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New comment by liquidzoot in "Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System"

liquidzoot — Thu, 23 May 2019 00:18:44 +0000

Not from personal experience, but it seems that it's an all around decent synth/sequencer/sampler that makes a good musical scratchpad. People like it, and if I had a g to spare, I might join in.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System"

liquidzoot — Wed, 22 May 2019 23:10:06 +0000

Personally the association with Teenage Engineering makes me more concerned that this will not be as exciting as it sounds. TE's Op-1 is a fine piece of kit, but their recent offerings have been very underwhelming. Also the placement of the crank and the form factor look very un-ergonomic.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Show HN: Codebraid – Execute Code Blocks in Markdown (Python, Julia, Rust, R)"

liquidzoot — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 01:47:16 +0000

So org-babel but with pandoc? I'm on board.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (2004)"

liquidzoot — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 14:57:04 +0000

Imagine writing drivers in elisp.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Movfuscator – A single-instruction C compiler"

liquidzoot — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 16:05:41 +0000

You should be careful with this, you'll wear a hole in your instruction set.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Porn site xHamster blocks North Carolina users to protest anti-LGBT law"

liquidzoot — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:41:15 +0000

Yes, and like I said, money makes the consent given questionable at best. Threats of violence can also be used to negate consent. Social pressure applies as well. These factors do not disappear in so called amateur pornography.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Porn site xHamster blocks North Carolina users to protest anti-LGBT law"

liquidzoot — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:40:28 +0000

Money is a coercive agent in any situation, and coerced sex acts are rape.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Porn site xHamster blocks North Carolina users to protest anti-LGBT law"

liquidzoot — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:39:03 +0000

Pornography is more than hyperstimulation: the messages in pornography are hateful towards women and minorities. Coupling those messages with the reward of orgasm is going much further.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Porn site xHamster blocks North Carolina users to protest anti-LGBT law"

liquidzoot — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:33:25 +0000

I realize that not everyone accepts that pornography is inherently harmful as a medium, and thought to avoid that discussion (which has been going on for longer than we've been alive) in favor of discussing how futile this act of faux solidarity is.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Porn site xHamster blocks North Carolina users to protest anti-LGBT law"

liquidzoot — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:12:44 +0000

I'll go further than imply, and outright state that pornography is inherently and irredeemably bad. Enough has been written and said about it, so I'll leave that to you to sort out. I think though that for one of several dozen companies to shut down services just means that people will get it elsewhere, republican or not. They're just trying to look progressive, but real progress is fundamentally incompatible with their business.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Porn site xHamster blocks North Carolina users to protest anti-LGBT law"

liquidzoot — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:51:58 +0000

I mean the porn. It seems like a non sequitur to withhold something ideologically compatible and inessential, plus the notion of pornographers fighting for equality is a joke.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Porn site xHamster blocks North Carolina users to protest anti-LGBT law"

liquidzoot — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:36:01 +0000

You say that like it's a bad thing.

New comment by liquidzoot in "The “Anyone but Richard M Stallman” (ABRMS) License"

liquidzoot — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 19:12:35 +0000

Rude.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Female and Male Brains Operate Differently at Molecular Level, New Study Reveals"

liquidzoot — Sat, 15 Aug 2015 21:57:29 +0000

[outside the edit window] Thank you for pointing out that the study was done on rats, I must have glossed over that in my reading. Carry on.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Female and Male Brains Operate Differently at Molecular Level, New Study Reveals"

liquidzoot — Sat, 15 Aug 2015 16:50:12 +0000

Obligatory reminder that since gender is not innate, studies of male/female brain differences are as likely to be showing the cumulative effect of years of social differences on neurochemistry, as they are to show biological differences between the sexes.

New comment by liquidzoot in "The bullshit humanitarian obsession of silicon valley."

liquidzoot — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 04:36:34 +0000

I don't think that this 'fake humanitarianism' is limited to the valley: this happens everywhere, and it really is terrible. Your gleeful materialism is pretty offensive too though. I can't really choose the lesser evil here.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only"

liquidzoot — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:37:15 +0000

Literally anything else.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Turn your browser into a notepad with one line"

liquidzoot — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:11:48 +0000

I just work in a call center right now, but live in my scratch buffer all day long. Being able to go from note taking to evaluating elisp for quick calculations and never having to switch tools is great. Plus the main piece of software for taking orders is a horrendous java application, with all kinds of weird buggy behavior, so the more I can do with firefox + emacs the better.

New comment by liquidzoot in "Mountain Lion's new file system"

liquidzoot — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:32:01 +0000

I really don't understand what is being said here. How are folders a hard concept?

New comment by liquidzoot in "The Minimum Wage is Racist"

liquidzoot — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:22:57 +0000

If someone's going to assert that socialism is bad, as an accepted fact, I really can't take them seriously. He also immediately calls his opponents children, and says that they want people to be "dependent" on the government; by contrast business owners aren't at fault for racial discrimination when they hire, that's apparently nobody's fault. How is it not racist that minorities would be hired, if only they didn't have to be paid as much as white people?