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  1. Comment on The World, the Flesh & the Devil (1929) in ~books

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    This short book is bizarre but has several interesting points! I've been reading this while watching Zardoz and there are some surprising common themes...

    This short book is bizarre but has several interesting points!

    I've been reading this while watching Zardoz and there are some surprising common themes...

    2 votes

  3. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I've been playing around a bit more with tmux and wrote a couple small fish functions that let's me run multiple programs on different windows and wait for them to finish similar to GNU Parallel...

    I've been playing around a bit more with tmux and wrote a couple small fish functions that let's me run multiple programs on different windows and wait for them to finish similar to GNU Parallel but just for tmux:

    function args.or.stdin
    if count $argv >/dev/null
        printf "%s\n" $argv
    else
        cat
    end
end

    This lets me use arguments or stdin to provide commands to run.

    function tmux.waitgroup
    set -l session_id (random)
    set -l signals

    args.or.stdin $argv | while read -l cmd
        set -l sig "sig_$session_id"_(random)
        set -a signals $sig
        # The window runs the command, then signals it is done
        tmux new-window "$cmd; tmux wait-for -S $sig"
    end

    for sig in $signals
        tmux wait-for $sig
    end
end

    And it works pretty well... tmux.waitgroup 'sleep 2' 'sleep 5' will open two tabs in tmux, one will sleep for 2 seconds and the other will sleep for 5 seconds. They close when they are done and the window that ran the tmux.waitgroup will block until all the windows/processes are done.

    It works well for long running processes that you want to keep an eye on. Like I'm using it to run a script on each subfolder of a disk:

    printf 'lb shrink -vy %s --move ../processed/ --move-broken ../processed-broken/ --delete-unplayable\n' (fd -td --exact-depth=1 . $argv | grep -Ev '/lost\+found/|/processed/|/processed-broken/|/downloading/|/seeding/') | tmux.waitgroup
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  5. Comment on Andreas Freise - Micro ASCII Art (2002) in ~arts

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    I like these very micro-scale ASCII. Often it seems like text artists make things too big! No imagination! The ASCII animations are pretty interesting but familiar if you've ever seen Star Wars...

    I like these very micro-scale ASCII. Often it seems like text artists make things too big! No imagination!

    The ASCII animations are pretty interesting but familiar if you've ever seen Star Wars the ASCIIMATION. I wonder who was the first person who thought to try animating text?

    I feel like this area is not fully explored in terms of tweaking fps or combining with other tricks? But maybe there's not much more that can be done

    Also, the collection of 2400 or so .txt files is also pretty extensive: https://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Strange Pop! OS 24.04 behavior in ~tech

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    You're probably using systemd-boot rather than grub. Next time it happens try this systemctl reboot --firmware-setup https://old.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/162ah6g/what_is_the_spacebar_method/

    You're probably using systemd-boot rather than grub. Next time it happens try this

    systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

    https://old.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/162ah6g/what_is_the_spacebar_method/

  8. Comment on UE5 Environment Art - Cliffwood Village (2023) in ~arts

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    oof yeah that waterfall looks like it's coming out of a garden hose in the video. In the pictures I didn't even notice it

    oof yeah that waterfall looks like it's coming out of a garden hose in the video. In the pictures I didn't even notice it

  9. Comment on Regarding travel agency exoticca.com in ~travel

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    I'd recommend just booking everything yourself direct with the hotels or airlines that you are planning to go. You could ask any of the AI tools to help plan out your trip for you. Travel agencies...

    less than $5000 for 9 days

    I'd recommend just booking everything yourself direct with the hotels or airlines that you are planning to go. You could ask any of the AI tools to help plan out your trip for you. Travel agencies don't have much leverage nowadays in terms of discounts.

