Joeboy

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by Joeboy 9y ago
One of the many bits I love in Being John Malkovich goes: Customer: I'm a fat man. I'm sad and... Catherine Keener: $200 please Partly the joke is that Keener's character can't be bothered to listen, but I like to think
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by Joeboy 9y ago
The theory of demonic possession was also not too far off the current germ theory of disease, it just turns out the demons are really little and there are lots of them.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
That is correct, yes.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I think there's been a big rewrite in development for ages and the stable releases aren't seeing a lot of the new changes.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Fair question, it's a bit confusing because their patreon page focuses largely on ZeMarmot, an open source film. But it seems like the money will actually go to these people who also contribute to GIMP and other OSS, and who sound like
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> it's the same UI it's had for years. There have actually been some major improvements, notably single window mode. I believe they recently fixed the thing where the Tab key (Show / Hide Docks) does something unexpected i
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by Joeboy 9y ago
There's this: https://github.com/stackp/Droopy
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by Joeboy 9y ago
If they're here in London I generally try to meet them in person with a USB device, which is usually the most pleasant option. Otherwise I usually ssh or rsync the files to my webserver. Sometimes this seems horrifically slow though, f
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by Joeboy 9y ago
That's overstating it IMO - The Room's production values are pretty adequate. The sets are OK, the sound's decently recorded, it has a proper soundtrack by a real composer, the camera's mostly in focus and properly expos
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I think this might actually be hard to google. An archer is £2000, the amount Conservative Party deputy chairman Jeffrey Archer was caught paying a prostitute to keep quiet about his allegedly being a client of hers. I first heard this usag
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Actually... https://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/blockchain-against-hun...
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I also really, really want that. Things that go some of the way are Audacity (which has noise reduction and spectral editing but is not remotely on a par with RX) and https://github.com/lucianodato/noise-repellent . If
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> I think that it will go to like 20k in the next 4 years Why like 20k (as opposed to like 100k or like 1k)?
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> It's pretty much memorising an A-Z The A-Z (pronounced 'zed') was the most popular London streetmap in the 20th century.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Those wear marks and fine textures probably are photos, kind of. It turns out one of the ways photorealism is achieved is by mapping textures onto 3d objects, and those textures usually originate from photos.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> Do you question every story you hear? Do you not? Edit: I feel a bit awkward about being on the same side as the "this is bullshit" people. I think the general message that it's harder for women to look "appropriate
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I just mean there will be additional costs to the state if it means more people survive car crashes and therefore need medical care. But those costs might be outweighed if longer-term survivors tend to have less severe injuries.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Unless it decreases short-term fatalities.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I should have said pitch bend and aftertouch.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I would agree that you probably can't literally hear the delay among five note-on messages if nothing else is happening. That'd be about .5ms which is pretty insignificant. But it does become a real thing if you're sending a
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Well there's MIDI the electronic standard, and MIDI the musical serialization format. The former is moribund, the latter definitely isn't.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
http://moddevices.com/mod-duo There's this kickstarted product that has a midi in (not out), but it's pretty pricey. It's open source and extremely versatile / hackable though. Honorable mention: The How
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by Joeboy 9y ago
At the time of writing the comment you're replying to says this: > So protestors caused USA to lose the war, as Nixon complained? Which doesn't seem to me to contain the meaning you're inferring at all.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> One question nobody dares to ask aloud. How many high-danger buildings like the Grenfell Tower ware there? 228, according to the assessment commissioned by the government. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017&#
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> There are thousands of standardized contracts that are signed by thousands of people and only a small percentage of them end up in conflict But how many contracts are there where nothing can be disputed? That seems to me to be the
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> There is a mountain of evidence that interests are more strongly shaped by biology than by the social environment? Can I politely suggest that you look up the meaning of the term "straw man" and try to avoid doing it?
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by Joeboy 9y ago
You can carry significantly more than nothing, but it's true that since I've started regularly needing to schlep sound recording equipment around cycling has become an increasingly impractical means of transport.
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by Joeboy 9y ago
I suppose the hope is that eventually somebody will come up with a smart contract that: a) Does something useful... b) ...in a way that's somehow significantly preferable to "dumb" alternatives; c) gets adequately battle-test
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by Joeboy 9y ago
Wrt winter, the one I spent on a boat was the warmest I've ever experienced. It was less hassle to just keep the boat heated than to keep relighting the burner, and also good to keep damp at bay. It's a small space so relatively e
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by Joeboy 9y ago
> On the con side I'm worried my social life will suffer Who doesn't want to hang out on a boat? That seems like a weird concern to me. I can only speak for London but I don't think there's a stigma attached. People a

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