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by baliex 3y ago
I made a thing which is pretty close to what you're after: https://dailyalbum.art It picks 12 random albums every day. It's picking from a number of curated "best of" lists (Rolling Stone, Mercury Prize nomin
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by baliex 3y ago
On the Linus point, I'd bet there were countless months where he was bringing ideas together in his head and planning how he'd do it before actually finding the time to sit down and write it.
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by baliex 3y ago
Not just malice, profit too
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by baliex 3y ago
That's true and doesn't detract from it being a waste of talent
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by baliex 3y ago
Thank you — was looking for a visual
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by baliex 3y ago
Sounds inspired by Huxley’s Island . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel)
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by baliex 3y ago
There was a programme the other day about this on BBC Radio 4. Unless they’ve resolved the problem already, it will refuse to describe any scene with faces in it, for privacy reasons. Which obviously rules out a lot of useful use-cases. You
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by baliex 3y ago
It’s more like Ed Sheeran giving away free copies of his album rather than free live performances.
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by baliex 3y ago
Would love some stats in the near future of whether Google et al. are using these lists (blocked, lowered, raised, pinned) to their advantage somehow. Having said that, they have the data themselves, they just choose not to use it because i
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by baliex 3y ago
Controversy ahead, I'm open to discussion. This is obvious and egregious animal abuse. What is it that puts our wants above those pigs' right to a peaceful life without growing others' (another species'!) organs in their
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by baliex 3y ago
This reminds me of Jef Raskin’s humane interface: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface Edit: more specifically, Archy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software) which has its ro
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by baliex 3y ago
Big firefox fan here and it's kinda sad to read that
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by baliex 3y ago
There is certainly a beauty in those remnants being left behind. Yes, the place would look objectively tidier without them. But, given the context of what they used to be, I would enjoy the daily reminder that there used to be ads and now t
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by baliex 3y ago
To open a new finder window in the current directory in a terminal: alias finder='open .'
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by baliex 3y ago
Relevant HN post from _yesterday_, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36465085
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by baliex 3y ago
Did you actually try it? It sounds like you did, because you’ve given a car and skateboard example, which do appear in the exercise. But it sounds like you didn’t because you’ve given such an authoritative answer when the whole point of the
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by baliex 3y ago
The upscaled Mickey Mouse image does look "better" to my eyes, but the other 3 examples on the homepage, particularly Machu Pichu, look worse. The original owl on grass looks like a composite image, so it's difficult to disce
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by baliex 3y ago
> "it's free and open information built by the community, but when something disrupts our ads-driven business model and we make it unfree" I feel the same, that it would be much better today if that was the agreement we al
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by baliex 3y ago
Not an expert but, yes. The purpose of introducing this kind of law is to continue to expand the legal recognition of what we now consider to be ethical, based on our continually expanding understanding of the world. The cows aren’t in a po
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by baliex 3y ago
I haven't really looked into the plugins but surely if they can find the "accept tracking" button, they could also find the "no thanks" button instead
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by baliex 3y ago
Been using it for years and watching others’ machines for how tracked they are across the web is terrifying. Even things as basic as being on clothingshop.com and then seeing ads for said shop on someotherdomain.com, which I understand is t
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by baliex 3y ago
I don't think it's too cynical to say that business models (i.e. targetted advertising) of the Psions of today just don't fit with this kind of device. I never owned one but I remember ogling them and their high prices (to a
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Global warming set to break key 1.5C limit for first time(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by baliex 3y ago|0 comments
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by baliex 3y ago
> I kept the phone running in the back of my van plugged into an auxiliary cigarette lighter port.
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by baliex 4y ago
Don’t you think it’s too much of a compromise for those people to be abused by the corporations with the deepest pockets in exchange?
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by baliex 4y ago
This is it. This is our new dystopia
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Nijmegen: The progressive city that few know(bbc.com)
2 points by baliex 4y ago|0 comments
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by baliex 4y ago
This is the article [0] that inspired the (brilliant) film [1]. [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b... [1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9071322/
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by baliex 4y ago
That does sound simple, but is not the process the macports docs suggest.
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by baliex 4y ago
I used to be a staunch macports evangelist but ended up switching to homebrew. I've found it to be much simpler. And, as a counter to your experience of not having it mess up a machine, every time you upgrade macOS to the next major ve

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