"translated by GPT"
I believe parent was talking about translated book, not about the comment.
Readit Newsgrujicd commented on Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025 mbh4h.substack.com/p/neur... · Posted by u/keiferski
grujicd commented on EU to ban carry-on baggage fees bbc.com/travel/article/20... · Posted by u/kelnos
I was forced to purchase 73EUR priority ticket for few LP records few weeks ago. They don't fit into Wizair specified backpack, so I know it is against the rules if I carry them separately, but come on, it's few hundred grams and they're very slim, don't take any place in overhead storage. So I'm looking forward for this regulation, even if tickets get few euros more expensive, it would be a win for me as LPs are a great souvenir since you remember the journey each time you play it.
grujicd commented on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/pentagrama
I'm struggling to find an option for running x86 Windows software on MacOS/Apple Silicon performantly. (LiDAR point cloud processing.)
The possibilities seem endless and kinda confusing with Windows on ARM vs Rosetta and Wine, think there's some other options which use MacOS's included virtualization frameworks.
Have you tried to install Windows 11 ARM under UTM on Mac? UTM is a kind of open source Parallels. Then you'll run x86 software using Windows' variant of Rosetta. Probably slower than Rosetta but perhaps good enough.
Also similar to the strange subplot in "Until the End of the World" [1] where a damaged Indian nuclear satellite threatens to fall to earth destroying civilization.
That movie has one of the best soundtracks ever. Highly recommended - it was released as an album and you can find it on Spotify and similar services.
grujicd commented on A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up captrice.io/... · Posted by u/adityaathalye
I really wanted to like Rocksmith, but the progressive difficulty didn’t feel quite right. I would get stuck on new chords, try the recommended arcade games, get stuck on those even harder and less satisfying tasks, then lose motivation. By the time I picked it back up it didn’t respond to the fact that my skills had regressed and I had to start a new profile. I spent more time noodling in the tone modeler than anything.
In retrospect, playing Rocksmith mostly improved my timing. And made me "keep the song going even if you miss a note". If you're just playing alone, without a metronome, backing track or a band, it's a habit to stop and repeat bad section.
grujicd commented on Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia twitter.com/nexta_tv/stat... · Posted by u/aquir
I’m moderately suspicious of the details some people/articles say. Long story short, there’s 1-4khz audio weapons (LRAD), and microwave/heat based ADS. It appears that both of these were used, a Reddit army vet commented about how that’s apparently the “protocol” as the ADS is strong enough to pick off the last stragglers.
I’m ever so slightly suspicious of the “low frequency sound weapon” aspect because that typically takes a lot of energy (I’m speaking from an audio background). However the reports of feeling uneasy do match that of infrasound… yet typically (based on what I’ve read) infrasound doesn’t have an instant reaction but takes some time for people to feel it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon has a lot more info if anyone is interested.
Earshot NGO analyzed recorded sounds and found 4 of these videos "consistent with Vortex Ring Gun or Vortex Cannon":
https://x.com/earshot_ngo/status/1901661518153781534
Note that many videos didn't record the sound if the phone was further away from that center line.
This is the recording which perhaps captured sound the best:
grujicd commented on Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia twitter.com/nexta_tv/stat... · Posted by u/aquir
Close friend who was on the spot described it as car or plane running towards you, you don't only hear it, you also feel vibrations in the body creating panic and fear.
All demonstrations of LRAD I heard on youtube were with high pitched sound, not a "whoosh" as witnesses experienced last night in Belgrade. Can these devices play any kind of sound?
What is described by victims, and what can be heard on some recordings from last nights, sounds more like Vortex Cannon:
grujicd commented on Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia twitter.com/nexta_tv/stat... · Posted by u/aquir
Serbia is one of the Russian-controlled Governments, along with Hungary and Georgia; these are the countries where we expect to see such attacks made to suppress protest.
(USA is not controlled, any more than say China is controlled, but is an authoritarian regime (so no real elections), so there's a shared world view, and here also I would expect to see much the same.)
It's incorrect that Serbia has Russian-controlled government. Why would you say that? We're quite capable of having our own independent dictator, thank you. If anything, Vučić was widely supported by EU. One of our problems is that there's almost no pressure on government from any external side - not from US, not from EU, not from Russia, not from China. Opposition is entirely internal.
grujicd commented on How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill? cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/h... · Posted by u/dwighttk
You can’t talk about kill rates in the 90s without talking about Nevermind. Well you can but it’s irresponsible.
I’d argue nothing successful in rock came out over the next 20 years without somehow relating to nevermind.
Nevermind was among 7 albums released within 44 days:
Metallica, Metallica Pearl Jam, Ten Guns N’ Roses, Use Your Illusion I Guns N’ Roses, Use Your Illusion II Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar Sex Magik Soundgarden, Badmotorfinger Nirvana, Nevermind
That swim ring was a bit loose. I was standing in the water, probably jumping up and down like kids do. Somehow, I lost balance and as my upper body fell to the side the swim ring moved from my waist toward feet. It stayed there and pulled my feet upward while my head went below the water. I was powerless to return to the surface as feet were stuck in that floating ring, forcing me upside down. Fortunately, a family friend noticed the situation and pulled me from the water. Near-death situation, and it looked perfectly safe.