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Re:Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @12:59PM (#43774163)
pretty sure obsidian already has an extension for this
Re:Programmers are modern-day computers on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:47AM (#42933889)
Oh boy, I sure love to see some guy with a blog waxing poetic about the future of AI. The insistence that "most people haven't realized come to terms with it yet", and then proceeding to make a total fucking guess out of his ass.

Reminds me of that one asshole who couldn't find a pen, and wrote a whole NYT article about "the demise of the pen".

Re:What Type of Exercise Is Best for Mental Health? on Sunday June 25, 2023 @05:59PM (#36473050)
2.5 hours a week is insanely low for any young person in good health. I'm positive that at least 8-12 hours of determined, physically intensive training compared to a measly 2.5 hours of "exercise" per week will do a hell of a lot better for anyone's mental health than treating the usage of one's body as somehow secondary to the "knowledge based" work we're all forced to do to make a decent living in modern society.
Re:What Type of Exercise Is Best for Mental Health? on Sunday June 25, 2023 @05:51PM (#36472993)
Judo is even better, as you also learn how to throw people from your feet rather than starting on the ground all the time, and you pretty much have to lift weights off the mat to stay competitive.
Re:Why Kakoune – The Quest For a Better Code Editor on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @08:48PM (#36426762)
the problem with all these hipster vims is that it's too late in the game, vi is everywhere you're going to be remoting into and these are only going to be on your localhost, not even off a fresh install. your muscle memory might as well carry over, same reason evil mode is the only modal extension for emacs that matters and QWERTY is the only keyboard layout for sane people
Re:Ambient: The Multiplayer Game Engine on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:34AM (#34907497)
that silky smooth 10fps video capture, great job rustaceans really knocking this whole "game development" shit out of the park.
Re:The Stroad on Monday November 22, 2021 @02:11AM (#29303693)
Stroad... stroad? STROAD? STROOOOOAAAADDDDDDDD
Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube on Thursday November 11, 2021 @09:41AM (#29188287)
This site is also pretty retarded and shill-friendly with its "you can downvote if you've accumulated enough good boy points" setup
Re:Jimmy Wales’ Final Email on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @05:15PM (#29168236)
Edited, "nonpartisan" is apparently the word I was looking for.
Re:Jimmy Wales’ Final Email on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @03:40PM (#29167165)
Compare the opening paragraphs of this article in 2015 vs now:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151104200851/https://en.wikipe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)

Anyone thinking that Wikipedia still provides a nonpartisan platform which makes an honest attempt to catalogue all the angles on a specific topic without any blatant spin is either dishonest or naive.

Re:Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019) on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:02PM (#29087304)
My empirical evidence backs this up, I had deploying new releases to all servers completely automated down to just creating a tag in GitLab and every time the decision of actually running it turned into a series of emails and meetings throughout the week.
Re:Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux on Saturday October 09, 2021 @04:30PM (#28813002)
If you don't mind being coupled to an arcane filesystem, networking shitting the bed when you connect to VPN, settings you can't change, software you don't want but shouldn't remove, functionality that is simple to configure in KDE split across god knows how many UI/UX schemes and usually requiring third party applications, worse performance than native, and best of all having your open computing environment running virtualized on top of a closed system requiring you to migrate product keys/activation/whatever for a simple reinstall - yeah, WSL is the best Linux distro for you, bud.
Re:Windows 11: Just say no on Friday September 17, 2021 @12:02AM (#28561071)
If only WSL2 wasn't half baked dogshit that breaks all networked features over VPN and this release didn't spin up my work computer's fans to max at all times, windows 11 might be usable.
Re:Some thoughts about raising the profile of Lisp on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @01:41AM (#28376718)
Has this guy heard of spacemacs? At least for people familiar with vi bindings, it can get their foot in the door with a more IDE-like experience quicker while retaining and emphasing the unique advantages of emacs as a platform. I think for a lot of users, getting that taste of the tool's capability early on is what motivates them to embrace the platform as a whole, even if they don't stick with a heavy, general purpose emacs "distribution" in the long run.
Man, I wish I had this level of truth-telling skill.

Original comment: https://files.catbox.moe/p41sbh.png

Re:GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @03:25PM (#27692506)
Check out the comments on the original post about GitHub co-pilot.

