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  • aaaaargh I don't want get old 😭

  • Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean?
  • The question I'm asking is why these sounds evoke waves. I don't see the resemblance.

  • Winamp is going open source
  • Unless it can support the plugins already there (which I doubt... mono doesn't mean we can straight up run DLLs, right?), I'd have to hope it stumbles into an incredible ecosystem. Thanks for the find, I'll be looking out for it. We finally might have one people'd be content using. Now I'm wondering if/when I finally get enough motivation to start making a coverflow or a lyrics-scroll plugin, should I develop for Amarok or Fooyin?

    We also used to have Guarapirangua and DeaDBeeF. G ran out of steam, and D decided to fuck over Russian-language users cuz "they country war so they people bad!", angering many plugin developers besides making me morally uncontent with what future decisions they'd make.

  • Winamp is going open source
  • god i hate words

  • Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean?
  • "Oh, Susana" has 5-tone verses. Or, did you mean temperament (which I assume means the "distance" between the tones) when you said "move away".

  • Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean?
  • Interesting. I'm talking more about stuff like the (TV series's) ending theme and the "steel sting" though. Loop de loop doesn't particularly sound like it, though Ocean Man kinda does.

  • stupidestAdvertisingEver
  • I remember that time some guy pinged nearly 40k people and single-handedly delayed GitHub's email servers by about 4.18 hours

  • Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean?
  • yeah, just listen to the electric guitar in spongebob

  • Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean?
  • So you're saying that we associate the surf music sound with ocean because musicians decided to put surfing lyrics on that sound for whatever reason?

  • Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean?

    c.f. surf music and spongebob's sound cues

    Did our ancestors find God playing the electric guitar standing next to the ocean or something?

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    stupidestAdvertisingEver

    Like, do they not worry about people just editing everything and inserting porn or something? I doubt that they were smart enough to use branch protection. To be fair, when you're sending a mass spam campaign, you already don't worry about your reputation anyway lol

    (The attached images: part 1: @QuantEssential-io has invited you to collaborate on the QuantEssential-io/Quant-Interview-Prep-2024 repository part 2: GitHub 404 showing the entire organization has been banned)

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    you know what
  • đŸ€Ź

  • Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
  • Their point is that GSF also does a lot of privacy-invasive stuff

  • Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
  • I mean, stalking seems more common than using this for anti-theft

  • you know what
  • Is nobody going to talk about the file name, the first reason I posted this?

  • you know what
  • All the edit actually did is brighten the image. My guess is they used a sooty image editor.

    It's also the same file format.

  • Suggest unto me a new FOSS operating system
  • Sugar, from One Laptop Per Child. it has like an entirely different UI paradigm or something, haven't tried it

  • Zelda 64: Recompiled for PC - Majora's Mask Release Trailer
  • the post title is "Release Trailer"

  • Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation
  • To combat criticism, the White House has announced a new line of products, the TERRIfiERS, which are live, deaf terriers carrying AI-aimed rifles. President Ivanushka has delightfully boasted about its friendliness and reduced reliance on intricate moving parts, deceasing manufacturing water emissions by 41.8%.

    The TERRIfiERS will be released to civilian use for Big Hunting on April 18. It is expected that this move will increase competition among magazine manufacturers.

  • Zed editor: Linux when?
  • Especially when you have a bunch of extensions and a large-enough file, you want it to parse, highlight, and suggest fast.

  • Zed editor: Linux when?
  • The selling point is performance and speed... frames don't get rendered above your refresh rate.

  • How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money
    www.theguardian.com How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

    From baby clothes to popcorn makers, borrowing items rather than buying them is a growing trend

    How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

    The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.

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    US intelligence believes Putin probably didn't order Navalny to be killed, Wall Street Journal reports

    > > > Last month, Putin called Navalny's demise "sad" and said he had been ready to hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner exchange provided Navalny never return to Russia. Navalny's allies said such talks had been under way [...] Washington had not absolved the Russian leader of overall responsibility for Navalny's death however, given the opposition politician had been targeted by Russian authorities for years, jailed on charges the West said were politically motivated, and had been poisoned in 2020 with a nerve agent[, for which Russia also denies responsibility]. > >

    > > > Reuters could not independently verify the Journal report, which cited sources as saying the finding had been "broadly accepted within the intelligence community and shared by several agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the State Department’s intelligence unit." > >

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    YouTube’s proposed redesign is a good idea

    I’m talking about the one that swaps recommended videos and the description/comments. Who doesn’t want to glance at the description or pinned comment without having to scroll outside of the video? Limited width for reading, amirite? Plus this can create parity of recommendations with the front page, which should decrease maintenance and bugs, along with providing the ability to actually click on the channels.

    Note that I’m less supportive of extending this to theater mode.

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    The French Wikipedia uses the Thin Red Line flag in the legend for a map

    Context: the Thin Blue Line is symbolism for the role of police in maintaining public order. It has been co-opted by the alt-right. There is also a Thin Red Line to represent nurses. The French Wikipedia happened to use it in a legend to explain what the red lines on a map mean.

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    Researchers find lower grades given to students with surnames that come later in alphabetical order
    phys.org Researchers find lower grades given to students with surnames that come later in alphabetical order

    Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade.

