🔗 Quick links thread
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The Vicar on how music streaming services should work to make both the artists and fans happy. More questions than answers, but an informative piece nonetheless.
I'd be willing to pay 5 euros (not 10) for an album I like, after I've already had it in my collection and determined I enjoy it. I don't care about merch, live venues, books, memorabilia, etc. 5 euros for the album. That's it.
Unfortunately, no such option is technically possible right now, nor likely to be offered if it was. The best compromise I came up with is to pirate the music, then come back and retroactively buy it, if the band supports some kind of pay-what-you-want model.
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##What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Hear a Reconstruction That is ‘100% Accurate’
Reminds me of those Japanese strumming melodies. "Yay, culture, interesting", while on the inside bored beyond belief, praying to God the damn thing would just end.
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Unfortunately, no such option is technically possible right now, nor likely to be offered if it was.
It happens, but mostly as one-offs or from indie labels. Radiohead had a (successful) pay-what-you-want scheme for their album, so you could grab it for free, give it a few listens, and then pay for it once you've deemed it worthy. A lot of small bands will put their entire catalogue on Bandcamp or something like that, but still let you buy a physical CD or a high-quality download.
5 euro is really on the low side, though, especially if it's released under a major label. Those things suck money out of artists dry.
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5 euro is really on the low side, though, especially if it's released under a major label. Those things suck money out of artists dry.
Indie video games make it work. Is recording an album really more work than making a video game? I don't think so.
5 euros is the magic price for me to go legit. Come on, artists. Make it happen!
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##Beer pairings for your Girl Scout cookies
My local news is the best.
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Turns out a Fourier series is a tentacle.
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##Super Mail Forward : an email that evolves as you forward it
Guy crafts an email that mutates as you forward it along through a specific series of email providers. Very clever frontend hacks at display here.
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*remembers when e-mails used to just be text, maybe with a couple of pictures…*
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This reminds me of:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/even-more-discomd5-nonsense/54353
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Archive.org's Malware Museum, running DOSBox on your browser.
Once again proving browsers are a great vector for malware distribution. =Ρ
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Ooh, takes you back. I remember having a DOS antivirus once (mks_vir if I remember correctly) which had a virus encyclopedia, complete with small demos of how the virus worked.
Falling Letters was amusing, especially since it took the page you were on for the demo.
There's also a pretty fun YouTube channel if you don't want to fiddle with the viruses yourself, or want to hear a bit of explanation .
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###Was George W. Bush really such a bad president? (Link to answer on reddit)
Guy on reddit posts an exhaustive analysis of why G.W. Bush was one of the worst US presidents of all time.
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###Would the last person in Sydney please turn the lights out?
Guy rails against Sydney's nany state government and the way they destroyed the city's night life using over-regulation as a cludge.
...[I] looked up what would be required to organise getting some mates down the beach on a sunny day on some lilos. According to the application form, you would need an Aquatic Activity Operational Plan detailing safety procedures, rescue craft, qualified personnel in attendance, communications procedures, a risk register and a risk management plan acceptable to Roads and Maritime, evidence of community and stakeholder consultation appropriate to the type, scale and location of the aquatic activity (this will be assessed by Roads and Maritime), written authorisation from other unspecified but relevant agencies or consent authorities (including, but not limited to local councils, Marine Parks Authority), written authorisation from the occupier or trustee of any foreshore land intended to be used in connection with the proposed activity, and by the way, after you have done all this, please submit your application to us at least six weeks in advance.
Apparently, there's an evangelical bent to their motives. Didn't know that.
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The Malware Museum : Free Software : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
The Malware Museum is a collection of malware programs, usually viruses, that were distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers. Once they infected a system, they would sometimes show animation or messages that you had been infected. Through the use of emulations, and additionally removing any destructive routines within the viruses, this collection allows you to experience virus infection of decades ago with safety.
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###What happened to Marco Rubio in the latest GOP debate?
Guy on reddit deconstructs a moment from one of the GOP debates. This Rubio dude came off like a wound up automaton during that confrontation. Amazing.
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Just shows that great minds think alike . I followed the link from the news article and thought of this place. Could have been worse, I could have started a new topic. Although I must admit it is a bit of a with it being
Literally four posts above yours.
But, in my (pathetic) defense, it was out of scope and my experience of and thus incentive to was a
So, a belated @zecc
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## JavaScript Developers: The New Kings of Software
- Oh yeah! Talk dirty to me, baby!
- CARTMAN WHY AREN'T I HEARING PHP CODE BEING TYPED!?
- sigh... Right on it, boss.
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Average new packages per day (measured Jan 7 – Jan 13, 2016)
npm (JavaScript) 434
GoDoc (Go) 142Why are they comparing a package manager to a documentation tool?
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Because go's actual package manager is an embarrasing disaster?
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Glad you agree that
Atwood was right
about something then.
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I prefer to think of it that it happened basically by accident.
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Why are they comparing a package manager to a documentation tool?
Why do they consider 434 new packages a day as desirable? Goddamned, the quality must be utter shit on those. Or at least 433 of them.
