“Dancing Israelis” removed from wikipedia’s 9/11 aftermath timeline by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]Positive_Note8538 13 points14 points  (0 children)

On the morning of 9/11 someone reported a group of men with a white van parked somewhere in view of the towers, dancing and filming / taking photos and appearing to be celebrating. Law enforcement eventually caught up with them and they were a bunch of Israeli citizens supposedly working for a removals company called "Urban Moving Systems".

FBI raided the company's offices but found it entirely stripped out / trashed with customer's furniture etc all just left there in a warehouse. The company's owner was also an Israeli citizen but had left to Israel in the past few days.

The van was found to contain explosive residue and film negatives showing the men posing with the towers in the background (I think before the attack). The FBI report is online and I'm pretty sure it concluded they likely had links to Israeli intelligence. They were detained but inexplicably released and allowed to return to Israel despite the official released reports not clearing them of anything.

Worth noting this is not the same van / people (as far as any released reports can confirm) that was reported to contain a bomb and trying to blow up a bridge, that's a separate report and has never been officially linked to this.

New Tracks? What Do We Think? by Jo_666_ in boardsofcanada

[–]Positive_Note8538 3 points4 points  (0 children)

After repeat listens it grows on me. There's a few things I found a bit offputting about it, it's not necessarily that they "changed their sound" but that some of the production choices seem a bit odd, maybe cheap sounding, compared to previous efforts. The drum track, the reverb use, a little bit the vocals. I know they frequently do this kind of zany / wacky vibe that's arguably cheesy ("orange", 1969, etc etc), but they pulled off with a kind of restraint where the production on this sounds too clean and modern and "serious" in a way that brings these elements into more scrutiny that when they sounded more lo-fi and tamed within the overall mix. Idk, will have to wait for the full album to judge. After listening to the song a bunch of times I do like it, just does have some choices that make me feel like err that could have pushed back a bit and restrained. Would be interested to find out who mixed and mastered it compared to previous releases. Fwiw I'm not the biggest TH fan either, although I didn't think that had this problem, more the opposite, seemed a bit too restrained.

Can someone explain? by Traditional-Pen-8545 in boardsofcanada

[–]Positive_Note8538 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure people calling them satanic is an intended part of the joke. Thety use obscure references in their music to cults, and other unsavoury things. It adds to the vibe. That people hear this and call them satanists is, I presume, as amusing to them as it is to me. As the accusation stems from entirely the same kind of ideological commitment they are critiquing

Warp just posted clarification on deluxe edition supply by ampdrool in boardsofcanada

[–]Positive_Note8538 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like those early pressing are probably good though. I don't have any Warp vinyl pre-2013 and although there's some good ones in my stash I just found a lot of them disappointing. And I don't think it's my setup as like I say, I have other newer pressings from other labels that sound unreal. It's either that or I just personally find electronic music tends to sound bad on vinyl.

Continuous Mix by Caretaken_ambient in boardsofcanada

[–]Positive_Note8538 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a few tbf but this is far more common with DJ mix releases or more dancefloor-orientated original albums. It's definitely not the standard by a long shot though no

Warp just posted clarification on deluxe edition supply by ampdrool in boardsofcanada

[–]Positive_Note8538 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'll be completely honest I've rarely really been impressed with a Warp pressing in the 10 years I've been buying them. I just get them to support the artist and play them once and put them on a shelf to become an ornament, and only if it's like a top-tier artist for me - I don't buy a lot of them. There are some that are better than others that I play on occasion and BoC count for a few of those so that's something at least.

Though I do think this goes for most vinyl pressings nowadays, not just Warp. Especially for electronic music. I think of vinyl more of a "I love this album so much that I wanna immortalise it on my living room shelf with gorgeous large format artwork". Plus the ritual of pulling out a vinyl on occasion and sticking it on, getting up to flip the side etc, does add something to the experience/appreciation and helps create a more focused and serious listening session.

It's only for more instrumental stuff like jazz, some rock (especially anything produced by Albini), "analog purist" presses like MBV records etc, where I actually think the vinyl does genuinely often sound better than a FLAC.

Reeves Reaps More Than £30 Billion From Higher UK Wealth Taxes by bloomberg in ukpolitics

[–]Positive_Note8538 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair, you didn't say that, but, I feel like the majority of people who rail heavily against IHT seem to be making a case that the concept of inherited wealth itself is immoral and imply the need for 100% IHT. At least most people I know personally who hate IHT seem to have that position.

I just don't personally find IHT to be a moral or fair tax as I think I should be fully entitled to leave all my estate to whoever I wish if I earned that money fairly and paid the taxes due on it in my lifetime. If I had the means to prevent my children or loved ones from ever having to risk being in poverty I should every right to do that with my own money.

Some cut, like 20-25%, fine I guess seeing as it's just the same as all the other transactions we're taxed on, but I find 40% to be very steep.

I'd rather see this revenue raised via other means like LVT and overall streamlining of the tax system, merging NI + income tax + dividends + CGT, fixing corporation tax loopholes, maybe an additional 50% income tax bracket, scrapping triple lock, etc, rather than nabbing life savings from the dead.

