cyberdelica

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by cyberdelica 6y ago
Yes, but the heavy paper copy that used to periodically plop through everyones letterbox, was called The Phone Book[0]. [0] https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51uCASmsWxL...
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
I agree. A much nicer solution, in my opinion, is to use a portable tripod.
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
It has plenty to do with it. Watching TV, is not staying informed.
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
Check out "xwax"[0], if you haven't seen it already. [0] https://xwax.org/
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
> You'd better turn on the TV. Perhaps society might be in a better place if we all switched our TVs off. I know it's done me wonders.
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
Thanks for this, as I am thinking about switching to Hyperoptic, and am interested in self hosting several services.
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
> No, because most social media platforms don't freely allow the organization of violent mobs. Twitter, Facebook, etc will ban you for doing that. Even, as it turns out, if you're the POTUS. I seem to remember just a few years
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
Your comment really could do double duty, describing the last four years, where we've been told ad nauseum "Russian Hackers" armed with Facebook ads, kept Hillary Clinton out of the Whitehouse. Essentially, stealing "her
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
Before people abused the term "social network" to include all manner of things, including forums such as Reddit and Hacker News, using Twitter was referred to as "micro blogging".
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
> Would love to have something similar right now, though I'm not sure what I'd use it for. I am trying to work on a project at the moment, with a VHS case sized device, that is only used as a terminal to another (be that phone,
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
He wrote inspired by, not based on - which is true. Linus Torvalds was inspired by Minix, to write Linux.
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
I'm not sure on the price, or whether it can be run without the Things Network, as I haven't been able to buy one yet, but perhaps take a look at the Alfa Tube ELoRaWANGW, which can run OpenWRT.
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
I'm sorry, but this is completely wrong. Furthermore, I'm not talking about the history of hardware/software in Hollywood - your original statement was about the use of software by audio professionals. I was an "audio pr
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
That just gave me a nice idea. There's probably a market for "audiophile" eardrops, to lubricate the outer ear, such that the sound waves effortlessly glide through the fleshy waveguide, to hit the tympanic membrane at optimu
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
Compare Jimi Hendrix's studio recordings, with that of his live performances. The main song in Phantom of The Opera, in the West End, is/was done to a click track - and the performance is/was noticeably flat because of it, in
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
> Even Logic started as a Windows-first DAW. I hate to be that guy, but your entire comment is full of wrong. Firstly, Emagic "Logic" started on the Atari and Mac OS platforms. I'm not sure when it appeared on Windows, but
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
> Isn't that what's meant to happen? If your kid starts talking about converting to Islam and becoming a jihadist, surely parents should alert the authorities. Err..., definitely not. I would hope most parents have a word with
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
There is already a better readme. It's called a man page. The original "online" documentation. The ability to have content generated dynamically, using source and system operators. Spreadsheet style abilities with a touch of
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
As well as ctags, one can also use the GNU "idutils" suite of programs.
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
> A good example of this is [...] anti vaxxers. They've got no scientific or reasonable leg to stand on You should read up on the Leicester Method. I have no opinion one way or the other, but it seems to me, that rather than malleab
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
> And their tactic is simple as it is brilliant - negate the advantage of air raids by fighting as close to the enemy as possible. The same tactic was used to good effect, by the Viet Cong.
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
The man macros for roff/troff/groff are not even particulary complicated. Anyone with half an hour to spend learning them, could write a man page without needing additional tools.
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by cyberdelica 6y ago
To increase the readability in scripts, one can use comments. Long options only increase the likelihood of going over someones preferred column count, forcing one to use newline escapes, splitting the command over multiple lines - especiall