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Comment on Miracle of Sound - Nameless (2013) in ~music
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Miracle of Sound - Nameless (2013)
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Comment on Reddit will require you to be logged in to use old.reddit.com in ~tech
xk3 Link ParentNext step is verifying your age to see if you are old enough for old.reddit.comNext step is verifying your age to see if you are old enough for old.reddit.com
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Comment on Should the plural of "milf" be "milfs" or "milves"? in ~humanities.languages
xk3 Link ParentIf someone pronounced "milves" in a sentence I wouldn't know what they were talking about... maybe I would hear "mills" (like windmills)?? Additionally, if you write MILFs I can Ctrl+F "MILF" and...If someone pronounced "milves" in a sentence I wouldn't know what they were talking about... maybe I would hear "mills" (like windmills)??
Additionally, if you write MILFs I can Ctrl+F "MILF" and still see relevant content whereas "milves" will mismatch on "v"
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
xk3 Link ParentThat's interesting! I've used StreetComplete before but wasn't aware they are porting to KMP / CMP. I would be using MapLibre Compose but it doesn't support addProtocol() so I'm using the native...That's interesting! I've used StreetComplete before but wasn't aware they are porting to KMP / CMP.
I would be using MapLibre Compose but it doesn't support
addProtocol()so I'm using the native SDKs per platform. So in my case using MapLibre Compose would require running an HTTP server inside the app rather than Direct JNI. But maybe I will switch later if it turns out to require too much platform code -
Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
xk3 Link ParentRight now it's kinda a mix between CoMapeo and "Google My Maps" where it's up to the users to upstream their data to OSM but a lot of the data templates will be OSM inspired. It's a mesh map so...Right now it's kinda a mix between CoMapeo and "Google My Maps" where it's up to the users to upstream their data to OSM but a lot of the data templates will be OSM inspired.
It's a mesh map so everyone's map will look different depending on what other maps they've subscribed to. Like an RSS client for maps
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
xk3 (edited )LinkI'm building an collaborative P2P mapping app with iroh and Kotlin Multiplatform / CMP. It's my first time building a GUI that can compile to such a wide variety of platforms (Android, iOS,...I'm building an collaborative P2P mapping app with
irohand Kotlin Multiplatform / CMP. It's my first time building a GUI that can compile to such a wide variety of platforms (Android, iOS, Linux/macOS/Windows desktops, Server [via Ktor]) where it doesn't feel like I'm having to special case everything. Things mostly just work and that is a great feeling.One very cool crate that I came across is
iroh-topic-tracker:Serverless, decentralized peer discovery for iroh-gossip topics using experimental DHT Signed Peer Announcements.
This crate uses the implementation of the experimental Draft BEP (PR #174) for announcing and discovering cryptographically signed peer identities (Ed25519 public keys) on the Mainline DHT by Nuhvi. This enables overlay networks like Iroh to discover peers without centralized trackers, utilizing signed announcements to verify identity before connection.
I'm using it to build a "Discover" page based on the nearest level 7 H3 Cells (~5 km) using the user's location (or they can choose a different location on the map). by broadcasting to an iroh gossip channel of the given H3 Cell name. It's a bit social media-y but it's pretty cool that it all works without a central server.
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Comment on Esteban Morgado Cuarteto - Milongueros (2007) in ~music
xk3 (edited )Linkkinda reminds me of vgm bg music or Studio Ghibli-esque "library music" but a bit more attention grabbing than that due to more complex orchestration kinda reminds me of Astor Piazzollakinda reminds me of vgm bg music or Studio Ghibli-esque "library music" but a bit more attention grabbing than that due to more complex orchestration
kinda reminds me of Astor Piazzolla
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Esteban Morgado Cuarteto - Milongueros (2007)
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Yawning Man - Rock Formations (2005)
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Comment on We can fix the future, Star Trek shows us how in ~humanities
xk3 (edited )LinkOne of the big problems with a post-scarcity future is that there are some things which really are scarce. Like land. Lots of people want to live in New York City but there's only so much density...One of the big problems with a post-scarcity future is that there are some things which really are scarce. Like land. Lots of people want to live in New York City but there's only so much density you can build until the only remaining options are not in New York but New Jersey.
In the United States, probably more money has been made through the appreciation of real estate than in any other way. What are the long-term consequences if an increasing percentage of savings and wealth, as it now seems, is used to inflate the prices of already existing assets - real estate and stocks - instead of creating new production and innovation?
Erik S. Reinert and Arno Mong Daastøl, Production Capitalism vs. Financial Capitalism (1998)
There is still a lot we could do to increase density in New York until we hit that point. Post-artificial-scarcity is a much more tangible goal. We could reconstruct New York City (5 boroughs) into a mega-structure apartment building: 303 square miles / 8.3 billion people * 150 sq ft per person = 147 floors (if we used the full Tri-State Metro Area we would only need 10 stories, around the same as Kowloon Walled City).
Very quickly this megastructure would stop looking like New York City--and that is the main problem. It seems like there is a certain threshold that would be crossed which would turn NYC into something that is no longer NYC. Building replica cities could go a long way... but there are still many people who would be frustrated to not be able to live in the original NYC: without money, how do we decide who gets to live there?
