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by weavie 7y ago
I also know a number of people in the scene who lost their sanity through drug abuse. It is sad, but when you are partying and abusing yourself every weekend for years on end something is going to give.
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by weavie 7y ago
Early goa did have a lot of acid lines, although I dont think they strictly used 303s. I know Cosmosis used a Novation BassStation for all the lines on their Cosmology album. That album is full of acid (and thoroughly recommended, even 25 y
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by weavie 7y ago
I think he plays all over South Africa. We used to share a flat together.
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by weavie 7y ago
If you bump into Tersius on your travels, tell him he's awesome! ;-)
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by weavie 7y ago
Electronic Music is generally music that is made to dance to. A big part of what makes music good to dance to (especially when you are going to do it for hours at a time) is its predictability. If you know a beat is about to drop, and you c
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by weavie 7y ago
Yup.
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by weavie 7y ago
As you mentioned Etnica in another post, Etnica in Dub is also highly recommended : https://etnica.bandcamp.com/album/etnica-in-dub
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by weavie 7y ago
Wow. I'm old enough to remember when it was just goa trance. And then towards the end of the 90's the kicks became more pronounced and the melodies were dropped in favour of more psychedelic soundscapes. From that it seemed the ge
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by weavie 7y ago
File locks and virus checkers. Two things that I'm not missing since moving from Windows.
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by weavie 7y ago
Dialectical comes from greek philosophy where the proponents of two opposing views would have a conversational debate with reasoned arguments to try to find the truth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic
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by weavie 7y ago
Reminds me of when I worked in a big finance company in London. We had a talking rubber fish. It worked well until a particularly aggressive manager just grabbed the fish and threw it across the room and continued to shout at all his staff.
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by weavie 7y ago
Also body language can help. Put your hand up with your palm facing the interrupter to physically block the interruption..
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by weavie 7y ago
Presumably every email gets sent a unique pixel name.
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by weavie 7y ago
Proton mail blocks by default. Although there is of course nothing to prevent the email sender from putting some relevant or interesting content within an image which would then encourage me to load the remote data..
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by weavie 7y ago
I'm curious. What do you use it for?
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by weavie 7y ago
Be aware that On Lisp was written before ANSI common lisp was standardised so there are a few areas towards the end (if I recall, in the continuations chapter) that won't work as written.
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by weavie 7y ago
Same. It isnt as nice as Dropbox as there doesn't seem to be any linux support, so I use Grive running as a cron job. It does run on ZFS though. I never realised Dropbox didn't. I guess that puts to rest that ocasssional nagging t
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by weavie 7y ago
I think that's why I like it so much. There are lots of ways to do things. I don't think I am using any significant libraries that are JS wrappers. Halogen is written in pure Purescript. But the advantage of PS over Elm is that it
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by weavie 7y ago
Nice, I will have a read. I think you need to get rid of the margin-left and margin-right styles on '.article-content pre' for '@media screen and (min-width: 989px)'. It pushes the code off the bounds of the page on my s
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by weavie 7y ago
There is unsafePerformIO, but it's generally considered a really bad idea unless you really know what you are doing, and even then it is probably a bad idea. It is useful for debugging though and putting trace statements in.
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by weavie 7y ago
Elm is a language + a framework whereas Purescript is just a language. There are a number of different frameworks you can use with Purescript from copies of the Elm architecture to wrappers over React to Halogen which can be thought of as a
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by weavie 7y ago
> Small shameless plug, No point plugging if you don't provide a link for us! :-)
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by weavie 7y ago
True. Those are all good points. I do still feel the upsides more than make up for it, but yes I am glad I'm not responsible for developing any external tools for Haskell!
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by weavie 7y ago
Indeed. It's like a feature democracy where each library gets a vote on which features it finds most useful. Those that then get deeply embedded are clearly those that are most useful. Those features that aren't particularly used
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by weavie 7y ago
I think a big part of the success of Haskell is down to its language extensions. New features are introduced as off by default and can be opted into. This allows all kinds of crazy features to be introduced without really impacting users if
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by weavie 7y ago
Firefox 66.0.5 on Ubuntu checking in.
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by weavie 7y ago
But of course, if you are trying to find out if they can afford to clean up their rivers, GDP is probably a fairly good measure..
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by weavie 7y ago
Depending on what you are actually trying to find out, you may also need to look into how that wealth is distributed. GDP doesn't mean much for most if 99.9% of that wealth is just owned by .01% of the population. Cost of living is als
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by weavie 7y ago
Breathe, think, observe the world around you. Pretty much what humans have always been doing during the downtime until about 10 years ago.
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by weavie 7y ago
I would question your assertion that we all know there is a problem. I imagine the vast majority of people don't. They may be vaguely aware of climate change, but most people just think surely it can't be serious and it'll be

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