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Post by singingfish »

EricE wrote: post #142
spoonjim wrote: post #76

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You might be surprised how little of a “disguise” can make you unrecognizable. Shakira took a history class at UCLA and just by not wearing makeup and using her legal name Isabel, nobody recognized her (or if they did, they didn’t say anything). The “Shakira” you see on TV is such an artificial construction that someone seeing her without any of the artifice has no idea it’s “her.”

I think a bit of that is you don't expect to see someone famous just walking down the street. On more than on occasion I've passed someone and went "Was that.... naw, couldn't be" then found out later that yes, it really was that person. The corollary to the S.E.P. field in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (SEP - Somebody Else's Problem Field - loved the concept for the ultimate invisibility cloak)

I was in the shop the other day and I had a small ice block related interaction with a little kid. Then her mum turned to speak to me and it was one of the Orange is the New Black actors. Which surprised me quite a bit - even though I knew she was a regular at the shop. I wonder if she'd clocked that I recognised her. I think I hid it well though.

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Post by ryanmarsh »

nicolashahn wrote: post #7

This completely sucks. I had a bucket list item to see them live. Definitely my most listened-to artist ever. Best of luck to their next endeavors though, I hope they both continue to make music.

Came here to say this. After missing 2010 I set aside some money so that if a concert was announced anywhere in the world I could drop everything and go. Sadly it doesn't look like that will happen now.

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

fpgaminer wrote: post #264
donatj wrote: post #14

I genuinely feel like listening to Discovery on my discman on the bus in high school helped define who I am as a person. On the one hand I find this news horribly disheartening, on the other hand I am thrilled to see them go out on top. They have never had a bad album, and I’m my opinion they only got better as they went. Godspeed you beautiful robots.

> I genuinely feel like listening to Discovery on my discman on the bus in high school helped define who I am as a person. In high school my backpack had a small zipped pocket at the top specifically designed for a CD player. You ran your headphone cord through a gasket into the pocket, keeping your player safe and convenient. As a loner, it was splendid. And then you always wished you had a CD player with just a _li…

I remember in high school spending my money on what was probably the best portable CD player on the market, the Panasonic SL-SW890 [0]

Pretty sure the target audience was runners. It had a strap on the back so you would attach it to your hand, and near the hinge was a hard slightly-rubbery plastic with little indentations for your fingers. It was incredibly comfortable to hold.

And the skip protection was absolutely top-tier. By some kind of magic, the laser could read the disc at any arbitrary speed up to some limit. It didn't just handle bumps, but weird sudden rotations that would change the speed of disc rotation relative to the laser. I think it claimed 40 seconds of skip protection, but I would jostle, spin, and bump it for 5 solid minutes and no skipping.

And the way the thing close made it very difficult to accidentally pop it open. Drop it, throw it, it's staying closed.

Of course, I paid for all that ruggedness. I think at the time, most portable CD players were around $75, and I think I paid $150 for it. Of course, this was over 20 years ago so my memory could be wrong.

Pretty sure I still have that player in a box somewhere.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-SL-SW890-Shockwave-Portable...

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Post by ryandrake »

cheschire wrote: post #22
thomas wrote: post #3

Part of me is always quite envious of people who cleanly close one chapter of their life and move on to the next.

I feel a deep respect for people who experience their 15 minutes and then choose to leave it or move behind the scenes rather than searching for that next addicting dose of fame. Folks go on to become producers, directors, stage actors, video game voice actors, music label owners, teachers... It always seems like an interesting story that I would love to know more about, and yet I feel that the act of learning more w…

Even if it's longer than 15 minutes, you've got to call it at some point, otherwise it just gets kind of sad.

I'm a bit of a classic rock / prog rock fan. These bands are getting old, and they sometimes have staff changes as a result of band members dying of old age. Went to a Yes concert recently and have kind of mixed feelings about it. It's like Steve Howe and a backup band. I mean it's great that these older artists "still got it" and want to keep doing what they love, but from the point of view of a fan, maybe it's best to call it a day when your best work is firmly in the past.

