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Wow, I hadn't heard about the fraud in 2024, which I looked up in response to your comment. That's troubling to say the least. Bias, though, is going to be inevitable and the Hugos…

The loss of color is concerning, but something I find interesting is the image the author chooses to illustrate Loos' quote, "We have achieved plain, undecorated simplicity." I wou…

Yes, this understanding would mean the 12-bar blues and blues music in general are an extremely dissonant form as they use the dominant seven chords as tonics. How many people cons…

I tried to learn LilyPond once but it was a bit too arcane for my taste. Now I use MuseScore, WYSIWYG notation program which is a lot more intuitive (and, like LilyPond, also relea…

I'm curious why you would want 4K in this case? I was over at a family member's place and threw on an episode of TNG to kill time. I was trying to figure out why everything looked …

I share your experience and would like to make an unsolicited recommendation of a recent movie that's stuck with me more than anything else I've seen in the last few years: First R…

I think I could've phrased my comment better. I'm not assuming the constants can be changed; axiomatically, they cannot, because they're fundamental constants of the universe. I'm …

Which fine tuning arguments are you referring to? As I understand it, 'fine tuning' is simply a fact of the universe: that the fundamental constants have values that allow for the …

It's a fantastic game, I had a blast playing through it twice, first 'unspoiled', then following a guide to get all the characters. I wish there were more JRPGs that took such a ma…

Yes, quite contrary to my expectations. The phrase isn't even used outside of the title. I always knew it only as a Dune reference; was the actual spice trade ever described in suc…

Watched a bit of the demo video. Maybe I'm not the target audience but is this kind of an emacs approach to the terminal, in the sense of trying to put every possible graphical fun…

Look at the issues discussed: gender roles, race/immigration. Conservative means traditional gender roles, immigration as a negative/threat. Liberal means the opposite. For me at l…

My favorite thing about this link was seeing that the letter Y evolved from a bird hieroglyph! 𓅱𓅱𓅱 (your unicode support may vary)

My personal worst experience of this was Philip K. Dick's Time out of Joint ; since then I only read the blurbs after I'm finished.

I didn't read the comment you're replying to as endorsing Meta's actions, but rather stating that it is the only thing you should expect given the current lack of regulation.

exactly what I thought as well, though I wasn't sure

I'm not saying they're awful, just that you're better off getting a reputable 20th century translation. Even a lot of the translations in the Complete Works you mention are getting…

A lot's happened in our understanding of Plato since Jowett's day

Where are you getting diminished 7th from? If you play the 3, the 5, the 7, and the 9 of E7 it's G# B D F#. At least in jazz we call that shape a "half-diminished" chord or "minor …

I also like Fagles, but when I said this to a classicist she made a face

And Jowett's translations are explicitly not recommended for anyone trying to study Plato's thought, which is what most people read Plato for (the same goes for all public domain t…

It reminds me of a friend in high school who convinced me that he grew scallions in his bathroom. It seemed weird but he described it in some detail, how the humidity from the show…

The problem being that availability is a function of popularity and age. If you want something older that isn't a celebrated classic, it can be a lot more difficult to access...

I guess it would've been more honest to say "sorry to seem pedantic," because for me the comment was not mere pedantry (which I think of as hairsplitting for the sake of hairsplitt…

Sorry to be pedantic, but the categorical imperative is not about reasoning from the consequences of an action if everyone did it. It's about testing whether it's even possible for…