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Re:F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026 on Friday February 27, 2026 @01:30PM (#47183807)
Just recalling from memory, Linus Torvalds wasn't making a free and open source kernel at first. He was making a kernel yes, but he attended a Richard Stallman speech where Stallman introduced GNU and expressed that he needed a kernel cause AT&T was cracking down on Unix clones. And Linus was moved by that enough to change gears and renamed the project to Linus Unix aka Linux. Anyone who remembers better or has sources, correct me below, I'm writing from memory. My point is though that Linus wasn't originally intending to make a free and open source kernel.
Re:How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:27PM (#42936564)
You should check out the artist "Home Alone." Their stuff has a very neatly crafted vibe. It's lofi esc maybe a bit more jazzy than you'd expect. But their album covers are great and albums are coherent.

Just another example of an artist doing well for themselves still.

It's a reactor design and project that started in 1976 and was delayed for tens of years at a time. It's not exactly the nuclear post child, but that is largely the problem with nuclear in the United States, it, as it currently stands, could not operate at an economy of scale. If the US committed to building say 3,000 of a standardized design across the US, things would likely be very different. (Even if it is not the latest and greatest design, or the most efficient design reactor. Just mass producing parts would drive down the cost.)

Basically, like my ex, it's a commitment issue and I hate this on again off again relationship we have that has me wasting money.

Edit based on the rest of the comments I'm going to stop cap a reddit cascade: No I am not against solar.

Re:F-Droid: Android FOSS app store on Friday October 20, 2023 @10:20PM (#37963518)
I'm interested in knowing what makes you use exclusively Chinese devices.
Re:US Military Asks for Help Locating Missing F-35 Fighter Jet on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:54PM (#37561120)
I think it's worth noting that that the MiG-23 that crashed in Michigan was a privately owned aircraft, flown not by an active service member. I highly doubt the military allows their pilots to eject without absolute certainty that the multimillion/billion dollar aircraft is totally lost.

Additionally, I highly doubt there are many privately owned military jets equipped with ejection seats that are allowed to fly, especially in residential airspace.

Also, as someone who works on FMS's the likelihood that a military program would spend the money required to code an AT/AP to have that capability is just too close to zero.

Re:Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes on Thursday February 02, 2023 @11:31PM (#34637168)
I've found probably the most egregious example of what knaik94's comment is talking about: https://maroofy.com/songs/214977681 ("Being Alive" from Company)

All the AI model seems to understand is the opening 5 seconds piano. Listen to the actual song it just opens like that because it's from a play.

I think this will struggle with any song that has build up, it's very promising, though you need a sample of entire songs not the sample Itunes gives you.

Re:Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:55PM (#34636941)
Haha, true
Re:Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:45PM (#34636889)
There is nothing like "Crimson and Clover"? https://maroofy.com/songs/59412471
Re:Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:28PM (#34636783)
If you search for "Love will Tear us Apart" by Joy Division the top two recommendations will be the same song, by the same band, but just other "versions" so I guess it works? lmao might want to work on filters?
Re: on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:44PM (#27611501)
While I'm gonna miss the times my friends and I have spent laughing at what a chaotic and ridiculous life that man lived, through all of his antics, he really didn't contribute anything except tax fraud to the world. McAfee antivirus is a plague, and according to the man himself not really his legacy. His death is still awful.

But I agree, he shouldn't receive a black bar or anything.

Re:On Having Whiteness on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:18PM (#27452628)
Seriously, read the abstract to his other publication "Masculinity as Masquerade" it's all about well... that old Jack Black comedy Nacho Libre and the profound meaning it has on masculinity.

Man is off his rocker.

Archive.org has some archived governments website under the address. I got it to resolve under google DNS as an empty webserver with no contents.
Archive.org has it archived as "The Government of the PITCAIRN ISLANDS online portal"