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awfully polite, “rack off boofhead” is more familiar & “f**k off c**t” more traditional
January 30, 2026 at 9:58 PM
awfully polite, “rack off boofhead” is more familiar & “f**k off c**t” more traditional
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I made this sci-fi puppetry 60s pastiche. CGI, almost completely physics-animated. Love letter to things like Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, Space Patrol, and watching foreign television only to lose it forever afterwards youtu.be/ME7SVM7bwKU?si=jUYR6APY28kPCUqk
ENEMIES FROM VENUS! (~1965) (Surviving clip)
YouTube video by Ernst-Jan van Melle
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 11:57 AM
I made this sci-fi puppetry 60s pastiche. CGI, almost completely physics-animated. Love letter to things like Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, Space Patrol, and watching foreign television only to lose it forever afterwards youtu.be/ME7SVM7bwKU?si=jUYR6APY28kPCUqk
that diagram is all thanks to spaCy's part-of-speech tagging visualiser spacy.io/usage/lingui...
Linguistic Features · spaCy Usage Documentation
spaCy is a free open-source library for Natural Language Processing in Python. It features NER, POS tagging, dependency parsing, word vectors and more.
spacy.io
January 26, 2026 at 10:43 PM
that diagram is all thanks to spaCy's part-of-speech tagging visualiser spacy.io/usage/lingui...
complex but grammatical, lots of subordinates. subject is first "you", verb is "think", object is dependent clause whose subject is "you", verb is "know" (with complement "better" + comparison "than FEMA"), and dependant object is noun phrase "what to do" + prepositional phrase "with [the] shipment"
January 26, 2026 at 10:24 PM
complex but grammatical, lots of subordinates. subject is first "you", verb is "think", object is dependent clause whose subject is "you", verb is "know" (with complement "better" + comparison "than FEMA"), and dependant object is noun phrase "what to do" + prepositional phrase "with [the] shipment"
conic (or circular) gradient, different to a radial gradient. can be used with spinners, rainbow borders, partitioned circles, gauges/dials. tiled over a background you can get some nice patterns codepen.io/praveenpugli...
CSS Gradient Pattern Play - 5
Going floral and curvy....
codepen.io
January 25, 2026 at 11:13 PM
conic (or circular) gradient, different to a radial gradient. can be used with spinners, rainbow borders, partitioned circles, gauges/dials. tiled over a background you can get some nice patterns codepen.io/praveenpugli...
> City Skylines 2
I have been informed that Citystate Metropolis is the better citysim and would push the hardware a bit more, once it comes out
I have been informed that Citystate Metropolis is the better citysim and would push the hardware a bit more, once it comes out
January 24, 2026 at 1:16 AM
> City Skylines 2
I have been informed that Citystate Metropolis is the better citysim and would push the hardware a bit more, once it comes out
I have been informed that Citystate Metropolis is the better citysim and would push the hardware a bit more, once it comes out
sports? realMyst? one of the mudrunners? City Skylines 2?
January 24, 2026 at 1:06 AM
sports? realMyst? one of the mudrunners? City Skylines 2?
I probably should buy the party poppers now, to beat the rush
January 21, 2026 at 11:37 AM
I probably should buy the party poppers now, to beat the rush
the 2006 monitor sticks out a bit, needs a 15" CRT taking up half the desk
January 19, 2026 at 11:17 PM
the 2006 monitor sticks out a bit, needs a 15" CRT taking up half the desk
the cabin or car is the part of the elevator that moved up or down the hoistway. in ASL you make a C hand shape moving up and down for elevator
January 17, 2026 at 4:29 PM
the cabin or car is the part of the elevator that moved up or down the hoistway. in ASL you make a C hand shape moving up and down for elevator
DJ Shadow maybe. I think BoC went extremely heavy on the sampling+sequencing, more than looping a hook. their beats are supremely unfunky. just watched www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sswz... the other day which might be affecting me. also Black Sheep absolutely rule, great tune
Boards of Canada - roygbiv - DAWless hardware only cover/recreation
YouTube video by Bleeps and Boops
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:09 PM
DJ Shadow maybe. I think BoC went extremely heavy on the sampling+sequencing, more than looping a hook. their beats are supremely unfunky. just watched www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sswz... the other day which might be affecting me. also Black Sheep absolutely rule, great tune
thanks for the pointers, found some time to try following them & got something I liked to watch
January 11, 2026 at 2:11 PM
thanks for the pointers, found some time to try following them & got something I liked to watch
here's their implementation with Material Maker
materialmaker.org/material?id=...
materialmaker.org/material?id=...
Material Maker
Candle Flame by DroppedBeat
materialmaker.org
January 11, 2026 at 2:10 PM
here's their implementation with Material Maker
materialmaker.org/material?id=...
materialmaker.org/material?id=...
@lesmcclaine.com I have found out there is a book by a geographer that attempts to explain the geological history of Middle-earth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atl...
The Atlas of Middle-earth - Wikipedia
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January 6, 2026 at 11:33 AM
@lesmcclaine.com I have found out there is a book by a geographer that attempts to explain the geological history of Middle-earth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atl...
I have nothing to say on matters of taste except non est disputandum. but there’s a type of pickiness about writing that the reviewer has covered and accurately indicated to other picky readers that this book will probably not be to their liking. that’s what I meant by accurate
January 5, 2026 at 7:17 PM
I have nothing to say on matters of taste except non est disputandum. but there’s a type of pickiness about writing that the reviewer has covered and accurately indicated to other picky readers that this book will probably not be to their liking. that’s what I meant by accurate
Glen Cook? the reviewer is a bit over the top but they’re giving a reasonably accurate impression
January 5, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Glen Cook? the reviewer is a bit over the top but they’re giving a reasonably accurate impression
there’s a video in the article lined to from the first reply
January 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
there’s a video in the article lined to from the first reply
are you studying at uni? Apple education prices are about 10% cheaper, one hoop to jump through to prove it to them
January 2, 2026 at 11:57 PM
are you studying at uni? Apple education prices are about 10% cheaper, one hoop to jump through to prove it to them
I do all that + a few hundred tabs on a second-hand M1 Air with 8GB RAM and frankly can't really see much of a difference in performance compared to the M4 Pro I use at work
January 2, 2026 at 11:51 PM
I do all that + a few hundred tabs on a second-hand M1 Air with 8GB RAM and frankly can't really see much of a difference in performance compared to the M4 Pro I use at work
pretty much. you can get the components a bit cheaper via Aliexpress. there are pre assembled versions called macropads that skip the hassle of sourcing the right parts
December 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
pretty much. you can get the components a bit cheaper via Aliexpress. there are pre assembled versions called macropads that skip the hassle of sourcing the right parts