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New comment by dymax78 in "Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative"

dymax78 — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:25:34 +0000

The newly released blu-ray includes both the 85-minute and 60-minute cuts.

New comment by dymax78 in "Rafael Araujo's 20 Mesmerizing Geometrical Masterpieces (2024)"

dymax78 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:20:56 +0000

~10 years ago I had a renewed interested in perspective drawing, and was struggling with an 'exercise' that utilized curvilinear perspective & oblique angles. Anyways, I stumbled on some of Rafael's drawings and found their inclusion of the guide lines / measuring lines invaluable, but for the hell of it, I emailed him some questions. He promptly responded and then dumped images and reference material on dropbox for me - very nice guy.

Personal fav is "Dürer" that demonstrates Albrecht Dürers method of projecting a spiral.

https://www.rafael-araujo.com/product-page/d%C3%BCrer#

New comment by dymax78 in "Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison"

dymax78 — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 18:22:21 +0000

~50% response rate for people with major depressive disorder isn't "barely working" -- for millions of people, SSRIs significantly improve their quality of life. Unfortunately, there is no "one size fits all" solution and often those of us with MDD have to try different medications, in conjunction with a (good) therapist before we find what works best.

Personally, I've run the gamut on SSRIs and they never suppressed all emotion.

New comment by dymax78 in "It's Time to Bring Back the iPod"

dymax78 — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:26:22 +0000

You may be interested in a Home Music Player/Streamer. They're typically quite expensive though - WiiM devices are the exception.

New comment by dymax78 in "How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)"

dymax78 — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 22:23:06 +0000

Having been a young kid in the 80s, what I recently discovered was the primary concern with parents at the time (because, I genuinely don’t remember) was using those afternoon and Saturday morning cartoons as a vehicle to sell products to kids - a barrage of advertisements. Seems pale in comparison to extreme behavior that potentially endangers others, e.g. deliberately crashing your airplane for views/hits.

New comment by dymax78 in "Notes on EndeavourOS"

dymax78 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:42:12 +0000

I've always thought it was weird that distros like Manjaro and EndeavourOS get lumped together as "arch derivatives" when the former doesn't even pull from the Arch repos.

New comment by dymax78 in "Notes on EndeavourOS"

dymax78 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:04:47 +0000

In addition to 7839284023's suggestions, if you're making regular backups and not performing partial updates, I think it's unlikely you'll tank your OS and if you do, you got the backups. You mentioned debian and things to avoid post-install - if you're looking for something as invaluable and concentrated as dontbreakdebian, you won't find it with Arch (outside of simply pointing to the wiki).

EndeavourOS has their own wiki . I get the impression they were/are attempting to translate the Arch wiki to a more succinct and ingestible format, but many of the articles are several years old so I'd recommend vetting those that are applicable to your use case.

New comment by dymax78 in "Notes on EndeavourOS"

dymax78 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:57:28 +0000

EndeavourOS has been my daily driver for about 4 years - I'm a huge fan. A breeze to install, excellent community, and I like the QoL features/packages they've added.

New comment by dymax78 in "Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis (2021)"

dymax78 — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:02:11 +0000

>For mass gamers of that era, where the big thing was "arcade in your living room" it's a disapointement....

One exception to this is the shmup genre. The Saturn was inundated with Japanese Shmups and many are perfect (or near perfect) arcade ports.

New comment by dymax78 in "Hackers exploited Windows 0-day for 6 months after Microsoft knew of it"

dymax78 — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 02:21:42 +0000

Odd position. Apache devs thanklessly busted their ass patching log4shell in 2021.

New comment by dymax78 in "Cyberpunk in the Nineties (1998)"

dymax78 — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:24:29 +0000

and microtransactions in Ubik.... *shrug* I mentioned quintessential works rather than "origin stories" to avoid an inevitable "all work is derivative".

edit: True Names surely should have been added in my brief list.

