re: A humanity unbound by all it's reality turned in to an eternal sunday
Some great posts. I'll also add that Wing is interested in language. So sometimes, I think he just posts things because he thinks they're interesting quotes, you know?Oh and to Mayana specifically, good stuff. I
Re: A humanity unbound by all it's reality turned in to an eternal sunday
I don't think it has much to do with translation. Cioran does seem to write in a somewhat obscure manner. He probably did it intentionally, as a kind of poetry. I say that because he's obviously using literary
Re: A humanity unbound by all it's reality turned in to an eternal sunday
16:No no no no no, you are clearly wrong. It's a bunch of mystical gibberish that's impossible to understand in any way whatsoever. So there's no way some sort of TV series could have had philosophical parallels.
Re: A humanity unbound by all it's reality turned in to an eternal sunday
Ethin: That's what it means. And yeah, I did jab at you guys, because you're acting like Wing's just this dumbass posting a bunch of idiocy. Shred his philosophy to bits all you like. But then actually do that.
Re: A humanity unbound by all it's reality turned in to an eternal sunday
Look, I agree, whatever he's quoting from is some first class bullshit. But you've got to understand, he's quoting some pessimistic or existential philosopher. All of which is to say, you guys are taking him way too
Take the DNA challenge!
It's easy! Just get some of your DNA, put it in the microwave and ...No wait, hang on, it's nothing like that at all. It's like this.https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvNLoeXlSvzMkwqSK0X … I?e=lkGCizBasically, and there's an HTML file explaining all of this, I took text of the
Re: RHVoice for NVDA 2020.3?
Huh, apparently the new version of the addon has rate boost, or at least, if that's not new, I didn't notice it before. Makes RH a lot more usable. Wish it had more voices, because the Scottish one is really the best English voice, but sometimes, I don't want
Re: Why can't we talk about certain things on the forum?
I have no idea who Brad is, nor do I care. I'm going to take the question seriously because I've just come off a research jag digging into old weaving techniques for the hell of it, because that's the kind of shit I do, and I'm
Re: RHVoice for NVDA 2020.3?
https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoiceI'm using 1.2.0 of the addon and it's working fine in 2020.3. There's a later version on the site, 1.2.3 I think.
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Re: what is tikk tak toe
Tic tac toe, or naughts and crosses, is a simplified version of nine men's morris.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_men%27s_morrisHere's tic tac toe specifically.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe
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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum...
Oh it's worse than Latin! Greek, French, Hebrew, German, Irish, we've stolen a lot of stuff, or borrowed it, if you like. And borrowing's only the half of it. Some of our grammar rules were imposed because British dudes of earlier centuries thought Latin
Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum...
The problem with claiming that the Latin alphabet was influenced by Egyptian hieroglyphics is that it's pretty speculative. What we know is that Semitic peoples, probably Canaanite, were influenced by the concept of writing from the Egyptians, and
Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum...
Sorry Germans, that should be Kneipe shouldn't it? What we Americans call a bar and the Brits call a pub?Also, let's compare the words for day. In Old English it was dæg, the 'ae' character is like the 'a' in that and the 'g' would get pronounced like a
Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum...
The Latin alphabet wasn't influenced by Egyptian hieroglyphics, or if it was, it was incredibly indirect. The alphabet as we know it is typically understood to go back to a Semitic language, Phoenician to be exact.Re: English as a Germanic languageYou
Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum...
English is absolutely a Germanic language. You can tell because most of the basic words are solidly Germanic. Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, borrowed a lot of Latin, it's true, but if you saw it, it would look a lot more like German. Here's some, so you
Re: Accessibility in video games
Well it's not just games though, I mean in terms of mechanics, like what do I do at place X in game Y.I know Liam for example has mentioned using, I think, a capture card with his X-Box so he can do OCR on menus. Somebody who hears about "playable" or
Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum...
