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by spiralx 5y ago
Around 2000 Slashdot was the premier tech forum and had a feature where you could have "hidden" comment threads, around which evolved a community of trolls who would compete to craft the most ridiculous and successful trolls and t
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by spiralx 5y ago
We did have a bunch of great content. My most popular one was "Not Just Harmless Fun" :) http://archive.is/gWskS
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by spiralx 5y ago
Ha, I was one of the editors of Adequacy.org back in the day, my "Not Just Harmless Fun" story was the second most commented on the site after this one. My name is even there on the Wikipedia article thanks to the "naked and
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by spiralx 5y ago
God that was a horrible piece of software, and a terrible email client. http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/lotus.htm
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by spiralx 5y ago
I once worked on a CMS designed specifically for the print industry by a company that was itself a separate arm of a printing company - and even then we had to have an entire system to write custom estimating engines in Python, because with
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by spiralx 5y ago
First time I saw DJ Godfather they had DJ Stingray play before him and I enjoyed that style of modern harder electro a lot more, if only because the production was so much better :) The scene here was neither androgynous nor restrained in t
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by spiralx 5y ago
Hah, I bet, watching people dancing to it in Boiler Room videos is different enough from what I'm used to, and that's got to be a lot tamer than you'd see somewhere without cameras filming the entire thing! The first time I s
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by spiralx 5y ago
I also saw him as Crystal Distortion back in the mid-00s at Uglyfunk and as himself in the early 10s, so that's only one more time than you :) I'm a big fan of Detroit ghetto-tech like DJ Godfather, and have a similar problem of i
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by spiralx 5y ago
> I liked some of it at the time -- I have some of the Code Red Adam Beyer stuff on coloured red vinyl somewhere -- but it's a bit soul-less and monolithic. A very white middle class European straightlaced "thump thump thump&qu
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by spiralx 5y ago
Oh thanks, I remember laughing at that comic 15 years ago or so, back when I had "trance sucks" as an avatar on at least one dance music-related forum :) The fact that it's originally a Jack Chick tract about how evil Muslims
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by spiralx 5y ago
I've got about 40 or so playlists on SoundCloud for individual techno DJs I like, as well as a couple for general techno mixes - they're all the ones with "techno" in the title :) You'll find a some overlap with the
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by spiralx 6y ago
I do maintain a couple of JSON schemas and they're a bit clunky due to the JSON syntax (although they're nicer in YAML which my validator can use) but the newer versions of the spec do allow you do specify complex enough rules to
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by spiralx 6y ago
> I actually think is the first application of blockchain I've seen posted here that makes some sense. Cut out title companies and no need for storing paper deeds in a courthouse somewhere. Why is it every application touted for blo
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by spiralx 6y ago
If you're not using the full XML ecosystem then yes, it can be overly verbose for just a simple document, especially if the person who defined the format went all in on "XML-ising" it - the worst and most common offender bein
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by spiralx 6y ago
You'd get the order(s) embedded with their invoice in GraphQL in a single request, applying the criteria to the invoices. Or you'd get orders matching the criteria with its invoice(s) inline. Doing two requests would be way more c
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by spiralx 6y ago
It seems it's not just limited to that area :) https://mcmansionhell.com/
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by spiralx 6y ago
I'm very similar which is why I read easier to digest fiction, for me books provide a coherent linear train of thought that works to soothe my naturally chaotic headspace, which is an addicting sensation to someone with ADHD. I struggl
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by spiralx 6y ago
I read over a book a day last year and they certainly weren't "useful" or "worthy" in the sense of what your quote is talking about. But for my ADHD the problem I have is not reading, because for me the linear tra
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by spiralx 6y ago
Calling a country's M2 money stock "market cap" is exactly the kind of category error I expect in the crypto space.
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by spiralx 6y ago
Currencies don't have market caps, assets have market caps. The fact that people talk about crypto's "market cap" is as clear an indication that it's not and never will be a currency.
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by spiralx 6y ago
The US has been trying to reduce the usage of the USD as a reserve currency (it's the largest such currency but not the only one - EUR, GBP and JPY are also used) due to it not having any real benefit to the US while exposing its econo
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by spiralx 6y ago
That's a lot of assumptions taken as an article of faith i.e. higher taxation = higher corruption and the ability to "avoid" private sector corruption as if you were perfectly aware of its existence and had non-corrupt altern
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by spiralx 6y ago
I understand that but they have estimations for known unknowns, this is claiming that the whereabouts of most banknotes are unknown unknowns. That's interesting because it very clearly shows how poorly trackable cash is.
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by spiralx 6y ago
Without being able to search by my unique identifier (i.e. my profile is facebook.com/IDENTIFER) because there are more than ten people with my name this tool is useless. Shame.
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by spiralx 6y ago
I was expected it to be like Wikifeet but for foreskins lol.
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by spiralx 6y ago
I remember reading the MySQL Gotchas page back in the 2000s and that leaping out as a particularly egregious issue. It fit in with their whole ethos of "databases don't need transactions and users don't need errors" arou
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by spiralx 6y ago
My userstyle sets 13pt in a bigger font with lots of line-spacing, looks like I'm in the over 200% crowd :) I can read smaller text for a bit in a single block, but when it's something like a comment section I need things a lot bi
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by spiralx 6y ago
No, I presume the coining press mentioned here accepts different sizes of blanks and reduction punches: https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/making-the-coins...
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by spiralx 6y ago
I've spent several hours happily playing those with my fiancee over the last few years, and probably still spent about as much as a single round in a pub in London.
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by spiralx 6y ago
The interesting part for me was this: > According to the NAO report, The Bank of England has estimated that 20-24% of UK notes in circulation are in use or being held for cash transactions, with a further 5% (£1-3.5bn) held by households

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