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How do you even NAME 434 libraries a day? Without like 60,000 name-collisions a year? WTF. Do you have packages named, like, "rest-api-3267-goku"
I'm really obsessed over that. 434 libraries a day.
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How do you even NAME 434 libraries a day?
the vast majority of them are likely updates to already existing libraries.
yes it's a bit stupid to include them in the numbers as "new packages" but companies do love to have the biggest numbers out there.
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the vast majority of them are likely updates to already existing libraries.
Oh. Well that definitely lowers the stat below the "lies" and "damn lies" levels.
Still a lot of shitty code, though. Like, seriously, I don't think the entire .net framework has that 434 different libraries, and it does damned near 100% of what you need any program to ever do.
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the vast majority of them are likely updates to already existing libraries.
So what you're saying is that I wrote over six hundred Dwarf Fortress AIs?
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Oh. Well that definitely lowers the stat below the "lies" and "damn lies" levels.
like NUGET or indeed ANY OTHER PAGAGE MANAGER does any differently?
So what you're saying is that I wrote over six hundred Dwarf Fortress AIs?
did you publish each and every commit to a package manager?if so then by the logic package managers use to count packages (because bigger numbers are better (no they aren't)) yes, yes i am.
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So what you're saying is that I wrote over six hundred Dwarf Fortress AIs?
I know you're making a joke about the statistics gathering, but I actually 100% believe that you could have created 600 DF AIs.
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I actually 100% believe that you could have created 600 DF AIs.
I'm not entirely unconvinced that @ben_lubar isn't a gestalt entity formed of 600 Dwarf Fortress AI's.
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Frinkiac has nearly 3 million Simpsons screencaps so get to searching for crying out glayvin!
a search engine for simpson's scenes
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Fox will shut it down in 3... 2... 1...
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This is just for blakey:
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That's an article from 2010???
Liked this shtick though:
S: I don't know any ex-yakuza running orphanages.
K: There was one a few years ago. A good guy.
M: You sure it wasn't just a tax shelter?
K: Sure it was a tax shelter but he ran it like a legitimate thing. You know.
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JavaScript Developers: The New Kings of Software
I guess Atwood was right.
Not even reading further. That invalidates anything the rest of this post could possibly say. Hell, that guy could say the Earth is round and it would instantly flatten itself, that's how wrong this guy is.
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We have the same brain we had 100,000 years
ago. But we’re now in a really different environment and these circuits
of rage and protection get set off inappropriately by situations in the
modern world that didn’t exist when our brains were formed. Why are you
suddenly enraged when someone cuts in front of you? It makes no sense.
It will only make a couple of seconds difference in your journey. The
circuit that’s been tripped misinterpreted the situation. Road rage hits
all of the LIFEMORTS triggers. It perceives the space around your car
as though it was your territory, which trips that “E” trigger to defend
your territory or environment. Someone violating the rules also hits the
“O” trigger, for Organization. Humans become angry when someone
violates the rules.
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Using nanostructured glass, scientists from the University’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have developed the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional (5D) digital data by femtosecond laser writing.
The storage allows unprecedented properties including 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1,000°C and virtually unlimited lifetime at room temperature (13.8 billion years at 190°C ) opening a new era of eternal data archiving.
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The documents were recorded using ultrafast laser, producing extremely short and intense pulses of light. The file is written in three layers of nanostructured dots separated by five micrometres (one millionth of a metre).
The self-assembled nanostructures change the way light travels through glass, modifying polarisation of light that can then be read by combination of optical microscope and a polariser, similar to that found in Polaroid sunglasses.
They didn't mention this as an extra feature, but I I think they look beautiful:
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at room temperature (13.8 billion years at 190°C )
Wait, I think there's something wrong with their air conditioner.
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The data retention time is dependent on the temperature the device is stored at. If you want to test how long a device will hold its memory, it's more feasible to test it at a higher temperature. For example, if you want to make sure that a flash chip will retain data for 10 years at room temperature, you test it for two or three days at 150 °C.
I'm assuming these people tested their device at 190 °C for a while, then extrapolated that the data would last for 13.8 billion years at that temperature. If you extrapolate that back to 25 °C, "virtually unlimited lifetime at room temperature" is not an unreasonable claim.
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Technically, a mole is a dimensionless unit...
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@Zecc said:
five dimensional (5D) digital data
I'm not really sure how much sense that makes.
Length, width, depth, size and orientation. 1
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Length, width, depth, size and orientation. 1
Uh... orientation, fine, but size? Isn't that what length, width and depth are?
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Just repeating what I read. Doesn't mean I understand it!
...but I'll try anyway. These structures (voxels) can be in different XYZ locations, that's three dimensions. Two voxels can be in the same XYZ location but have different orientation (or polarity), that's another one. If you can have two voxels in the same XYZ location with the same orientation but with different sizes, then you could call size a dimension.
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Oh, I understood "length" as "size from end to end", not "position on one of the axes".
Technically it makes some sense, but I'm willing to bet $20 some friendly marketing department suggested them calling it "5D".
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Pfft. That doesn't look like 360 terabytes worth of image. I mean if you had that logo in vector format, you could make it maybe 250k max.
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Yes, and the cover of a DVD isn't worth a DVD's capacity either. So what?