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Anthony-G commented on Apple I Advertisement (1976)   apple1.chez.com/Apple1pro... · Posted by u/janandonly
virtualritz · 6 days ago
This is not an original copy of the advertisement. This is typeset horribly from the original text of the ad, probably.

Giveaways are brutal/ill placed line breaks, zero quotes being curly ones (single and double), -- instead of a en/em dash, missing hypenation or existing one that does not align with typesetting "dis- play", etc., etc.

Why not use an image of the original instead? [1]

Jobs would have never signed off on a typographic eyesore like this. :]

[1] https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-an-advertisement-for-the-a...

Anthony-G · 6 days ago
Jobs might have had a good eye for typography but he seems to have had a blind spot when it came to grocers’ apostrophes. :)
Anthony-G commented on Dead Internet Theory   kudmitry.com/articles/dea... · Posted by u/skwee357
makingstuffs · 20 days ago
Think the notion that ‘no one’ uses em dashes is a bit misguided. I’ve personally used them in text for as long as I can remember.

Also on the phrase “you’re absolute right”, it’s definitely a phrase my friends and I use a lot, albeit in a sorta of sarcastic manner when one of us says something which is obvious but, nonetheless, we use it. We also tend to use “Well, you’re not wrong” again in a sarcastic manner for something which is obvious.

And, no, we’re not from non English speaking countries (some of our parents are), we all grew up in the UK.

Just thought I’d add that in there as it’s a bit extreme to see an em dash instantly jump to “must be written by AI”

Anthony-G · 20 days ago
On my side of the Atlantic using en-dashes with spaces on either side of the dash is acceptable writing style so that’s what I use (instead of em-dashes). However, many people can’t tell the difference between the two so some might confuse my writing from that of an LLM. But I’m not going to let that dictate my writing style.

For the past 15 years, I’ve used the Unicycle Vim plugin¹ which makes it very easy to add proper typographic quotes and dashes in Insert mode. As something of a typography nerd, I’ve extended it to include other Unicode characters, e.g., prime and double-prime characters to represent minutes and seconds.

At the same time, I’ve always used a Firefox extension that launches GVim when editing a text box; currently, I’m using Tridactyl for this purpose.

¹ https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1384

Anthony-G commented on 25 Years of Wikipedia   wikipedia25.org... · Posted by u/easton
hit8run · 24 days ago
Anthony-G · 23 days ago
I hadn’t heard of Grokipedia so based on the positive comments in this thread, I thought I’d try it out – only to discover that its search feature sucks.

I’ve just finished watching a HBO TV show on Blu-Ray called “The Night of” so I tried searching for it on Grokipedia. It failed to find an article about the TV series in the first 60 search results (regardless of whether I used double quotes or appended the words “TV” or “series”). After multiple attempts, I gave up.

On the other hand, when I typed the three words into Wikipedia’s search, the TV show was the second search result.

Anthony-G commented on Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/rayrey
tw04 · a month ago
> Bose should not receive praise for this move.

Remind me of any other vendor in recent history that end of lifed a hardware product and then open sourced it whether they got backlash or not. Because I can’t think of a single one.

So yes, Bose absolutely deserves praise.

Anthony-G · a month ago
Logitech are my go-to example of a company that does the right thing and deserves recognition for it. They kept their squeezebox.com servers going for a decade after they discontinued their Squeezebox hardware audio players. At the same time, they funded a maintainer to keep improving the open source server software that users can self-host on multiple platforms (Linux, Windows, macOS, Raspberry Pi). Two years ago, they finally shut down the squeezebox.com servers that they were running but the server software is still being actively maintained: https://lyrion.org/
Anthony-G commented on Ozempic Melted Away Weight–and the Idea of 'Body Positivity'   wsj.com/opinion/ozempic-m... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
jhanschoo · a month ago
Can you clarify which description of body positivity struck you as odd?
Anthony-G · a month ago
I’m fairly certain that the “odd” behaviour is that of the extremists who hijacked the original concept to promote the idea that being fat is good.

I’d consider calling it “odd” to be an understatement. I always thought such extreme positions were a bizarre denial of the negative impacts that obesity can have on personal well-being and quality of life. Having said that, I only ever encountered such views on the Internet; never in real life.

Anthony-G commented on Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups   smokingonabike.com/2025/1... · Posted by u/coldpie
RobotToaster · a month ago
I was fine with ads when they were a text AdSense banner.

Now a lot of sites have scammy full page js-popups of the kind that were only found on dodgy websites in the 90s.

Anthony-G · a month ago
As a life-long hater of ads (before the Internet, I would mute the TV during ad breaks), I must agree. Before AdSense, animated GIFs for advertising were obnoxious. When the “Don’t be evil” Google started doing advertising, I was so impressed with them. Even their advertising is tasteful - and relevant! They really seemed to have the Midas touch.

But I feel that their choice of advertising revenue as their predominant income stream set them on a trajectory that gradually and inexorably led them further away from their original principles.

Anthony-G commented on Cassette tapes are making a comeback?   theconversation.com/casse... · Posted by u/devonnull
Anthony-G · 2 months ago
A friend’s daughter (young adult) told me about five years ago that cassette tapes are “cool” again. I was surprised because I always considered them to be the worst physical medium for music. I still have the cassette deck that I bought in the 90s for my hi-fi separate system but I haven’t listened to it in years. In the mid-2000s, I gave away most of my cassettes to a friend who had bought an old car that only had a tape deck. I only held on to recordings that were only released on cassette: demo tapes, bootlegs of live concerts that I had attended and some DIY releases from 90s’ punk bands that didn’t have (nor want) a record label.
Anthony-G commented on Cassette tapes are making a comeback?   theconversation.com/casse... · Posted by u/devonnull
wkjagt · 2 months ago
Not trying to correct you, just looking for the right word. Digital isn't the right term here, because CDs are also digital. I'm trying to come up with the word for the opposite of physical media, but strangely I can't. Maybe streaming, but how would MP3s on a USB drive fit in?
Anthony-G · 2 months ago
Ethereal, Ephemeral?

I know what you mean but I can't think of any word that describes the concept (without requiring further elaboration).

Anthony-G commented on Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds   bbc.com/news/articles/c23... · Posted by u/1659447091
shevy-java · 2 months ago
I am always so peaceful when listening to heavy metal ... :D

I think the article should focus more on good music elements versus bad music elements. My brain gets annoyed at bad music. Good music can be useful though, in particular for relaxing. I normally dislike jazz-elements, but Sade for instance is acceptable (not pure jazz, but she uses jazzy elements).

Anthony-G · 2 months ago
I'm more a fan of atmospheric black metal, 80's thrash and prog metal, myself but the psychological effects of listening to death metal have been researched. As previously discussed on Hacker News:

Dissecting the Bloodthirsty Bliss of Death Metal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18335308

Death metal music inspires joy not violence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19383699

Anthony-G commented on How Tube Amplifiers Work   robrobinette.com/How_Amps... · Posted by u/gokhan
WorkerBee28474 · 3 months ago
I'd like to plug the YouTube Video by Jim Lill - "Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In A Guitar Amplifier?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcBEOcPtlYk

Anthony-G · 3 months ago
Thanks for that. I hadn’t come across Jim Lill before. For someone who’s “just a performer”, he knows a lot (about circuits). I found the comparisons of different order of Equalisation and Distortion to be interesting and I loved his Tacklebox. I’ll definitely check some of his other videos.

u/Anthony-G

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