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Turns out the gym and leather photos are simply not there on Aphyr's twitter anymore—there were a lot of them a while ago, but apparently run-ins with Twitter moderation didn't work out in their favor, and all that's left are infrequent text posts on LGBTQ.

So yeah, quite a blunder.

By the way, it feels like the ‘fault vs responsibility’ theory might help with the moderatorial musings—but I'm having trouble finding a serious source, since Will Smith happened to say something on it. Not even sure if those are the words used for it in academy.

Ah! Somehow I completely missed that they're supposed to be fashion designers. Thanks.

top performing drag artists

Well I guess then that to understand the appeal of ‘Drag Race’ I'll have to finally watch ‘Drag Race’.

Okay... thanks for the effort, at least. I've been meaning to get somewhat into early-ish burlesque, Brecht, that kind of thing. Maybe then I'll be able to watch drag shows with vague understanding.

Well apparently I need an AI to tell me what's ‘trolling’ on HN, because gym and leather don't mean ‘dumb flamewar’ to me. If mentions of gym and leather trigger HN's crowd, I don't see how that's my fault.

ŽIžek is a walking meme farm. I don't think you need an AI until you exhausted what the actual man says.

“Slavoj Zizek Coca-Cola commercial (2014)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiTy5-RC1-4

“Slavoj Zizek on the horror of tulips” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5yoqjABeBM

There's this clip showing some experiments for the benefit of schoolchildren: https://reddit.com/comments/y2kjmi

I'm guessing this is an ongoing thing, and since the clip popped up on Reddit it seems at least ‘social media’ pick up on such output.

Yep, I could see myself using PM just as a replacement for Gmail, since they have a semblance of a brand and reputation in this space—plus at least somewhat privacy-oriented attitude, which is more than many others got.

I'm pretty sure Proton didn't invent IMAP, and from the protocol log it seems like IMAP insists on the incrementing ids. Probably thanks to it having been designed in the late eighties and early nineties.

Presumably with a version using two languages.

Seems to be almost exactly what happened in one race, except the dude behind actually rode the wall: https://racingnews.co/2021/09/06/kyle-larson-attempts-nascar... (from another comment in this thread).

Wall riders are a perpetual bane in multiplayer races. Perhaps Forza and GT finally added measures against that, but among e.g. videos on the ‘Super GT’ simmer channel, you can see plenty of riders, especially in Forza Horizon.

A comment elsewhere in the thread explains the mechanism of why light background results in better eye focus: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403128

Probably relevant with astigmatism, since tighter focus should at least somewhat alleviate the shifty out-of-place edges (hopefully).

This site has a weird cookie consent dialog:

Match and combine offline data sources: always active

Link different devices: always active

I heard that astigmatism is the reason some people find reading white-on-black intolerable: the edges shift from their proper places, look doubled, this kind of stuff. Idk if astigmatism-correcting glasses fix the problem, as I'm not that diligent with my prescriptions.

Personally, somehow I'm ok with looking at code and some notes in light-gray-on-black, but reading paragraphs of text is immediately off-putting. The proliferation of ‘dark theme’ sites is not working out for me.

That's what I'm saying, in part. Mr. Moolenaar's reports on his own on-the-grounds activities are quite clear (from what I remember now, a bunch of years later), and the goal of ‘build some schools’ doesn't make me wonder ‘what exactly does that mean’.

Moreover, the encouragement to donate to that charity is written into the license of Vim, and still I never went ‘ugh, why does he pollute the software with politics’ or anything like that.

Gotta say, when I read about how Bram Moolenaar, the author and maintainer of Vim, works sometimes to build schools in remote areas of Uganda and encourages users to donate to that cause—not once did I question how that is helpful or what he's doing with people's money.

I don't think that after seventy years Pantone needs any help with being the standard in the industry.

I nearly fainted reading about how the dude whacked the disk to make the head unstick and then jiggled the head over the platter. One thing I learned in my tech initiation years is that head on the platter = death and woe.

