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Comment All alternatives are good alternatives (Score 1) 45

Or at least more or less. But less is more.
  $ md5sum /usr/bin/more
07ace46a9736574403d8fa8a4096b228 /usr/bin/more
  $ md5sum /usr/bin/less
07ace46a9736574403d8fa8a4096b228 /usr/bin/less

But anyway, I use TextMate and Emacs on Mac and Notepad++ on Windows. I also use Pulsar and Obsidian across Win, Mac and Linux.

I welcome Notepad++ to MacOS and will probably try it out, but for me, Notepad++ is a bit long in the tooth, even on Windows.

Comment Re:Phases of Gravity (Score 1) 17

I always like a bit of cross-over between sci fi and fantasy. Much like in Star Wars original trilogy, the Hyperion series was fun to read because it had the mystic element present, despite being a sci fi. It tells you that despite having technology that seems like magic to us, there can still be events and beings that are _magical_ – that however much you think you have the advantage, you might still encounter that immovable barrier, that giant sandworm, that irresistible Shrike.

Comment Re:AI Database of Answers (Score 3, Interesting) 103

I will still trust a troll moderated Wikipedia over AI the drivel that is 95% truth and 5% complete Guillermo del Toro nightmare hallucinations. Even though I have stopped contributing to Wikipedia as it is impossible for me as an unmerited nobody to post anything without having it rolled back with a comment of "irrelevant", "wrong forum","lacking citation" (that was my fault) or "speculation" (yes I did speculate about a book cover being drawn in the same style as the Epic Adventure movie posters, like New Hope and National Lampoon's Vacation, but if you compare them you can't un-see it) - And yet, even if I'm being clobbered all the time, even on topics I think I can contribute, I believe this moderated mash is better than the artificial cud served by most LLMs. Not because the AI give the wrong answer, but because it is so vehemently pretending anything it presents is the truth. And I know all that nice fact is peppered with falsities and I have no way of telling how much until I try using that library (eg. SDL3) and find half the howto given by the AI is out of date (SDL2)

Comment Re:Branding (Score 1) 245

It is there My last car was a Peugeot 5008, but when we switched for an electric, the 5008 had yet to go electric and we switched to a VW ID.4. You know, the vehicle brand previously known as the original swazticar ;)

We do see a lot of Peugeot e2008 and e3008 around and I recently did look into the e5008, however after having driven the 300hp ID.4 GTX for a bit I could never swap that out for another 1-100 in 2 minutes car like the e5008. There are even some Citroens and Renault still on the road. But to answer your question, French car industry, like all European car manufacturers, feel the pressure from the Asian cars. Even some of the old European brands like Volvo are now essentially Chinese and more cheap brands are emerging every month.

Comment This was not about the pants. (Score 1) 180

This was never (only) about the pants. Carlsen is pissed at the committee (FIDE) after an attempt at arranging a world championship for a variety of fast chess and FIDE put a lot of effort in stopping that attempt. For Carlsen, the jeans (that looks better than most my formal pants) was just another FIDE greaseball and for FIDE this was just another attempt by Carlsen to demand some attention.

Comment Credit goes to (Score 1) 18

But how many of these "second lives" were seeded through other media? "Come and get your love" was pretty prominent in Guardians of the Galaxy and would have had its new round of glory days initiated from that, not a random discovery on Took Tick. This really doesn't have anything to do with this particular app as we did see similar trends on YouTube with songs like "Little green Bag" by George Baker and "Stuck in the middle with you" by Stealers Wheel, triggered by Reservoir Dogs and again a slew of other songs triggered by Pulp Fiction. The prominent thing with TuckTuck however, is that it emphasises on the music for a meme experience. It acts as a viral vector for the music that has already wormed itself into the ears of the target audience for that platform and goes exponential. The short videos and the fast repetition might then amplify that number. Still my question is if we can attribute the second life to BikBok or if it is the seeding through the "Old Media" (movie or TV) that should get the credit for uncovering the good old gems from the past.

Comment no.mac (Score 1) 171

It is surprising how much flak you can get on a usenet group called no.mac. The no comes from Norway. But that was lost on most the visitors who popped in to flame everyone in there for hating on the Macintosh. I am sure it was the same in no.pc or no.linux (if that managed to be created before the Great Restructuring and had to be no.it.os.linux.diverse because you had to have a hierarchy or else the structure was doomed)
So I guess flamewars Flamewars is the thing I remember.

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