adam_y
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- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 3 days ago:
Oh no, I get you. I think we are a similar age.
I was at the Reading Festival in '96 and I think offspring were playing.
There was a slightly older guy stood in the middle of the crowd shouting, you call this punk… This ain’t punk. This ain’t shit.
The kids were laughing at him.
This week in Glasgow Green Day played a gig and all I saw was middle aged men and their daughters wearing matching merch t-shirts.
I’m assuming at some point I travel back in time to '96 to try to stop this.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 3 days ago:
She may be a Puncke: for many of them, are neither Maid, Widow, nor Wife.
W. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1623)
Damn, you really old.
- Comment on So would he call this a win or a loss? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, no.
Newton was such a complex human. He seemed capable of holding many, sometimes opposing beliefs, at the same time.
Newton’s conception of the physical world provided a model of the natural world that would reinforce stability and harmony in the civic world. Newton saw a monotheistic God as the masterful creator whose existence could not be denied in the face of the grandeur of all creation.
There’s even a Wikipedia page dedicated to his religious beliefs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Isaac_Newton
If you are into learning about him there’s also a rather good read, The Janus Faces of Genius, by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, that looks into his occult work.
Furthermore, for the sake of complexity, we can look into how, when he was the warden of the mint, he became responsible for the deaths of 19 people. He turned a largely ceremonial role into a task force, chasing down forgers and sentencing them to death.
- Comment on Shoppers Drug Mart Recruiting Volunteers to Staff Stores 1 month ago:
Here’s a thing. Yes. What you say is true… But when you have legitimate paying jobs that demand recent experience in retail, then this sort of thing becomes attractive to people that just want a fucking job.
Don’t blame people for doing this, blame the system for making them feel like they have to.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says 1 month ago:
It’s a musktash.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 1 month ago:
Absolutely loving the replies to this.
This is how the extended Linux community wins for me.
Sure we talk shit for fun. The Arch BTW stuff, the Gentoo shade and Slackware side-eye. But its all in jest, ultimately.
Well done.
- Comment on Eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed this 1 month ago:
Just like Marvin, my mind is blown.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 1 month ago:
“There are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user’s VPN runs on Linux or Android.”
So there are ways.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
I see you getting downvoted for a correct answer.
IP addresses are like street addresses. I can live at 10 High Street in London, you can live at 10 High Street in Ohio. Those are not the same address right? Folk confusing public and private ip addresses.
- Comment on Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me. 1 month ago:
Seconded. I keep trying others. I tried feedly for a while. I also tried readyou (which I still keep on my phone)… But nothing comes as close to inoreader for doing what I want.
Also, I’ve learnt how to aggregate other feeds into a single feed to pass them into it to get around the 150 limit. Not ideal, but I’m cheap.
- Comment on Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID 1 month ago:
Clown steps out of clown car, into the clown country he designed, gets back in clown car.
- Comment on Fact checked 1 month ago:
We will return the bicycle when you hand over the fekkin potatoes.
- Comment on Bark Air, a new luxury airline for dogs, launching flights in May 1 month ago:
Superb work.
- Comment on Bark Air, a new luxury airline for dogs, launching flights in May 1 month ago:
Just takes one owner with an aggressive dog and we have canine terror at 1000 feet.
Actually sounds like a fun ride.
- Comment on YouTube could roll out ads while videos are paused after “strong traction” in experiment 2 months ago:
I mean if it was instead of ads that inyerupt the actual video I’m all for it.
I suspect it will be as well as the other ads.
Read somewhere today that all these disruptive technologies basically undercut the conventional competition and then slowly become them.
We are full circle back to cable now. A hundred different platforms all trying to gouge you for every penny you can spare.
Next up google gets good traction tattooing brand names on the inside of your eyelids. Or advertising to you whilst you sleep, or go to the toilet.
Still, infinitely prefer that to paying a subscription to a service and still having to endure adverts.
- Comment on What if the only reason countries, like the U.S., agree to arm other countries when they are in conflict, is because international billionaires have placed bets on which countries will win. 2 months ago:
Yeah. We call it the stock market.
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 2 months ago:
I say that, but i, in no way, wnt that to happen.
