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   by aasasd 5y ago

   I'm now afraid that Jodorowsky might die from laughter when he hears about this.
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   Someone still buys Lenovo?
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   > A Japanese master of <instrument> continues to practice for hours daily, at a very old age. When asked why he bothers, he answers: “I begin to hear some improvement”.
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   Offtopic: Sanders had several (iirc) releases with Bill Laswell—bassist, producer, multi-genreist, attractor of all kinds of collaborators, and my hero. If someone looks for ‘similar music’ as a jump-off point, Laswell's work is a very
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   I've heard about their ‘freeze and seize’ business model in mid-late 2000s, so it's been going on for almost fifteen years already, maybe more. Meanwhile Paypal's early top execs are icons of US business and techbros. This Mu
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   Regarding games: PS1 games may run with PCSX-Reloaded aka PCSXR (the most-current-before-Retroarch fork of PCSX)—if the machine has any 3D acceleration. However, Retroarch's version is probably out, their requirements are higher. N64 e
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   Like, maybe have a thing that doesn't break its own core rules when a bunch of jerks decide that it should? That would be a start. “It's so decentralized, very nice! Oh, wait, let us centralize it real quick. Here, now it's d
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   So bitcoin failed its guarantees two times at least, but it's fine and dandy by the ‘crypto’ people. Such cryptography, wow.
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   Thanks for the straightforward answer.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    > GUI will come eventually You mean like GNUStep?
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Please tell more about this ‘MacOS broke Gimp’ thing, because it's the first time I hear of that and I'd like to dodge a firsthand experience.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Fuel economy would be awful, though. Dragster style.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    I mean, browsers are full-blown GUI environments, for a long time now. Most usable cross-platform ones, at that.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    After looking through the cards, I'm vaguely sure that if I just read up for a while on each of them, I'll have background for a sizable chunk of Hunter Thompson's and ‘The Illuminatus’ 60s universe. Surprised that Crowley hi
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Ooh, this does remind me that I need to figure out mass-culture and highbrow design values before modernism, since I indeed might apply modern thinking where it doesn't belong, sometimes. I vaguely know that it was ‘more stuff = rich’
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Eh, I pretty much apply modernist thinking to my mystic symbolism: I like the symbols clear and concise. Excessive decoration just takes away from the message of the symbols, and suggests either that the author might be unsure that they can
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    We are all but slaves to the database.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    > The sun: the frontend > The Sun Tarot card radiates with optimism and positivity. A large, bright sun shines in the sky, representing the source of all life on Earth. Yeah sure bud.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    I've long ago bought me a copy of that deck purely for how good it looks. Everything else is either old and crooked, or crayon drawings by some psycho nerd ( ahem Crowley/Harris cough ), or straight up Boris Vallejo style. Plus
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Aka the name at the front of a bunch of flight/combat sim games from the 90s, when EA wasn't trash.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Well, I vaguely knew, but what I learned today is that polls break the ‘Hacker News Enhancement Suite’ plugin.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Pooh written by Hemingway would probably feel quite weird.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    As mentioned, the most popular Soviet spy film is the series ‘Seventeen Moments of Spring’ which is more of a procedural in the approach and certainly aims for a more realistic portrayal—though still with plenty of heroics, of course. A clo
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    That's some pretty weird phrasing and formating. The entire article was rewritten by one user in June—not extended, for no discernible reason. Judging by the user's page, they regularly contribute extensive-ishly, and plan to cont
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Well, with the previous voice-faking tech releases I kinda expected that the scams are gonna evolve from garbled “Hi ma, I've been in a road accident, need to pay off, please send money to this number”. But they escalated quicker than
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    There was Adobe Voco, which seemed kind of a forerunner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l4XLZ59iw , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Voco . It purportedly could edit speech like an audio editor and
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    The vid has auto-generated captions available, so hopefully one can read them at a lowered speed—assuming that the algo itself caught that speech.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    The Stackexchange thread on the GoL quasi-computer (which is underlying the interpreter in the TFA) mentions that the metapixels have borders that swallow gliders from other metapixels. However, those gliders are apparently used to communic
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    You seem to think that one needs to learn the human language to learn those keywords. That's demonstrably false, as evidenced by hordes of programmers who can barely read English sentences, much less write anything coherent. They alrea
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    It works! But... hella slow with games like Gran Turismo 3. Vaguely on par with PCSX2 in Windows in VMWare Fusion, if not slower. (Fusion can run DX10 stuff on Mac, while Wine and VirtualBox can't.) Previously I assumed that PCSX2 deve