RichardCA

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by RichardCA 2y ago
Back in the 70's there was a sex-ed book called "Show Me" which featured very frank photographs of both adults and children, completely naked. It was subject to litigation at the time it was released and was upheld as not bei
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by RichardCA 2y ago
> Yet would be entirely baffled at the concept of a British panto. Monty Python, and in particular Terry Gilliam's animation style, were both heavily panto influenced. It was also a nerd rite-of-passage to watch Eraserhead which was
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by RichardCA 2y ago
You're talking about the generation that grew up with Monty Python and The Goodies. We were also familiar with the latex puppets because of Spitting Image and the Genesis "Land of Confusion" video. And the idea of a ball-shap
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by RichardCA 2y ago
This was discussed a few weeks ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41509558
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by RichardCA 2y ago
Very sexist. Women were not only expected to never cuss, but also to pretend as if they had never even heard such awful words. https://youtu.be/Cq-If5vVvcc
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by RichardCA 2y ago
The engineering knowledge that went into the WWII fire control computers was clearly a form of programming. You will also notice the words "computer", "input", and "output" are used without needing to be explai
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by RichardCA 2y ago
Thanks, I was unaware of Annabel Jankel, sister of Chaz Jankel. https://youtu.be/uf0JKWSLd3I
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by RichardCA 2y ago
Telling someone they are a bad cog is the corporate machine is not Red-Pilling. It's Blue-Pilling.
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by RichardCA 2y ago
The hype around Disco and the resulting backlash were so intense that people lost sight of what actually happened. Discotheques were a cultural trend that started in the 60's and went big in the 70's, and it was an international p
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by RichardCA 2y ago
A few years back Joni Mitchell was asked to participate in a project to create a tribute to her in downtown Saskatoon, and she suggested that it have a First Nations component. It escalated pretty quickly. She got so frustrated that she com
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by RichardCA 2y ago
If you grew up in the 70's there was a lot of Canadian programming that Americans could watch on PBS. One in particular was called "Fast Forward" which covered topics in TV, Radio, and Computers in a very nerd-kid-friendly fo
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by RichardCA 2y ago
It's been around since the original Mac came out. https://youtu.be/cV_RLmuoCkE
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by RichardCA 2y ago
Modern Astrology was established by Ptolemy who standardized on the Tropical Zodiac in the 2nd Century AD. In that system, the Sun always moves from Pisces to Aires on the Vernal Equinox. This was a more precise definition of what the ancie
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by RichardCA 2y ago
It's reasonable to assume that he knew the Monty Python reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlv_aZjHXc&t=70s
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by RichardCA 2y ago
I've often wondered if Monty Python was just doing a big meta-parody of RP. That is, you speak like a proper Oxford man while also being absurd, and the comedy almost writes itself. https://youtu.be/ZArgEvK2R1s
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by RichardCA 2y ago
The mechanism in a steam-driven sawmill that holds the log in place and is adjusted when the angle or thickness of the cut needs to be changed. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/542122/origin-of...
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by RichardCA 2y ago
This is from a web site that's been around since the Web 1.0 era: https://www.ibiblio.org/units/dictT.html#ton
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by RichardCA 2y ago
"Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you will find the programmers cannot write in English." Source: https://github.com/eunuchs/unix-archive/blob/master/PDP-11/T...
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by RichardCA 2y ago
For the music listening use case, if you can get your hands on a CD and rip it to FLAC that's the way to go. When the CD format first took hold in the early/mid 80's, it was common for the record labels to push out CD's
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by RichardCA 2y ago
If they succeed in getting it through the Tehachapi's, it will be a civil engineering feat without precedent in California history. I am not holding my breath that it will come in 10 years, or even in my lifetime.
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by RichardCA 2y ago
This one is pretty obscure, he plays an elite open-heart surgeon at a time when the artificial heart seemed like it was just around the corner. He shows the hubris of trusting technology in a way that was perfect for the early 80's. It
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by RichardCA 2y ago
The value of Gold is based on scarcity dictated by the laws of Physics, and on people believing it has value. The fascination with that yellow gleam goes as far back as recorded time. The fact that it's easy to work with (malleability,
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by RichardCA 2y ago
> As someone that works in the crypto industry, I feel this every time I see the news or articles report on it, or comments here talking about it. It was the same way during the 90's Dot-Com era, journalists would explain the World
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by RichardCA 2y ago
It wasn't forced, he did it as a favor to Charles Randolph Grean, who had produced his record albums and was responsible for that skit on the "Malibu U" variety show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles
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by RichardCA 2y ago
> We watch A24's Civil War the same way that Vaughan and Ballard would watch a car crash. Civil War was a very interesting movie. The three main characters are all photographers, and the movie turns them into both the observer and t
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by RichardCA 2y ago
They are capable of fast swimming, enough to gain momentum so they can pop back up onto land or an ice floe. https://youtu.be/_OHDYS8qTzQ?t=935s
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by RichardCA 3y ago
> something like 'melting down discarded PCBs to recover trace metals' Better than shipbreaking. https://youtu.be/5jdEG_ACXLw
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by RichardCA 3y ago
I don't know what the mathematical underpinnings of those mortgage-backed derivatives were, but I know someone somewhere looked at all that math and decided the risk burden was acceptable. No one said hey, wait, the model is only as go
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by RichardCA 3y ago
There was a PBS NOVA episode about this. https://vimeo.com/302855460 The question that seems obvious, but no one ever seems to talk about, is how the failure of LTCM paved the way for the subprime crisis of 2008. I mean, di
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by RichardCA 3y ago
Yes, there are many challenges in reverse engineering these classic games. This is a good example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=objL2hGAEgU Living in L.A. in the 90's, I remember Pack Mann in Pasadena had this one.

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