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by redwall_hp 7mo ago
I switched to Mac around Vista and never looked back. For games, enlightenment is realizing the PC gaming tribalism is dumb and PlayStations are actually really nice. It's an appliance that plays games without giving you trouble, in a
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by redwall_hp 7mo ago
Don't forget offline. We now have an epidemic of license plate and face reading cameras rolling out all over the place. Orwell couldn't even dream of the invasive monitoring that exists right now.
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by redwall_hp 7mo ago
They should start with over-employed executives in the C-suite of more than one company or sitting on more than one company's board of directors.
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by redwall_hp 7mo ago
That's why one of the super simple improvements I'd make to music copyright law, if I had to choose one thing rather than a massive overhaul, is for sampling to also be subject to the compulsory mechanical royalty system. So any a
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by redwall_hp 7mo ago
China outpaced the US for renewable energy rollout years ago, and isn't stopping now, because it's seen as energy security. It's not even close. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_China h
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by redwall_hp 8mo ago
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. [...] He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to
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by redwall_hp 8mo ago
Basically all of Eco's Ur-Fascism boxes are checked. And he'd know, having lived under Mussolini's regime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism
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by redwall_hp 8mo ago
In the context of government-mandated identity checks for speech, either both are unconstitutional or they're not, in the latter case it's time to start cracking down on the dangers of religion. I hope society comes to the former
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by redwall_hp 8mo ago
It's funny, all the bible wankers screamed about "the mark of the beast" over things like RealID. Now we have fascists setting up surveillance and censorship tools to tie speech and movement to centralized ID...and they'
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by redwall_hp 8mo ago
Urban planning that separates pedestrians and vehicles. Roads that are narrow in places where a lower speed is desirable. Heavy taxation on vehicles with more mass and lower visibility. Actual licensing standards other than driving down a c
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by redwall_hp 8mo ago
All 50 states have dog licensing in some form, but it seems that it's more a case of the state allowing municipalities to do so or not. Some states also require veterinarians to report unlicensed dogs. Larger cities almost certainly re
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by redwall_hp 8mo ago
They're used heavily for the companies to harass and dehumanize the workers, too. "You didn't try hard enough to sell the customer something else when they called with a major problem." "How dare you deviate from th
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by redwall_hp 8mo ago
That's not even enough for doctors to consider "drinking coffee" on a chart lol.
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by redwall_hp 8mo ago
I'm increasingly convinced of the need for professional licensing for software engineering. You get a degree, and sit through that ethics course, and take an exam to get a license, or you don't get to practice. Do unethical things
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by redwall_hp 8mo ago
Or any country the US has a reciprocal copyright treaty with, which is all but a vanishingly small set of countries. A work is protected by copyright the moment it's authored, and all rights are reserved unless it's explicitly lic
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by redwall_hp 9mo ago
Tin Pan Alley is the historical industry from before recording: composers sold sheet music and piano rolls to publishers, who sold them to working musicians. The ASCAP/BMI mafia would shake down venues and make sure they were paying li
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by redwall_hp 9mo ago
We've had Yamaha Vocaloid for over two decades now, and Synthesizer V is probably coming up on a decade too now. They're like any other synth: MIDI (plus phonemes) in, sound out. It's a tool of musical expression, like any ot
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by redwall_hp 9mo ago
"You're so right, that nice catch lines up perfectly!"
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by redwall_hp 9mo ago
Staring at a bright light makes floaters visible, so dark is a must for me. Plus, code should never be dark-on-light, that's disgusting. Astigmatism can cause eye strain headaches. I don't know if LASIK corrects that or not, or if
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by redwall_hp 9mo ago
Japan has that too: あの (ano) and えっと (etto) are used as fillers to indicate that you're about to say something. Moshimoshi is fully a contextual greeting. (You'd use the good morning, good day, good evening equivalents in person.)
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by redwall_hp 9mo ago
Elmo Musk was pumping and dumping dogecoin for years before pivoting to starting an LLM Ponzi.
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by redwall_hp 9mo ago
We're just seeing that the copyright emperor has no clothes: companies want to infringe upon others' rights through a copyright laundering machine, but of course will insist that the laundered code they use is their property, prot
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by redwall_hp 9mo ago
Propulsion is not the issue. Quality cars' engines last just fine for decades, if maintained. Cars in the north have major rust problems, even if you're exceptionally careful, from exposure to snow and road salt.
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by redwall_hp 9mo ago
For CarPlay, yes. I don't need a virtual assistant to do things I can do but worse; I need reliable voice controls to send messages, start phone calls, change the map destination and such with as little friction as possible. Siri needs
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by redwall_hp 9mo ago
Any satellite signal is going to be relatively weak compared to what you can produce on the ground. Inverse square law, and power limitations of a mobile transmitter. It's fairly trivial to set up a transmitter that saturates a slice o
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by redwall_hp 9mo ago
"What do DJs actually do?" https://youtube.com/shorts/9WqICdFQqkE
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by redwall_hp 9mo ago
So is mixing and recording. Nobody is dropping $100K for a decades-old mixing console and tape recorders when a couple thousand dollars worth of computers and software will not only suffice but blow away the other for flexibility and fideli
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by redwall_hp 9mo ago
And vinyl has no sub bass, unlike digital formats. They would run it through a high-pass filter (disturbingly close to where the fundamental frequency of a kick drum is) in the mastering process, because record player needless jump from low
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by redwall_hp 9mo ago
All vinyl mastering is comparably horrible. Everything gets high-passed to hell because sub bass makes the needle jump. There's also a noise floor that limits your dynamics.
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by redwall_hp 10mo ago
Paywalls used to get you deranked, too. Serving different content to Googlebot than what a user would see was considered an attempt to game it, and the domain would be penalized.

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