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by qubex 4mo ago
Personally, I consider Ethel Cain’s American Teenager (2022) to be the most definitively “2020s sound” yet, but that’s probably just an elder millennial who doesn’t get modern culture’s ignorant hot take.
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by qubex 4mo ago
There’s certainly a Baudrillard reference to be made here, but I’m not awake enough to exactly phrase it (yet).
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by qubex 4mo ago
I present you the Interior Designer’s weapon of mass disruption: NCS. Worse still: European urban development projects have adopted it. I never knew there could be so many varieties of ‘ochre’.
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by qubex 4mo ago
None.
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by qubex 4mo ago
This is truly a huge leap forward but I’m addicted to Mathematica like a starlet to heroin.
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by qubex 4mo ago
Ah so let’s avoid analysis paralysis by having only black, as Ford famously ruled for the Model T. Of course that’s a reductio ad absurdum, but it’s also completely arbitrary to maintain that fewer options is better. The opposite is also eq
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by qubex 4mo ago
927
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by qubex 4mo ago
As somebody who works in the coatings industry and is aware of the extremely complex field of colorimetry this horrifies me.
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by qubex 4mo ago
Once upon a time, before the horizon of the Wayback Machine, there was a company called Starburst Computers that Faggin of Z80 that proposed what they called a “Hypercomputer” which was an agglomeration of FPGAs that were reconfigured on th
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by qubex 4mo ago
Gosh it’s almost like a crack of common sense has appeared in his natural stupidity and brought him to realise that without jobs that provide wages his artificial intelligence will have no market.
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by qubex 4mo ago
Oh what memories! When I was a really young kid (under ten, in the 1980s) my family’s firm had a System/38 running a rudimentary ERP system and my first experiences with corporate computing were shaped by that,,, QSECOFR and QSYS and D
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by qubex 4mo ago
To the extent that soiling your underwear is a ‘response’, yes, we are.
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by qubex 4mo ago
How the hell is this on a subscription model?? Does anybody even think about buyers’ utility anymore? I can go to FindMyIP for free but you’re planning to repeatedly charge me for basic IP utilities built into UNIX since the early eighties?
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by qubex 4mo ago
Thanks for the slopmaker. Now let’s build Auto-Reviewer-2 to stymie the deluge of sludge that will surge forth.
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by qubex 4mo ago
As an Italian, this infuriates me. The availability of drinking water is provided for by the Geneva Convention; I don’t see what kind of legal reasoning can lead one to conclude that a commercial establishment has fewer duties than an occup
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by qubex 4mo ago
Atheist here but: the mathematician pope delivers.
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by qubex 5mo ago
Thank you for the insight; I met Graeber as a lecturer and he always downplayed his role in OWS, but I always got the sense he was “holding back”.
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by qubex 5mo ago
The true founder of the Occupy Wall Street movement was David Graeber, and he sadly passed away years ago.
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by qubex 5mo ago
Mathematician here: if we relied on AI to solve mathematics then it would be analogous to painters giving up when photography arrived. Art is not about depicting a scene, it is about transferring emotions and meanings visually; mathematics
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by qubex 5mo ago
I’m old enough that I could do more computation on my father’s office’s laserwriter sending it postscript than I could on my Amstrad 1512.
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by qubex 5mo ago
As the eldest of millennials, I regularly find myself going through “ah, they’ve reinvented a situation best served by Gnutellla” events. The most most recent was an ad hoc Resilio Sync library of epub files, and I did the “yeah that works…
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by qubex 5mo ago
The only reverie that I draw from this fresh hell is that the motivator’s life must be somehow worse than mine, and for that I beg whatever Almighty for pardon on his behalf, and make thanks for my comparatively moderately miserable existen
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by qubex 5mo ago
This makes me wish to rip my eyes out, but also makes me hope my pineal gland has a sufficient degree of photosensitivity to orient me towards sunlight.
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by qubex 5mo ago
This is just the false dichotomy of object-oriented programming all over again.
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by qubex 6mo ago
Oh the hoops I had to jump through to get UTM with JIT enabled on my 17 Pro Max with iOS 26…
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by qubex 6mo ago
Brit who was raised in Milan (Italy) and speaks Rexieved Pronunciation and lived in New York: status is “throughly confused”.
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by qubex 6mo ago
Likewise. Having read Neuromancer a good five years before The Matrix ever hit the cinemas, the two are well distinct in my mind in a manner in which they apparently aren’t to this author.
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by qubex 6mo ago
Thanks for significantly advancing the dystopia, we collectively really needed this.
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by qubex 6mo ago
I was born in 1981 and my first computer was an Andrea’s 1512 IBM XT clone. I then had a 386SX-16 in 1991 and a 486DX2-66 in 1994. Anyway a while ago I was reading an article authored by a guy who lived through the same era as I grew up lau
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by qubex 6mo ago
They ran on 5V supplies and it was only later that the whole architecture was changed to 3.3 V with the 90 and 100 MHz Pentiums (which were then discovered to have the infamous FOOF division bug).

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