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by djur 3y ago
That's an interesting point. I feel the same way, but Albini would argue that he doesn't have a "style". His whole concept is being a kind of anti-producer -- he sets up the audio equipment and lets the band play, and hi
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by djur 3y ago
I disagree that key changes in popular music are a great measure of complexity. For many years a key change near the end of the song was an easy way to give the sense of a climax. The article your link is based on gives a good summary of it
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by djur 3y ago
The research on this topic that I'm aware of fails to account for the fact that the top 40/100 lists are less representative of what people are actually listening to than they used to be. If Drake can drop an album and have every
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by djur 3y ago
OK, so if someone got married and changed their last name, you would feel OK continuing to refer to them by their maiden name? Even if they no longer used that name and asked you to use their new name? You wouldn't expect any kind of s
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by djur 3y ago
Online communities are well within their rights to limit their membership to people willing to follow their rules of conduct. That's freedom of association, which is as fundamental a right as freedom of speech.
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by djur 3y ago
Well, he's right that his publishers will never see another word from him. A decade before that quote, Dahl was convinced by the NAACP and others to revise the Oompa-Loompas to avoid the implications of their being "black pygmies&
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by djur 3y ago
It's always been common for online communities to ban people for being intentionally rude. I think we're still in the process of figuring out the preferred etiquette for historical references to people who changed their names, but
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by djur 3y ago
How is "deadnaming" an attack on free speech? It's always been considered discourteous to refer to people by a name they don't go by.
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by djur 3y ago
D&D has been revised dozens of times over the past few decades, and racial alignments have been more honored in the breach for nearly as long -- one of the most popular characters in the D&D books is a chaotic good drow, and such &q
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by djur 3y ago
Attorney-client privilege applies to communication for the purpose of obtaining legal advice and it typically excludes anything already disclosed to a third party, like the bank in this case.
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by djur 3y ago
> the sheer number of people that enjoy similarly detailed SciFi/fantasy work I'm assuming you mean books here. SF/F book sales generated $590 million in revenue last year. Video games: $56.84 billion.
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by djur 3y ago
As opposed to mail fraud -- basically any kind of fraud committed via electronic communication. At the time they would have been thinking of telegrams and phones, but the statute covers fraudulent materials "transmitted by means of wir
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by djur 3y ago
This would suggest that the "cool S" that showed up in notebooks, on walls, etc. throughout my youth was a religious/ritual symbol. Same with stuffed squirrels and singing bass and "Bless This Mess" crochets and bar
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by djur 3y ago
I don't know any prior open-world game that makes the physical exploration of the landscape feel as natural and enjoyable as BOTW. That felt like a new experience to me. The closest I could identify would be Just Cause 2, but movement
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by djur 3y ago
I see what you mean, but in order to win Super Metroid you still have to beat all the bosses to open Tourian, and the same with the five bosses you need to beat to get to Dracula in SOTN. In BOTW, once you're off the Plateau, you can l
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by djur 3y ago
How does "the WEF connection is concerning" differ from "fail[ing] a purity test"?
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by djur 3y ago
Three of those four changes (tweet length, paid checks, timeline changes) have made Twitter substantially worse to use. Now every reasonably popular tweet's replies are drowning in irrelevant novel-length screeds and emoji-laden nonsen
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by djur 3y ago
Using the glider to chain critical arrow shots is a great way to take out a lynel quickly, too. There's only a few places where lynels appear where you can't use that tactic.
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by djur 3y ago
I have played plenty of PC open world games and I think BOTW is better than any of them.
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by djur 3y ago
I'm surprised to see "Metroidvania" described as a genre where you can rush the boss quickly. Neither of the two defining games that name the genre, (Super) Metroid or Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, allow you to reach th
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by djur 3y ago
Right. I don't think copyright should apply to similar songs, even intentionally similar songs. Musical traditions worldwide rely on imitation, elaboration, recontextualization of known works.
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by djur 3y ago
The two songs are very similar in some ways -- similar enough that even Sheeran played them as a live medley. I think the strongest argument is that the common elements are mostly shared genre markers, and courts have consistently held that
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by djur 3y ago
Data compression is really good these days, and there are file formats and compression strategies that are optimized for gaming. The specific technique being used here is still used in 2D games, but there are spritesheet optimization tools
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by djur 3y ago
The general correlation I've seen is that games with more dynamic physics tend to provide more opportunities for exploits. Jumping, bouncing off of other objects in the environment, rapidly changing geometry (by ducking, dodging, etc.)
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by djur 3y ago
That advice has been deprecated for years and has never been sufficient. The reverse is true now: the browser will warn about an insecure connection.
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by djur 3y ago
"Tune" as in "adjust settings".
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by djur 4y ago
I don't like checking different apps per se, but I absolutely want to have distinct social networking profiles and communities for my different interests. I'm happy to share my unremarkable opinions about technology with a wide au
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by djur 4y ago
Here's the library: https://github.com/mboeh/toe_tag It's a decade old and less than 100 lines so it might be more useful as an example than a gem. The last time I needed to do something like this I just rewr
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by djur 4y ago
`rescue` also uses the match operator, which I found useful in the past when wrapping libraries that didn't expose a useful exception type hierarchy. In particular I seem to recall that the "pg" gem would throw `PG::Error`, w
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by djur 4y ago
Which part are you objecting to?

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