    Splurge on the bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto

    25 votes

  11. Comment on US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military, says White House in ~society

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    If anything this almost seems like it would encourage Trump... because it sounds like something that Russia would want

    any attack by the US would spell the end of NATO

    If anything this almost seems like it would encourage Trump... because it sounds like something that Russia would want

    19 votes

  13. Comment on All about (computer) love in ~tech

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    Yes you're correct. Last night I was on my phone so I couldn't try it when responding to you. On my PC I can confirm the same errors that you've described. I've reached out to the author to inform...

    Yes you're correct. Last night I was on my phone so I couldn't try it when responding to you. On my PC I can confirm the same errors that you've described.

    I've reached out to the author to inform them of this. Hopefully they can fix it soon

    2 votes

  14. Comment on СБПЧ - Дикий (2024) in ~music

  16. Comment on All about (computer) love in ~tech

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    weird! I didn't get any errors like that. The nature sounds are nice and match the text really well. unfortunate!

    weird! I didn't get any errors like that. The nature sounds are nice and match the text really well. unfortunate!

  17. Comment on What are some stories of progressivism gone wrong in implementation? in ~society

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    Compared to what? If everyone was driving the Makigai MaiMai P126 then the cars that you see as normal would be really weird looking. Personally, I think a lot of big cars are really ugly. The...

    really weird looking

    Compared to what? If everyone was driving the Makigai MaiMai P126 then the cars that you see as normal would be really weird looking.

    Personally, I think a lot of big cars are really ugly. The Range Rover Sport looks pretty good but what's up with the FJ Cruiser??? what's up with four-door pickup trucks?? They all look really weird to me but also they look ugly

    4 votes

  18. Comment on All about (computer) love in ~tech

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    Tildes is just big enough that these sorts of things seem to happen somewhat often! I was surprised to learn that a Tilderino was going to visit the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in the following week...

    Literally never heard of it besides then and now despite the fact I go eat across the street from it fairly often

    Tildes is just big enough that these sorts of things seem to happen somewhat often! I was surprised to learn that a Tilderino was going to visit the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in the following week that I posted about it

    I'll mention the birthday paradox but it will be someone's birthday the same day that they read this sentence

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Landscape with a nature says the Digital Curator in ~arts

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    This one I'm sharing because it's so bad it's actually kind of thought-provoking. The AI curation that I got was Plants motif + Trees motif. Very nice collection of art, Mr. Computer. Makes me...

    The Digital Curator application allows you to explore the art collections of Central European museums and search for artworks based on specific motifs.

    Users of the application can build their combination of objects and reveal how often the subject has occurred across the centuries, view graphics, drawings, or paintings that represent it in different epochs, and compare data with other themes.

    The Digital Curator offers a quantitative view of cultural history based on the frequency of symbols and iconographic themes in many artifacts, not on a detailed observation of individual items. This distant viewing can be especially useful if our interest is aimed at exploring a genre, rather than a specific work, to understand the overall social conditions, rather than the life of a particular artist, or to interpret the overall political situation, rather than the views of the selected author. Exploring big cultural-historical data may bring new insights into abstract social phenomena such as cultural and economic influence, canon issues, the relationship between the center and the periphery, or the functioning of the art market. It can also help us better observe the migration of motifs and their takeover across centuries and distant regions.

    The Digital Curator database now contains 196,116 works from the collections of 91 museums from Austria, Bavaria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.

    This one I'm sharing because it's so bad it's actually kind of thought-provoking. The AI curation that I got was Plants motif + Trees motif. Very nice collection of art, Mr. Computer. Makes me feel very Daft Punk - Humans After All. The extra sigfigs that occasionally slip through really sell it.

    I'm 56.00000000000001% sure that's a plant.

    I'm 56.99999999999999% sure that these pieces fit together conceptually and thematically--which is to say, I'm not sure.

    edit: Portrait of the Musician is perhaps not so bad. Maybe I just have a dabbler level of musician portrait comprehension though... I think it also helps to reign in the date range to a specific era--I'm surprised the randomization doesn't attempt this but you can manually set it via URL param

    1 vote