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nasredin··on Rainworks – Rain-Activated Positive Messages and Art
Fancy word for the smell after it rains:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor

nasredin··on Why Mistranslation Matters
Hmmm. I have been a pirate all my life.

The subs either work or don't (e.g. machine translated garbage).

A handful of times there's a discrepancy e.g. T2 Trainspotting.

This is "official" subs from BluRay or Itunes.

nasredin··on South Korean cam-hunter squads conduct electronic sweeps of public spaces
...while in California you almost have to stay indoors if you are to avoid seeing scantily clad - sometimes a bit too young - women!
nasredin··on Sequoia-PGP – A new OpenPGP implementation in Rust
The web site design is so hipsterish :)

I kept looking for "install" or "download".

It's in "repos".

nasredin··on Cherry MX History
FYI there's a couple mech keyboards with swappable switches (without soldering).

IIRC they have the ugly "gamer" font that every Chinese keyboard has now.

nasredin··on Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
I think of the "bro"/"brah" stereotype.

Yes, almost all of the bros who fit the stereotype are male, but I've seen a few skateboard and surfer ladies who are just as "bro" as the men.

If there was a term for girl Bernie supporters, would that make this better?

Berniechick?

One can't win this. Man is gonna be argue about genders until the Second Cumming.

nasredin··on Cherry MX History
Off Topic.

If one is interested in Romanian TV shows...

"Comrade Detective" was a pretty good show.

There's a dubbed version available on Amazon IIRC.

nasredin··on Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro
I have used the following in addition to WinAmp:

foobar2000

MusicBee

MediaMonkey

Foobar is almost perfect except the lack of crossfading and broken WASAPI exclusive mode output, which every other WinAmp clone seem to have gotten right, e.g. AIMP.

nasredin··on Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
At the end: nobody held a gun to your head. Both in US and Russia.

Americans elected Trump.

Russians "elected" Putin.

IMHO each people is responsible for their leader.

WRT polling, Putin had a 80%+ approval since at least Crimea (2014). Full stop.

nasredin··on Multiple-Image Network Graphics and how it came to be
FYI there's another FA featured here yesterday about JASC PSP.

JASC Animation Shop supports MNG IIRC.

nasredin··on Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
>>Luckily at the end of the day however, they mostly separate their frustrations with the American government and the citizens of America.

In Russia there's the government and the people, in US, in theory, the government is the people.

It doesn't really matter if Russians are frustrated with the "government" or American people.

Russians chose more Cold War style conflict.

BTW Putin ia really not as omnipotent as some people think.

nasredin··on Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro
Justin Frankel of NullSoft, WinAmp, WASTE, and now Cockos is a legend. (Also Gnutella IIRC)

He has nothing to do with foobar2000, which BTW has a very poor view of FOSS.

Foobar still can not do proper crossfading on track change!

nasredin··on Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
There's quite a few old and freshly minted Kremlinologists who have been studying Russia their whole life that you can read. (As opposed to random strangers on this forum!)

E.g.: Mark Galleotti

nasredin··on Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
/me slaps sehugg in the face with a large trout.
nasredin··on Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro
JASC also made "Animation Shop", a GIF editor.

It won't open modern x264 files, but works fine with uncompressed video.

And the GIF format just won't die thanks to hipsters.

Thank you JASC and hipsters!

nasredin··on Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
Just for perspective:

When I hear "Berniebro".. .

I think of gym bros, frat bros, New Jersey residents, surfer "brahs", and not sexism.

nasredin··on Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
My mental framework to study this issue is equally simple, just a single question:

Is President Trump the type of dude that would be into golden showers?

nasredin··on Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
One has to give Alex Jones one thing...

Mr Jones is the one subject that every single field can study.

From business to political science to marketting to psychology and perhaps psychiatry and journalism.

He is a fountain, sometines a geyser, of never ending supply of data to further advance the sciences.

nasredin··on Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
SMH. No.

A girl can be a "bro" or a "dude" just as much as a guy.

A group of girls can be "guys".

English language is peculiar!

I am just amazed nobody Godwin'd this thing so far.

nasredin··on Removing Bad Actors on Facebook
One annoying thing about the people who run and use this site: they don't like comedy and especially, good puns.

Try SlashDot.

nasredin··on Steven Johnson on “Spacewar” [video]
OT.

Because I am a pessimist and have a view that humanity will not survive that long. At least in the form where all of this shit will matter.

Planet Earth will be fine, but people 8,000 years from now?...

nasredin··on Ask HN: How to overcome fear of flying?
So it is an interesting fact at least for me.

I was reading recently about the attack and the very detailed planning that went into it, especially WRT timing.

Also if you a "prepper"/security type dude, listening to ATC for situational awareness is an option.

nasredin··on Ask HN: How to overcome fear of flying?
Miracle on the Hudson?
nasredin··on Ask HN: How to overcome fear of flying?
FYI the show goes by a few different names depending on the region:

Mayday (Air Crash Investigation/Air Emergency/Air Disasters)

Very addictive show (if you like learning about how planes crash)!

nasredin··on Ask HN: How to overcome fear of flying?
Off Topic.

Listen to the ATC feature (channel 9) on United planes was possibly used by the Sept 11 hijackers.

nasredin··on Steven Johnson on “Spacewar” [video]
Links to an YT vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xkCYvwiPA

BTW I find the use of 5 digits for years (02018) very clever!

nasredin··on In Brazil, it is considered rude to be on time to a party
There's a scene in a Homeland's episode.

"Hey you are X mins late. This is Germany man!"

I thought it was a bit too expositional IMHO.

And of course this was set in a sex shop.

nasredin··on In Brazil, it is considered rude to be on time to a party
Ahh the olde Brazillian Time Correction Offset.

In Los Angeles it's also about -30 to -60 due to traffic, fire or both.

nasredin··on In Brazil, it is considered rude to be on time to a party
Why don't you want to be the first person?

I've heard of "fashionably late", never anything about "early".

IME early bird gets all the good nachos. And you can leave earlier.

nasredin··on Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good to Be Believed – They're Paid For
5 stars.

Very generic positive language.

Poor grammar and or spelling.

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The only sure way is to click on the profile and read the rest of their reviews.

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