EarlKing

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by EarlKing 5y ago
And hookers! Don't forget those, meatbag!
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by EarlKing 5y ago
...run any of the 50+ other non-commercial BBS softwares instead, including Telegard, the software Renegade was a literal hack of.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Actually, that suggests an even better idea: Abandon our bodies and let someone else clean up the mess. I mean... it's worked before. :D
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Good links both, but in both cases he never expresses or implies his works are allegorical. He's quite clear in both of these links why he wrote. In the first one he states his point was: "Don't trust leaders to always be rig
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> Which I'd consider bad news for the argument because Lord of the Rings is, despite Tolkien's opposition deeply allegorical. Tolkien was quite right that his work was not allegorical. He created a fantasy world to explore them
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by EarlKing 5y ago
It's been some time since I've read Children of Dune, but the author was expressly referring to Dune, not Children of Dune.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> How Is ‘Dune’ So Prescient About Climate Change? It isn't. Arrakis suffered desertification before humans ever arrived, before the book even began. The only climate change that occurred thereafter was a direct result of Pardot Kyn
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by EarlKing 5y ago
That just links to Space Debris, not whatever playlist you created. I was going to poke through and see if I could recommend any additions, but, well... here we are.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
It's really saying something that within the first five seconds I knew exactly which MOD this was. It's one of those tunes that you absolutely had to listen to back in the day along with Stardust Memories, Comic Bakery, and a hand
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Yes and no. I guess the best way to describe it is that it was more of a half-step towards wavetable synthesis in the sense that it utilized ultra-short samples of the attack and sustain phases of the envelope to achieve something with grea
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by EarlKing 5y ago
I'll just loudly repeat my call that it would be great if someone put this much effort into taking apart the Roland D-50. Just sayin'... ...please?
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Were it so, it should've answered 42.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> I know asking to read the article is too much, but maybe read the title? There's nothing in the article that actually refutes the notion of trickle-down economics. It is little more than a summary of a summary of the actual report
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Convincing the rich to stop tipping the scale is about as likely as convincing people that "eat the rich" is not an actual solution to the problem. Both are rooted in hatred and ignorance, and neither will actually lead to justice
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by EarlKing 5y ago
No, parent was right, your comment lacks all substance. It supposes that 'the rich' simply hoard wealth like a mythical dragon in a cave, scrooge mcducking through it while the poor, tired masses starve to death. The truth is that
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Wouldn't surprise me. I mean, DSPs wouldn't be able to scan packages to pick them up without being able to access the flex app, so unless there's a procedure in place to allow packages to be picked up and manually marked as h
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> I've yet to hear any credible argument You haven't given your criteria of credibility, so why should we listen to you? > If IP is effectively a public good held on a short lease, so is all property. This is so malformed yo
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Honestly, it's better if YouTube doesn't recognize the threat. Let them crash and burn with no survivors. And yeah, there's a lot of people who talk a big game about not wanting monetization (where monetization = ads) and tou
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by EarlKing 5y ago
You really don't need Youtube for that. You need infrastructure and you need monetization. The former you can achieve today using any service provider with autoscaling (i.e. AWS, Rackspace, Linode, and a hundred others too numerous to
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Apparently, yes. I posted a link to an archive but got downvoted for my trouble. [1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20211003065357/https://www.k-len...
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by EarlKing 5y ago
It's not strictly a Japanese thing. How many times has Ozzy Osbourne retired now?
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Whatever this was, it's apparently been hugged to death by HN. Currently 403's. I did find an archive from back in October, though.[1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20211003065357/https://www.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Attempting to paywall Twitter at this late stage is a recipe for disaster. People have become accustomed to receiving information 'for nothing'. Telling them that they must now pay for it will lead to a grand exodus elsewhere. It&
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Actually, over the years, a fair bit of information has been published over exactly how LA synthesis works. They never exactly hid the details. The problem, of course, is that the details are scattered over dozens of magazine articles, and
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Well, yes, but it can get eerie when I suddenly start seeing articles aimed at a very specific machine I happen to have recently begun playing^H^H^Hworking with (i.e. the DX7). Hmmmm.... I REALLY LOVE THE ROLAND D-50. GOSH, IT SURE WOULD
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by EarlKing 5y ago
It's really starting to scare me how many of my personal interests manage to crop up as articles here.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Betteridge's Law of headlines says.... NO. There. Saved you a click.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Netflix does not run their entire infrastructure on AWS. Final delivery of content still comes from OpenConnect (their own CDN). IOW, they migrated all of their non-CDN functions to AWS, but content delivery is still handled by OpenConnect
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by EarlKing 5y ago
I mean precisely what I said. Invariably in this day and age whenever you encounter someone who claims to be doing something for the people they are, in point of fact, doing it as agents of the state. Whatever lies they tell others (and the
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by EarlKing 5y ago
OK, then next question: Is the intended delivery address say one street over? Reason: Packages can only be dropped off if your device reports that you're within a certain radius of the delivery point. When navigating, crossing into the

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