Ricardus

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by Ricardus 8y ago
I've actually wanted to do a documentary on dollar stores, and their proliferation as wages became more stagnant or fell. This idea came to me maybe 8 or 10 years ago. The punch line of the film (although different than this article) w
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by Ricardus 8y ago
I still don't understand why G+ never caught on. For me FB is wayyyy too busy with panes and club, and groups, and businesses, and news, and election interference, and the bird site at 140, and now at 280 was just not enough. I always
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by Ricardus 8y ago
Watch the Anvil doc for a sorta-of real-life Spinal Tap type story.
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by Ricardus 8y ago
The Cove was a tough watch, but necessary.
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by Ricardus 8y ago
Jesus Camp is another one if you want to be frightened by cultists and religion.
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by Ricardus 8y ago
Grizzly Man was a tough watch for me. Treadwell clearly had massive self-esteem and likely mental health issues, which were on display in this film.
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by Ricardus 8y ago
Wow. I'm a bog Doc fan. I'll list a few of my favs: Touch the Sound. For me this was life changing. The story of a deaf percussionist. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424509/ Man on Wire. Also life changin
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by Ricardus 8y ago
There are jobs where I would absolutely never disclose being on the spectrum. Typical corporate 9-5 stuff. But my current gig is as a technical director at an art museum, and my aspie super power is technical stuff (as it relates to this) l
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by Ricardus 8y ago
This is fascinating to me. What a nice hack. I always enjoy it when people find clever ways to undermine existing systems. I'll be installing this font shortly!
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by Ricardus 8y ago
I'm certain a lot of my memories are fake. My dad was a big slideshow guy when I was very little. He used to take a lot of photos and never made prints, he always got slides, so he could put on the slideshow and spin yarns. Any number
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by Ricardus 8y ago
If you like stuff like this, follow curiousmarc on youtube. He volunteers there and helps with restorations, and does all kinds of cool restorations at home, too.
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by Ricardus 8y ago
This is not just about tough working conditions. It's about the way management treats employees, and encourages employees to crap on other employees for small gains. Google "I was a distribution warehouse wage slave" and read
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by Ricardus 8y ago
I live a few miles from a Walmart distribution warehouse, and had a good friend who worked there. It really started to affect his health. The working conditions are horrible, and the culture promoted is toxic and demeaning. The money was a
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by Ricardus 8y ago
I use and love linux, and have read many things about Linus being abusive and what not. I am on the spectrum and wasn't diagnosed til my 40s. Looking back on my earlier adult years, I was described as abrasive, obnoxious, and many othe
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by Ricardus 8y ago
Wow. Seems like weather would have wreaked havoc with that, but I guess it worked. This would have been a hacker's paradise. Easy access to the phone system that Captain Crunch and Evan Doorbell would have salivated over!
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This 19th Century Tower in Stockholm Connected 5500 Phones(themindcircle.com)
3 points by Ricardus 8y ago|1 comments
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by Ricardus 8y ago
I never fit into "normal" learning styles at all levels of school. I either grasped the subject intuitively and didn't need to be taught, or I didn't get it at all, and had to teach myself. I never quite understood this,
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by Ricardus 8y ago
People certainly seem to be unhappy on incredibly large scales these days. I read an interesting piece in what I think was the Atlantic 6-ish months ago, and it basically boiled down to: We're not broken, our culture is. I wish I could
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by Ricardus 8y ago
I've been following curiousmarc's channel for a couple years. I love his videos. This teletype restoration is amazing. The most recent video on his channel is of him and the guys going to a place that sells replacement parts... fo
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by Ricardus 8y ago
If my friend wanted to start producing content again, I'd do it in a second. Getting together for a few hours a week to create a ~45 minute podcast was tons of fun, and the conversation was very therapeutic. I enjoyed the conversation.
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by Ricardus 8y ago
I don't find this surprising. When I started podcasting in 2005, even doing a weekly 'cast with my friend and co-host was a lot of work. We also had day jobs. But the pressure to create content was still there. These full time you
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by Ricardus 8y ago
Well DUH. Two words: TOP GUN.
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by Ricardus 8y ago
It was definitely fun to go to the computer lab in high school and play with/program the Commodore PETs. These were the 4K models with the chicklet keyboard. I will say this though. I disagree with one word in the author's text. H
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NASA Releases 19,000 Hours of Forgotten Apollo 11 Audio(sciencealert.com)
3 points by Ricardus 8y ago|0 comments
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by Ricardus 8y ago
The farther the microphone gets from your ears the harder the problem gets to solve. It's an interesting idea, but I suspect this won't see prime time in any meaningful way.
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by Ricardus 8y ago
The MUTE solution sounds interesting, and is certainly worth some research, but I see it having some problems. One obvious one is that the receiver might stay in that guy's window, and you might be in the apartment, say 15 feet away, s