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Robusto

00:15

@MetaEd Check out this one. Very funny!

Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius

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Daily Sequence Octordle #809
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SmokeDetector

00:38

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer (37): Is there any online tool to read (pronounce) IPA and APA written words?‭ by Rebecca‭ on english.SE

jlliagre

01:03

Daily Octordle #809
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (93): Word that means good deed, offering, contribution‭ by John Lindsay‭ on english.SE

jlliagre

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Robusto

Blossom Puzzle, April 12
Letters: A G M I N R T
My score: 355 points
My longest word: 12 letters
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@jlliagre Blossom gives you "Mega-Boss" if you score over 350. I think that's new.

alphabet

05:17

Resumptive pronoun of the night, from the title of a Reddit post:

> Need help explaining a weird phenomena which nobody even believes me when I say it happened

alphabet

05:47

So, all this user's posts, except for the most recent one, have been downvoted at least once

The latest one, a question, should get migrated to ELL. But this user's answers are somehow both detailed and consistently completely wrong.

CowperKettle

05:59

12 April is the Spaceflight Day in Russia, in memory of Yuri Gagarin's first orbital flight

Cosmonautics Day

Cosmonautics Day (Russian: День Космона́втики, romanized: Den' Kosmonávtiki) is an anniversary celebrated in Russia and some other post-Soviet states on 12 April. In 2011, at the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly, 12 April was declared as the International Day of Human Space Flight in dedication of the first crewed space flight made on 12 April 1961 by the 27-year-old Soviet Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Gagarin orbited the Earth for 1 hour and 48 minutes aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. == History == The commemorative day was established in the Soviet Union one year later, on...

CowperKettle

06:19

> Business lunch 250

Before 1836, large mirrors were extremely expensive and could only be found in the wealthiest of mansions.

CowperKettle

07:00

Shit life syndrome

Shit life syndrome (SLS) is a phrase used by physicians in the United Kingdom and the United States for the effect that a variety of poverty or abuse-induced disorders can have on patients. == History == Sarah O'Connor's 2017 article for the Financial Times "Left behind: can anyone save the towns the economy forgot?" on shit life syndrome in the English coastal town of Blackpool won the 2018 Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils. O'Connor wrote that Blackpool exports healthy skilled people and imports the unskilled, the unemployed and the unwell. As people overlooked by the mo...

A boy and his dad overtook me, although I ran at 04:40 per km.

Michael Rybkin

07:31

youtube.com/watch?v=n_AYgAtm4_s#t=1m13s Now some residents in Ecuador concerned _____ arrest is yet another political play. (what is he saying there?)

jlliagre

11:32

@MichaelRybkin I hear something like 'considering this stunning arrest'.

Xander Henderson

11:58

#WhenTaken #46 (13.04.2024)

I scored 942/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 207 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 191 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 166.5 metres - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 200 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 301.1 metres - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 198 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 186 km - 🗓️ 11 yrs - ⚡ 175 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 740 km - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 178 / 200

https://whentaken.com

jlliagre

#WhenTaken #46 (13.04.2024)

I scored 845/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 56 km - 🗓️ 19 yrs - ⚡ 155 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 3 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 195 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 320.7 metres - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 198 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 1 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 195 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 2332 km - 🗓️ 20 yrs - ⚡ 102 / 200
https://whentaken.com/

Xander Henderson

Overall, fairly easy. Though the first one took a bit of thinking. In 4, there are clues that point to a couple of different places---I nearly messed that one up.

@jlliagre You must have known what 4 was right away, eh?

I noticed that it was a car-go-fast, but I don't know anything about car-go-fasts. :D

jlliagre

@XanderHenderson Yes, I did recognize it.

Xander Henderson

@jlliagre Is it some kind of car-go-fast?

jlliagre

@XanderHenderson It's the most famous endurance car race in the world, and one of the famous car race overall.

