dumpsterlid

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by dumpsterlid 2y ago
You could definitely train a dog to do this and it would probably have a blast doing it all day. Not enough dog investors pushing dog-tech hype though. It is a shame though, have you ever read about what their noses can do??
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by dumpsterlid 2y ago
You mean it is exactly optimized to extend our conscious and unconscious biases to gray areas in an inconsistent and arbitrary way?
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
I love how many doors termux forces open, it totally changes the fundamental capabilities of android.
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
Ulysses is as an absolutely incredible book, the Martello tower in the morning with Stephen and Mulligan looking out at the “snotgreen sea” will forever live rent free in my head.
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
yawn another libertarian blaming things on too much government. I could sure use some more government right now cracking down on industries with oligopolies that feel no threat of consequence for completely undermining the quality of thei
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
yawn I’m sorry but why do we need a corporation to profit off of the social network we use? I am not excited for any new corporate social network because after using mastodon and lemmy it has become crystal clear that social networks as a
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
We just need to move on from DnD to other IPs at this point, it is absurdly clear that everyone putting all their eggs in the basket with wizards of the coast and it is just a bad idea. There are plenty of fantastic alternatives, we really
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
This really is the most salient point in this entire thread, there are piles of people commenting about this article with literally the same argument that was used to try to kick the can about ending slavery down the road.
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
“ He may have furthered his own interests but did he also further the interests of the US more effectively than most could?” Hahahahaha nope, he literally was just a leech on society that got into high enough positions that his vapid bullsh
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
“screen time” is such a nonsense phrase. Sure make sure your kid gets physical exercise but to primarily define and rate the value of an experience a child is having primarily based on whether it is on a screen or not is hilariously myopic
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
I understand trees require maintenance to upkeep, but at the same time I actively avoid going to places and spending money there when it is hot (or cold and windy and exposed) and there are no trees. I get anxiety when everything is just la
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
Imagine still thinking the war on drugs is a good idea in 2023
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
> I spent a couple hours browsing Lemmy instances today and I was shocked at how few users are needed to create replacement communities. Communities with about 2k users feel sparse, but good enough IMO. It has become a joke on the fedive
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
Super cool! A separate fan community like this is huge for longterm fan/community building. It also totally fits the ethos of star trek itself.
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
There are reddit-likes on the fediverse (which means they are using the ActivityPub protocol). The fact that a software like kbin works on ActivityPub means that users on other fediverse software like Mastodon (twitter-like) can interact wi
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
I couldn't disagree more, Forged Alliance Forever or Beyond All Reason are infinitely more interesting to watch if you don't care about obnoxious micro skills.
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
What is the point of making the data structure any more complex than: 2011/03/15 Trader Joe's Expenses:Groceries $100.00 Assets:Checking 2011/03/15 Whole Food Market Expenses:Groceries
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
I am not really sure if ledger-cli has any capacity to create compound units, so that if you say log that you have eaten one potato in ledger-cli, you would also have to manually log the calories and macro-nutrients of that potato unless yo
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
I think ledger-cli is much more interesting in a literate programming style with it embedded into code blogs in org mode than just by itself. Not just for money either (ledger-cli can track anything with units), say you wanted to do a major
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
Exactly anti-piracy measures only punish paying customers because the pirated version won't have them. I think several big name musicians (with the money to pay for a software license) have been caught using the pirated version of musi
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
Yeah Reaper isn't open source, but the licensing system is an amazing breath of fresh air. You can just download it and start using it with no account sign up process and once the free trial (60 days) ends all that happens is a nag scr
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
> In all honesty it is truly no different than being an alcoholic or a crack addict. This is an awful thing to casually throw out there in the faces of people who rely on ADHD medication to manage their ADHD.
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
FYI we are extremely lucky to have good audiobook versions of all three of Pynchon's big novels: Gravity's Rainbow (George Guidal) Against The Day (Dick Hill) Mason & Dixon (Steven Crossley). I highly recommend Pynchon, you
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
You can fault Pynchon for many many things (though I love him) but "carrying on a post-modernist tradition" is probably the last thing you could possibly fault him for. Pynchon is one of the most esoteric artists I have ever encou
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
"And that kind of pseudo-telepathy might even require the meandering and the density and the apparent overcomplication to deliver you enough context to align your neurons into something approximating where the author's were at.&qu
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
Somehow I doubt one of the essays in this book is about how to write female characters in a way that isn’t creepy, and reductively sexual. Murakami’s writing is undeniably creative and interesting, but the way he writes women undermines the
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
This was why I knew the metaverse was going to be a failure, it was clear as day there were business executives acting with so much self confidence about what the future of virtual experiences will be..... while ignoring the entire medium o
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
A bic pen isn't a bad pen, it is stunningly successful type of pen. There are meaningful differences between how it feels to write with a fountain pen or other type of nice pen vs a bic but there is no reason you might not just prefer
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
As someone who loves the writing feel of fountain pens I have to say the a pilot G2 is not an unfancy pen. The writing feel and ink quality is superb. Yes the G2 is cheap, but evaluated along metrics of writing feel and ink quality the G2 i
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by dumpsterlid 3y ago
Where is your evidence for that?

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