[–] 18 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

Company makes three and a half funking billion euros in three months and everybody is going mental about how deep the shit is that company is in. I'll never get it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.

    For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said, 'I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle,' a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of a frightful interstellar battle.

    The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time.

    A dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Vl'hurgs, resplendent in his black jewelled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the G'Gugvuntt leader squatting opposite him in a cloud of green sweet-smelling steam, and, with a million sleek and horribly beweaponed star cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, challenged the vile creature to take back what it had said about his mother.

    The creature stirred in his sickly broiling vapour, and at that very moment the words, 'I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle' drifted across the conference table.

    Unfortunately, in the Vl'hurg tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries.

    Eventually, of course, after their galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realised that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own galaxy---now positively identified as the source of the offending remark.

    For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across---which happened to be Earth---where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.

    Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the universe say that this sort of thing is going on all the time, but that we are powerless to prevent it.

    'It's just life,' they say.

    Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 31.

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  • [+] -17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago) (4 children)

    Read the context and if anything, it made me want to use the app. Can't find it though, links are all dead.

    /edit Yeah, that was a dumb take. Just heard about the script in his farewell message that would ddos am instance. Fuck that shit.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

    Did you read the article? Once seawater enters the reactor, corrosion might affect the control rods to the point where the whole thing might spiral into criticality, maybe to the point of the reactor exploding. It's just a bit of heat for 50 to 100 years until it suddenly might become an atom bomb.

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    It's not that I don't get the appeal of having larger artwork. But the medium itself in the way it's used and produced doesn't make sense. The whole audio production pipeline is digital. Producers take analogue audio, introduce quantisation and digitisation errors immediately to be able to use their fancy computers to produce the music (which introduces even more errors due to all filters being digital) just to then dump that digital piece of sound into an analogue medium at the very end. Nothing is gained except the digital-analogue-conversion happens before creating the medium whereas with CDs you do it after reading from that medium. Which is a stupid idea, as dust and other issues will then mess with the result you're hearing.

    Now, if you're a producer that actually uses an all-analogue workflow, ignore this, I don't mean you. You also have my deepest respect for enduring that pain. Please point me towards some records that actually did this though.

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