Xander Henderson

12:08

Ah, well then. :D

Like I said, I don't know anything about autosports.

jlliagre

Monaco Grand Prix, Indianapolis 500 miles and that one :-)

Michael Rybkin

@jlliagre Thank you. Not really sure that what you heard is what he is saying. Sounds like he's saying something different.

CowperKettle

jlliagre

@MichaelRybkin Wait for different opinions, I'm not native and sometimes hear things unrelated to the actual words.

CowperKettle

13:12

> Biographer Ashlee Vance claims Elon Musk read the Encyclopædia Britannica twice

Robusto

@MichaelRybkin @jlliagre nailed it. What's funny about the sentence is that the reporter dropped a word. He should have said, "Now some residents in Ecuador are concerned this stunning arrest is just another political ploy."

@CowperKettle If I read the EB twice will that make me a self-aggrandizing fool too?

Robusto

13:29

Wordle 1,029 4/6

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CowperKettle

14:08

Musical AI Udio's 1st Symphony Full Track, Classical, Minor Key, 1st Mvt, after Beethoven

> "In the hands of an actual better classical composer I believe this could be guided considerably better. But there's challenges right now and it takes time. There's not enough control over the direction with these 33s generations and it's a pain so I went more for flair and examples of capability, rather than consistency of the piece. I could get it much better myself and closer to source but I just ran with where it took things instead."

(by the prompter)

M.A.R.

@CowperKettle if I roll my eyes any harder at this they'd bleed

Robusto

14:40

@M.A.R. Hahahaha!

jlliagre

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CowperKettle

> Swastika Night is a futuristic novel by British writer Katharine Burdekin, writing under the pseudonym Murray Constantine and published in 1937. The novel depicts a world where Adolf Hitler's claim that Nazism would create a "Thousand Year Reich" is realised.

Set hundreds of years in the future, this dystopia envisions a sterile, dying Nazi Reich in which Jews have long since been eradicated, Christians are marginalised, and Hitler is venerated as a God.

Robusto

@CowperKettle I'm tired of living dystopian nightmares in fiction. We have too many real ones in the here and now.

@CowperKettle This is like watching a monkey dance a pas de deux. It very correctly apes the classical mannerisms of Beethoven, but without the human soul, which is really what Ludwig B. has on offer. Borrowing from Shakespeare, it is "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Mitch

15:07

@Robusto like the dancing poodles in the circus, we're impressed that the dogs can stand on their hind legs

Have you seen the clip of Miyazaki responding to being shown an automated animation AI?

Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence

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CowperKettle

15:31

@Robusto Of course it is, since it's in a pre-alpha version yet. Maybe in a couple decades there will be something

But to me as an amateur it's impressive. I even listened to it several times, it was pleasing

Michael Rybkin

@Robusto Thank you. You don't think it's a speaking mistake that he made? That would be a strange mistake to make because he or the sound engineer obviously must have double-checked the video before releasing it.

@jlliagre That's totally fine. But Robust said that you were right nonetheless.

Robusto

@MichaelRybkin It could have been that a mistake was edited out poorly.

You'd be surprised how many flubs there are even when someone is reading text, much less when they are speaking extemporaneously.

Conrado

@Robusto You'd need to first attain a certain initial "critical mass" level of self-aggrandization for EB to be effective that way. Then, after those two read-throughs, the self-aggrandizement can just snowball, and whatever you read just adds to it in a powerful cycle.

Robusto

@Conrado ^_^

alphabet

15:53

@MichaelRybkin I heard (at 1:18) "that a," not "this."

He does also (I think) say "Ecuador are," but the "are" is so short that it's hard to hear it distinctly.

Robusto

@alphabet I've now listened to it for the fourth time, and I hear it exactly as before. I have no idea how you get "that a" from "this".

alphabet

@Robusto Huh. I have trouble hearing it as "this."

Robusto

It doesn't make sense, either. ""Now some residents in Ecuador concerned 'that a' (?) stunning arrest is just another political ploy." What stunning arrest? The one he's talking about or some other one to be named later?

CowperKettle