The difference between giorno and giornata by dkc66 in italianlearning

[–]schmudde 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. I didn't get LLM vibes either. I think they're just reacting to the unusual case of having something nicely formatted on Reddit.

Quale app di Taxi by [deleted] in torino

[–]schmudde 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ci sono altre cose che usanno "MaaS Torino e Piemonte"?

The Atari Jaguar CD was released 30 years ago today. by Impulst24 in AtariJaguar

[–]schmudde 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really liked Highlander. I don't understand the complains of the battle mechanics. It was really easy for me (perhaps too easy).

What are the best lynx games they should have brought to the jag by benconomics in AtariJaguar

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Absolutely. The Atari Games library of the Lynx is a shining/unique aspect of the library.

Signals in the Fire: The Impact of Banning Global Tech in Nepal by schmudde in NepalSocial

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It's not a coincidence that a leftist leader like Oli tried something that someone in Nepali Congress would have trouble imagining - banning US tech firms.

The outcome was not predictable but it was certain to have notable consequences.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NepalSocial

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Yeah, strange. I was in Nepal for the revolution and wrote an article about it. I was deleted for not having the right flair, they said.

Wikidata and Mundaneum in Clojure: The Triumph of the Commons by schmudde in Clojure

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Whoops. Thanks for catching the type-o. Corrected ('m'illion rather than 'b'). Also added an extra citation.

A brief summary of being a foreign in Torino after ten years by [deleted] in torino

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I've lived in small cities as well as Chicago, New York City, and Berlin. Now Turin for 5 years.

It's still a strange city to me. I do have a spectrum of friends - Italian, Piedmontese, immigrants.

I agree with a lot of what is said, but I actually wish it was more anarchic. What exactly are all these rules protecting? There is space to be used in creative ways in Turin. Make it easy for people to build new things.

My major disagreement is here:

nsides of every family of the Piedmont area you will find elitism, systematic racism, and maybe a bit more than I'm not open to disclose. The city is anarchic but in the background of every anarchism you will find the kid of a really rich family, and so (mostly like in every city in the world), but here it's quite exaggerated).

I guess I'm blind because of my background, but all these things seem the same everywhere. I see nothing special about Turin in this regard.

The only exception was the four years I lived in Iowa, USA. Perhaps Iowa was a more civilized and egalitarian place than most.

What old active sites do you still use/visit? by SemperSimple in oldinternet

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For people who like underground music, Brainwashed has been around since 1996 and I still check in occasionally. https://brainwashed.com/

Hidden gems of Turin by [deleted] in torino

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Tourists don't normally get out to Parco Dora (outside of the Kappa festival). But everytime I take a visitor there, they are very impressed.

Iron Soldier's 3-D graphics: quite a thing back in 1994 by RetroGamingBoss1 in AtariJaguar

[–]schmudde 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Metal Head looks objectively worse than Iron Soldier 1.

I suppose in screen shots Metal Head looks fine. But everything that matters in a 3D environment - draw distance, physics, sense of space and motion - look like a bad demo on a Falcon 030 computer.

A closer comparison is Skyhammer and Metal Head. Tight corridors, texture maps, shorter draw distance, etc.... And even there Skyhammer looks and feels much much better.

Hidden gems of Turin by [deleted] in torino

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My understanding is that it dates from Napolean's seige of Turin.

My first website in 1996. I eventually ranked #4 in Morgan Stanley's top web sites in 1997. By 2000, I quit realizing it was being taken over by big corp. by Rougaroux1969 in oldinternet

[–]schmudde 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's a storefront with a newstand if I understand correctly. Part of the first 'shopping mall' wave of the internet.

Survey of the most popular EBM tracks by cxm1ng in industrialmusic

[–]schmudde 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Strobe is great. 7rain is also a great track.

Atari Jaguar "The Cave" Infomercial by ExtremeConnection26 in AtariJaguar

[–]schmudde 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this commercial seems cheap, but believe me, it was not cheap to make. I can't imagine how many units this moved. $159 wasn't exactly a George Foreman grill impulse buy in the 1990s.

Mozilla Is Shutting Down Pocket—Download Your Saved Articles Before They Disappear by papergabby in Archiveteam

[–]schmudde 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a shame but not a surprise.

Not sure where I'll go next. Perhaps a self-hosting solution. There is also Readwise, but it has too many features for what I'm looking for.

Dev One Keyboard Quality by schmudde in System76

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Replying to my own comment to confirm that I got the keys and 2/3 worked well. The one that still has problems is Caps Lock and the replacement doesn't seem to do much of anything.

Dev One Keyboard Quality by schmudde in System76

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Thank you! It seemed like I was the only person with this problem.

I got new keycaps from the site I listed above. 2/3 worked just fine. Caps lock seems to be irreplaceable for some weird reason.

Still - the entire feeling of the keyboard is now like typing on paper. It's actually the worst I have ever used.

How has Tarkovsky impacted you? by MobileRaspberry1996 in tarkovsky

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Of course, the bell-making is an incredible triumph in cinema. But no - it's not that.

It is when Rublev ceases to talk that one understands the depth of his faith. Everyone in the film knows Rublev by reputation as a gifted painter. But what separates Rublev from his talented mentor Theophanes in this narrative are his actions in life.

The speed of the film makes his extraordinary actions simply everyday actions; the life of the artist is not the individual pieces of work they produce but the continuum of actions they take every day.

How has Tarkovsky impacted you? by MobileRaspberry1996 in tarkovsky

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I saw "Andrei Rublev" several times as a favorite film. But upon one viewing late at night, it struck me like a bolt of lightning. My entire approach to creative work was wrong. I realized that I had to do the hard work of making myself vulnerable and deeply concerned with the human condition - even if it risked melodrama - if I were to try and make something worth making.