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Post by Clubber »

mindcrime wrote: post #274
EricE wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think a bit of that is you don't expect to see someone famous just walking down the street. On more than on occasion I've passed someone and went "Was that.... naw, couldn't be" then found out later that yes, it really was that person. The corollary to the S.E.P. field in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (SEP - Somebody Else's Problem Field - loved the concept for the ultimate invisibility cloak)

I think a bit of that is you don't expect to see someone famous just walking down the street. This reminds me of a celebrity encounter I had once. I walked into a Gold's Gym in Raleigh, and saw a guy doing triceps press-downs on the machine right by the path to the locker room. I had to walk past to get to the locker room and as I approached I realized I was looking at Arn Anderson (professional wrestler). I was a bi…

I saw Mr.T at a networking conference in the late 90s posing for pictures for attendees. He was a hero of mine as a kid. I was star struck and couldn't think of anything to say, but I did get a picture. He was in a variation of his A-Team outfit.

I also saw Ed McMahon in an elevator a few months later at my shared office space. Something to the effect of, "Going up?" and I replied, "No down, thanks." Totally normal average Joe encounter.

Such a strange world we live in.

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Post by fxtentacle »

ForHackernews wrote: post #254
weinzierl wrote: post #146

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It's the fallacy of the C-list celebrity to realize too late that fame does not easily convert to fortune.

I guess it depends how rich you aspire to be. If you have a a million social media followers, it's trivial to cash in on that attention to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

except if you try to sell t-shirts?

https://www.insider.com/instagrammer-arii-2-million-follower...

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Post by Anthony-G »

egypturnash wrote: post #240
saalweachter wrote: post #109

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Since I don't go to live shows, I tend to just have the disappointment of finding out that I only like some of my favorite bands' albums, because the arc of their own musical careers doesn't match my own tastes. Why can't performers just stay the same forever, producing a never-ending sequence of similar but distinct works?

Some do! Some don't. There is one English psychedelic outfit I like called "Ozric Tentacles". Every album is pretty much identical. And it turns out that I really like that album , so I have bought it ten times over the years, plus a couple of live albums. This happens in part because whenever the people behind Ozric Tentacles want to make something different from their trademark sound, they'll usually put it out und…

Despite having seen them live a few times, I only own one Ozric Tentacles as I figured there’s no need to buy any of the others. :)

I always figured that the members got their musical satisfaction from their side projects. Thought I haven’t listened to them in years, I actually preferred Eat Static which was formed by two of the Ozrics. Similarly, another band I listened to at the time, System 7 was formed by members of Gong.

This was around the time I was discovering what’s now called “electronic dance music”. As a music listener, EDM was much more exciting and interesting than much of the guitar-based music in the mid-nineties.

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Post by vinger »

dahart wrote: post #122
vinger wrote: post #99

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Who they are changes based on who is performing in what city.

It didn't start that way in NY, but now they have that option precisely because nobody can recognize them, right?

It's great I can go to New York and watch many of the original cast but it is also great I can find them in London, Toronto, Vegas, probably Toyko.

Who they are can change as long as they look and act the same. It brings down costs and allows the creator to scale.

It's better than plays because shows in different cities will have different actors and everyone knows.

But you do lose the ability to promote based on individual people. And for plays that can be a huge draw. Stars will bring people.

Think of how much bigger blueman group coull be if each had a different personality. Perhaps a cartoon could have been made.

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Post by orestarod »

oarsinsync wrote: post #243
core-questions wrote: post #236

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Facial recognition is being banned for law enforcement use not because it doesn't work, or is ineffective, or is undesirable, but because it reveals politically uncomfortable truths about who commits crime that existing crime stats were already pointing out in a less visceral way.

That's a pretty damning statement to make. Can you provide some citations to back that view up?

Without links ready, and not being the OP, I have seen many articles saying that "this ML recognition/analysis system has racial bias because the targets it finds are more {insert trait} than average." It struck me how such an unscientific thing made it to so many articles. It's a symptom of a cause that a specific group has greater representation in something, e.g. crime. You can't call factual observations, racist. You should rather find the root cause and solve it.

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Post by coldsmoke »

zeruch wrote: post #278
latortuga wrote: post #262

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Don't know year but lolla is always in grant park, Chicago.

It is now, but wasn't originally. It was a touring show the first half dozen years until it went on hiatus. When it was revived in the (mid?) 2000s, it became a solo Chicago event.

It's touring again. At least outside of the US. I was at the one in Stockholm, Sweden two years ago. It was supposed to come back last year, but you know...
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