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by _rpxpx 8mo ago
Would be really nice to be able to use this with an acoustic piano.
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by _rpxpx 9mo ago
Brilliantly put. Also, the very fact that there are millions of underfed people in the richest country in the world, is itself evidence of the economic failure of markets. As Richard Wolff put it: in a milk shortage, markets allocate milk
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by _rpxpx 9mo ago
OK, maybe. But how many programmers will know this in 10 years' time as use of LLMs is normalized? I like to hear what employers are saying already about recent graduates.
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by _rpxpx 9mo ago
Because kids famously hate drawing and using their imagination. How wonderful to have technology that can solve that ancient problem.
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by _rpxpx 9mo ago
Agree with all of that apart from "although cool". Why is it 'cool'? It's 'cool' only in the way Elon Musk and his retracting door handles are 'cool'.
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by _rpxpx 9mo ago
I can only say that, in my own experience, you can't. Traveling pre- and post-smartphone are two completely different realities. The thing tethering you to a gigantic global faceless 'community' has the cost of weakening or b
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by _rpxpx 9mo ago
I think the central message of that article is precisely that he is completing the adventure only because of community encouragement - but that that is the assistance of all the incredible people he met along the way, strangers on the groun
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by _rpxpx 9mo ago
There is nothing so wonderful that it cannot be ruined by turning it into a youtube channel... The really brilliant people I've met doing things like this always absolutely refused to mediafy their experience. Turning your adventure in
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by _rpxpx 9mo ago
Disingenuous is making a bald statement like that about a very long and involved debate in philosophy. Suggest you read around the subject a bit first before making such haughty comments... Could start here: https://plato.stanfor
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by _rpxpx 9mo ago
I think Israel would find it harder to kill children, yes. In my view a good thing.
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by _rpxpx 9mo ago
A very jovial discussion of systems that have killed millions of innocent people. Maybe you could do the same treatment of Nazi gas chambers or something for the next video?
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by _rpxpx 10mo ago
A portal to an Otherworld in which I feel harassed, agitated, anxious, and stupid.
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by _rpxpx 10mo ago
Also Maxima.
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by _rpxpx 11mo ago
OK, but a bit lame. Luddite Club is more radical: https://www.theludditeclub.org/
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Far Out Company(faroutcompany.com)
2 points by _rpxpx 11mo ago|0 comments
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Far Out Company – artists of 60s counterculture(faroutcompany.com)
2 points by _rpxpx 1y ago|0 comments
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
Good. Given Keir Starmer's abysmal behaviour, this is about the only chance there is of keeping a Tory/Reform coalition out at the next election. I would like to see voting age capped also, at 70. Increasingly senile and racist pe
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
Articles like this always start with such radical criticism, and end with such dismally modest proposals: "try not to look at your phone for 1 hour after you wake up", "before you pick up your phone, try counting to 100 first
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
Great work, and great to hear about Echoplayer. Sorely needed. I currently use a Cowon Plenue D2 and have an iPod Video running Rockbox. The iPod looks nice, but is flaky and outdated, and can't utilize 24-bit flacs. The Cowon is prett
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Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices [pdf](computingwithinlimits.org)
1 points by _rpxpx 1y ago|0 comments
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
https://www.theludditeclub.org/
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
Good short survey of an interesting and strange writer. I don't agree with the last paragraph however, and the sentence about "hyper-liberals" is embarassing.
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Curzio Malaparte, the Proust of violence(newstatesman.com)
1 points by _rpxpx 1y ago|1 comments
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
A truly great film, but always spoiled imho by the fans who won't stop quoting lines from it. The lines are funny because of the context, and delivery, chaps. As Wittenstein put it: raisins may be the best part of a cake, but a cake is
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
But those numbers aren't meaningful in a scenario in which that revenue were redistributed in social housing, public healthcare, and national insurance. I don't think the world needs, or can carry, any millionaires. Public affluen
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
A very good explanation of why millionaires should be taxed out of existence. What an utter waste. I can't believe people still parrot the line about markets being "efficienct".
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
Suicide rates are not a good metric of mental illness: they are a function of several things, most obviously opportunity and access to a means. E.g., in the UK, farmers have a disproportionately high rate of suicide because they have unusua
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
Uehreka, I'm sorry, but this is such utter tosh. This is the sort of rabid utopianism I remember hearing about the web in 1996. But then of course it was predictive - at least a bit excusable. Take a hard a look at the actual history o
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
"I've never been so conflicted"? Err, where's the sense of conflict? All I see is: "it sucks, it's helping kill the planet, but I need a job."
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
Laughing my ass off all the way to the apocalypse. It's now Earth vs. the machine, and I know what side I'm on, and who's ultimately going to win. One day, the technosphere will just be a thinly crushed layer in the geologica

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