Pretty much exactly this: Ghost - Call Me Little Sunshine

Ha, that reminds me of Donald Knuth offering 0x$1.00 to anyone that finds a mistake in TAOCP, like this guy:

https://nickdrozd.github.io/2019/05/17/knuth-check.html

Does anyone here actually use awk for more than trivial operations? If I ever have to have to consider writing anything substantial with bash/awk/sed/etc, I just start writing a Python script. No hate to the classic tools, but Python is just really nice.

Maybe they mean engineers in general? Engineers tend to be over-represented in cults, because “Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.”

Sorry, mixed up the videos. It’s actually this one, from 2014:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript

Edited link above

Gary Bernhardt called it in 2012

Definitely not. There’s a whole genre of music that’s created for riding the coattails of popular songs. They wait for a song title by artists like Taylor Swift to be announced and then release their own songs with the same title. Sometimes they’re actually good, like this dude:

https://genius.com/artists/Only-fire

The latter, but I also don’t really mind paywalls in the form of “get early access” like SMBC comics or “get exclusive special content” like a lot of bands do.

You can just straight paywall with those too, but you don’t have too. A band I like crowdfunded a music video and you can watch it free on youtube, but if you didn’t crowdfund it you missed out on perks that go all the way up to being in the music video

The trilogy would’ve been much better if either director had done all 3. Either J.J. Abrams with a fun nostalgic return to form, or Rian Johnson with a fresh new take. The whiplash from them fighting with each other over the direction of the plot just ended up being a huge mess. I’m pretty surprised they weren’t just told what the plot was going to be, kind of seems like a screwup by whoever handled that.

False dichotomy, I’d rather see other funding models like Patreon/Kickstarter. Paying gets you early access/bonus stuff/whatever, and you don’t need intrusive technologies like ads/paywalls.

Here’s the direct youtube video link

Still kind of weird to hear Arch Enemy with clean vocals. She does a really good job though, turns it into more of a power metal vibe. Cool outfit too

I like the combination of thrash vocals + black metal riffing

I was also confused. I’ve been using concrete:plates for almost all walkways that I’ve encountered. On surface=concrete:plates it says this:

surface=concrete - concrete forming a large surface, typically cast in place and may have predetermined breaking joints

Which is confusing, because sidewalks AFAIK are cast in place and have predetermined breaking joints, but it seems like surface=concrete is more for mostly continuous concrete surfaces regardless of that text?

Nice, sounds great! That’s a good setup, how long did it take you to get done?

Strong The Abysmal Eye vibes

Missed this when you first posted it, but this is some really good shit. Tech death + western is a mashup you don’t really think of, but makes sense after you hear it, lot of crossover 💀 🥃

I can’t really seem to find a good way to see active user growth over time. That site has a chart at https://lemmyverse.net/instance/hexbear.net/user-growth, but that only goes back to January, and a simple user count isn’t really enough to say anything. Something like https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats but per-instance would be pretty informative, especially going back a few years.

At any rate, this is the sort of productive conversation that I thought would be good to have about the post.

Thanks for writing that out. I didn’t post this intending to break rules or stir up drama. I thought it was interesting on its own merits, in essence the same as “How I left Scientology” or “How I left Jehovah’s Witnesses”. I also thought the mention of dwindling users was interesting. If you’ll excuse the LessWrong link (which is a site with its own weird in-group thinking), here’s an essay called “Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs” that talks about that effect.

TBH I think you’re concern trolling, because you don’t like the topic. Instead of drama or trying to prevent discussion, what are some interesting things about the comment? I think this part is very true for many cults:

I finally had a breakthrough internally and got the courage to go to therapy and try to reckon with the damage my upbringing did to me. and once that started to work, $CULT’s rose tint rapidly faded.

Poor mental health is responsible for a lot of people falling down nasty internet rabbit holes. We should work to improve that situation.

They really tried with Web Environment Integrity:

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues/28

There was enough pushback that they dropped that proposal, but expect to see it back in mutated form soon.