bloke_zero

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by bloke_zero 2mo ago
Carbon steel is amazing - durable self repairing non-stick surface that after the inital seasoning is trivial to maintain: wash the pan with a brush when its still hot without any detergent - cleans in seconds. Cast iron is good too but tak
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by bloke_zero 2mo ago
No, it doesn’t have feelings - it would be like asking your washing machine to please wash your pants? Anthropomorphising LLMs seems deeply unhealthy.
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by bloke_zero 4mo ago
I wish I could upvote this 10 times! I love the film - blew my mind when I saw it on cable just after it came out.
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by bloke_zero 6mo ago
There was a lot of work done on the RE_303 and the Pixie CPU (303/606) - I don't know much about it but it might give you another more recent vector to explore: https://github.com/sunflowr/recpu?tab=readme-ov-
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'creepy' digital billboards that can track viewers' responses(theguardian.com)
9 points by bloke_zero 9mo ago|2 comments
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Big Tech are the new Soviets – We're in a planned economy now(unherd.com)
7 points by bloke_zero 10mo ago|2 comments
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by bloke_zero 2y ago
Try and talk to the other seniors? Last time I joined (fully remote) I asked all the other seniors for a 1 to 1 - not all replied but I learnt a huge amount about past projects, what people would have done differently and where the pain poi
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by bloke_zero 2y ago
When I was a kid I thought the future would obviously be more “Star trek” as it had such a compelling interior logic. Sad times. Makes me want to go back and review the Picard years.
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Why the Left needs to watch Star Trek(unherd.com)
5 points by bloke_zero 2y ago|5 comments
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by bloke_zero 3y ago
If you're transcribing written music then it's fairly straight forward - you program the pitches in one round, press a button and input the note length values. If however you want to jam around like you might with any other seqenc
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by bloke_zero 3y ago
“Never whistle while you’re pissing” - Robert Anton Wilson in Illuminatus trilogy.
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by bloke_zero 3y ago
I notice there isn’t a lot of the actual performance? Banjo and synthesiser is always a tough call.
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by bloke_zero 4y ago
Not easy at home in London. Our flat would not allow a cargo bike (1st floor) and there is no where outside to lock it safe and dry. 60,000 people on a 4 year waiting list for on street bike parking: https://www.standard.co.uk&#x
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Was Kurt Vonnegut a nice man?(unherd.com)
10 points by bloke_zero 4y ago|6 comments
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by bloke_zero 5y ago
Getting on the front page is hit and miss - this was interesting yesterday: https://bengtan.com/blog/open-secrets-hacker-news/ For what it's worth I didn't read the article and come away thinking well of
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Wes Anderson’s New Yorker Obsession(unherd.com)
2 points by bloke_zero 5y ago|0 comments
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by bloke_zero 5y ago
I take the point for sure, and escaping constraints can be valuable - but we must all be familiar with the 'great wo/man' syndrome where everything they say is right and doesn't need editing or even questioning...
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by bloke_zero 5y ago
What I don't get in these conversations is why no one mentions the role of the editorial team? Expecting even a great journalist to write consistently interesting and clear pieces on their own is like letting a musician record without
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by bloke_zero 5y ago
It seems weird to me that people would disregard the input of the artist and producer who will have painstakingly mixed the original - surely that is as much a part of the art form as the music in many cases? I'm thinking of records li
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by bloke_zero 5y ago
The thing is that wind and sheer volume of air tend to mitigate the pollution but in the home the air can stay static.
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Racial Categories Are Reactionary(unherd.com)
1 points by bloke_zero 6y ago|0 comments
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Why the best bands are dictatorships(unherd.com)
1 points by bloke_zero 6y ago|0 comments
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by bloke_zero 6y ago
This reminds me of Philip Larkin - Vers de Société where he opines that, now, "All virtue is social." He had no idea...
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by bloke_zero 7y ago
Ale is great - lints, checks, fixes - rules my world. A little complex to get going for multiple languages but when you do it's very powerful. BTW worth checking https://github.com/justinmk/vim-dirvish as a light
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The Deep Sea(neal.fun)
1 points by bloke_zero 7y ago|0 comments
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by bloke_zero 7y ago
In London minicabs and black cabs are very different. Black cabs can be hailed whereas minicabs have to be booked and are regulated differently.
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by bloke_zero 7y ago
I've been using the same set of parrot zik v1's for about 7 years. Cons: heavy, 6 hour battery life Pros: good sound, comfortable (for all day wear), over ear - so good for blocking out the extraneous noise, funky design I quite o
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by bloke_zero 7y ago
It reads like a spoof, like if Paul McCartney wrote a manifesto for why he should be considered the cutting edge of rock.
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by bloke_zero 7y ago
Mine was flickering on a Dell external monitor. It didn't happen so much if you had it as the main monitor (i.e. the one the tab-application switcher appeared on). Other wise it would constantly go into power saving mode and then come
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by bloke_zero 8y ago
I think the threat implied would be that if all of our beliefs are essentially meaningless then nihilism might appear to be the logical outcome. That is largely what I believe (about beliefs) - they are cute but meaningless.

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