HKH2

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by HKH2 3y ago
Artists copy from each other all the time. Arguably, culture exists because of copying (folk stories by necessity); copyright makes culture top-down and stagnant, and you can't avoid it because they have the money to shove it right in
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by HKH2 3y ago
10k miles... When you love round numbers but somehow still can't stomach the metric system.
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by HKH2 3y ago
Good. If it got bored, we would be in trouble.
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by HKH2 3y ago
- It plays instantly. You don't need to click through a GUI and see names, labels etc. Just press a play shortcut. - There's an element of surprise, and you can hear your whole collection. Sure, you can do that with a GUI, but it&
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by HKH2 3y ago
Yes, but sometimes useful messages can only be found in dmesg.
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by HKH2 3y ago
What distro do you use?
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by HKH2 3y ago
> In busy lives hyper focused on always being productive, maximizing for status or money, getting the time to listen to hour plus long symphony in one go is hard. And having a settled mind to do that is even harder. Ah, I see.
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by HKH2 3y ago
> When a symphony clicks with you, when you find the time to listen to it all in one go, and when you are in the right state of mind to take it in, it's a rare experience. I don't think it's rare. Engagement happens when t
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by HKH2 3y ago
Inkscape?
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by HKH2 3y ago
How would you know how frequently others do that? I think people with an inner voice don't notice their 'random' memories as much because they don't fit the narrative. Like confirmation bias, the bits that don't fit
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by HKH2 3y ago
Maybe because machine art encourages humans to think more laterally? Have you seen how tired art has become? It's mostly a cynical scheme to make or launder money. AI can force artists to actually take risks to outdo the mediocrity of
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by HKH2 3y ago
> Does remind me of those primitive languages where the word for "forest" is just the word for "tree" repeated two or three times. Come to think of it, Chinese does that too: 'forest' is '森林'.
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by HKH2 3y ago
In English, we have 'oxymoron', and 'chiaroscuro' from Italian, but Chinese has a lot of words with contrasts, the yin and yang etc.
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by HKH2 3y ago
You're referring to thinking proactively. Is your inner narrative proactive or reactive?
435.
by HKH2 3y ago
In Chinese, if you just put 'big' and 'small' together, you get 'size', and if you just put 'big' and 'not big' together, it means 'Is it big?'. By the same token, juxtaposed memor
436.
by HKH2 3y ago
Do you 'randomly' replay memories?
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by HKH2 3y ago
No I haven't but I'll give it a read.
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by HKH2 3y ago
Why would satan not be cast as a personable antihero? Would it be easy to put aside a great lawyer that finds all the loopholes for you?
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by HKH2 3y ago
So is disgust.
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by HKH2 3y ago
Not OP, but how often do you have an app that is exactly how you want it? You might just shrug off the small annoyances, but you could fix them and make the app something that becomes second nature. The UI won't suddenly change, so you
441.
by HKH2 3y ago
I'm sure people will create holographic Hitlers for historical reasons too.
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by HKH2 3y ago
> ... but don't get me started on people who think it's ok to use a single hyphen to start a multicharacter option There are quite a few older programs that do that, including ImageMagick and FFmpeg.
443.
by HKH2 3y ago
If there are no post-religious societies, what makes you sure there can be post-religious politics?
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by HKH2 3y ago
There is an implication that they will bring human unity.
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by HKH2 3y ago
Well that's probably because they've been disfigured through their misuse. Now they are a political tool, e.g. a 'human rights violation'.
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by HKH2 3y ago
Your own declaration of success seems premature. We still haven't yet seen the full effects of post-religious societies.
447.
by HKH2 3y ago
Plenty of fights over resources have nothing to do with religion or nationalism. They can be used to justify killing people, but so can human rights.
448.
by HKH2 3y ago
Is money authoritarian?
449.
by HKH2 3y ago
> That the Enlightenment didn't figure everything out and precipitate the end of history in 1789 doesn't seem like an indictment of it It's an indictment of the idea that reason is able to get us to transcend our nature.
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by HKH2 3y ago
> Saying an ideal didn't stop wars is kind of a dumb statement IMO. Not when ideals were supposed to get us to transcend our nature. Don't people still think that way about human rights?

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