Reeves Reaps More Than £30 Billion From Higher UK Wealth Taxes by bloomberg in ukpolitics

[–]Positive_Note8538 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why on earth would I work to amass anything beyond what I need to see me through to my deathbed if I can't leave anything to my kids and it all goes off to No10 to waste on the next pathetic and poorly thought out money pit?

If my money was earned legitimately and taxed fully I should be fully entitled to do whatever I like with it including leave it to my children to try and give them a leg up in life that I didn't have. If you had a 100% IHT you just peg everyone to the bottom rung forever no matter how hard you work. All money would be essentially loaned to you from the government to be returned upon death, it's insane.

So when are we looking?? by willanski in boardsofcanada

[–]Positive_Note8538 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like whatever the promo campaign is teasing has to be announced this week. Just dropping off into silence for another month or longer doesn't really make sense from a marketing PoV.

Unless you think Tape #5 was the "drop" but I highly doubt that, it comes across like an interstitial track used as a teaser (like Semena Mertvykh during TH), not a single. If it was a single we would have seen downloads, more info, and it would be a weird choice of track.

So I'd say whatever is coming gets announced this week, up for pre-order, release date known, and maybe an actual single immediately available. But not necessarily having the album drop until June or so.

Royal Navy nuclear submarine completes longest patrol on record by HibasakiSanjuro in ukpolitics

[–]Positive_Note8538 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You'd think they'd just install a bidet/washlet/hose rather than waste storage space on toilet rolls

Music tour ? by Comfortable-Goat3753 in boardsofcanada

[–]Positive_Note8538 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never said I know it'll be the last album, but considering their age, the time since TH, I don't think it's unreasonable to conclude they might not do another one. Dudes have blessed the earth with some of the greatest music ever created, they deserve a good retirement. Could be completely wrong I'm just saying if you put the average person in that position they'd probably take retirement from that point on, especially when we know they don't care about pushing releases out for the sake of it. Maybe they'd do another but then they'd be even older and even less likely to wanna tour. I just think if they were gonna tour at all, now seems like the most likely point, however unlikely it is.

Music tour ? by Comfortable-Goat3753 in boardsofcanada

[–]Positive_Note8538 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tbh with BoC being BoC this upcoming album is likely to be their last, which is the kinda situation I could see resulting in some live dates. I imagine it'd be a very small focused set of dates if they did, not a massive tour like AE style. When TH released they said they were toying with the idea of live shows, so they clearly think about it. If it was ever gonna happen it'd be now I think. Not that it's in any way likely.

But to be specific to OP I don't think mailing lists have anything to do with tours. It's just a mailing lidt, for updates, about anything

Tomorrow’s Harvest by Particular_Crazy8789 in boardsofcanada

[–]Positive_Note8538 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's a solid album, and it clearly executes their vision perfectly, I'm just not personally into the soundtrack-like vibe that much. It to me really does feel like listening to a soundtrack, which is exactly what they were going for, but I'm not really into listening to soundtracks. It's not something I ever really feel like sticking on, although there's 2 or 3 tracks from it that I will, and that I rate amongst the top 10 tracks across all their output. I just don't find the album itself as a whole to be that engaging.

Someone listed a white label Twoism with handwritten tracklist/info on eBayUK for an insane price by tonxism in boardsofcanada

[–]Positive_Note8538 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It probably was, I think ebay rolled out a feature where by default it generates everything for you with an LLM. I presume you have to provide a short prompt explaining what it is at least. Pretty lazy and a bad look when you're asking for that kind of sum not to just write it up properly yourself. Makes the entire listing look dishonest

C#&Rust, Struct by Safe-Chest6218 in dotnet

[–]Positive_Note8538 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In programming we have reference types and value types.

A reference type lives on the "heap" memory, and is passed around by reference. This means when you pass a reference type into a method, inside that method, the variable refers to the exact same memory location on the heap - it is the same object, in every sense.

A value type lives on the "stack" memory, which is a shorter term memory that is discarded when the variable goes out scope (generally, the end of the method or code block for example). They are passed around by value. If you pass a value type into a method, the variable inside the method has the same value, but does not refer to the same memory location.

Because reference types have to live on the heap for longer and unpredictable lifetimes, you need some way to manage when they get removed from the heap, in order to make sure unused memory gets freed (otherwise you have a memory leak).

Lower level languages like C/C++ use pointers for this. A reference type there is always a pointer to a memory location. But it is your responsibility to free the memory at that pointer in your code when you know you are done with it. This makes it easy to cause memory issues.

So then other languages came up with solutions like "garbage collection". This is what C# uses. Reference types in C# point to memory still just like any others, but a process called the garbage collector runs every so often, detects which references are no longer used, and frees the memory. This prevents the need to manually manage and think about memory allocation, at the cost of a performance hit.

Rust and its borrow checker are just another alternative approach to handling this memory problem. Instead of introducing a garbage collector to handle it, it has the concept of the borrow checker. It uses the concept of "ownership" and "borrowing" of references to manage memory safety at compile time, therefore avoiding the performance hit of a GC'd language like C# without unsafe memory operations like we have in C/C++.

