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Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:48PM (#50295695)
He is The Picard.
What about Microsoft 366?
Re:Robert Redford Has Died on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @10:08AM (#45262471)
Sneakers is from 1992.
Re:After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine Is No More on Monday June 02, 2025 @10:39AM (#44159314)
Sound on Sound
Re:Aristotle – How to live a good life on Friday August 16, 2024 @03:57PM (#41269796)
There are these books:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greek-Philosophical-Terms-Historica...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greek-Philosophical-Vocabulary-J-Ur...

I have the second one, which I found useful when studying ancient Greek philosophy in English translation.

Re:Casio VZ-1 Algorithms on Thursday August 08, 2024 @08:47AM (#41190941)
Did Casio make things a bit weird on purpose to circumvent the Stanford/Chowning/Yamaha patent(s) on FM synthesis?
Can someone quote the whole thing here? Not everyone has a twitter / X account.
There are other music steaming platforms. I use Tidal, finding it to be the least annoying of the ones I've tried (Spotify, Amazon, Apple).
Re:Films About Virtual Reality on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @10:46AM (#39442660)
Don't forget the Murder, She Wrote episode "A Virtual Murder" (from 1993):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0653453/

I'm typing this reply on this

https://junocomputers.com/product/nyx-17-v3/

which I use for DVD watching every day.

Re:C23: A Slightly Better C on Sunday January 21, 2024 @05:15PM (#39083638)
ckd_add(), ckd_sub() are ckd_mul() are what I'm looking forward to using.
Re:Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982) on Saturday January 06, 2024 @02:43PM (#38894638)
man operator
Re:Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke on Ableton [2016] on Saturday January 06, 2024 @02:09PM (#38894287)
You might want to look at https://www.irealpro.com/ and Band in a Box ( https://www.pgmusic.com/ ).
Re:Synthesis Methods Explained: What Is FM Synthesis? on Monday December 25, 2023 @04:39AM (#38761180)
Have a look at the filter code in Csound, for example:

https://github.com/csound/csound/blob/master/Opcodes/butter....

Re:Interactive Tour of James Clerk Maxwell's House on Friday December 15, 2023 @06:27AM (#38653081)
The David Hume Tower has been renamed 40 George Square.
Re:The case for never reading the book jacket on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @08:12AM (#38458900)
I think a movie trailer should be a mini-prequel to the movie, with no footage from the movie itself.
Re:I Am Sitting in a Room (1969) on Friday November 24, 2023 @09:22AM (#38404239)
Look Mum no Computer did two versions of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIlT7U0ILu4

Re:Netflix Prepares to Send Its Final Red Envelope on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:59AM (#37643919)
It's 17", not 15", but I recently bought one of these

https://junocomputers.com/product/nyx-17-v3/

for watching DVDs.

Re:Why do so many people hate EU bureaucracy? on Sunday September 10, 2023 @01:44PM (#37458147)
Why do so many people hate the US federal government?
The other day I found an unused Kodachrome film I'd forgotten I had. Kodachrome 64 is my all time favourite film.
Re:Shit Life Syndrome on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:10PM (#37201028)
Are you using it to avoid deprived areas, or to find them and hence cheap houses?
As a company, or in your opinion of their products?
Re:Sinead O’Connor has died on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:15PM (#36884287)
This Sinead O’Connor performance has stayed with me since watching its original broadcast:

Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home (Live at Top of the Pops in 1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJWbPBp3QA

(Hadn't seen it again until just now.)

Re:WWDC 2023 Livestream on Monday June 05, 2023 @02:08PM (#36200449)
Just make it easy to move the kids' accounts to their own iPhones/iPads for when you finally give in and give them their own.
Re:WWDC 2023 Livestream on Monday June 05, 2023 @01:23PM (#36199664)
I miss Steve.
Re:The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition on Saturday April 08, 2023 @10:07AM (#35493272)
This book (the 1st edition) gave me exactly what I needed when writing the garbage collector for my programming language.

Besides the great technical content, I found it to be a very enjoyable, readable book.

Re:Letter to Pixar President Ed Catmull [pdf] on Thursday March 09, 2023 @09:28AM (#35081490)
Alvy Ray Smith studied in New Mexico ...
Re:Is Artificial Light Poisoning the Planet? on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @01:40PM (#34900492)
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