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BaseBaal

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Batting 1.000 since 10,000 bce.
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BaseBaal··on New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
Reminds me of Tool's reaction to that trend, "Hooker with a Penis"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooker_with_a_Penis

BaseBaal··on Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism
Like the idea, but can't drag any element. Managed to build a lobby by double tapping. Elevator apparently needs to be dragged so I'm stuck. On Android & Waterfox.
BaseBaal··on The Triangle Game, from Zero
Reminds me of string art. On my long list of things to try.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_art

BaseBaal··on The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (1851)
Very cool, but the images are too pixelated. Project Gutenberg to the rescue:

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77400/pg77400-images.ht...

BaseBaal··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
The US distilled this from the Russian model.
BaseBaal··on Show HN: cbxy – A format for creating guided comic book experiences
Much nicer than my usual zoom & pan routine, love it. Hope this gets widely adopted.
BaseBaal··on 11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture
Cool pics. Direct link to the archive: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=mrg&st=gallery
BaseBaal··on Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
Do you happen to remember the channel name or have a link? Would love to see some OG service videos.
BaseBaal··on 1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored
Natural science illustration returns reasonable results. I think most are done traditionally in some type of watercolors.
BaseBaal··on The lost joy of music piracy
Add the following line to ublock origin in "My filters" & make sure the "Enable my custom filters" option box is checked to get around this:

https://radio.garden/api/geo

BaseBaal··on Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
From the newest releases page I stumbled into "Some Nigerian fertility cults" by Percy Amaury Talbot & am enjoying it so far.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78684

BaseBaal··on The UK's Answer to DARPA Wants to Rewire the Human Brain
https://archive.is/4kiwg
BaseBaal··on Why Not Venus?
Anyone who saw Night of the Living Dead knows this won't end well.
BaseBaal··on Keep Android Open
Vector Pinball is a must have.
BaseBaal··on Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed
For the lazy it basically means as embryos our anus forms before our mouths do. So we have to talk out our asses before we even leave the womb!
BaseBaal··on Ban passengers playing loud music on public transport, say Tories
Forget cones of shame, what we need are cones of silence.
BaseBaal··on Building a computer in the 90s (2019)
90's me was poring over TigerDirect[0] catalogs like they were porn.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TigerDirect

BaseBaal··on LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
Is it just me or does that sound like Garfield?
BaseBaal··on Why are there so many rationalist cults?
Which sects of Buddhism? Just curious to read further about them.
BaseBaal··on 36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens
Thanks, that helped.
BaseBaal··on 36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens
Mind boggling. Wish they included images of the scale compared to our sun, solar system, galaxy etc to help me wrap my head around this beast.
BaseBaal··on 1910: The year the modern world lost its mind
I vaguely remember reading somewhere about people seeing warriors on horseback for the first time calling them four legged demons or some such thing. I wonder what it would take to elicit that type of panicked response today?
BaseBaal··on 1910: The year the modern world lost its mind
Even if the ruling class was high off their tits on whatever substance probably had little to do with anything. Most likely the drug that had the most influence was, and still is, the lust for power.
BaseBaal··on Basic Social Skills Guide
Extremely fanatic soccer "fans", aka hooligans. Basically just an excuse to be antisocial.
BaseBaal··on Fight Chat Control
I think it's more apathy than an actual desire for more mass surveillance. People don't care until they are directly, negatively affected. Same as it ever was.
BaseBaal··on The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report
Can usually report anonymously so this shouldn't be an issue. If there's no mechanism for that then yeah I'd consider keeping my mouth shut if it doesn't involve me directly (like the body is in my home somehow).
BaseBaal··on Basic Social Skills Guide
The problem with this is when the convo goes beyond the initial common phrase. The response is likely to go more in depth. Then you're stuck nodding awkwardly, laughing awkwardly or just fudging it further... Awkwardly. Personally if it's a sport I'm not into I'll just admit that and explain why. The conversation will usually naturally move on and you won't seem phony.
BaseBaal··on Officially acquiring all 47 original Commodore trademarks
https://xcancel.com/wearecommodore/status/195131008839385917...
BaseBaal··on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness
Robots used in care homes for elderly people may help with loneliness, especially for those with no family or friends that visit.
BaseBaal··on Show HN: Minecrack – A simple, offline Minesweeper game for Android
A couple suggestions/requests:

Ability to tap numbers after flagging all the surrounding mines to reveal the safe adjacent tiles.

Tap to reveal, long tap to flag. It's kinda awkward having to switch to "flag mode".

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