I don't remember the history of capital letters right off, but they're related to manuscripts, in other words books where everything was written or copied by hand. But also in manuscripts, words were often written without spaces. Fun fact, the "X" in
Re: Accessibility in video games
I think the thing that frustrates me personally is like a 1 to Camlorn's 20.5 of raging.You ask what games are accessible, e.g. on Steam with controllers. "Oh fighting games like Ninja Bloodstorm Revinocu Diorama Fight Park 3.7"! Then you go, OK, let's
Re: Help me choose the right road
It really depends on what kind of programming you want to do. I mean, if you're programming a lot of web stuff for instance, you're probably not going to need a lot of math, besides understanding how variables work and all. On the other hand, if you're
Accessible burner for blu ray?
Heyo all.I need an external optical drive for my laptop. I see some can do blu ray which can hold like 50 GB of data. Is there an accessible program for Windows that will deal with it? In particular, I'd like to be able to point it at a folder and have it
Re: Non-religion specific prayers
Ah yes, the Charvakas. I think we covered them a bit in a Buddhist philosophy class, of all places, probably because they competed with abhidharma, or it debated with them. Or possibly Nagarjuna covered them as a position he was debating against, but I
Re: Non-religion specific prayers
Ah ha! I found the story, from "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones".16. Not Far from BuddhahoodA university student while visiting Gasan asked him: "Have you ever read the Christian Bible?""No, read it to me," said Gasan.The student opened the Bible and read from St.
Re: Looking for an audio application with a very specific function
Something called Besweet can apparently do what you're after, no idea how accessible it is. Here's a long rambling thing, I wish people didn't feel the need to precede technical stuff with their rambling opinions, on how
Re: Non-religion specific prayers
Gaurav: Thanks! I thought so, but it's been forever since I tackled any Jainism.Draq: Yeah, all of the science vs. religion stuff is pretty modern. That's not to say there weren't atheists, lots of those. But as an example, because this gets trotted out a
Re: Non-religion specific prayers
Draq opined: "Religions that involve the worship of a deity seem to attempt to serve two basic functions. The first is explaining where we all came from and why we're here. As far as the Abrahamic religions go, those teach us that we were created by God
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Gaurav:There's a Zen story I can't find right now, just don't remember what book it's in, where somebody reads some of Jesus' words to a Zen master. The master replies, "whoever said that was very close to Buddha". Then there are some more words, and the
Re: Non-religion specific prayers
OK. Where do I start?"Example: Pantheism has formed more religions than any other world system of religiosity and continues to add gods faster than I can learn about them."Pantheism doesn't form anything. Pantheism means that God is in everything, or put
Re: Non-religion specific prayers
Nocturnis: It would really help if you flesh out some of this stuff with examples, because you're just making these pronouncements like without truth everything is meaningless. What's "truth"? I mean, I can say it's true that I really like Tuvan throat
Re: I have a big problem with Twitter. Any alternatives?
I'm nicer about it because I'd like that to change, not for her specifically, but for anybody. So I'm taking my own advice. You've got to make the damn argument. Now people have seen my reasoning, they can agree or disagree or ignore
Re: I have a big problem with Twitter. Any alternatives?
Sure. Like I said, I get it. I wasn't being sarcastic at all. But to me, it's like wanting to punch somebody in the face. We all have impulses like that from time to time, but they don't really end up in any kind of good place.Let me
Re: I have a big problem with Twitter. Any alternatives?
Haily:I get the impulse to shut people down with your facts and righteous truth. I really do. The problem is, what that tends to do is make people defensive and then they dig in even harder. Me, I think this stuff should stop. So if
Re: Non-religion specific prayers
Whoa boy howdy. Where do I even start?as an animist, I'm weird. I believe there are, let's call them powers, for lack of a better term. Rocks can have it, water, fire, the sun, mountains, trees, bagpipes, and so on and so on. It's not about explaining
Re: I have a big problem with Twitter. Any alternatives?
Huh. I could maybe do a podcast. I'm trying to save Youtube for music and some games maybe.Thanks. I appreciate it because yeah, I try to kind of make things funny, I mean not that I won't be serious, but I figure look, I'm just
Re: I have a big problem with Twitter. Any alternatives?