New comment by dymax78 in "Cyberpunk in the Nineties (1998)"

dymax78 — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:04:23 +0000

the bulk of tech foresight - Metaverse, Gargoyles, Earth (Google Earth)... I think it's foundational. the fact it lagged several years behind the sprawl trilogy, mirrorshades, or schismatrix, etc isn’t relevant imo

Edited to be more polite - my intention was not to be rude or uncivil.

New comment by dymax78 in "TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]"

dymax78 — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 04:08:07 +0000

> Fines up to $1M and 20 years in prison. It also uses civil forfeiture and makes it illegal to properly run a VPN.

I genuinely don't understand where this interpretation is coming from; I'm not challenging the interpretation, rather asking for an explanation. They intend on cratering SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS (+ insert any other solution where VPNs are ubiquitous with respect to access) for the purposes of prohibiting access to TikTok and ilk that belong to "foreign adversaries" (China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela)?

- Will B2B VPNs be allowed, and B2C / commercial VPNs be prohibited?

- How would they accomplish this? Ask ISPs to blacklist VPNs?

- How would any of this be enforceable? (perhaps I answered my own question with the preceding question)

edit: I replied to the general post rather than the individual whom I addressing my inquiry.

New comment by dymax78 in "It's difficult to read an audiophile guide as an analogue engineer"

dymax78 — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 01:52:47 +0000

Big fan of ASR and former HeadFi member (back when they actually had a sub-forum dedicated to measurements, data, and science). My only 'criticism' (and it's primarily directed at older reviews) would be Amir often using SINAD as a single metric to determine the quality of a product. I'd guess this was intentional, as a means to address how "convoluted" (aka batshit crazy) the hobby had/has(?) become, e.g. how you feel about your $1k audiophile switch is of no importance to anyone other than yourself.

New comment by dymax78 in "ChatGPT Explained: A normie's guide to how it works"

dymax78 — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 02:43:36 +0000

I haven't experienced chatgpt explicitly tell me "I don't know", but it has provided me with factually incorrect answers pertaining to the functionality of an appliance and associated software. Further probing and I was advised to contact IBM support.... lol.

My usage has been confined to specific technical inquiries and chatgpts benefit has been colossal in saving me the time of sifting through decade(s) of documentation, forum posts, bug reports, kb articles, etc.

New comment by dymax78 in "Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?"

dymax78 — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:49:16 +0000

The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. Grim and gritty, with phenomenal character development that hones in on the fallibility of people. The narration by Steven Pacey is incredible, if you'd like to go that route.

New comment by dymax78 in "Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier"

dymax78 — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 03:24:12 +0000

Headfi wasn’t always that way. There was a mass exodus of their scientific-minded members, who dedicated themselves to posting objective, and double-blind tests. Naturally, this created a problem with their advertisers, and most left en masse. Now, the site’s little more than a dumpster dive of anecdotal evidence masquerading as reputable sources.

New comment by dymax78 in "Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier"

dymax78 — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 02:45:18 +0000

> If you're into headphones, Crinacle's site/YT are on a completely different level than any other review site.

Audio Science Review was posting deep-dive technical reviews of amps, dacs, daps, iems, and headphones, years before crinacle made a post on headfi, and I say that as a member of the latter since ‘02. Many audio engineers and enthusiasts have attempted to remove the “reality distortion field” that permeates the prominent audiophile communities (headfi, audiogon) for years; ASR was one of the first to successfully to so (excluding sites dedicated to specialized equipment).

New comment by dymax78 in "It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal"

dymax78 — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 10:57:42 +0000

There are plenty of children whose online behavior is oblivious to their parents, or they circumvent restrictions their parents placed.

New comment by dymax78 in "Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)"

dymax78 — Fri, 27 May 2022 12:59:43 +0000

That's an interesting perspective. Certainly not saying you're wrong. I found the font on Windows (note: Windows 10) unbearable despite deploying a plethora of "tweaks" and "fixes", and wasn't content until I made the the switch to Linux & MAC (home and work, respectively.) edit: Noto Sans or Futura BK Book for Interface & Document, Hack Regular for Monospace.