megmogandog

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by megmogandog 7mo ago
Wow, I hadn't heard about the fraud in 2024, which I looked up in response to your comment. That's troubling to say the least. Bias, though, is going to be inevitable and the Hugos are going to represent the taste of the Worldcon
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by megmogandog 2y ago
The loss of color is concerning, but something I find interesting is the image the author chooses to illustrate Loos' quote, "We have achieved plain, undecorated simplicity." I would argue the building pictured falls short of
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by megmogandog 2y ago
Yes, this understanding would mean the 12-bar blues and blues music in general are an extremely dissonant form as they use the dominant seven chords as tonics. How many people consider the blues dissonant? It reminds me of my first counterp
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by megmogandog 3y ago
I tried to learn LilyPond once but it was a bit too arcane for my taste. Now I use MuseScore, WYSIWYG notation program which is a lot more intuitive (and, like LilyPond, also released under the GPL). I write relatively simple music, though,
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by megmogandog 3y ago
I'm curious why you would want 4K in this case? I was over at a family member's place and threw on an episode of TNG to kill time. I was trying to figure out why everything looked so cheap: Picard's uniform, other costumes, t
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by megmogandog 3y ago
I share your experience and would like to make an unsolicited recommendation of a recent movie that's stuck with me more than anything else I've seen in the last few years: First Reformed. Give it a shot!
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by megmogandog 3y ago
I think I could've phrased my comment better. I'm not assuming the constants can be changed; axiomatically, they cannot, because they're fundamental constants of the universe. I'm also not assuming that some agent was ar
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by megmogandog 3y ago
Which fine tuning arguments are you referring to? As I understand it, 'fine tuning' is simply a fact of the universe: that the fundamental constants have values that allow for the emergence of complexity, and that even slight chan
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by megmogandog 3y ago
It's a fantastic game, I had a blast playing through it twice, first 'unspoiled', then following a guide to get all the characters. I wish there were more JRPGs that took such a maximalist approach to how many playable charac
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by megmogandog 3y ago
Yes, quite contrary to my expectations. The phrase isn't even used outside of the title. I always knew it only as a Dune reference; was the actual spice trade ever described in such terms?
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by megmogandog 3y ago
Watched a bit of the demo video. Maybe I'm not the target audience but is this kind of an emacs approach to the terminal, in the sense of trying to put every possible graphical function into a TUI? For me at least the charm of TUIs is
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by megmogandog 3y ago
Look at the issues discussed: gender roles, race/immigration. Conservative means traditional gender roles, immigration as a negative/threat. Liberal means the opposite. For me at least that's comprehensible and unambiguous ou
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by megmogandog 3y ago
My favorite thing about this link was seeing that the letter Y evolved from a bird hieroglyph! 𓅱𓅱𓅱 (your unicode support may vary)
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by megmogandog 3y ago
My personal worst experience of this was Philip K. Dick's Time out of Joint ; since then I only read the blurbs after I'm finished.
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by megmogandog 3y ago
I didn't read the comment you're replying to as endorsing Meta's actions, but rather stating that it is the only thing you should expect given the current lack of regulation.
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by megmogandog 3y ago
exactly what I thought as well, though I wasn't sure
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by megmogandog 3y ago
I'm not saying they're awful, just that you're better off getting a reputable 20th century translation. Even a lot of the translations in the Complete Works you mention are getting on in years but it is the best complete edit
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by megmogandog 3y ago
A lot's happened in our understanding of Plato since Jowett's day
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by megmogandog 3y ago
Where are you getting diminished 7th from? If you play the 3, the 5, the 7, and the 9 of E7 it's G# B D F#. At least in jazz we call that shape a "half-diminished" chord or "minor 7 flat 5", and it will stay that wa
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by megmogandog 3y ago
I also like Fagles, but when I said this to a classicist she made a face
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by megmogandog 3y ago
And Jowett's translations are explicitly not recommended for anyone trying to study Plato's thought, which is what most people read Plato for (the same goes for all public domain translations of philosophy). At least with outdated
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by megmogandog 3y ago
It reminds me of a friend in high school who convinced me that he grew scallions in his bathroom. It seemed weird but he described it in some detail, how the humidity from the shower is good for them, etc. Then when I believed him he said o
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by megmogandog 3y ago
The problem being that availability is a function of popularity and age. If you want something older that isn't a celebrated classic, it can be a lot more difficult to access...
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by megmogandog 3y ago
I guess it would've been more honest to say "sorry to seem pedantic," because for me the comment was not mere pedantry (which I think of as hairsplitting for the sake of hairsplitting) but rather a matter of a fundamental dis
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by megmogandog 3y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but the categorical imperative is not about reasoning from the consequences of an action if everyone did it. It's about testing whether it's even possible for you to will the maxim of your action as a univers
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by megmogandog 3y ago
I'm aware of the context and took no offense when I read it; I asterisked it for 2023.
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by megmogandog 3y ago
There's a lot of great stuff in this interview, but what really floored me was the question, after Miles had talked so much and so eloquently about race in America and his experiences, "Have you always been so sensitive about bein
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by megmogandog 3y ago
And in this case the one posting it is some kind of antivaxxer or Covid denialist...
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by megmogandog 3y ago
As others are mentioning, it would be nice to know what 'relatedness' means here, because a lot of words that seem like they'd be closely related are not, as calculated by the game
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by megmogandog 3y ago
This would make sense, since the world is 'us/eu-centric' and has been for all of modern history. It might not be for much longer though...

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