basscomm

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by basscomm 6d ago
> Are you really buying and watching DVDs in 2026? > I got my 1080p copies on the high seas and that's just a whole different experience. There's _a lot_ of stuff that has only ever been available in SD (or equivalent). Some
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by basscomm 20d ago
> but there is one question I keep coming back to: Is it a skill issue? Every time the topic of aphantasia comes up, this question always gets asked. I get that it's apparently inconceivable that someone who doesn't have aphant
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by basscomm 22d ago
We were talking about how explaining something to a 10-year-old sometimes means that you use words that a 10-year-old doesn't know. And that a 10-year-old should have the ability to use a dictionary to look up unfamiliar words. I was a
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by basscomm 24d ago
If you can't glean the definition from context, anyone 10 years old or older should be able to use a dictionary.
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by basscomm 26d ago
You're asking me to enumerate the benefits of knowing what's going on the world around you? It's probably not relevant or beneficial if it's something like miners being trapped in a cave on the other side of the planet,
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by basscomm 27d ago
> It really isn’t. I haven’t watched the news on tv in probably 20 years It's frequently beneficial to know what's happening in the world around you, even though possessing a sense of empathy can make knowing what's happen
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by basscomm 29d ago
> Post installation they were decompressed to wav files, I'm guessing so that they can squeeze some more performance out of the game Maybe, but there could be other reasons. In a former life I briefly worked at a game developer, and
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by basscomm 1mo ago
I'm pretty sure an AI wrote all or most of this article.
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by basscomm 2mo ago
Defend what? That reading and listening are two different skills?
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by basscomm 2mo ago
There are many reasons why someone might want to improve their reading, and the only solution to that is to practice reading. Audiobooks are someone else's (i.e. not your) interpretation of a work. Kind of like how you might go watch a
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by basscomm 2mo ago
> Look, it’s fine if audiobooks don’t work for you, and it’s fine to let your readers know why. Listening to an audiobook is not the same as reading a book. The whole point of the article was how to read more books, not how to have someo
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by basscomm 3mo ago
If your blog posts are one sentence or less, then they're not blog posts
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by basscomm 6mo ago
Yes, many times. For the few months it was in my local arcade I practically lived in the seat of the Crazy Taxi machine and got to be decent at it.
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by basscomm 8mo ago
> How to you estimate the 'time and skill' that went into the creation of a random piece of art? You don't. Unless that's the kind of thing you're into, I guess. > Is a portrait that took 50 hours to paint inh
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by basscomm 8mo ago
Creating art, even via using something like Photoshop, is a skill that takes years of learning and practice to do well. Most people who appreciate art appreciate not only the art itself, but the time and skill that went into its creation. W
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by basscomm 8mo ago
> I dislike this dramatization in reporting of mundane facts. Okay, but this isn't a news article, it's an opinion piece on some guy's substack.
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by basscomm 8mo ago
Text-based browsers are also great for just reading hypertext documents. I've been using a combination of a text-based rss reader and web browser to keep up with the sites I care about, and I can tear through my collection of articles
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by basscomm 8mo ago
My house has a problem with little black ants that pest control services never could quite take care of. Spiders kept trying to set up shop near a window, but I would always knock the web down. Once I relented and let the spiders do their t
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by basscomm 8mo ago
His homepage says that he likes memorizing things. There is utility in doing something you enjoy for the sake of it.
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by basscomm 9mo ago
> I disagree with a notion that a page needs to work without javascript. It is only design choice of author. Sure, I guess, but if a site that's primarily text doesn't work without Javascript then that's a design failure.
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by basscomm 9mo ago
> I miss making fun, small websites to share with friends. You can still do that right now. I highly recommend it.
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by basscomm 9mo ago
> Hey team! I find journaling for a fictive audience to be more effective personally; since it forces me to try digest my thoughts for an external listener. Okay, but I don't understand the benefit of writing to an entirely fictitio
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by basscomm 9mo ago
There's a notice in the bottom-left corner on desktop that says: "This is a machine-learning-derived product. Errors may occur"
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by basscomm 9mo ago
If I'm just jotting down personal notes, I use a pen and a notepad. If I need to transcribe anything into my long-term notes, then I can do that at the end of the day/week/whatever, when I review what I wrote down.
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by basscomm 9mo ago
> Like it can't think or reason about something without writing it out first. LLM's neither think nor reason at all.
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by basscomm 10mo ago
> I've made a ton of attempts to build my giant collection of subscriptions but always just burn out on maintaining it. RSS subscriptions aren't like Pokemon. You don't have to catch them all. One of the major selling poin
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by basscomm 10mo ago
> over 100k emails to go through in one lifetime isn't worth the trouble Unless you're on a bunch of mailing lists, I can't even fathom having that much email, much less that much unread email. I'm fanatical about m
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by basscomm 10mo ago
> I pronounce every one of those letters, to varying degrees That must be fun any time you talk about Worcestershire (the sauce or the place).
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by basscomm 10mo ago
I'm also glad I overbought RAM when I did my last PC upgrade in January, because who knows when I'll be able to do that again. The 96GB kit I bought (which was more than I needed) was $165. I ended up buying another 96GB kit in Ju
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by basscomm 10mo ago
> You're doing the thing I described: assuming it's all ultimately about personal benefit when they're telling you directly that it's not. It doesn't matter how much astroturf I read, I can see what's happen

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