Why should the people know how the culture is pronounced in English?! (If they knew about the culture in the first place)
As far as I know this is not obscure knowledge (where I am from)
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neolithicum commented on ‘The Celts: A Modern History’ by Ian Stewart Review historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/lermontov
For the rest of the world they will have the same problem as the Americans except they know the word from the football club Celtic which is pronounced with a soft c as well.
And others still will not have heard of either and would think the clubs are pronounced like the historic culture
neolithicum commented on BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem github.com/johang/btfs... · Posted by u/pyinstallwoes
This project still seems alive to my pleasant surprise.
https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-rippi...
I never had it fully working because the last time I tried, I was too focused on using VMs or Docker and not just dedicating a small, older computer to it, but I think about it often and may finally just take the time to set up a station to properly rip all the Columbia House CDs I bought when I was a teen and held on to.
Nice, I might install this on my Raspberry Pi.
neolithicum commented on BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem github.com/johang/btfs... · Posted by u/pyinstallwoes
https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper
https://github.com/thomas-mc-work/most-possible-unattended-r...
Finding a good CD drive to rip them is the first step.
https://flemmingss.com/importing-data-from-discogs-and-other...
IME Discogs had the track data most often.
And obviously rip to flac
Great suggestions, I'll have to try these out. Thank you!
neolithicum commented on BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem github.com/johang/btfs... · Posted by u/pyinstallwoes
Not the same as what you are talking about, but your comment reminded me of AccurateRip [1] which I used to make extensive use of back when I was ripping hundreds of CDs every year.
Do you have any tricks you can share on how to rip a large library of CDs? It would be nice to semi-automate the ripping process but I haven't found any tools to help with that. Also the MusicBrainz audio tagging library (the only open one I am aware of?) almost never has good tags for my CDs that don't have to be edited afterwards.
neolithicum commented on How to make a synthetic diamond (2009) instructables.com/How-to-... · Posted by u/luu
The linked article appears to be an April Fools joke https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Prank-the-Instructab...
This kind of taking pride in ignorance just infuriates me to no end. Merely being ignorant of something is fine, as we're all ignorant of most things, but being proud of it just makes you stupid. Why do we put people like this on TV? </rant>
Ignorance (especially pride about it) is so infuriating because it suggests to people that their knowledge about something is not in any way essential to humans. And this is true about Excel. If someone told me they hadn't heard of WWII or the moon landing then I would be right to be angry as it is information that is really essential to all of us. For anything else, we really shouldn't waste our energy on this infinite source of anger.
This is the first time I have heard of that woman, I bet nobody cares about it here. Perhaps other people would be mad about it in the same way you are about her not knowing Excel. I won't disagree with you though that it is very tempting to get annoyed by it :)
neolithicum commented on A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4 twitter.com/alexalbert__/... · Posted by u/rafiste
This tweet sums how I feel about these exercises.
I think the tweet misses the point of these demonstrations. AI has the potential of being a dangerous technology and it's good that people are showing how it can be fooled into doing things it shouldn't.
neolithicum commented on Dwarf Fortress – randomly generated, persistent fantasy world bay12games.com/dwarves/fe... · Posted by u/loa_in_
If you can stomach the adjustment period for ASCII I'd really recommend it. I think it does something a lot of modern games miss out on - it encourages imagination first. The information given to the player is extremely dense and easy to parse once you've adjusted and you're giving your brain a chance to try and play inside your own head. I've built a glorious six floor tavern (slowly) with engravings on every surface - even those not reachable by pathing, why? because I had an image of a tavern floor full of rowdy miners with opera boxes circling the room above them for dwarves of a more refined taste... in the end it's just a box you need to floor scroll to see on the screen but the carved pillars in the middle of the room - the enclaves for dwarves to, in hushed voices, discuss just how beautiful gold is - and the grand skylight in the middle of the ceiling casting a rainbow of different colored light on the ground below... that's awesome.
Dwarf fortress is the first thing since MUDing that's really scratched the imagination itch in quite that way and, as someone who has worked in game development themselves, I think it's something that is only possible if you keep to the lowest tech. If you use words or abstract symbols then each player will fill in the details themselves, usually in their head but sometimes in artwork (see Kruggsmash as an approachable example here[1]) which can be extremely fulfilling.
I hope to see the non-ASCII version work as a gateway drug to get more people into the imagination of what they're building. And I hope this didn't come off as ranty or judgemental - each person enjoys games in different ways... but low detail art has a way of really spurring the imagination on!
This is also one of the reasons I enjoy playing older games. 2D RPGs such as Baldur's Gate to me aren't detailed enough to fully depict the game world, therefore my imagination fills in the gaps. This leads to a significant part of the game being played in my head which I think can create more immersion sometimes than more photorealistics games would, though I'm not saying this is a general rule.
neolithicum commented on Rewriting the Story of Ötzi, the Murdered Iceman smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/diodorus
> In addition, as ice continues to melt as a result of global warming, the findings suggest hikers—and researchers—may want to keep their eyes peeled for even more remarkable finds like Ötzi.
They are explicitly saying global warming which is the term du jour.
Your first comment sounds like it is saying something different than what the quote says. The quote just says: Ice melts due to current global warming, things get revealed in the ice. Where is the ambiguity?