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The ParPolity participatory democracy thing led me on a pretty interesting web binge:
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Comment on Are there any video games that are/were popular in your country, that the rest of the world hardly knows about? in ~games
xk3 Link ParentI think one way to do it is to look at NTSC-exclusive games which sold over a million copies: Xenogears Dragon Quest VII EarthBound (didn't sell well outside Japan but it is pretty well known now;...I think one way to do it is to look at NTSC-exclusive games which sold over a million copies:
- Xenogears
- Dragon Quest VII
- EarthBound (didn't sell well outside Japan but it is pretty well known now; didn't get a PAL release until 2013)
And PAL-exclusive games which sold over a million copies:
- Hugo the Troll
- LMA Manager
- Asterix, Titeuf
- Brian Lara Cricket
- Moorhuhn (@shu already mentioned this)
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Comment on Are there any video games that are/were popular in your country, that the rest of the world hardly knows about? in ~games
xk3 (edited )Link Parentyeah The Oregon Trail might be the earliest example of this. The international home computer market looked different than it did in the US / Canada. While American classrooms were filled with...one of the old Apple ][e games we played in school like Number Munchers
yeah The Oregon Trail might be the earliest example of this. The international home computer market looked different than it did in the US / Canada. While American classrooms were filled with Apple IIs and later IBM PCs, kids in countries like the UK, Germany, or Japan were playing on the ZX Spectrum, c64, Famicom...
American football sports video games like Madden and College Football are also much more popular in the US while soccer / FIFA is much more popular internationally.
There are also subculture games like Cabela’s Big Game Hunter but maybe those don't count here
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Comment on List of films adapted into novels in ~books
xk3 Link ParentOh that is very interesting! The book is based on the movie script but the book was released before the movie so people assume the movie is based on the bookOh that is very interesting! The book is based on the movie script but the book was released before the movie so people assume the movie is based on the book
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Comment on Who was the first transgender person? in ~lgbt
xk3 (edited )Link Parentprobably the first transsex was shortly after the first male/female diversification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilateria#Common_ancestor all the exciting stuff happened 490 million years ago....probably the first transsex was shortly after the first male/female diversification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilateria#Common_ancestor
all the exciting stuff happened 490 million years ago. the past 210 million years have been kinda a snoozefest... eg. all clownfish are born male. The dominant, largest male in a group will change into a female after the dominant female dies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_hermaphroditism
I should clarify that because gender is socially constructed that the above examples don't really get at the same thing. And the word transgender is not exactly an umbrella, universal, term as different, earlier cultures have things similar but don't necessarily identify with transgender identity:
Ultimately, Western terms like gay and transgender overlap but do not align exactly with Samoan gender terms found in the traditional culture of Sāmoa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%CA%BBafafine#History_and_terminology
Although kathoey is often translated as 'transgender woman' in English, this term is not correct in Thailand.
So we could probably identify the first transgender based on the first person that really identified with the word "transgender" and wanted to describe themselves by it!
How far back can we verify a "third gender" existing...? Well, we can really only go as far as writing allows. But it looks like even the first people to write things down in Mesopotamia (Sumerians) around 3400 BCE were very aware of "third gender" existing even at that time:
Even if we cannot know for sure the exact gender identities of these individuals and temple members, it is clear that people have been living outside of the gender binary for thousands of years. Throughout ancient Mesopotamia, it is evident that people lived a wide range of gender identities. They may have even been widely known and respected, and perhaps even considered important members and contributors to their communities.
https://www.academuseducation.co.uk/post/ancient-mesopotamian-transgender-and-non-binary-identities
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Comment on List of films adapted into novels in ~books
xk3 Link(film-to-book: not to be confused with book-to-film adaptations)(film-to-book: not to be confused with book-to-film adaptations)
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List of films adapted into novels
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Comment on I almost got hit by a car in ~life
xk3 Link ParentRight... my point is that the OP is arguing that he is "just" reducing 16 decibels and then at the same time saying that an 11 dB difference is far greater than it sounds on paper. So the...Right... my point is that the OP is arguing that he is "just" reducing 16 decibels and then at the same time saying that an 11 dB difference is far greater than it sounds on paper. So the conclusion should be that 16 decibels is probably too much to reduce as it is a 5.3x increase in noise floor
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Comment on I almost got hit by a car in ~life
xk3 (edited )LinkI feel like this desire for recency is unwarranted. There are plenty of scientific studies from 100 or even 500 years ago that don't need to be replicated every year seems like a somewhat...though, to my surprise, the handful of studies I found are all at least a decade old
I feel like this desire for recency is unwarranted. There are plenty of scientific studies from 100 or even 500 years ago that don't need to be replicated every year
just 16 decibels
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an 11 dB difference is far greater than it sounds on paper
seems like a somewhat contradictory conclusion?
I like those Neckband style speakers. It's still easy to hear everything on the road and it isn't very loud to other people so it's not like carrying a boombox where everyone can listen to what you're listening to
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Comment on Origami Boulder in ~arts
This is a Planescape Torment tribute song. Surprisingly good! just heard it for the first time right now