The top one reads just like an ad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676845

Some posts that definitely aren't by shills (including the third one because I simply don't believe there's a person on the planet that "can't remember the last time Windows got in my way"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27678231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27686416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27682270

Very mild, yet negative sentiment opinion (downvoted quickly): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676942

Re:In Support of Richard Stallman on Monday April 05, 2021 @11:51PM (#26707787)
Not sure where you're getting your numbers from, but I get the feeling they'd be different if you were only counting biological women as female.
Re:In Support of Richard Stallman on Monday April 05, 2021 @11:46PM (#26707760)
It seems like the users of this site would rather downvote this than actually take the time to think of a response.
Re:Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago? on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:06AM (#26190251)
vim users just can't stop winning
Re:To Lose Weight with Exercise, Aim for 300 Minutes a Week on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:56AM (#25360699)
This article doesn't mention routine at all, and the only focus is on weight loss. This is extremely short sighted as a novice sticking to a routine of increasingly heavy compound lifts 2-3 times a week (~120-180 minutes) can expect improvements in body composition and coordination that will be a much bigger improvement in overall physical ability than just losing some arbitrary amount of weight. Even if weight loss is the end goal, having a solid foundation will help immensely.
You're actually on point even though you're being sarcastic. Communities aren't hiveminds, and the edgiest members of a group don't constitute the whole picture. Upvotes and downvotes definitely work to make communities act more like them, however.
>Most of the outside-the-overton-window discussion on 4chan is discussion of national socialism, with an occasional call for genocide.

If your impression of 4chan as a whole is just /pol/. 4chan as a whole is much more ideologically diverse than reddit due largely to the site's format and lack of censorship, but if you're an outsider to 4chan's (often outlandish and intentionally offensive) cultural norms you're just going to think it's a nazi site. Mainstream media has tried and failed to understand it for decades now.

Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:12PM (#23279544)
>Linux was always a disaster in terms of user experience and isn't improving

I'm honestly pretty baffled as to what keeps this meme alive, as KDE and GNOME are both very popular and provide simple, intuitive interfaces for the typical user. Plasma is only complex if you're the type that really wants to customize, but there its complexity is (mostly) necessary for its wide range of possible configuration. People have this idea that desktop Linux users are all a bunch of dorks playing around with Arch and tiling window managers all day and then posting their anime wallpaper setups on /r/unixporn, but that hasn't actually been true for a long time.

Re:What Happened to Lee on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:48PM (#22880746)
The way they describe this disease and his behavior, bending over backwards to keep him alive is just going to draw out the suffering of him, his family, his friends, etc. There's nothing bad on the other side of existence/nonexistence anyway, so why not just mercy kill what's left of the poor guy? It's either a quick and painless death or painful, slow disintegration from here on out.
Re:Urbit for Normies on Monday April 13, 2020 @04:36PM (#22859723)
That doc and the language itself reads like a parody of obscure functional programming languages with obtuse syntax and semantics.

Keywords are RUNES and RUNES have CHILDREN, CHILDREN can be RUNES and the programs chains the RUNES until there are no CHILDREN. Functions are GATES and tuples are CELLS and you run programs as GENERATORS from your SHIP's DOJO.

Re:Urbit for Normies on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:51PM (#22859333)
Let's say I want to host a video, and I'm a "normie" that only has a cell phone. Under this model, my device is my server, so I'm hosting it off my cell phone. I want my friends to be able to see it whenever, but I don't want to have an internet connection at all times just for my friends to see my video. How can I achieve this on this network without a "broker" to host the video? Peertube is a "solution", but its a failure for widespread adoption because it adds complexity compared the mainstream solution. You're only going to draw average users to your platform by providing a superior user experience - very few posting even here can sincerely say that they don't sacrifice their privacy for convenience on a daily basis.

Additionally, they mention that your ID accrues "reputation" on the urbit network, which makes it pretty ballsy to bring up comparisons to Reddit because their system of upvotes and "karma" is one of the major structural failings making their platform unsuitable for free speech (same thing here tbqh famalamalampai). Thus the behavioral problems of modern social media (excessive virtue signalling, witch hunts, shadowbanning) are only amplified by this system, the tyranny of the majority extended into every aspect of your networked computing experience.

Overall I think this is a cool idea for certain applications where it has potential, but they're not pitching it just for those applications, they're pitching it as a technology to replace the entire current internet model with, and that's just not going to happen.