Redfox: Yeah. I mean look, I think violence is dumb, although I will say I do not give a good gods damn about the statues, I'll get to those in a minute. But I mean, I understand it, you know? Even the people storming the capitol. I
Re: Chicken Nugget is Back!
I like it, TWBlue has always been pretty unstable for me. That having been said I already have a key and I totally get the abandonment issue. OTOH, he also updated QCast which means I have a podcatcher that actually does what it's supposed to for the first time
Re: Anybody use a tactile watch?
Cool, thanks! I'll keep it in mind in case the watch I ordered doesn't work out.
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Re: I have a big problem with Twitter. Any alternatives?
To be fair, *some* of BLM does that stuff, same with the Trump protestors.But you've got to be careful with that too. Here we had, in the first day or two, a group break off from the majority of the protestors that caused a bunch of
Re: Anybody use a tactile watch?
Are all the Vostok's tactile? If you search for vostok watch you turn up a bunch of stuff, e.g. on Amazon, but I don't really see anything about them being tactile. But that could just be me missing something.
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40: It's not contradictory at all. Look, if I want to say that all blind people should be aborted, I have the right to say that. The government can't stop me. That's freedom of speech.I don't, however, have a freedom to a platform.
Re: I have a big problem with Twitter. Any alternatives?
I mean, I feel like threatening to assassinate government officials and bomb Amazon is pretty dark. I've seen a bunch of the racism that got some of the other people banned. I've seen the QAnon dumbness about Satan worshiping
Re: Anybody use a tactile watch?
Well, I dropped sub $70 on the magnetic tactile watch. Should be here in 2-3 weeks. So we'll see how it goes. It has a woven steel band and ball bearings and magnets and all. I just couldn't resist taking the chance. Hopefully it turns out to be as cool as
Re: I have a big problem with Twitter. Any alternatives?
Again FYI, here's Amazon's letter to Parlor. You don't get text with all of the screen shots, but you do with some of them, as well as quotes in the article.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jo … parler-aws
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Re: Anybody use a tactile watch?
Well we might know if I order it. I mean, we'll have to wait for at least six years, but still.Here's the link for the pocket watch somebody asked for.https://www.maxiaids.com/reizen-chrome- … inch-chainFYI my wife says the chain is clipped on, so it can be
Re: Anybody use a tactile watch?
I don't really care about the site layout. I could probably use it to buy one, and that's about all I worry about in a sight layout, can I use it?No on turning down the phone. I mean first of all I don't have a phone, though the iPod is similar enough I
Anybody use a tactile watch?
Specifically one of these things.https://zalsach.com/It's probably a ripoff of the Eone Bradley watch, but though that's cool and I'd happily support the original, I don't have $260 minimum lying around to buy one. I was going to get a braille pocket watch
Re: I have a big problem with Twitter. Any alternatives?
Chris wrote: "As far as I can gather, Trump wasn't inciting violence. He even posted a video telling everyone to go home peacefully, but of course the media doesn't want to put that out there in order to bolster their image that
Re: I have a big problem with Twitter. Any alternatives?
Oh yeah. I mean Trump tweeted and the media covered it, no matter what it was. Some of that's understandable, e.g. when he basically banned trans people from the military via Twitter, which was not only the first time we found out
Re: I have a big problem with Twitter. Any alternatives?
Oh I forgot to write something. For the crazy code stuff, see number 3 in the article I posted. But basically James Comey participated in a "my first five jobs" Twitter thing, QAnon idiots googled those letters and came across a
Re: recommand me some of those
He also did a really cool album with Ballaké Sissoko, a kora player, called "Diario Mali".https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P … UKJrNOK2NJ
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Re: I have a big problem with Twitter. Any alternatives?
