senorjazz

:-D

finally a sensible comment

Techno finds its roots in tribal music

Not really. Not in the in sense of where the music came from. I'd agree on an enjoyment level it taps into something similar. But the roots of the genre as far as I am aware owe nothing to tribal music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WpudasPafg

Good documentary on the origins of house and techno from 70s disco, to 4 to the floor disco and the coming of the 808, how this moved to house in chicago and some sci fi nerds with a love for kraftwerk in detroit started techno. Then how the UK got involved and these DJs from the US, used to playing to 50-80 people in tiny underground, often gay clubs would come to the UK and play to 10,000 in massive outdoor / warehouse events and rave was born

They're sort of our equivalent of Antifa in that they are a significant organising presence in lefty street protests

Are you trying to give a wrong opinion of SWP. No "ultra violent, red army faction types" are joining the SWP.

Also your use of "ultra violent" / "red army" surely is used to incorrectly ascertain that there are parts of the left that are much more violent than they actually are.

They're sort of our equivalent of Antifa in that they are a significant organising presence in lefty street protests

I can see the point you are trying to make being familiar with both, but for those who are not, this analogy is just wrong and confusing to those who do not know SWP and will think you are saying SWP have no qualms about using violence. That is wrong

No. OP made a bad analogy. Antifa will meet violence with violence and don't mind a bit of direct action. SWP are a legitimate socialist party

you'd think but...

I tried Winamp a few months ago and was disappointed to find that it's evolved into a media center more than a player.

Really? Winamp looks the same to me as it did 20 odd years ago.

Maybe there are different versions? I have 5.65 released in 2013. It's exactly what you describe as wanting.

This makes me nostalgic of hours of 15 year old me downloading every skin to find the "best one",

It's classic isn't? :)

I'm using 5.65v (2013 release) on win10 without issues

Thanks to the article editor who did not do the common "The Earth is SLAMMED by a pulse every 26 seconds and NOBODY KNOWS WHY."

FTFY

All the locals on Bali are richer and better educated than they otherwise would be.

Not necessarily. In the early days, perhaps, when businesses were run by locals and the type of tourist who would go, would use local services.

Now as a place develops, outside money / developers / owners move in, providing higher quality accommodation, fine dining and the once local business owners are employed as cleaners for a pittance.

It is a pattern repeated since the 60s and 70s with the hippy trail when large amounts of people started to visit these places. Once pristine paradise locations are now over developed concrete monstrosities catering to the higher end - out pricing the travellers who first went to the place and the profits all exported to other places

As mind blowing as you think that was, IMHO its nothing like the experience of candy-flipping...(MDMA+LSD)

I disagree there. There isn't much that compares to a deep k-hole. Perhaps a DMT breakthrough experience. But LSD and MDMA doesn't compare*

* Assuming "normal" LSD dosage, if you are talking about eating a strip of tabs (1000ug) ok, then all bets are off, but at that level the MDMA isn't going to be able to do much

You are confusing addiction with use. And of course, it is drug dependant. No one has their mind opened by a weekend of crack use. No one comes away the same person after a weekend of psychedelic use

same, I have a samsung tv and use the smart features all the time (youtube) and have never seen an ad.

:-s

I still use winamp, with classic skin. It's small out the way, I can simply drag the files in I want to play.

Not want any more than that for a music player IMO

I remember it being discussed on drug (recreational) boards 20 years ago. It is not new

So I wonder why controling this problem which casued so many loses of lifes

Did you not read $10billion in profit. People point to Mexico and the corruption the narcos bring to the Mexican state. It is the same in the US for this case. Just looked at who profited. Drs, lawyers, politicians, lobbists. Whilst the gravy train is running people are not asking questions at best and doing their best to stop them being asked.

The corruption regarding oxycotin, ran from the top to the bottom of the system

victim-blaming.

sometimes the victim deserves some blame.Or at least their actions analysed to see where blame lays

twitter says hello

Good old Microsoft changing the shortscuts every major release, because. Because? Because fucking why? Why do they do this.

the comment is relatable to a testing mindset progression, which is relevant.

Your comment on the other hand, less so...

because I spend half of my time writing tests.

Only half your time? You're doing testing wrong if it doesn't take 80% of the time ;-)

I have a love hate relationship with testing. Working for myself as a company of one, some of the benefits testing bring just don't apply. I have a suite of programs built in the style of your point (1). The programs were quick to market and hacked out whilst savings ran out not knowing if I would make a single sale.

Sales came, customer requests came, new features were wanted, sales were promised "if the program could just do xyz". More things was hacked on. The promise of "I will go back and do this properly and tidy up this god unholy mess of code" slowly slipped away that I stopped lying to myself I would do it.

Yes there was a phase of fix one problem add another, but I have most of that in my head now and has been a long time since that happened.

Not a single test. Developing the programs was "fun" and exciting. Getting requests for features in the morning and having the build ready by lunch kept customers happy.

Now I am redoing the apps as a web app for "reasons". This time am doing it properly, testing from the start. I know exactly what the program should do and how to do it, unlike the first time when I really had no idea. But still, I Come to a point and realise the design is wrong and I hadn't taking something into consideration. Changing the code isn't so bad, changing the tests, O.M.G.

I am so fed up of the project, I do all I can to avoid it, it is 2 years late, I wish I never started it. The codebase has excellent testing, mocks, no little hacks, engineering wise am proud of it. The tests have found little edge cases that would have been found out by customers so avoided that. But there is no fun in it. No excitement. Is just a constant drudging slog.

Am trying to avoid dismissing testing all together, as I really want to see the benefit of it in a production substantially code base. If I ever get there. At the moment, the code base is the best tested unused software ever written IMO

I have an older precision. Built like a tank and then some, great specs, ugly as hell, on the heavy side, awful battery, huge brick sized charger, but everything replaceable, takes being dropped in it's stride, takes any abuse it receives in it's stride.

People in Kathmandu are using gas. That's a few million people. Sure in the villages, but the numbers pale in comparison

Isn't that how Iceland gets all it's power?

Almost all apes will eat meat, actually

Are you sure on that? 50% of great apes eat meat. Of the lesser apes, gibbons will eat a tiny proportion.

Non-human apes usually eat a small amount of raw animal foods such as insects or eggs

Arguable insects are meat, but if you invited someone round to eat some meat, I don't think they would expect insects so think that can be ruled out.

So some, but certainly not "almost all". And the ones that do, it is a tiny % of their diet, relative to most humans

or a new warhead

Perhaps they thought they were saving the lives of innocents from collateral damage in wars of aggression?

When I discovered mixcloud, this was described as a "feature" that essentially turned them into radio which allowed them to have much more generous licensing terms with the labels

Fairly sure that was only applied to some locations.

From what I understand it is very loose and can mean "you accessed our systems legitmately but we didn't want you to".

I think it was last year that facebook went after fake likes / fake followers companies who were logging via the login page and they liking / following. Companies in China / New Zealand and I think NY? got threatened with the CFAA (unsure if it went further) but it made the tech news at the time.

I don't think anyone hear would call writing a bot that logged in with actual details and performed an action (the same a real person could) as hacking, but facebook were saying as it broke the TOS, it was unauthorised, thus hacking laws apply. With their budget, I guess they get to decide what hacking is