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Former classical singer here. Only theory I can come up with is that opera tends to have large casts where all the singers are credited individually which would inflate the absolute numbers of "artists" relative to other generes. I still struggle to imagine this accounting for bringing such a niche genera to the top here.

I recall hearing that SQLite actually had some significant issues with choosing public domain as their license and somewhat regret the decision. Apparently it’s not a concept which has broad understating internationally, and there’s less legal precedent in a software context which has made it harder for some teams to adopt due to concerns from legal departments.


The Unlicense isn't "just" public domain though, it also has a fallback clause that explicitly lists things you are allowed to do ("copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute"). So I think the intent is, even if PD isn't recognized and line 1 is invalid, you're still granting a license to the same effect.

SQLite on the other hand just says

    The author disclaims copyright to this source code.  In place of a legal
    notice, here is a blessing:

      May you do good and not evil.
      May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
      May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
which seems less useful once you strike sentence 1.


Author here. I think we might actually be in agreement. My point is that in React you don't formally describe the transition table because (and I think this is where we agree) that's infeasible for an app of any reasonable size.

The observation I'm trying to capture in this post is that even though we don't define a formal transition table, we actually _do_ implicitly define the set of valid (user) transitions for each state via the event handlers we bind into the DOM when our React component tree renders that state.


Hey! I run the museum, and these stories of people finding things they created and thought had not survived, are so fun to read. Also, your skin is… incredible.


There were also “other” reasons to skip version number 4: https://jordaneldredge.com/notes/winamp-4-skin/


Full link with the skin preloaded for anyone curious: https://webamp.org/modern/?skin=https://kepano.s3.amazonaws....


Good point. I’ll update the post.



Wow, the nostalgia. Thank you, that's it!! This must have been added since the last time I searched.


The closest I've seen is https://re-amp.ru. Not sure about codecs


Hey! That's my side project. So glad to hear people enjoy it.


I just checked it out. Good stuff! I may deploy it.


Whoa! How did you get what looks like the real Milkdrop visualizer working??


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