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by leviathant 7d ago
Oh wow! Sounds dangerous. Do more cyclists kill drivers, or do more drivers kill cyclists?
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by leviathant 7d ago
I say this as someone with tens of thousands in audio equipment, as someone who can hear the compression warble in the hihats and the cymbals - audio quality with earbuds doesn't actually matter. It's like the argument for audio q
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by leviathant 10d ago
The traffic from Meta was absolutely crippling my old (but still active) forum. I would try blocking the user agent and it would route around that, I blocked by IP range, and eventually put Cloudflare up. Meta is malware in every possible s
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by leviathant 23d ago
My first job was "stockboy" at Kmart in 1996, at 1996 American minimum wage, and part of the job involved cleaning toilets. And, honestly? If more people had to clean toilets in use by other people, maybe we wouldn't have so
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by leviathant 23d ago
It took a little while because I was struggling with the scale a little bit at first, but I found my house. I appreciate that you tore 95 and 676 out! Keep it up - consistent art direction usually beats hyper-realism, for me, and I apprecia
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by leviathant 1mo ago
Yeah, I just cranked one out for the Tempest. It took a lot of manual capture, but I'm not trying to make a business model out of it. https://www.bitrotten.com/tempest/editor/
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by leviathant 2mo ago
Flagging seems extreme, but this is a very low information post about audio adapters, with a smidge about amplification. I went in expecting some kind of arduino-to-electromagnet jiggery-pokery, but I suppose that just means set myself up
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by leviathant 2mo ago
There is an Ikea in south Philadelphia not far from the Old Swedes Church, but they do not do anything to promote the Swedish history there, however brief. The colors of the flag is Philadelphia pay homage to this Swedish heritage.
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by leviathant 3mo ago
And now automate and scale that with Claude/OpenAI/Gemini/whatever. It's insidious and terrible.
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by leviathant 3mo ago
What I do love is that when you're a mod, that post history isn't necessarily hidden.
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by leviathant 3mo ago
I cannot emphasize strongly enough just how deeply pervasive the spam is at Reddit. I'm a mod at the ecommerce subreddit, and I've only caught some of the AI-powered marketing operations because in one particular campaign that was
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by leviathant 4mo ago
What is better? My colonoscopy came with a dose of propofol that made me understand why Michael Jackson went out the way he did. Best sleep I've ever had.
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by leviathant 4mo ago
I did a colonoscopy at 38, because I saw something in the toilet that looked like the lingonberries at Ikea. Everyone was like "Man that seems early" but when I woke up, the doctor expressed some surprise when he told me they remo
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by leviathant 4mo ago
I'm paying $16/mo for Photoshop and Lightroom. I have to imagine that the majority of people who post to HN can afford $16/mo. I'm not a professional photographer, but it's an excellent hobby, and just the other wee
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by leviathant 5mo ago
I really enjoyed Photosynth. I remember coming across an account from a guy in Tehran, and there was something really moving about sitting in Pennsylvania and being able to explore his house ("Hang on, does that box say Barf?"), l
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by leviathant 5mo ago
I learned a long time ago that people who talk about IQ don't usually have anything intelligent to say.
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by leviathant 5mo ago
I still pay for Flickr Pro, for a couple of reasons: the API still works, and I basically use it as a DAM for my wife's website. She's a composer, and it's super handy to have her upload into a Flickr Album and pull back diff
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by leviathant 5mo ago
What I am hearing is that while you like to read, you do not feel like authors bring enough value to the table for you to actually reward them for their work.
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by leviathant 5mo ago
I was exposed to a lot of really interesting music from Trent's what.cd profile back in the day.
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by leviathant 5mo ago
NIN had a messy breakup with their original manager about 15 years into things. Once Trent Reznor emerged as more or less a free agent, he embraced radical approaches to distributing music and other media. The instrumental album "Ghost
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by leviathant 5mo ago
Please respond to what's linked, rather than make assumptions based on the headline.
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by leviathant 5mo ago
Yes! I regularly share a link to Mike's talk - I was about to post it myself before scanning the comments.
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by leviathant 5mo ago
I have no doubt that those numbers have been inflated by AI powered marketing tools, dead internet theory style.
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by leviathant 6mo ago
>People are only willing to pay for quality, mostly. lol, lmao even. In America at least, people pay for branding, and to give the impression that they're of a higher standing than they are - whether or not what they're buying
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by leviathant 6mo ago
>I am on the side of humanity here, but people don't pay for art. Man, maybe you don't hang out with enough artists. It's true, people typically don't make the equivalent of a tech salary for art, but people absolutel
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by leviathant 6mo ago
As someone in the process of building a niche museum about hyperlocal archaeology and history in my Philadelphia neighborhood, the timeliness of this post is excellent. Speaking of, The Amsterdam Pipe Museum is fantastic. On the surface, it
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by leviathant 6mo ago
Once or twice, I've clicked through on a link in an email that was convincing enough to fool me, and what saved me both times was that I run NoScript. It's so frustrating just standing by and watching as we descend into a low-trus
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by leviathant 7mo ago
>Flash was great. Is there anything Flash could produce that wouldn't render these days with SVG + CSS + JS? This has more or less been the line from the day Steve Jobs decided Flash would never be available on the iPhone. And it wa
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by leviathant 7mo ago
You're upsetting the kind of people who leave their shopping carts in the parking lot instead of putting them away when they're done.
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by leviathant 7mo ago
Nano Banana was the first generative image tool that seemed to understand architecture. I have some 18th century engravings that I've been trying to get AI tools to visualize as though they were photographs of real structures, and the

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