Also, judging from how pallets with containers of old stuff were dropped right beside the guys, and how they were going through the hardware by throwing it up in the air, it sounds like the environment was the opposite of clean.

It wouldn't even be legal to own or distribute anymore in the post-DMCA world.

Meanwhile it would be explicitly legal in some European states, where people are allowed to make backup copies of software they buy, against anything that the vendor says—and/or to make the software work on their machine.

By the way: I semi-randomly landed again on the dontkillmyapp site, and it notes that killing background apps works differently on different phones—presumably first of all between various manufacturers, since they tend to modify Android somewhat deeply: https://dontkillmyapp.com/google

More to the point, the site reminded me that you might want to verify if Blokada is exempted from ‘battery optimizations’ (works via app info —> ‘Battery’ —> ‘Battery optimization’ for me). I checked NetGuard on my phone, and sure enough I have the ‘optimization’ disabled for the app.

(Let me know if you see this comment, or I'm gonna notify you manually.)

I vaguely remember that `source` appeared in Bash at some version—presumably because it's clearer than the rather random `.`, and doesn't stand out among other built-ins for no good reason.

(I only now noticed the “as of year 2000” next to the ‘1114’—while the number 2161 is from 2019. So presumably the number of un-representable colors grew in the meanwhile, and might be about 650 now if the proportion is the same.)

Also, personally I find that I'd like to have some kind of printed swatches just so I can figure out the color of my stuff at home and find the corresponding paint, sealant or whatever. I could just pirate Pantone and print some of it for like twenty bucks—however, if a third of it is outside CMYK, then I'm rather out of luck. Bit of a weird problem to have.

Bummer that it's only on Windows. It's a casual game, while I spent plenty of time on my Macbook on rather more dedicated games. DirectX 11 is probably in the requirements simply because no one bothered to check with previous versions (however Wine on Mac doesn't properly support DX ≥10, and VMs have trouble too, plus Steam doesn't work under Wine on Mac).

Some version of the game was on Android—dunno about now. This was at the time when PS4 was vaguely new-ish.

The post on bite marks had plenty of comments ripping apart various other methods.

converting from Pantone to regular RGB/CMYK is a lot more lossy than one would think

From what I briefly read, a large chunk of Pantone doesn't even fit in CMYK:

About 30% of the Pantone system's 1114 spot colors (as of year 2000) cannot be simulated with CMYK but with 13 base pigments (14 including black) mixed in specified amounts.

These 1114 spot colors are apparently themselves only a part of the total 2161, but still it's 400 colors missing, seemingly without even accounting for texture effects and whatnot.

even when it's only about surface style

There's such thing as respect for the viewer. Idk about Curtis, but the grossly manipulative style of popular political documentaries doesn't show that respect. I also don't think it's about the ‘surface’ when it's designed to tug at the emotions every second of the film.

P.S.: looked through the filmography, turns out Curtis is the author of ‘HyperNormalisation’. At least based on that I'm gonna say he does use style close-ish to what I described above: perhaps less drones, more hyperactive editing. Can't remember what the narration was like in that film, but I wasn't impressed in any positive way.

The release of Pandora's Box (1992) marked the introduction of Curtis's distinctive presentation that uses collage to explore aspects of sociology, psychology, philosophy and political history. His style has been described as involving, "whiplash digressions, menacing atmospherics and arpeggiated scores, and the near-psychedelic compilation of archival footage", narrated by Curtis himself with "patrician economy and assertion".

Is this guy in fact the inventor of the annoying modern style of political documentary, where I have to listen to anxiety-inducing drones and the worst kind of movie-trailer voice, nonstop for an hour at least? The one used by shittiest propaganda tv channels? And for some inexplicable reason also borrowed by Youtube personalities that supposedly appeal to thinking, educated people in opposition to that propaganda tv.

I would finally be able to download all the Assetto Corsa and rFactor mods I want, and seed those things where there's just me and a couple other dudes so bailing feels bad—with still some storage left for peace of the mind.

For some reason the make and model of those disks is absent from your comment, must've been lost in the wires.