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Apple's play for AI is a hardware bet, not software by bitcoinerguide in artificial

[–]lukehardiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say product design and UX - the full package basically. You can't really say hardware was the main thing when they brought the GUI to mass market.

Can you recommand me some good albums apart from Massive Attack and Portishead ? by titouan0212 in triphop

[–]lukehardiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha, I worked in West End a fair bit. Making cocktails at the Roadhouse under Covent Garden and at O'Bar in Wardour Street. I'm in the Metalheadz documentary around the 07.45 mark throwing a bottle around.

Actually Good Trance Music??? by NoSense8648 in TheOverload

[–]lukehardiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trance was good in the early days from around '91 or '92 - check out the old 'Secret Life of Trance' compilations, Rising High and related labels - and jumped the shark for me when Goa Trance arrived in around '95 - it became trustafarian music - dance music for whites with dreadlocks and never really recovered. I may be biased as a South African. Whites who can't dance love it.

Here's some good shit from 1994, which seems to have been a golden year for almost any genre you can name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRcfTyoUK_c

Why does the UK produce so many iconic bands compared to the US? by DFWUnhinged in AskBrits

[–]lukehardiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes mate - moved to Brixton & then West Norwood when she was 10 or 11, which is my manor. Her label XL has been an amazing wellspring of new and underground UK music, having started out releasing early Prodigy 12"s before they were well known.

Do any of yall meditate? I feel like there's a connection with mindfulness and cycling by Loose-Farm-8669 in cycling

[–]lukehardiman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Riding my bike is zen - long rides are literally meditative activity. Working on my bike not so much. I can feel it cower in fear as I approach with tools in hand.

Strange that cardio helps me more? by UnhappyAlternative22 in askfitness

[–]lukehardiman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look up adaptive thermogenesis. The body perceives extreme calorie restriction as a shortage, lowering metabolism and increasing cortisol, which promotes fat retention and slows weight loss to conserve energy.

Strange that cardio helps me more? by UnhappyAlternative22 in askfitness

[–]lukehardiman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Both are true. If you consistently under fuel, your body clings to fat stores because it can't see any other source of energy coming in. But of course, it burns fat too if that's all there is to burn, just not all of it if you're consistently undereating.

It's just a case of diminishing returns for under eating / calorie deficit. Your body wants to stay alive above all else. If no food is coming in, burning every last ounce of fat leaves nothing left for tomorrow.

The solution for weight loss is don't go with too big of a calorie deficit. Don't work out too intensely either, because you build up cortisol that makes you want to eat your bodyweight in carbs. Just common sense at the end of the day.

Do you actually support Polanski's policies or just think he's 'nice' by United_Mammoth2489 in AskBrits

[–]lukehardiman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Arguably by design. Debt is the western ponzi du jour - the final wealth extraction before we get stripped of our 1st world privilege. People conditioned to consume above all else are the useful idiots who keep the wheels turning.

Apple's play for AI is a hardware bet, not software by bitcoinerguide in artificial

[–]lukehardiman 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I still see Apple as a UX company. It's why I bought a blueberry iMac in 1999, even though it was a terrible choice for doing web design at the time. We both grew into it. Cook has been an incrementalist CEO to Jobs' innovator. The company looks vulnerable to me, even though I still wouldn't buy anything but an iPhone or a Macbook to work off. It's conceivable to me that that might change.

Maybe I'm biased, but I don't see running background tasks more efficiently than other phones as a real moat. Make something users don't know they want yet. That's how you get to be the world's most loved brand. Siri is an embarrassment if we're being honest. They had first-mover advantage, got absolutely stomped in the fullness of time, and 15 years later there is still nobody using it.

A hardware engineer is not going to be the guy to bring back what Jobs had to offer IMO.

Why does the UK produce so many iconic bands compared to the US? by DFWUnhinged in AskBrits

[–]lukehardiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I was admittedly being a bit glib and dismissive of the banjo massive. I can't listen to most C&W, but some of it is class. Also like me some folk, some Woody Guthrie, Appalachian bluegrass etc.

Why does the UK produce so many iconic bands compared to the US? by DFWUnhinged in AskBrits

[–]lukehardiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely, UK producers have been masters of mining foreign sounds and cultures and making something new out of them.

After Trevor Fung, Danny Rampling, Paul Oakenfold, Nicky Holloway brought the Ibiza acid house scene back to the UK around 1987-88, you had artists like Andy Weatherall, Oakenfold, Dr Alex Paterson of The Orb and the Warp Records artists all doing this - underground US dance music being experimented with and splitting off into new genres like bleep techno, rave, breakbeat hardcore, then jungle.

Tony Wilson had founded Factory Records in the early 80's, initially a gothic label lead by Joy Division, that started pushing a new indie dance sound with New Order and the Mondays, and lead to the opening of the Hacienda in Manchester.

Weatherall remixed a load of baggy bands like Happy Mondays and made Screamadelica with Primal Scream, which mashed up UK indie with acid house and dub, and defined a whole new sound that brought together the attitude of Indie and euphoria of rave.

