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dirtyhippiefree··on The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (2019)
Alembic Inc. still exists .

Google Maps indicates it moved from Santa Rosa to Rohnert Park.

Rolling Stone article from a decade ago: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dead-wood-is-t...

dirtyhippiefree··on Catastrophic Disk Failure at musl.cc
If there’s a disk failure, the archive is useful to determine what’s missing.

If there is none, they probably restored from a backup…but that’s the trick…

Are they truly identical or does it merely seem that way…

dirtyhippiefree··on A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published
He refers to deviations from the book…I see what you did there…
dirtyhippiefree··on Rents Are the Fed's 'Biggest Stumbling Block' in Taming US Inflation
We learned during the Great Recession that our whole economy is built on housing.

Headline is more accurate than homeowners (now corporations speculating by buying houses as investments, see Zillow) care to admit.

dirtyhippiefree··on Open Asteroid Impact
FTA: Instead, it's much more efficient to sling asteroids down to Earth first, and mine them on the ground.

Until now, all asteroid analysis has focused on keeping asteroids away from Earth.

Redirecting asteroids •to• Earth won’t ignite a Black Hole Sun…what could possibly go wrong…

/s

dirtyhippiefree··on 'We're the last bastion of rental': video stores resisting rise of streaming
Even libraries have dropped late fees, but YMMV…
dirtyhippiefree··on 'We're the last bastion of rental': video stores resisting rise of streaming
Some areas of the country have multiple counties with unbelievable selection between all the branches!
dirtyhippiefree··on Why YouTube will continue to use Flash instead of HTML5 (2010)
Glad they fixed that.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/27/7926001/youtube-drops-fla...

dirtyhippiefree··on I Became a Python Programmer–and Fell Out of Love with the Machine
https://archive.is/A2S72
dirtyhippiefree··on The darker side of being a doctor (2017)
> Sure, it's very easy!

I have issues when someone says a complicated issue can be solved easily…realistic expectations…

dirtyhippiefree··on If you love podcasts, dump Spotify
They’re doing what Hallmark did by buying the competition…podcast analytics…everything…

Google “Spotify buys podcasts,” read ‘em and weep.

(sad tone of voice, no irony or snark)

dirtyhippiefree··on BART to offer final rides on original equipment on April 20
Bedbugs love fabric for hiding…many good reasons for the switch.
dirtyhippiefree··on Anarchy in the US (The Revolution That Almost Happened)
The story of Eugene Debs parallels what might happen currently.

We’ve had a presidential candidate run from prison. His crime was protesting WWI…

dirtyhippiefree··on A Chronicle reporter went undercover in high school
Worth mentioning that the concept is how Fast Times at Ridgemont High was written by Cameron Crowe.

Take a look at the prices for a used copy.

Not many books pull it off.

dirtyhippiefree··on A Chronicle reporter went undercover in high school
Shann Nix, former KGO radio host. Been awhile.

I see she’s living in Europe now.

https://www.chucklinggoat.co.uk/meet-shann/

dirtyhippiefree··on A lavish lifestyle strains credibility (1985)
>Greece isn't as tidy when it comes to administration.

Bingo.

Winning by becoming invisible.

dirtyhippiefree··on A lavish lifestyle strains credibility (1985)
Considering the state of the Greek economy, I perceive he’s living “off the grid” like a king. With decades behind him, he likely won by remaining invisible.
dirtyhippiefree··on Google ordered to identify who watched certain YouTube videos
I remember Larry Ellison (Oracle) in the news saying that Privacy Is Dead a quarter century ago, long enough the article merely referred to it as famous (no date needed) in 2018. It was written six years ago...

https://securitycurrent.com/privacy-is-dead-long-live-privac...

dirtyhippiefree··on Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]
Daniel Keyes wrote a book in 2000 about writing the book…Algernon, Charlie and I…

The ending has the author talking to the scientists doing the research described in Flowers for Algernon.

Science wasn’t anymore put off by fiction than the scientists currently resurrecting the woolly mammoth (see novel Jurassic Park)…

dirtyhippiefree··on Vice Media Collapse Entirely Fault of Incompetent, Fail-Upward Brunchlords
I remember a quote from when I was in Amway.

Points can’t be eaten and have no nutritional value.

dirtyhippiefree··on What do you know about "⌘"?
Please use Ask HN at the beginning of posts like this.

Thank you.

dirtyhippiefree··on [dead]
FTA: Even Osso, the former district attorney who first brought the case, said he could see the hypocrisy in the sentence. Six months of jail time is standard for a first defender charged with a third-degree crime, he said, but “the crime itself is very jarring.”
dirtyhippiefree··on Willy Wonka experience used AI in promos, causing high expectations, cops called
They could have had more than one Oompa Loompa.

See Twitter link below.

dirtyhippiefree··on The Taliban Stole My Domain
Let’s face it.

The domain queer dot af simply wasn’t going to last, given Afghanistan’s current government…

dirtyhippiefree··on Vice Media Collapse Entirely Fault of Incompetent, Fail-Upward Brunchlords
> Numerous Vice editors and staff writers were paid salaries as little as $35,000 a year in New York City (you’d find retirement or financing a home purchase easier with a career at fucking Quiznos).

The link to Glassdoor demonstrated that point.

dirtyhippiefree··on Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to chemicals (2022)
>so many who just down-vote challenging questions but lack the patience and courage to form an argument.

Fear of the unknown is an impetus for herd mentality.

Hopefully your comment ceases to be gray…

dirtyhippiefree··on The fifth epoch of distributed computing
The fact •you• don’t see substance doesn’t mean it’s not there…
dirtyhippiefree··on Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars
Stupidity is a dangerous insult game to play.

I’m not going to reply in kind, but rather point to the science of supermassive black holes being the “glue” allowing the spiral galaxies to exist at all…

dirtyhippiefree··on The Americans Who Need Chaos
Not so fast!

You said: seems to have some explanatory value for the current state of US politics.

——-> Worldwide. Your enthnocentrism was what I was responding to, which you seem to have abandoned without recognizing…

dirtyhippiefree··on The Internet Archive provides a model of free knowledge for all
It should be noted that the Internet Archive is blocked by some libraries because it can be used to circumvent parental controls (I.e library control)…
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