RichardCA

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by RichardCA 3mo ago
I'll just add... Being able to eat pork without cooking it to death for fear of trichinosis is a recent development. Also, the old movies where someone tries to commit suicide by sticking their head in an oven. That was coal gas and we
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by RichardCA 4mo ago
Here's a fun one, Benson and Hedges commissioned some classic 80's CGI, it got played at one of the art-house animation festivals that was a thing for nerds to do in the 80's. Looks like it was Robert Abel who did it. But wha
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by RichardCA 7mo ago
A lot to unpack here. He espoused a worldview where human beings are "star stuff", a way for the Universe to be self-aware. And this worldview does not exclude spiritual thinking, it just channels it in a specific direction. Yes,
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by RichardCA 7mo ago
Sagan made solid contributions to Planetary Science in the 60's and 70's. His role as PBS educator, SF author, etc. needs to be considered as a separate thing. I also loved James Burke and his Connections series, but as it got int
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by RichardCA 8mo ago
> Sorry pal, you're alone on that hill. No, he's absolutely not.
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by RichardCA 8mo ago
It's done that way because of pre-visualization or Previs, which has been the norm for over a decade now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxTNhNe6Fbc
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by RichardCA 8mo ago
I used to work in my mom and dad's print shop when I was a kid. 6 picas in an inch, 12 points in a pica, and by the time you go home your hands smell like hypo. That should give you an idea of how old I am. For a kid I was passably goo
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by RichardCA 8mo ago
Emacs user. And the fonts I use have to work with anti-aliasing turned off. Right now I'm using a Dell/Alienware AW3225DM and it's perfect for my needs (work + occasional gaming, and most of my gaming is retro). Best Buy was
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by RichardCA 10mo ago
It's debatable whether it was first recorded in '63 or '64. The genesis of Guaraldi's involvement was a 1963 documentary "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" which has nothing to do with the 1969 animated feature. This
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by RichardCA 10mo ago
https://youtu.be/fs9Wyuub3jY Once you develop an awareness of how SF screenplay writers do this, you can't unsee it. Babylon 5 was particularly egregious, I was never a fan but I was puzzled that JMS had to do rely on
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by RichardCA 10mo ago
If you go back and watch the first two seasons of HBO's Westworld, you will see Anthony Hopkins' character repeatedly doing exposition dumps out of his mouth. The difference is in how he does it, that he is in such complete comman
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by RichardCA 11mo ago
More likely to get hit with a Zero Tolerance punishment for a single isolated incident, which derails your entire trajectory through the school system. https://www.reddit.com/r/lansing/comments/1no5rtl/la
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by RichardCA 1y ago
If you don't like the word Genocide you can call it Demographic Engineering, but the fact that it is happening is beyond debate. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15npnzpd08o
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by RichardCA 1y ago
I've always felt like tech workers view themselves as a modern-day petite-bourgeoisie, and this is why the industry has been so successful at keeping out the unions. As an aside, I had friends who had to declare bankruptcy during DotCo
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by RichardCA 1y ago
If you're talking about the ones who drove supply trucks during the war years, the hardest working men were women. https://vietnamnews.vn/sunday/features/947180/female-drivers...
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by RichardCA 1y ago
Ironically, I would far prefer the Douglas Adams idea of "Genuine People Personalities" over the current status quo. If the self checkout scanner at the supermarket started bickering with me for entering the wrong produce code, th
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by RichardCA 1y ago
Begging the Question. Step 1: Assume your claim is already true, e.g. "Microsoft is a still good corporate actor in spite of doing X". Step 2: Manufacture circular logic to support your claim from Step 1. In other words, the poste
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by RichardCA 1y ago
Thanks but no, everyone who came up in that era knew about K&P (K&R was the C book). The main publishers back then were O'Reilly, SAMS, QUE and a few others. I think it was a SAMS book but I'm not sure. A more likely candi
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by RichardCA 1y ago
OK I have a question. I've been trying to track down a Unix book that was similar from that time period, covering command-line tools and shell programming. It had some funny cartoons in between the text. One particular cartoon featured
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by RichardCA 1y ago
It's turned into a generic term that usually means the ability to remove all corporate branding from the UI. A lot of it is in the ability to apply themes. For example the Icon style for Android 6 (Marshmallow) is now considered retro.
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by RichardCA 1y ago
I went through the same process as a former Pixel 5 user. Ended up with Galaxy S25 which weighs around 165g. I pretty much hate Samsung for the One UI interface taking away the stock Android experience. If I could turn it all off I'd d
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by RichardCA 1y ago
Monty Python did a skit about it, along with a Terry Gilliam animated bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlN4Sh06po
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by RichardCA 1y ago
It's very close to Apollo 11 but the match is not precise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUQgBPjGmAQ#t=35 AFIAK no one has ever done an exhaustive analysis of the provenance of all that stock footage. This is an exam
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by RichardCA 1y ago
NY Times did a similar piece in 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8bMLcCxxAA I'm not into Hip-Hop as a cultural thing but I love the way Mona aka "Sad Girl" does her linguistic code-switching, there&#x27
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by RichardCA 1y ago
The recent PBS Frontline on the Jack Teixeira / Discord leaks provides an excellent primer on how classified systems work these days. https://youtu.be/AkgkBEuEHwU
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by RichardCA 2y ago
I agree, but it represents a cavalier attitude, because the worst-case is you get fired. If you know some other company will take you in, or you have "fuck you money", that's great, but it represents a culture of privilege th
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by RichardCA 2y ago
Tears of sorrow running deep Running silent in my sleep -- Joan Baez https://youtu.be/6B2pfSelIKo
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by RichardCA 2y ago
The concept of a mission / vision statement is an artifact of 1980's "Management Consulting" culture in the US, which had ties to the various "Human Potential" groups like est, Landmark Forum, etc. Other things
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by RichardCA 2y ago
With all due respect, I think you are falling into the nostalgia trap. MacWrite was never a true WYSIWYG editor because of the way it relied on Quickdraw for the on-screen rendering but the big deal at the time was the Laserwriter being the
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by RichardCA 2y ago
That historic moment has been dramatized at least once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u70CgBr-OI

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