But yeah, Boston Dynamic have long said that they don’t want their robots weaponised, but here we are seing it happen.
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 2 months ago:
West bank.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
If you’ve got wood, you’ve got something to drink.
- Comment on Sulfur Better than Hydrogen for Energy Storage, Engineers Find 2 months ago:
Why does this image look like a shovleware Gameboy Advance game from back in the day?
- Comment on 'Slaughtered': UK farmers protest post-Brexit rules and trade deals 2 months ago:
Maybe they should swap out sheep for face eating leopards.
- Comment on "Starfield's lead quest designer had 'absolutely no time' and had to hit the 'panic button' so the game would have a satisfying final quest" 3 months ago:
I don’t want a long time. I want a good time.
That’s why radiant quests are rubbish and crafted storylines are the thing.
- Comment on "Starfield's lead quest designer had 'absolutely no time' and had to hit the 'panic button' so the game would have a satisfying final quest" 3 months ago:
No, seriously, you were bang on. That would have been brilliant. Meaningful choice and agency would have made that game great.
You did good. I just wish Bethesda employed you. Even on a casual basis.
- Comment on "Starfield's lead quest designer had 'absolutely no time' and had to hit the 'panic button' so the game would have a satisfying final quest" 3 months ago:
Stop demanding replay ability and meaningful choice. You are ruining modern gaming!
Enjoy your radiant quests and feel satisfied fetching stuff and killing stuff endlessly.
… Seriously, there was a thing that bothered me about playing Space Invaders in the arcades and it was the fact that no matter how good you got the ending was always either your inevitable death or the fact that you just stopped playing.
This game felt so familiar.
- Comment on "Starfield's lead quest designer had 'absolutely no time' and had to hit the 'panic button' so the game would have a satisfying final quest" 3 months ago:
That’s, oddly, a common feature of modern production. Narrative still plays second fiddle to mechanics.
Which, in this case is doubly weird since the mechanics have existed since the age of Skyrim.
- Comment on Breathtaking colorized video from 1896 of around the world 3 months ago:
Yeah, that’s not how primary evidence works.
- Comment on An invitation to agree 3 months ago:
Yeah, I meant in the way in which you posited agreement, contract and conflict resolution rather than the deity stuff. I should have made that more clear.
Any, sounds like a fun project. Good luck with it.
- Comment on Breathtaking colorized video from 1896 of around the world 3 months ago:
Yeah. I think that’s fair. Although I’m interested to know why they chose 60fps rather than 24. It seems like a flex as opposed to a genuine desire to show fluid movement.
I suspect that, in a very pure way, the study of the colourisation could be an interesting academic pursuit that would reveal more about what we are looking at. Though that would require a ton of work and would still require a fair amount of presumption to be “complete”.
But there’s the rub. “Modern audiences”. Rather than pander to an expectation that things have to look a particular way now surely we should encourage people to see how it was recorded then?
The very fact there is film documentation of a scene in 1896 is interesting in its own right, and for want of a better phrase, it is what it is. This is what footage from over a hundred years ago looks like. I guess I’m not that comfortable with a revisionist history of media.
- Comment on Breathtaking colorized video from 1896 of around the world 3 months ago:
Not sure what that’s got to do with this… I mean you are right, there’s a lot of editing going on with smartphone images, but procedural and untentional. The current scandal over the princess of Wale’s clearly photoshopped family portrait is indicative.
But just because one technology messes with things doesn’t provide an excuse for that to happen across the board.
And I’m not being romantic, I’m talking about the veracity of primary historic documentation vs the need for someone to see something in colour at 60fps.
- Comment on An invitation to agree 3 months ago:
It’s a lovely idea. Fundamentally sound. Feels very Quaker in outlook. That’s not a criticism.
I’m not sure it is hardened against bad actors though. I’m sure you’ve thought of this. Ultimately it needs centralised adjudication. Who is to say if someone did or did not break an agreement, or whether that breakage was deliberate or accidental and whether being shut out for breaking said agreement has implications of a social and financial nature?
Mob rule, designation of “outsiders” and sin eaters feature in almost every social construct at some stage in development. I’m not sure you can avoid that through good intentions.
Perhaps that sort of thing needs to develop naturally, or organically.