Pardon him for what? What is the charge here? Being a meal? Being a succulent Chinese meal?

For anyone who might be confused about the pardoning a turkey reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Thanksgiving_Turkey_P...

Or the succulent Chinese meal reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4bPMxeCnos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Manifest

The biggest selling points for me with SQLite are how well tested it is and how well it scales to large data files.

It’s a really solid piece of work. If the concurrency model fits what you’re doing I wouldn’t hesitate to use it in production.

How good is the testing for PGLite in comparison?

Is it only intended for test/development? (That’s still a useful use case if so, I love Postgres too).

This is just me but I like short travel keyboards. Long travel “mechanical” switches set off the RSI in one of my wrists.

I don’t care about the sharp edges because 1) they’re not actually that sharp. 2) I don’t rest my wrists on them.

I mostly work from a desk with an external monitor and the laptop cantered below it. I avoid mice and try to use keyboard shortcuts.

I’ve used Dells, HPs and Thinkpads and the current MacBook Pros are still my favourite design.

Horses for courses, I guess.

This is why I prefer tactile (not clicky) mechanical keyboards to linear mechanical or "mushy" non-mechanical desktop keyboards: they're easy to reliably trigger without full travel.

I also like the short-travel Apple keyboards, though, and if Apple made a tenkeyless Magic Keyboard with the standard layout for cursor movement keys, I'd probably be using it.

I’d actually be interested to see it on a black one. It might look like “brassing” on an old, well used camera.

Whilst I like that it increases the “tooliness” of the Mac it’s not of me I think.

I like mine pristine. ”There are many like it but this one is mine”, yada, yada.

“Many like it there are. Mine this one is”, Yoda, Yoda.

Worn anodizing on aluminium doesn't look anywhere as good as brass under lacquer.

Could you go into details about why you think this?

I haven't used PowerPoint in years as I think my needs are pretty simple but I wonder what I'm missing.

I can see that the Microsoft ecosystem gives control on who can view files and provides collaboration and control. Both of which would be useful in the corporate world.

Is there's somethnig other than that or is it just ease of use?

For the most part I see people using MS Office tools because it's what they are familar with. They're familar with it because it's the only thing their IT department will allow them to use.

I see several posts in this thread from different users suggesting that we buy an age verification ID card.

They all misformat currency in the same weird way. No one actually British writes 15£.

I don’t want to pay an extra tax to access the web or use my phone.

I don’t want to be monitored or censored by a nanny state because you don’t to stand up to your kids.

I’m angry that this is being brought in without discussion.

This is unacceptable to me. I’m going to vote for whichever party says it will revoke the Online Safety Act.

It's the use of the word "quest" here that really bothers me. It seems ignoble.

Much like the "unmasking" of Banksy or Belle de Jour. Why do it other than nosiness?

Is the person committing a crime? No? Then leave them in peace.

This is just a journalist using the resources of NYTimes to show off that they can exert control over someone else.

I had a good chuckle going from Banksy on one line to whether the person is committing a crime on the other - that it's a crime was key to how the article claimed to find Banksy's identity and mentioned as one of the likely factors in why Banksy chose to be anonymous early on :D.

I get you mean whether they are causing any actual harm though (and agree for many such unmaskings), it was just an amusing juxtaposition of literal statements.

This looks like a great way to launder money.

Write some generic AI music, have have your small accounts using stolen giftcards bought with dirty money pump the track and watch it climb the charts as other jump on the band wagon.

Et voilà instant layering with no connections.

I'm pretty sure this is exactly how all the music I don't like gets into the charts. :P

How are Swedish gangs using music platform Spotify to launder money?: https://www.euronews.com/business/2023/10/03/how-are-swedish...

You are not wrong.

You saying it like there are no other easy ways to launder money. Every time I walk by a cleaning service or hairdresser in a less dense populated area I wonder if they are involved in money launderinng.

You saying it like those areas don't need cleaning or hairdressers.

Undoubtedly! I haven't trusted hairdressers for 20 years. I have no idea why people would need to spend money in such establishments. :P

Now those old-timey photo places in every mall in the U.S.? Definitely a money-laundering front.

i've seen a a where three barbershops were a stone's throw away from each other, with a few houses between them on a street in an (only moderately dense) residential area with no carparks anywhere nearby, and wondered how that could possibly have arisen (since they'd detract each other's customers, and laundering operations wouldn't make it so blatantly obvious).

and the same occurs with phone(-repair)-and-vape shops in shopping areas (which I guess are somewhat more understandable, since they only require one employee present each and do get footfall, and the cost to rent a shop has imploded since the coronavirus hit the final nail in the town centre's coffin)

For some reason that also reminds me of the TV shows in Robocop.

e.g. Climbing for Dollars and It’s Not My Problem!

When I first saw Robocop these looked so crass it was obvious satire.

Now...? Well, I'd buy that for a dollar.

Climbing for Dollars is from The Running Man[0], the Arnie version from 1987 - same year as Robocop.

Then in 2001 was "Series 7"[1] (which I got flashbacks of from the 2013 White Bear[2] episode of Black Mirror).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(1987_film)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_7:_The_Contenders

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Bear_(Black_Mirror)

Trivia for music nerds like me: Mick Fleetwood and Dweezil Zappa are in The Running Man.

Very good point. My brain is just one big 80s mashup at this point.

Verhoeven makes some extremely heavy handed satire.

A decent litmus test is whether someone understands that the Starship Troopers movie is satire or not.

And I’m reminded of The Dark Knight Returns (1986) graphic novel. There are grotesque parodies of talking head news anchors and even a caricature of then-president Ronald Regan. Situation all fracked up.

Based.

This looks like a really great project.

I naively thought that with 300ish synths covered they'd have everything I own but I can see that's not the case.

I've got Alesis, Casio and Yamaha equipment that's missing. Time to dig out the manuals and get a PR ready.

It's easy to forget how successful the MIDI standard is. It might be the most stable and still relevant digital standard of all time.

My oldest bit of kit is a Casio CZ-5000 from, I think, 1985. That I can plug it into the latest equipment without drivers and it still works is amazing. 5 pin DIN for the win!

Hey thanks. I love the MIDI standard for exactly this reason too. Blows my mind that you can hook a forty year old synth up to a computer or iPad without drivers.

Synth nerds got it right: open specs, and a general industry-wide desire to make things play well together. After all, its music, this is why music works in the first place..

Totally, and I think the need for MIDI Guide - the fact that MIDI CC/NRPN is pretty much a free-for-all - is also why the spec has such staying power. It's so unopinionated that it imposes essentially zero constraints beyond message size. I love it.