Arghblarg

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[–] Arghblarg 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

IMO it should be called the Chicxulub Gulf, since the most significant thing to happen there, objectively speaking, was the end of the Cretaceous.

[–] Arghblarg 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Uhm... so I see all these posts via lemmy, but is there supposed to be a link or a specific site I go to in order to listen to each? Or am I supposed to listen to them via mastodon or something?

[–] Arghblarg 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Damn. Good one. I just searched online but I can't find or recall the name... there was a short SF story by.. Robert Bloch? About someone (American) finding their radio could communicate back in time with their father or grandfather, who was a German U-boat crewman. They knew when the U-boat had been sunk, so they told their ancestor to avoid the situation... and woke up the next morning to a very different world.

Anyone know the name of that story?

[–] Arghblarg 19 points 3 days ago

Wish granted. Cats everywhere who were declawed regain their functional digits with a nice new claw.

Wherever more than a dozen protein molecules which used to be part of a once-living, declawed cat, happen to reside in a currently-living being, a new terminal cat digit, complete with new sharp claw, grows spontaneously.

People, plants and animals worldwide suffer as domestic cat claws spontaneously grow, teratoma-like, randomly within or protruding from their living forms. Hospitals are overwhelmed with patients suddenly complaining of painful bumps in various parts of their bodies; some particularly unfortunate individuals are rushed to hospital with ghastly eye disfigurations causing blindness, brain seizures and other maladies, X-rays and CT scans revealing the same cause; small bones and claws in random body locations.

[–] Arghblarg 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I've considered getting a MISTer dev board of some sort for a while now, but this is a really slick package.

I wonder if the DIN10 port or the other parts are mapped such that the Atari ST/STe MISTer core could use a keyboard (or would it use one of the USB ports and translate those to the platform's IKBD controller for keyboard and mouse)? Apparently the MIDI for the Atari core should work over one of the hardware UARTs... hmm.

[–] Arghblarg 2 points 3 days ago

Let's all, around the world, file map fix reports if/when they do this, for the next 4 years if necessary.

[–] Arghblarg 3 points 3 days ago

Good to know. That's worrying indeed.

[–] Arghblarg 57 points 3 days ago (4 children)

So are any CDC staff working on ways to get word out on threats outside of the officially-gagged channels?

I would rather they don't lose their jobs by doing so, but civil disobedience is absolutely called for here.

[–] Arghblarg 8 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Yes, but only if the EU doesn't immediately replace the vacuum with their own forces.

(Do any of the EU nations have nukes that aren't owned by the US? Sadly such a deterrent is probably a requirement.)

[–] Arghblarg 30 points 3 days ago

After the door hits them in the arse on their way out, be sure to repatriate all the land for those US bases. Make them pay 300% more for the land, after this term if they want to come back.

And use whatever money is saved to bolster one's own national military. We can't rely on the US any more for defence.

[–] Arghblarg 57 points 4 days ago

This is the sort of resistance we need, no more 'decorum' to a fascist leader. He won't respect international norms so he deserves the benefit of none himself.

[–] Arghblarg 18 points 4 days ago

You can still order them, the shop on their site just calls them "The Cards" now and has no photo... my deck is on its way.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Arghblarg to c/[email protected]
 

Best book for learning the ins and outs of MIDI I've ever encountered. Relatively obscure, but an invaluable reference book for anyone wanting to dig into the details of how MIDI works.

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submitted 1 year ago by Arghblarg to c/forth
 

Nothing we apes don't already know (at least those of us who've been here for 84 years or so), but an interesting take from the MSM on it.

The system is rigged, this is one of the reasons why I Buy, HODL, DRS!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Arghblarg to c/homestead
 

A wire broke off the ignitor element in our Harman unit. I have ordered a replacement and it looks simple enough to fix myself. But before sourcing the part I had called about 5 different fireplace companies in the area, and it seems everyone has dropped all support for pellet stoves in recent years! Not only does no one sell them any more (other than Canadian Tire), but they all outright refused to even consider sending a repairperson to help.

It's a bit infuriating. I am calling them, literally saying "please come take my money at your standard hourly rate". One would think "struggling businesses" would be more willing to take on what should be profitable work.

Is it such a liability issue for them that they're actually afraid to take on the work?

What if something bigger fails someday on my pellet stove? Why is no one on the island now willing to work on one?

If you know of someone who does still service wood pellet stoves on the island (Courtenay/Comox), please reply here or DM me. Thanks.

EDIT: formatting

 

What does this mean? New levels of ass-covering for bank malfeasance, or just the regular sort of opacity?

Also see the original 'interim' declaration: https://www.osc.ca/en/securities-law/instruments-rules-policies/5/52-502/ontario-instrument-52-502-exemption-national-instrument-52-112-non-gaap-and-other-financial

and

https://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Eng/osfi-bsif/rep-rap/blueprint-plan-directeur/Pages/supervision-surveillance-let.aspx

Thanks to re⊃⊃it user JackTheTranscoder for links.

 

Good video by Richard Newton updating the whole GME story from the start up to today.

 

This occurred today when I tried updating/deleting old comments via the Redact tool, on the old super-stonk sub.

Guess they're afraid of losing their captive Apes!

 

See linked posting. I've commented there with a link to a CLI tool in Python that allows downloading of IA collections. I've submitted a patch to enable specifying start and end points so that it's easier to resume downloading a huge collection, or to allow multiple people to split up the work.

https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

https://archive.org/details/78rpm_bowling_green

F*ck the RIAA and absurdly long copyright.


EDIT: There is more than one collection of 78s on IA, so I updated the title.


The issue with these collections are that they're absolutely HUGE. And yes, IA offers torrents for them, but as a separate torrent for every. single. album. And the torrents have all data in them -- FLAC, fixed-rate MP3, VBR MP3, PDF liner notes, etc. etc... there may be some extremely hardcore data-hoarders out there who want everything, but IMHO as these are scratchy old 78 records, FLAC is overkill to just save the audio in a listenable format. The George Blood collection, just the VBR MP3s, is looking to be about 6TB. With ALL data it might be over 40TB! I can't afford that many hard drives :)


So, my approach at the moment is to save just the VBR MP3s (they seem to be done at up to 320kbps VBR) and the JPEG album cover. If I have a chance and any storage left afterwards, I can make a separate pass to get the album liner PDFs...


Tool used: https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive


Patch to allow setting start and end item indices for downloads: https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive/pull/605


Example usage to grab just the VBR MP3 and record label JPG for each (note the --start-idx and --end-idx arguments):

#ia download --start-idx=4001 --end-idx=8000 -a -i --format="VBR MP3" --format="JPEG" --search collection:georgeblood

I'm going to concentrate on the George Blood collection for now.. I'm starting at item 1. It would be great if others started at index 50,000, 100,000, 150,000, ... and others started at the end and worked backwards in similarly-sized chunks, so that it's assured someone gets each of them.

 

Found this community, saw no posts. Why not start off by letting us know what FORTH you use in the modern day?

I know there's GNU FORTH, and variants like 8th, which I downloaded ages ago but haven't really used. I like the idea of FORTH but haven't had the itch to write anything in it (I need to get over my current fascination with APL first, I guess, so I can try out FORTH again someday 😀 )

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3589345

(Credit to rexxit user u/JackTheTranscoder)

Could this be the start of a big foreign ownership dump?

 

(Credit to rexxit user u/JackTheTranscoder)

Could this be the start of a big foreign ownership dump?

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