    Researchers find lower grades given to students with surnames that come later in alphabetical order

    As graders go on grading, their comments become more frustrated and their good-will becomes much sloppier. At least that's the hypothesis to explain this. Researchers found the reverse effect on graders who sorted in reverse-alphabetical order.

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    RFK Jr. Swears He Wasn’t Thirsty for Fitness Influencer on TikTok
    gizmodo.com RFK Jr. Swears He Wasn’t Thirsty for Fitness Influencer on TikTok

    “Do people really think I was TikToking in 2022,” the candidate asked in a post on X.

    RFK Jr. Swears He Wasn’t Thirsty for Fitness Influencer on TikTok

    > > > The reply happened in Sept. 2022 on Tyler Idol’s account, which she now has pinned to her page, and was unearthed by some right-wing dork on X Wednesday. The reply is now deleted, but according to saved recordings, it simply stated “Wow” and was accompanied by two smiling faces with hearts emoji. As for how you can tell it was from RFK Jr.’s TikTok account, it’s pretty obvious as the avatar is of the anti-vaxxer, and clicking on it took you to the official TikTok page for his campaign. > >

    > > > “Do people really think I was TikToking in 2022,” his post says. “This comment now appears on my account because the account was previously owned by one of the campaign’s young social media managers.” > >

    I've always found it weird how Americans mandate putting punctuation inside quotes at all times.

    > > > It does appear that he has a point as the first video on his TikTok account was uploaded in May 2023, which was a month after he officially declared he was running for office. That was back when he was calling himself a Democrat, only to pivot to running as an independent candidate last October, and then to consider going for the libertarian ticket earlier this week. Mind you, former President Donald Trump’s camp did reach out at some point to discuss the anti-vaxxer as a VP pick. With such variable political leanings, maybe he should just run on the TikTok ticket. > >

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    First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says
    news.sky.com First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says

    An AI-run fighter jet went up against another controlled by a human pilot in a drill, the US has said. The aircraft flew at up to speeds of 1,200mph during combat that's often referred to as a dogfight.

    First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says

    The aircraft flew up to speeds of 1,200mph. DARPA did not reveal which aircraft won the dogfight.

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    Pretty critical PR for rust-msi is getting held up because the maintainer understands the intent but not why this works
    github.com Fix the problem with long strings by Landay7 · Pull Request #18 · mdsteele/rust-msi

    Hi! Thank you for your work, I tried to play with it and figured out that there is an issue with the long string. Basically, it doesn't read fully long string and after that, all strings are messed...

    Fix the problem with long strings by Landay7 · Pull Request #18 · mdsteele/rust-msi

    Not to throw shade, just wishing that somebody here can understand. Whenever an input is reasonably long, an analyzing function will crash, and this PR aims to fix that with a mechanism that contradicts the maintainer's understanding while a similar C implementation does not need this fix. Clearly, the maintainer has not heard a certain programming mantra...

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    Children’s Fucked-Up Little Drawings in Horror Movies, Ranked
    hard-drive.net Children’s Fucked-Up Little Drawings in Horror Movies, Ranked

    Half the fun of watching any horror movie is knowing The Rules. For instance: If a character gets in a car, it will not start.


    Children’s Fucked-Up Little Drawings in Horror Movies, Ranked

    > > > At the bottom of the list, we have this drawing from 1984 Christmas horror flick Silent Night, Deadly Night. Unless you are a very careful four year-old unacquainted with the concept of The Red Liquid That Nourishes, this is not a creepy drawing in the slightest, but perhaps even more importantly, it doesn’t look at all like a child made it. Notice the lack of course-correction on any of the lines, the expert shading and perspective on the deer’s legs, the even, perfect coloring. This doesn’t read like a frantic vision of violence from an eight year-old traumatized by a murderous mall Santa three years prior. This is something an edgy teen draws during the school Christmas party to let their peers know they are no longer under the spell of childhood. > >

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    Game studio owner suddenly lays everyone off and blames a Kotaku report that hasn't been published
    www.pcgamer.com Game studio owner suddenly lays everyone off and blames a Kotaku report that hasn't been published

    Possibility Space's founder claims that leaks to press—which haven't been made public—led to a conversation that closed the studio.

    Game studio owner suddenly lays everyone off and blames a Kotaku report that hasn't been published

    > > > In the memo, Possibility Space owner Jeff Strain, who previously co-founded ArenaNet and Undead Labs, tells the studio's staff that he was recently contacted by Kotaku reporter Ethan Gach with questions about the closure of Crop Circle Games, another studio he owned with wife Annie Delisi Strain under their company Prytania Media. > > > > Gach's questions included "non-public information" about Possibility Space's [unreleased] first game, Jeff Strain said in the e-mail, as well as confidential Prytania Media business information, including the identity of its publishing partner. Jeff was shocked, he said, to learn that the information had come from current employees. He claimed that after disclosing the leak to their publishing partner, the company "expressed low confidence they would be willing to invest the additional resources needed to complete the game." Jeff and the unnamed publishing partner then "mutually agreed to cancel" the project. > > > > The letter goes on to announce that Possibility Space is closing immediately, and concludes with the note that Jeff is "stepping away from the game industry" to focus on his family and care for his wife, who recently disclosed a serious medical diagnosis. > >

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    Aatube Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

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    I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others' words. Weird, isn't it?

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