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oddly I felt like the compression artefacting during the hyperbolic part enhanced the psychedelic effect
Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:46AM (#50241744)
I mean, US foreign policy been supercharged with Trump, and from that perspective his leadership's been plenty adequate. Declaring war on Iran in particular has long been a neoliberal aspiration that no one had the political courage to implement - enter Trump, the nominal adversary on whom they could outsource their ambitions, and whose blunders could cynically be disavowed.
way to miss the point.
Re:Apple Music 404 Not Found on Friday October 23, 2026 @08:51PM (#50217335)
Nice to find some 00s electronic classics there like Alter Ego and Âme, that really took me back to my iPod mini days.
the purpose of a system is what is does.
Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:21AM (#50018470)
The dead accent key feature is super handy - it means I never have to leave the UK English layout to type in Portuguese. I don't know if that's available because I use the PC variant of the layout, though.
Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:09AM (#49841589)
*fascist. Don't sugarcoat it.
Re:Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:43AM (#49788755)
I've always thought he named the act after the instrument.
Re:Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser on Monday September 21, 2026 @07:38AM (#49785950)
Not OP, but you might want to check out https://github.com/joelanders/gearmulator-md-mm
It's not gonna be low-stakes protests like No Kings, I'll tell you that.
Re:macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:43AM (#49737645)
Big Hammer wants to replace all your tools with Hammers and OP is right along with them
Re:I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @10:45AM (#49713365)
one of the all time great rave tracks
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:52AM (#49709181)
I had a second gen iPod Touch and from what I can remember the keyboard experience was vastly superior than the iPhone now
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:44AM (#49709120)
I'm hit by this problem often. I wonder why UI updates which could well be incremental instead just replace the whole results from under your fingers!
Re:Steam Frame starts at $1059 on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:47PM (#49703757)
The computer powering the Virtuality was an Amiga, which I've always found mindblowing.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:57AM (#49656933)
the end of Electron would be a nice silver lining to the new era of coding
Re:iPhone Duo on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:20PM (#49648141)
If there's a Uno Turbo IE I'd be happy to buy it
Re:Apple Watch Series 12 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:41AM (#49638488)
... but not particularly unfair on your interlocutor, just off putting
Re:iPhone Duo on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:06AM (#49638293)
fwiw, Apple had a PowerBook Duo line in the mid 90s, so maybe that's the reference
Because there's no incentive to do it. The consequences of being tracked are outta sight outta mind.
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @05:44AM (#49533985)
Re:How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:20PM (#49530173)
more consistent with? more consistent than?
Re:How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:11PM (#49530110)
Those claims are warnings if you're working class, and marketing if you're corporate.
Re:“I just chose words carefully” on Monday August 31, 2026 @05:14AM (#49507506)
true/lies
He supports systematic violence against marginalized ethnicities, but he also supports open weight models.

or as dril put it

drink driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

Pragmatic Engineer too
I am saying the proof is there, and I am assuming I'm being read by people curious enough to check what I'm saying.
If you, having read his blog, are going to say that, then you're either epically naive, or you're deliberately whitewashing his messaging.
... a political statement led by a fascist agitator and financed to the tune of $8 million.
If corporations are going to act like psychopaths, arrest the upper management and fine the shareholders.

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