DoctorNick

>everything abnormal is celebrated as cultural progress

That is a very curious statement.

"anymore"? It's ALWAYS been propaganda. The term "public relations" was coined by Edward Bernays because "propaganda" had taken on a negative term, and he readily admitted this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dtg-qFPYDE

You’re very uneducated if you believe that the Cultural Revolution led to anything remotely close to half the population dying.

This is patently absurd. That China would have a "willingness to kill half it's population" is something that only the heavily propagandized would believe.

Referring to his wife as a tool… I have to wonder if that marriage lasted

> Crashes are definitely a problem. Knowing the chip they use and the complexity under the hood. The fact is though, all instruments suffer from issues like this. You will not find a single piece of gear on the market that doesn't have bugs. Crash issues are rare in our gear only because they are more simple by comparison. When I was writing the Tempest OS I had tons of crash bugs I had to work through because it was ambitious and quite complex, nearly all of which got fixed as the OS matured. Same with the OP-1 I'd imagine.

It’s been on the market for TEN YEARS. They have had plenty of time to defuckulate the software.

Methamphetamines.

depicting problems with capitalism This is communism, actually

Someone ported an emulator to the teensy: https://github.com/dcoredump/MicroDexed

Are you working on an FPGA re-implementation? Basically everything with a DX7 chip in it is insanely priced (especially the PLG cards for the Yamaha MU-series, those are >$400), so this would be awesome to have.

It's a simple reason for why practical effects were abandoned for CGI: film crews are unionized, 3d animators are not.

I thought that said "28 foot context menu" and I was like, yeah, that sounds like Emacs.

Wow, if you made a mistake like that, who knows what other kinds of mistakes you made?

Well, crap. How do you tell which ceramics use lead-based paint/glaze and which don't?

"Yeah, that's our racket!"

"It's the only way to keep those "people" off the streets." – San Francisco resident, 2024 ("Past Tense, Part I")

Only 3 years away from Sanctuary Districts: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sanctuary_District

This is misleading. Police funding was never actually reduced. The proposed funding shift, as paltry as it was (only 120 million), never actually happened: https://www.sfweekly.com/news/is-san-francisco-re-funding-th...

>I think your argument is begging the question as it depends on a prior belief that Facebook is actually harmful.

Considering that genocide has been organized on it? Yes. It's absolutely harmful.

Considering that his actions were a key part of Uber's rush to market for self-driving, and that resulted in the autonomous execution of a pedestrian, I'd say that it was unethical.

Surely, you can't be this credulous

"To compile PC-DOS from scratch, first you must invent the universe." - Carl Sagan

Reading Bad Blood, it's pretty obvious that there was some form of abuse going on in that relationship. That doesn't mean that she isn't guilty as hell, though.

You're wasting your breath. Given the hamfistedness of their approach and swiftness with which this was pushed through, this was an order from the top. Which means that they're likely going to start monetizing user data directly and they're aiming to shut down third-party collectors.

To me, this is a good indicator that they're going to start (or are already in the process of) monetizing user data directly and they are shutting down avenues for third parties to hoover up that data.

I mean, they're just following the same pattern that every other social media company has with their API: make it very open to help capture user share, then gradually scale it back to shut down abuse and facilitate monetization.

Hiding behind women and children, you say? MONSTERS!! http://www.angryflower.com/hiding.html

BTW, the author is an utter creep: https://slate.com/business/2018/04/economist-robin-hanson-mi...

This is complete and utter nonsense. In a time of incredible, increasing inequality, the problem is that there's TOO MUCH social mobility? Give me a fucking break.

great, now replace landlords.