Posts by yonder@spacey.space
(DIR) Post #AUQSc5mGKGM9lGYZTU by yonder@spacey.space
2023-04-07T14:31:58Z
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@nyrath @tubetime There's something wholesome and thoroughly Lensman-like about vacuum tubes.Easy to imagine transistors as an evil subversion being pushed onto an unsuspecting universe by Boskone.
(DIR) Post #AcKIP31ocnUmGSvgxM by yonder@spacey.space
2023-11-30T07:13:40Z
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@falktx Hi! Is there any chance of getting the dpf plugin I'm maintaining listed on the DPF wiki? It's a revival of Livecut, an old beat slicer plugin, converted from an old juce version, over to DPF.I think the only potential issue would be that it's not real time safe (though I think the old one never was either)https://github.com/eventual-recluse/LiveCutorhttps://codeberg.org/yonder/LiveCut
(DIR) Post #AcKN02v2OTHKSNembQ by yonder@spacey.space
2023-11-30T09:14:31Z
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@falktx Okay I didn't realise. I'll give it a try. Thanks!
(DIR) Post #AcKO5JHv3rK4cuQwD2 by yonder@spacey.space
2023-11-30T09:26:40Z
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@falktx Thanks I'll give that a try too!
(DIR) Post #AhpfHVEArhIv5tIVnc by yonder@spacey.space
2024-05-05T07:32:10Z
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'Allo Tosh, Gotta Toshiba ba ba'Allo Tosh, Gotta Toshiba ba baBloody love this tune. Have a listen, total 80s treasure.And in the song, Pato giving us the appropriate response to seeing Margaret Thatcher on the TVThe radio dub instrumental is nice too, well punchyPato Banton - 'Allo Toshhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3oOy9pAEP5U
(DIR) Post #AjBY3D8WMrEkeCzjvc by yonder@spacey.space
2024-06-22T12:10:28Z
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@futurebird I wonder why the scale of the universe can be so disturbing.For me, the speed of light is more disturbing. It's so slow. 8 minutes from the Sun. The whole universe us like super thick treacle.It's a wonder anything gets done.
(DIR) Post #AkdbX8QzwN5hw0ckpU by yonder@spacey.space
2024-08-04T22:53:37Z
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@futurebird Our star is at least a third generation star. It might be higher than three, but what strikes me about the estimates is they are low numbers.The only life in the universe we know about, on Earth, appeared pretty much as soon as it possibly could have.I don't know what it means but the sense is that started early and also it'll all be over fairly quickly, as in how many generations of stars there are to go. If you look at it in a linear way that is
(DIR) Post #AmtaTKx90KNDJHGclM by yonder@spacey.space
2024-10-11T11:41:20Z
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@futurebird @Uraael I really enjoyed this book, but I got the opposite sense from the story, which seems to be highly critical of innovators and the influence of trade. The villains are tech bros taken to the max (the 'pods' and such which seem explicitly satirical of agile development and all that.) The trade aspect felt very desperate... just people trying to find a role in an uncaring universe. The engaging aspects of the story were people going beyond all this to make a 'human' connection
(DIR) Post #Ao7RifVKjVSJiHd7mi by yonder@spacey.space
2024-11-17T02:01:19Z
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@futurebird Yeah they were made up by the nobility & they'd learn them to show off their nobility credentials (nob-cred?) while out hunting & fishing or whetever, so most of them are animals you'd see in the wild.
(DIR) Post #AoOGU8k9wc6UFDklY8 by yonder@spacey.space
2024-11-25T04:45:32Z
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@futurebird I know nobody asked for this but I can't stop myself:kung fu & gong fu should really be pronounced the same way - both like gong fu'. But most people will pronounce it as they see it so the accepted pronounciatiation of kung fu is now with a hard k, at least among English speakers.The word 'kung fu' uses the Wade-Giles romanization system, so the k should be pronounced 'softly' like a g. If it was a 'hard' k sound, there would be an apostrophe after the k like k'ung fu
(DIR) Post #AoOHpmz1d3QR56aria by yonder@spacey.space
2024-11-25T04:47:11Z
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@futurebird Gong fu uses pinyin romanization system. I guess it's just how the word started being used in English and from what source...
(DIR) Post #AoOHpnvA8tvhzPnIKu by yonder@spacey.space
2024-11-25T05:00:12Z
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@futurebird Now that I think about it, it's an interesting modern case of a word being imported twice... a little bit like the word pairs 'warden' / 'guardian' and 'guarantee' / 'warranty' being the same words imported twice, from French to English, at different times with different spellings
(DIR) Post #AodN1t9ZFAYOdkGeae by yonder@spacey.space
2024-12-02T11:39:31Z
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@futurebird Ages ago I read a popular science book that brought up the concept of 'information space' in relation to physical space.So, as planet Earth has a biosphere and the biosphere genes + life processes constitute a huge amount of information, it argued that by this, Earth's scale in this sense dwarfed that of the rest of the universe altogether. (Assuming no other life out there).I don't know if that's really true, but the concept definitely stuck with me. Not the book's name though
(DIR) Post #AoifOI77tJEPOFl1U0 by yonder@spacey.space
2024-12-05T00:58:50Z
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@futurebird @carrideen I used to consider a rule about abstract nouns.i.e. deduct marks for every abstract noun. Maybe I'd give the writer some for free. I wouldn't want to be cruel. But they'd have to consider if it's really necessary.I never actually did that... but now...
(DIR) Post #B2Ogrgc0OTSlzHHllw by yonder@spacey.space
2026-01-18T03:50:31Z
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@futurebird @goaty Oh this has suddenly reminded me of a movie, I think from the 90s, in which some intelligent bugs from the rainforest who are really good mimics, disguise themselves as human, to go live in a human town. I think the idea is that they want to do research on the creatures who are destroying their habitat. It was wuite an oddball film that stuck in my memory but I can't remember anything else about it. Let me think