Supernaut

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by Supernaut 10mo ago
The author mentions his father's "$2000 computer", a figure has no impact in 2025, when $2,000 doesn't seem like a particularly large amount of money to have spent on a state of the art PC. I'm of the opinion that w
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by Supernaut 10mo ago
Sounds like you're getting it serviced by a BMW dealership? I take my PHEV 3-series to a local independent mechanic, and the entire cost is usually less than you're paying for oil alone. Also, because it's a hybrid, the road
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by Supernaut 10mo ago
> How much did it cost to make the Beatles' albums? A piano, drums, a couple of guitars and salaries for 4 guys? The Beatles did only take a few days to knock out each of their earliest LPs. However, per Wikipedia, "the group s
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by Supernaut 10mo ago
> It was manufactured to be as cheap as possible. Exactly. The membrane keyboards weren't aesthetic choices, they were one of a number of compromises that were necessary to achieve the price point set by Clive Sinclair. He intuited
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by Supernaut 11mo ago
> Shout out to the gulf stream for keeping Ireland's climate significantly more temperate than our Canadian latitude neighbours. Here is research that argues to the contrary: https://www.americanscientist.org/article
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by Supernaut 11mo ago
Ireland's climate policies, whether adequate or inadequate, can have very little affect on the evolution of the AMOC, or any other large-scale climactic phenomenon. There are vastly more influential factors at play all around the world
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by Supernaut 11mo ago
> the billboard hot 100 [...] all looks like Beatles style pop songs played with electronic instruments Correct, and Kraftwerk's enduring influence on the charts is not their compositional style, as excellent as it was. It was by d
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by Supernaut 1y ago
A disassembly of the operating system for the series II Fairlight CMI would be fascinating, I would think. Your bio suggests that you live in Sydney, so it would be particularly appropriate for you to examine code that was written in Rushcu
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by Supernaut 1y ago
> these educated workers are taking on other jobs [...] that are understaffed because they are too dirty or too dangerous. Just so we're clear here, are you personally going to be happy when you're forced to leave your desk to
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by Supernaut 1y ago
No, crashing the property market would be economically and socially catastrophic. We know this for a fact, because it happened 16 years ago and we're still feeling the effects. What is required is that the many legal and financial barr
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by Supernaut 1y ago
Well, how many artists are there in total?
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by Supernaut 1y ago
Well, the property tax that I pay on the house that I own in Dublin is decidedly not "a rounding error away from zero". It has also recently increased, in line with the increased value of properties in the locality. Regarding your
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by Supernaut 1y ago
The planning system here certainly has lots of problematic aspects, but making it difficult to build one-off homes in the countryside isn't one of them. As a housing solution, it's hugely inefficient and worse, it spoils the lands
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by Supernaut 1y ago
Picasso was worth $240 million at the time of his death, and that's in 1976 dollars. Plenty of artists become very, very wealthy.
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by Supernaut 1y ago
I think you're assessing this with a North American point of view. I have local knowledge, and I can tell you that the money is being given to people who will not under any circumstances vote for the centrist politicians who are handin
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by Supernaut 1y ago
> its always been like this. That certain types of people do certain things and others are highly disinterested in it I agree. I remember 1984, when all of my schoolyard peers had a home computer. It was only myself and one other guy tha
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by Supernaut 1y ago
> I remember they tried to privatize water in Ireland a good few years ago That is not what happened. The government simply introduced plans to charge for water usage. As you say, there was a backlash, albeit only from certain sectors of
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by Supernaut 1y ago
What I've read is that Tim Stamper painted the beautiful box artwork and was also responsible for the games' graphics, while Chris Stamper handled the bulk of the coding. What an incredibly talented family!
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by Supernaut 1y ago
You read it correctly!
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by Supernaut 1y ago
Such a shame. The passenger aircraft industry could certainly stand to be shaken up with some of that "move fast and break things" startup dynamism!
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by Supernaut 1y ago
I take it you're referring to the same guy who, after taking his money, wrote that feminism is a "social disease" and that privilege is a "made up metric"? That guy?
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by Supernaut 1y ago
In the EU, inflation surged in the wake of the double-whammy of COVID and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The standard economic prescription for high levels of inflation is to raise interest rates, and that is what the ECB did. Inflation
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by Supernaut 1y ago
> I find it fascinating how some music from 100 years ago still holds value today. Some of the world's most cherished music is much older than that. Is it your general expectation that musical compositions, regardless of merit, will
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by Supernaut 1y ago
Your comment is extremely disingenuous. Much of the world, including Europe, has become dramatically more unsettled and dangerous as a direct consequence of US foreign policies and military adventures over the last quarter-century. Do you e
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by Supernaut 1y ago
> you can get extremely good (studio quality) sounds with a 200 Euro guitar and a 250 Euro amplifier Yes, exactly. Does a guitar that costs €1200 sound and (equally importantly) feel even better? Yes, in my opinion - but with modern inst
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by Supernaut 1y ago
Jimmy Page was using a Theremin in a rock context in 1969!
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by Supernaut 2y ago
... which in itself is a reference to the song "Get Me to the Church on Time" from the musical "My Fair Lady".
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by Supernaut 2y ago
As a longtime Rails developer who has experimented with Python but knew little about Django, I read this article with interest. Something that jumped out at me was the author's description of the "models.py file, which contains al
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by Supernaut 2y ago
The Beatles gave up live performance in 1966, because they no longer enjoyed it and because they were making huge sums of money from their record sales. In fact, the following year, they released their biggest-ever selling album, Sgt. Pepp
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by Supernaut 2y ago
> they don’t make (practically) any money on CD sales No, not any more, because Napster and the other IP-theft networks that followed in its wake destroyed that revenue model, both for the musicians and the record companies. But before t

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