Readit Newsyesbabyyes commented on Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award aljazeera.com/news/2026/2... · Posted by u/defrost
I've enjoyed some of the Touareg stuff (like Tinariwen or Tarwa N-Trini -Berber, really). You can see where some of the American blues came from.
If you ever get the chance to see Tinariwen live, take it!
> Sometimes the new guy can make a better version themselves over the weekend, not because they’re a supergenius, but because they’re not hampered by 47 teams all trying to get their stamp on the project.
In 99.9% of cases what seems to be "the better" version is better only for the "new guy" or rather his ego.
Those 47 teams hampering doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing, and more often than not actually well justified "stamps".
You only understand those things when you turn from the "supergenius" into an owner who have to take care not only of numbers on screen, but also security, interfacing, management and so on.
Or you don't turn into.
Not saying you're wrong in all cases, but there are enough examples of hugely expensive megaprojects which totslly tanked, which would have definitely been much more successful with OPs approach if executed correctly. Not saying they would be done and done within a weekend, that's silly. But the alternative, poorly defined integration interfaces, multiple contractors, multiple stakeholders with conflicting requirements and zero (real) regard for the user is unfortunately fairly common, both in public (city/regional/government) and private bureaucracies.
The examples are legion, and they always seem to have NIH and baroque requirements, and be rather over- than underspecified. I would go so far as to say that these projects are almost never successful (and definitely never on time and budget).
yesbabyyes commented on A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw brandon.wang/2026/clawdbo... · Posted by u/brdd
Text is meant primarily to be read rather than written.
Sure, but preeminently for effortless querying in PostgreSQL.
yesbabyyes commented on The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-tsh... · Posted by u/tosh
Nice, ordered.
For fans of computing history and/or Feynman, this article about his time with, and contributions to, Thinking Machines and the Connection Machine is a great read!
https://longnow.org/ideas/richard-feynman-and-the-connection...
yesbabyyes commented on Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video] youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3... · Posted by u/HansVanEijsden
I heard Germans hate American root beer because they think it tastes like toothpaste and that very thought ruined root beer for me for a few years (until a sunny day when I was just dying for a root beer float and it absolutely hit the spot).
There is a Swedish snus which tastes just like the smell of CRC 5-56. Not everyone loves it but boy it's nice. I have given up snus though.
yesbabyyes commented on Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” office.com... · Posted by u/LeoPanthera
I seem to remember they spent years trying and failing to migrate it to .net.
Not quite--this predates .net. They acquired Hotmail in 1997, while it was running on Solaris mail servers and Apache on FreeBSD for the web frontend. In a highly publicized move, Microsoft ventured to port it to Exchange and IIS on Windows NT. This went on for years on end, with MS claiming to have finished the transition several times, while getting egg on their face. Eventually, they got it running on Windows 2000 and a combination of their flagship products and Windows Services for Unix (the WSL of those times).
It has since been rebranded as MSN Hotmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Hotmail, and Outlook, likely with some 365 thrown in.
Meanwhile, they have mismanaged their once great mail user agent Outlook Express, as well as their quite useful personal information manager Microsoft Outlook, to the point where their newest offering is absolutely unusable.
Dairy is a category that depending on context may or may not include eggs. In this case the distinction doesn’t matter. Vegans wouldn’t have experience with strictly defined dairy or eggs.
TIL! I am not American.
A perfect vegan alternative to mayonnaise is aioli, which consists only of garlic, olive oil, and salt.
yesbabyyes commented on I wish people were more public borretti.me/article/i-wis... · Posted by u/swah
If they farm your identity, they do so whether you post online or not. The only way to not contribute is to practice no identity. In that case your biomass still serves as a battery somehow (the movie fails to explain the physics here.)
As I heard it explained, the original manuscript had the humans kept alive because the Matrix was actually running on the humans' brains as the computing substrate. This both made much more sense than humans as a power source, was more horrific, and a better story.
Apparently this was deemed to hard for the unwashed masses to understand, and we were left with this battery analogy instead.
I'll keep an eye out for The Hu, thanks for the tip!