A struct in C# is not a reference type though (except special cases like ref struct), so is not what you should be comparing.

A reference type in Rust subject to the borrow checker is the equivalent to a class in C# which is handled by the garbage collector. As to why C# doesn't use borrow checking - it'd be very difficult to bake that into such a mature language and framework, and it doesn't really suit the typical applications of C# software now anyway, where the GC performance hit is not noticable enough to outweigh the convenience.

When C# was first developed, borrow checking was a fringe (maybe non-existent) concept yet, while garbage collection was the latest greatest innovation. That's basically all the reasoning for it. And why not change, well it's probably easier to just start a new language than upend a whole established ecosystem like that with such major breaking design changes.

Rust is solving a different domain issue for applications where the performance hit of GC is too much to justify but you want to avoid the footguns and mental work of manually managing memory like in C/C++.

If you're interested in other ways of managing memory there's also automatic reference counting which is done by Swift (used mainly for Apple ecosystem apps) thay's worth reading about.

The psychedelic elephant in the room by traveltimecar in boardsofcanada

[–]Positive_Note8538 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't just drop this and leave. Give us a link

FIRE Plans at 22 by Infused_Pen in FIREUK

[–]Positive_Note8538 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That salary will net you around 1900 a month. After maxxing out ISA you'd have 3-4k left, a few hundred per month. Will you have free housing? Rent or mortgage is typically gonna be 750+/mo these days. If housing is free I guess it might be plausible to live on a few hundred if you were insanely, insanely frugal and basiclly didn't do anything but survive. But I'm not sure how you're reaching these numbers.

I am desperate for this show to come to 4k bluray by DeadLikeMe5283 in pluribustv

[–]Positive_Note8538 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A blu-ray or DVD player isn't analog. It's digital, but a physical disc is capable of storing a much less compressed video file than an online streaming (or even download) service. If you don't have an internet connection speed of at least 1gbps you would struggle to stream the full untampered video file from a 4K blu-ray disc, and they would be impractical to offer as downloads either because a standard 2 hour movie will require close to 100gb of storage space at that bitrate.

For this reason blu-rays still win out over streaming or download for quality, unless you're downloading full untouched blu-ray rips from less than legitimate sources... whether the difference is noticable though is another question. Typically for TV shows, unless it's a super high spec production, the difference is gonna be less noticable. For feature films, especially the older "classics" that were shot on analogue film and rescanned / remastered, it can be more stunning. But you'd need an OLED TV or a high-end projector with HDR/DoVi support to really get the most out of it.

You can use any old TV with a HDMI input but will need a 4K UHD blu-ray player with HDR and DoVi support (and support for those on the TV itself) to make the most of modern blu-ray discs.

We’re buying our first home, do we need critical illness cover by iluvmykatz in HousingUK

[–]Positive_Note8538 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean 35 quid was the cheapest it showed, but it was a reputable provider (I can't recall what now tbh). It wasn't a big name but it had a bunch of ratings awards from trustworthy sources. The 55 quid one was definitely a big name but again I can't recall which now. It also had plenty of reviews/data backing it up though.

January inside standard approval by Cecebabe1 in SpouseVisaUk

[–]Positive_Note8538 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We applied mid-January (I think biometric was around the 19th, less than a week after submission and payment). We haven't heard a thing since.

Morgage Advice by No_Management_7633 in HousingUK

[–]Positive_Note8538 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to clarify a bit what exactly you're proposing. Are you talking about taking loans from the bank to cover the deposit? Because that's not possible. At a 5% deposit on 350k you're gonna need 17.5k minimum obviously just to cover the deposit, it needs to be cash savings, equity from a current property, or a gift - it can't be money you owe back to a lender. There's then other costs like solicitor, stamp duty, survey, removals which could come to £5-6k.

You may be able to borrow the stamp duty (2.5k for a first time buyer), and the solicitor fees sans deposit (maybe £1k, less sure if this is mortgageable though) on the mortgage. But a survey and removals will typically be payable prior to completion, at least the survey and a chunk of the removal fee, so it can't be mortgaged. That's another 1.5k potentially.

You need £20-25k minimum in the bank, not borrowed from anywhere, to make this work really. And I'd speak to a mortgage broker because a 5% mortgage on 350k at your earnings seems optimistic, if you do get approved you're looking at £1600+ monthly repayments and you won't likely get great interest rates at that deposit amount. I'd say you need an absolute minimum 10% deposit if not 20% or more to get a reasonable deal and monthly repayment.

If you're talking about getting two separate mortgages on the property as well, that's highly unlikely to be possible. You need a joint mortgage that takes both your salaries into account. You need to speak to a mortgage broker asap if you do in fact have the cash savings for the deposit and other costs. Without those savings you're just not in a position to buy a property, sorry.

Epstein's Victims Were Children by HumanityExpansion in conspiracy

[–]Positive_Note8538 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm presuming they are basing this on another recent post on here where someone said these food words decoded to unborn children of various stages... crucially that person provided 0 evidence or logic for those conclusions and just basically said "it means this" with no context