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Bonnie Tyler has died

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Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by MontgomeryPy »

runako wrote: post #27
masfuerte wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm old enough to remember Walkmans coming out in 1979, which was the start of the end of the boombox era. Approximately no-one was using 8-track at that point.

I'm not quite that old, but didn't people look down on cassettes due to their lower audio quality? Weren't most home systems (hi-fis) still vinyl or 8-track for a while longer?

A big driver of cassettes then was the write ability, unlike 8 tracks. You could borrow your friend's new vinyl album, pop in a new cassette tape on your hi-fi, and record a copy of the album to the tape. Of course the Walkman then made listening to your new album fully portable.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by chasd00 »

auslegung wrote: post #2

Literal music video of Total Eclipse, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk RIP Ms Tyler, you will be missed

That is so great. My wife and i love to annoy our teenage kids by getting Alexa to play this song and then singing along very dramatically haha.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by xnorswap »

krapp wrote: post #37
PurpleRamen wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Death notices of famous artists are regularly on HN. If people upvote it, it should be worthy.

That's not how it works. If upvotes alone mattered, HN would quickly degenerate into Reddit. The bar is whether "good hackers" would find this interesting. Death notices of famous artists are the definition of off-topic: "most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." If normies care…

I do think HN should have an obit: category and filter them out the main page.

It's one thing to have obits for people who wouldn't be covered by regular news, but "75 year old celebrity dies" is not any kind of new phenomenon.

It generates a decent amount of upvotes and discussion based on name recognition and nostalgia, but every thread is essentially the same, "Oh, that's sad, I liked their work, .".

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by PurpleRamen »

krapp wrote: post #37
PurpleRamen wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Death notices of famous artists are regularly on HN. If people upvote it, it should be worthy.

That's not how it works. If upvotes alone mattered, HN would quickly degenerate into Reddit. The bar is whether "good hackers" would find this interesting. Death notices of famous artists are the definition of off-topic: "most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." If normies care…

> If upvotes alone mattered

I did not say upvotes alone matter, but they should be the final say after all other mechanisms.

> The bar is whether "good hackers" would find this interesting.

If this were true, the majority of frontpage-entries would have to be removed.

> "most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities,[..]If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

I guess the notable point here is "most" and "probably". The exception seems to be always news which are so important or dramatic that they are still not removed, and leaving the final decision to the upvotes. Which is why there are also regularly political and sometime seven sports entries (once or twice a year).

Despite being called hacker news, reality is not binary and rules should not be handled like that.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by japhyr »

Growing up in the 80s, I've known (and sung) this song all my life. But I just saw this flowchart for the first time today:

https://jeannr.tumblr.com/post/165291081/i-made-a-flow-chart...

I believe that's the original source, but it looks cut off. Here's a full version:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/82/dc/b182dcc291495c013c98...

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by wigster »

I went to the Reading Rock Festival back in the 80s. she was viewed very much as middle of the road and when she came on, got roundly booed and many bottles of nefarious liquids were tossed at her and the band.

she and they were total pros, shrugged it off, she hurled some abuse back and within a couple of songs had the crowd eating out of the palm of her hand.

RIP Bonnie. A class act.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

pavlov wrote: post #4
auslegung wrote: post #2

Literal music video of Total Eclipse, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk RIP Ms Tyler, you will be missed

There’s also one of A-Ha’s “Take on Me”. “Haaaand comes out…”

Nowhere near as good though.
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