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RichardCA commented on How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)   bbc.com/culture/article/2... · Posted by u/1659447091
ssl-3 · a month ago
Perhaps-fun stuff:

Linus and Lucy was recorded by the Vince Guaraldi Trio back in 1964.

They're all dead now, which is a shame.

But there's a brilliant modern recording, from 2016, that features the original drummer, Jerry Granelli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OODA_K5hxyc

And it's definitely worth spending some time to give it a watch/listen. There's a lot more to that little tune than most people probably realize.

RichardCA · a month ago
It's debatable whether it was first recorded in '63 or '64.

The genesis of Guaraldi's involvement was a 1963 documentary "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" which has nothing to do with the 1969 animated feature.

This was produced for TV but never aired, and recently surfaced on Youtube: https://youtu.be/UGAs5fZUvBM&t=425s

To complicate things further, Guaraldi released "Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown" (once again, based on the 1963 documentary) but these recordings are not the same as the cues used in the documentary.

RichardCA commented on Are you stuck in movie logic?   usefulfictions.substack.c... · Posted by u/eatitraw
stavros · a month ago
That's very interesting, would you happen to have any example videos of Hopkins in the show?
RichardCA · a month ago
https://youtu.be/fs9Wyuub3jY

Once you develop an awareness of how SF screenplay writers do this, you can't unsee it.

Babylon 5 was particularly egregious, I was never a fan but I was puzzled that JMS had to do rely on it so heavily. It was like he created the character of Delenn just to be an exposition dumper and Mira Furlan faithfully did what was asked of her. Screenwriters also call this diegesis if the writer goes all the way and uses dialog to explicitly feed the narrative to the audience.

https://youtu.be/VhD0hbGEDSU

RichardCA commented on Are you stuck in movie logic?   usefulfictions.substack.c... · Posted by u/eatitraw
DoomDestroyer · a month ago
I would argue that it is the opposite. People expect an info dump and everything explained to them. I remember watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier (I think it was the last movie I watched in theatre) and pretty much everything was explained to the audience. Guy Richie has character intro screens like Street Fighter in his movies.

Even in movies where everything is explained e.g. in Blade where they will have a scene where someone explains how a weapon works, I've noticed in a recent viewing of the movie that people forgot the explanations of the gadgets he has. In Blade they have a James Bond / Q like conversation between the characters to say "this weapons does X against vampires" and sets the weapon for later on in the movie and people forgot about it.

I watched "The Mothman Prophecies" and quite a lot of the movie was up to interpretation and there was many small things in the film that you might overlook e.g. there is a scene in a mirror where the reflection in the mirror is out of sync with his movements, suggesting something supernatural is occurring and he hasn't realised it yet. While I love the movie, there is very few movies like that.

If you watch movies before the 90s. A huge number of movies will have characters communicate efficiently and often realistically.

RichardCA · a month ago
If you go back and watch the first two seasons of HBO's Westworld, you will see Anthony Hopkins' character repeatedly doing exposition dumps out of his mouth. The difference is in how he does it, that he is in such complete command of his craft that he can work out exactly what the screenwriters intended without drawing any attention to it.

And Trekkies will remember the time Larry Niven wrote a screenplay for TAS and gave all the exposition dumps to Leonard Nimoy. See how nicely he handles it?

https://youtu.be/B65HEhBR-1s

RichardCA commented on The decline of deviance   experimental-history.com/... · Posted by u/zdw
rightbyte · 2 months ago
What does that mean? One is enought to ruin your reputation and chances later as an adult?
RichardCA · 2 months ago
More likely to get hit with a Zero Tolerance punishment for a single isolated incident, which derails your entire trajectory through the school system.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lansing/comments/1no5rtl/lansing_pa...

RichardCA commented on UK, Canada and Australia formally recognise Palestinian state   theguardian.com/politics/... · Posted by u/ath3nd
RichardCA · 3 months ago
If you don't like the word Genocide you can call it Demographic Engineering, but the fact that it is happening is beyond debate.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15npnzpd08o

RichardCA commented on The old SF tech scene is dead. What it's morphing into is more sinister   sfgate.com/tech/article/b... · Posted by u/jakemontero24
ThrowawayR2 · 3 months ago
The true Marxist would be trying to demolish Google and other tech companies and their unreasonably outsized profits as being unfair to workers as a class. But unsurprisingly, people are interpreting it in a way so that they can continue to rake in a gloriously fat paycheck and live a lavish lifestyle. In a peoples' revolution, they'd get what the kulaks got.

The fact that articles like the one submitted are increasing should alert you that the working poor do not see overpaid techbros as on their side, no matter how much they claim they are.

RichardCA · 3 months ago
I've always felt like tech workers view themselves as a modern-day petite-bourgeoisie, and this is why the industry has been so successful at keeping out the unions.

As an aside, I had friends who had to declare bankruptcy during DotCom 1.0 because of stock options and the Alternative Minimum Tax. This could have been fixed with legislation but it always seemed like the DC inside-the-beltway crowd saw the whole thing as class treachery and refused to intervene.

RichardCA commented on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah   nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/david927
mothballed · 4 months ago
A lot of war stories get embellished and no one is going to challenge it.

There's the story about the guy who says he was the hardest working man in Vietnam, and then when pressed about what he did, he states he was a trucker to the great surprise of anyone listening.

When asked why he thought that, he says "well I was the only one."

RichardCA · 4 months ago
If you're talking about the ones who drove supply trucks during the war years, the hardest working men were women.

https://vietnamnews.vn/sunday/features/947180/female-drivers...

RichardCA commented on Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up   mikelovesrobots.substack.... · Posted by u/dbalatero
bsder · 4 months ago
Do not forgive them. We already have a description for them:

"A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."

RichardCA · 4 months ago
Ironically, I would far prefer the Douglas Adams idea of "Genuine People Personalities" over the current status quo.

If the self checkout scanner at the supermarket started bickering with me for entering the wrong produce code, that would wrap up the whole Turing Test thing for me.

RichardCA commented on Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward   ghacks.net/2025/08/27/you... · Posted by u/speckx
olddustytrail · 4 months ago
There must be a name for this fallacy. You know where it goes:

Person/Company does crappy thing

People complain

Fanboy says "Person/Company could do amazing thing and people would still complain"

... when it's very obvious that company/person didn't do anything good.

I've seen it so many times there must be a name for it. Anyone know what it is?

RichardCA · 4 months ago
Begging the Question.

Step 1: Assume your claim is already true, e.g. "Microsoft is a still good corporate actor in spite of doing X".

Step 2: Manufacture circular logic to support your claim from Step 1.

In other words, the poster is begging the question to be self-evident, rather than producing evidence to support their claim.

RichardCA commented on The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]   simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf... · Posted by u/oliverkwebb
ferguess_k · 4 months ago
Asked ChatGPT and it told me the book might be "The Unix Programming Environment". It happens that the second link on Google is a pdf so I took a brief look, but did not find any cartoon. I asked it a second time and it said "UNIX for the Impatient", which does look like the one but I didn't find any pdf. Hopefully it helps.
RichardCA · 4 months ago
Thanks but no, everyone who came up in that era knew about K&P (K&R was the C book). The main publishers back then were O'Reilly, SAMS, QUE and a few others. I think it was a SAMS book but I'm not sure.

A more likely candidate is the Kochan book but the original 1985 first edition. It had the scrappy sense of humor that characterized the Unix culture in the 80's.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293206.UNIX_Shell_Progra...

u/RichardCA

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