Just FYI, and I mean that literally, I'm just trying to provide information here, this is what I've heard about Trump getting banned, and why those last two tweets might be a problem. There's been talk among the kind of loonies who
Re: recommand me some of those
It's not so much the melody, though I realize I made it sound like it was. I mean, I listen to stuff like this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpZqFa0Qiro So I mean, I'm all about the journey sometimes. It's more the jumpiness. It lacks, flow I guess would
Re: recommand me some of those
I find most classical music way too hyperactive. As somebody whom I can't remember put it, classical music is where you listen in expectation that a tune will break out. A lot of it just feels to me like the composer is thinking, "OMG I had a coherent little
Re: recommand me some of those
Man! I forgot the New World Symphony!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qut5e3OfCvgAlso, all of the stuff in the last one, except Bolero which I'm not sure about, has a story connected with it. So do go look them up on Wikipedia or some such place.
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Re: recommand me some of those
Pictures at an Exhibition. There's the original piano version, the orchestration by ... Ravel?, and then, you can check out the rock version by Emerson Lake and Palmer. Bet you they're all on Youtube too. Bolero's good too. For something more modern, Canto
Re: Can anybody recommend a speaker?
Huh. Anybody have anything to say about this one, good bad or indifferent?https://www.dev20.atguys.com/index.php? … cts_id=306It definitely sounds better than the Stream's internal speaker, not at all difficult really. It's slightly cheaper than the
Re: How to read books on my Braille display in today's age
I'm part of the older generation and I've pretty much given up on braille. Understand, I'd love to get back into it. But I have so much more access to stuff with a computer that it's not even funny. Even music, I took a braille
Playing music on Bandcamp with NVDA, anybody know how to do it?
Man I am full of questions today.I swear I've asked this before, but it may have been somewhere else, and I still don't have a solution. Anybody know how to play sample tracks on Bandcamp with NVDA?The last decent info I had
Re: Can anybody recommend a speaker?
Thanks, I'll check those out. A hundred is a bit more than I was planning on paying, but if it's a really decent speaker it would work. I'll have to get my wife to check dimensions and such.
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Yo peeps, happy 2021 and all.I was thinking of getting a speaker, specifically one of those Creative sound bars. But one of the things I want to do with it is plug into the Victor Stream, because it's internal speaker kind of sucks and I also think it uses
Re: The Bat! Another alternative to Thunderbird
Well for turning things off I wasn't so much thinking about lag, as I was thinking of the complaint that the interface has all kinds of "stuff I don't need". OK, get rid of it then. I mean hey if you think it's too slow then you think it's
Re: nitpicky about how smoothly speech synths can speed up
Yeah, I guess I just don't give a shit about efficiency. Rather, I think I'm efficient enough where I'm at. I certainly read books or articles faster than most sighted people I know anyway. I guess I figure it's a decently fast
Re: The Bat! Another alternative to Thunderbird
You know you can like, turn stuff off in Thunderbird's interface, right?I used to use Eudora, paid for it and everything. Then it got discontinued. Then I used Outlook for a while, until I had to move machines and half of it broke, e.g.
Re: nitpicky about how smoothly speech synths can speed up
I'm using Eloquence, rate 75. I honestly do not understand the obsession of a chunk of the blind community for cranking their speech up as fast as possible. You get the same effect you get turning up the speed on audio books or
Re: The greatest var movies
Here you go. Best war movie ever. Well, technically it was a documentary on TV, but still.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFX7Q-chT_w
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Re: Getting started in the native instruments universe
Yeah, did that link not talk about the free download? I assumed it did because I'm pretty sure that's where I got it from.
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Re: Getting started in the native instruments universe
You probably have Komplete Start already. It's just the set of instruments and such you can get for free. It doesn't install a thing called Komplete Start.It comes with a library in the sense that entering your serial number gets you
Re: what uis n?eoludism?
To be fair, philosophical pessimism isn't really about expecting the worst. To take the Stoics, for example, assuming we can consider them to be philosophical pessimists which I'm uncertain about, they say things to the effect that if your spouse dies, you
Re: what uis n?eoludism?
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each
Re: Das professional 4 keyboard: opinions?
Just so you know, you'll also want to look into things like taking breaks and stuff. If you're typing that much, no keyboard is going to stop your hands from hurting. And if you've got that stuff going on, you want to seriously look into how to
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