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by alabastervlog 2y ago
Sure, and of course double (or more!) albums were/are a thing. There was even a limited effort at players that could automatically drop a second album on top of a first when a side finished, then start playing the second record, and so
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
1) Yeah, it's fiction. 2) It's written a little "higher" than modern popular young-adult-influenced fiction, mostly in that it sets up tension where the reader shouldn't know what's going on, then resolves it
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
I'm only about 20% in but if anybody ever asks me "what is your day-to-day internal experience of ordinary life like?" I'm just going to point them to this. [EDIT] Still not done but this is just getting more true the fa
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
This is one of those "the medium is the message" things. The album per se became a widespread art form because the message of LPs is the album. It's how you experience that medium. It was preceded by an era of long-form l
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
Yep, exactly, you want a united front to make it effective, especially when you're dealing with an economy as large as China's. That's why it'd be nice if we were focusing mainly on that, and not also on weird low-value
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
Misses a couple of the main things about vinyl: reduced temptation to skip tracks, and side-based thinking about and listening to your albums. It's a format for albums, or at least for halves of albums. You put on a side, and you play
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
Reducing trade with China (and sure, tariffs work for that purpose, why not?) is one of the only things I agree with as far as policies Trump has actually taken action on (both terms). ... I think it'd be more effective and less painfu
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
N of 1, but my experience doesn't fit with this common explanation. Big life changes, travel, having kids ... none of it has done a thing to disrupt a steady progression to a point where (around age 40) a year feels about subjectively
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
It depends on the ORM. I've definitely seen a couple (popular, even) where it's worse than nothing at all, if you're comfortable in SQL. But most of them I'd agree, they're handy. I think some of the blanket "j
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
ORMs are great. They afford abundant opportunities to look like a hero by swooping into a project and cutting a page load of forty seconds to under one second.
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
Yep, especially inspectors general. These folks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_General_Act_of_197... Also some not-quite-just-serving-at-the-president’s-pleasure folks (according to the law, anyway) directo
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
For those considering them, Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited (wherein we discover just how much in the way of, ahem, relations a book of the period can pack "between the lines") are available in a single widely available and ch
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
They lead with firing a ton of the people in semi-independent executive branch offices that are suppose to raise red flags (in an advisory role, and formally putting the brakes on things if that's not enough) if the admin tries to do i
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
It’s disturbing how much of the current US political landscape—the fundamental social/perceived-historical identities of the two parties, which are one of two things that determine how people actually vote, the other being “does it see
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
Prey’s closest ancestor, by a mile, is System Shock, I’d say.
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
I had to use neo4j on a project some years ago and hated it (it didn’t help that the client forced its use for really dumb and bad reasons, wasting tons of time in the process) but Cypher is great. Only thing about it I liked. It’s very goo
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
I tried Kodi a bunch of times. Nobody else in my house would/could use it. Half the time I’d end up stuck in some weird modal menu I couldn’t get out of, so I can hardly blame them. Its ui is really weird. Jellyfin fixed that. Other pe
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
This has it backwards: “telemetry” or otherwise collecting info without explicitly asking each time was definitely, for-sure just spyware as late as the mid ‘00s. We only later decided a bunch of that definitely-not-ok stuff was ok.
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by alabastervlog 2y ago
The point where I bounced on the site was when I realized this "retired" guy was making things work by having three jobs and the health & prior work history to quickly get re-hired doing something at an ordinary company if