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Apologies for a delay, I dived into my photo archives and it took me a while to select something relatively interesting. I shall endeavour to make several posts with music-related photos; I do suffer from a sort of an impostor syndrome here since …

Thank you for helping me notice a mistake in double negatives there :) I am not sure they are ready, nor do I think they want to. But I feel quite certain that they are actively looking in multiple directions to be able to diversify (in particular …

> ... and I was wondering if we could get more stories and concert photos from his archives. I'll be delighted and thank you for the kind invitation! Would you like me to post some in this thread or extend the original one?

Yeah I'm totally with you on this, it goes both ways, as most good things do! :)

Rainbow and "way out" :)

This is a picture I took in the London Underground in December 2007. It was my first time in London, I believe, I was in transit to attend the first public gig of Portishead in 10 years, at an ATP festival in Minehead. Can't be entirely sure …

Ah, I see. It wasn't specific to the coup(s), early 90s were in general a hard time, remnants of USSR disintegrating around everyone. On the other hand, those who actually grew up in USSR, especially outside of Moscow and Leningrad and maybe …

Neither Amazon nor any other retailer, shop, factory or restaurant chain are magic. They are subject to [global] logistical chains and interdependencies. In times of [global] crisis the ultimate survivability lies in the hands of end …

> We found the famous black beaches of Costa Rica! They’re like Iceland’s but warm. The kids wanted to know what happened to the ocean. Why is it warm? if you like the Iceland comparison, your next stop should be Azores!

I would also advocate for smartphone as alarm clock - I leave it to charge at the bed stand anyway, and with do-not-disturb settings there is no way anything can get to me when I do not want to (not sure about iPhones, but Android 10 is even …

A kukri?

I'm only so very slightly allergic to rearrangements (if done tastefully which is, IMHO, not the case here), but my biggest gripe is that they lost the whole spirit of the book(s) and made it into a syrupy FX action flick, where even the cultural …

> That's not a kitten.. There is a great little poem on that topic by none other but J.R.R.Tolkien - http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Cat_(poem)

In good hands they are pretty much not very destructible, and I believe you can still buy some for very reasonable sums, and often very much farkled including suspension swapouts etc. I hope to get to use mine this summer if all goes well, it's …

Don't quote me on this, but I think SWM bought the Italian factory that was making the oddball Husqvarna 650s that were made in the couple years when BMW owned the brand and befire it got sold to KTM. I own TR-650 Terra and am very happy with it …

Only with the new.

> cyberpunk authors Cyberpunk is not necessarily a stigma :) William Gibson sort of invented the term, but he is not limited by it. If you haven't tried Pattern Recognition, I highly recommend.

I am 3 episodes into the second season of Altered Carbon, and having read all the books, I'm quite disappointed. Not only by the way they put the hatchet to the plot lines and twists and mixed and matched stuff, but by the overwhelming dumbing down …

@StephenL nails the thing on the head. Visual, drag-n-drop programming is fine as long as you understand what is happening, and what will be happening with your program. As soon as the situation moves to a stage where you just connect some blocks …

Be annoyed by Facebook, not Instagram, the former owns the latter :) Somewhat related, Instagram has been steadily upping the advertisements/content ratio for the last 6 months or so, or at least it feels so. As a result, I feel less and less …

I'm trying to get away from the whole axis of "benefit of the doubt or not". Because I'm not that much interested in judgement (not at all, really). Partly because I do not remotely have enough reliable data, partly because I am completely not …

Give a quick look at the Nate Eliason blog post about Roam mentioned in this thread several posts above, he goes over some workflows in a nice explanatory way, maybe it could be useful.

There's an extensive post at the RibbonFarm about the possible textual renaissance, mentioning Roam in context with Vannevar Bush et al (another hat tip to @paulduplantis ) https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/02/24/a-text-renaissance/#more-7047

eagle eye! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hCkKyOdgMw

> Would the world be better off if people didn’t travel by plane to summit K2 wearing their gear? I don't know. Do you? I suspect it is difficult to have a yes/no answer to this question, because of a) sheer number of variables involved and b) …