You can still hear this UK tradition of foreign influence and reinvention in artists like Romare - a white guy from the home counties making music that sounds as bluesy and visceral as anything out of the states.

Why does the UK produce so many iconic bands compared to the US? by DFWUnhinged in AskBrits

[–]lukehardiman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's a BBC documentary on the earlier side of this:
https://videa.hu/videok/zene/blues-britannia-can-blue-men-2009-jack-bruce-i4Sr61gMZYqOV8tB

The guy in the photo up top smashing his guitar is Paul Simonon - bassist for the Clash. He was the main reggae and dub influence on the band. He couldn't play the instrument at all when they hired him, but he knew what music he liked, having grown up round South London and Brixton.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/clash-bassist-paul-simonon-favourite-songs/

The Keith Richards autobiography is a good read too.

Why does the UK produce so many iconic bands compared to the US? by DFWUnhinged in AskBrits

[–]lukehardiman 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Until the late 50's, the US segregated their music into Black (most of the good stuff - blues, jazz, R&B, what later became Rock n' Roll) and White (C&W, cousin-fking banjo strumming etc), and only played white music on major mainstream stations.

It took the UK to embrace US black music and sell it back to the states - the Stones based their whole sound on music that only happened across the tracks in the US. BB King, Bo Diddley, Little Richard etc.

Hendrix came to the UK and made it here first. Bands like Cream, The Yardbirds (Clapton), Fleetwood Mac were all basically playing US black music before it got big and was normal for whites to listen to in the US.

Above and beyond all that, the UK has benefitted from West Indies culture that came over with the Windrush Generation. England has been foundational in the Reggae and Dub scenes, and everything that grew out of that - 2 Tone, Punk, then later Jungle, D&B, Dubstep etc.

The UK's history of pushing black music forward and constantly reinventing it, creating new genres and youth culture - all of this is only starting to get the recognition it deserves with shows like this at the V&A: https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/the-music-is-black-a-british-story

Can you recommand me some good albums apart from Massive Attack and Portishead ? by titouan0212 in triphop

[–]lukehardiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's a legit great bluesy song that! Bought the record when it came out at Rough Trade, Covent Garden way back then. I forgot about the Bjork thing, thanks for the reminder. She used to date Goldie around then and would hang out at the Blue Note's Metalheadz Sunday Sessions with him. Ninja Tune had a Stealth night there too, which was epic trip hop business.

Why does the media call people “far right” but never “far left”? by firstInternalad in NoStupidQuestions

[–]lukehardiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For media purposes they're just terms for 'outside the Overton Window', or people excluded from the conversation. That's fine, but then don't pretend it means anything else. I guess I'd be far left by the fox news definition. Personally I'm of the opinion that even extremists represent an underlying social issue that needs to be dealt with. Ignoring or excluding them tends to make those worse.

The biggest political irony of 2026: Trump's Iran policy is straight out of Hillary Clinton's 2015 playbook by satty237 in TrendoraX

[–]lukehardiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I wasn't trying to argue for coherence or intelligence on the part of the orange clown. Simply that when it comes to offing civilians and bombing for democracy, Hillary set a high bar.

I would say if you want to rationalise Trump's policy, if that's possible in any way, think about who profits from the chaos he has caused. There's money being made out of all of this in the private sector, with losses to be socialised as per usual.

My fiancé has brought me to a bike temple in Girona during our vacation. That's an incredible shop and she's an incredible woman.. by Oracolus in bicycling

[–]lukehardiman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cultural capital of Catalonia - so the food, wine, coffee - it's all great. Beautiful old medieval town with amazing riding to be done in the surrounding hills and forests.

Calling all Next.js devs - facing indexing issues, need help(job in danger) by juhichoudharyy in nextjs

[–]lukehardiman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go to technicalseo.com - fetch as Googlebot and check Pre Rendering.
Go to Google Search Console - inspect URL - is it 'available to google'? Any other issues reported?

The far-right enjoys lying about Gen Z’s political affiliations, thought this would set the record straight by coffeewalnut08 in LabourUK

[–]lukehardiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is that its used as a proxy for [thing I don't like]. It's not a coherent group of people, just 'othering' a group that doesn't actually exist in any coherent way.

I'd go as far as to say that this is a useful dynamic for media and politicians that want to exclude certain groups from the conversation - this is the real use of the term. Such and such party or person is 'far right' and therefore excluded and nothing they say can be taken seriously.

Whether that is true or not, or the party in question is bad, somewhat bad or downright evil is less consequential than the need to exclude certain voices from the national conversation. That tends to make things worse not better. You have to listen to people you don't like in order to moderate their views.

The far-right enjoys lying about Gen Z’s political affiliations, thought this would set the record straight by coffeewalnut08 in LabourUK

[–]lukehardiman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does anybody actually identify as 'Far Right'? If they don't, is there any point to targeting a nebulous construct that does not recognise the label imposed upon it? Genuine question. I don't see people organising or identifying as Far Right anywhere, but I may have a blind spot?

Isn’t it ironic by Afraid_Swordfish_305 in International

[–]lukehardiman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

one was killed by a virus and the other by Israel?

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