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Also, London Grammar did a great cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZYw0MQp_fI

Hence the wisdom of the 'already been there': (Mind)set and setting. A 'clinical' environment, may not be the ideal setting for some patients. I don't think psychedelics are going …

I still remember thinking as a young person (now 50+) that it was stupid leaving all these lights on at night, particularly corporate logos on buildings. I've moved out of the city…

Lets hope they don't end up creating the "grey goo" that endlessly replicates and can't be stopped.

Or don't bother with the above - install Windows 10 without an online account and just unplug the network card. Download the Win11 upgrade binary. Run the upgrade and keep clicking…

I liked the article, I think the general understanding is correct, but question the numbers/statistics, you can't have 67% (or 83%) of 16 people...

Rockbox on a Sansa Clip+ (2009) was my personal peak for portable music - overtaking ye olde mini-disc player. The newer models all sucked usability-wise in comparison - screen-wis…

Not that I'm against the idea behind the software, but the amount of name-stealing because it sounds cool (sometimes kind of relevant, sometimes not) that software has done, has to…

Nice to see that multi-national space-faring co-operation can transcend current differing national political stances.

The last things the capitalist powers that be want, is any sort of socialism. Profit > people, rather than People > profit. Just a reminder - socialism does not necessarily imply c…

Infinity isn't a destination, it's an iterative ongoing approach. You can idealise it like many things in mathematics, but implementation details fail compared to the abstract idea…

One also has to wonder how much local and non-local political interference was involved as well, considering most speakers were unlikely to support the 'status quo'.

> Of course, many people are building their business on huge AI scaffolding. It's similar in the way many businesses transitioned their scalability etc. to 'the cloud' starting a c…

Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus [0] This guy is a complete dick. He also falsified travel expenses (verifiable via save history) in a Word document so he could complain abou…

Brawndo.

...and New Zealand and Australia - at least we haven't privatised water yet.

The USA, land of the free^H^H^H^H surveilled.

FWIW, mushroom rings are real, at least in the UK. They seemed to be affected by EMF, because I wandered past one centered directly centered under street power lines, I have no ide…

I've never used AI except for messing around with Stable Diffusion in its early days (my then-current graphics card didn't have enough ram to run it), played with it a bit after an…

Guild halls and Freemasons were doing this kind of thing long before now.

Remember when Silverlight was _the_ future? How long did it last. Ironically it still gives me the shits because you can't select text on Netflix's front end.

The fan edit (M4's) of the Hobbit trilogy is way better than the released version.

They probably won't. They'll just change things so their hardware becomes a subscription-style model rather than proper outright ownership by the purchaser, which is to a limited d…

They're still going to take note of what you're reading and possibly brand you as a non-ultra-capitalist disruptor. Amazon can get fucked. I still buy physical media from them once…

$_ was one of the things that put me off perl, because the same syntax meant different things depending on context. The Pragmatic Programmers had just started praising Ruby, so I o…