isolatedsystem

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by isolatedsystem 5d ago
I always have a tinge of...perhaps 'sadness' when reading such articles because they are a lot like those large fishing nets that drag along the bottom of the ocean catching and destroying in quantities unneeded. From this list: -
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by isolatedsystem 5d ago
Your defiant and cock-sure "Yes it should do nothing" seems myopic, lacking in empathy, and just not very well thought out. Can you explain why you believe this is a good idea? Because it seems that you're suggesting that tho
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by isolatedsystem 8d ago
This is rubbish. By that token, computer development is also facilitating biological weapons development. A better MacOS (or Windows, I don't know) leads to better weapons. They should clearly stop developing computers and OSes. Develo
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by isolatedsystem 21d ago
I'm a mechanical engineering PhD who works on numerical computing, data analysis and the like. I've spent several hundreds of dollars on fonts. Because I like things being just so, because I like seeing the artefacts I produce bei
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by isolatedsystem 24d ago
This is an infuriatingly clueless comment. It gives nothing? It allows people to set their affairs in order, and that is an invaluable thing. Alzheimers can lead to all kinds of other issues like impulsivity, or aggressiveness. People gambl
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by isolatedsystem 1mo ago
This is fucking fantastic. I wish the whole of the internet was like this. People enthusiastically sharing their own enthusiasm about learning something cool, and other enthusiasts finding it and going down their own rabbitholes. The intern
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by isolatedsystem 4mo ago
There was an old YouTube video of a young guy standing around somewhere in East Asia, placards in hand, recording himself showing messages on those placards about why you should quit social media, set to Marching The Hate Machines. It had a
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by isolatedsystem 4mo ago
I'm in Europe, with a bunch of non-geeky friends, coming from all walks of life who have Signal installed. As a sibling comment to yours stated, the hardest decision was deciding to stop using Meta. I have a militant "let the leav
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by isolatedsystem 5mo ago
Now adjust it for inflation.
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by isolatedsystem 6mo ago
I think the point is rather what percentage of people will continue to need to have a phone that is Apple or Google, due to death by a million decisions like these.
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by isolatedsystem 8mo ago
You might be being a tad uncharitable to the GP. Competition isn't an inherently bad thing. Many engineering endeavours (and engineers) have been made better by the crucible of competition. The first space race, Formula 1, even the com
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by isolatedsystem 9mo ago
Easy answer to your last point: Work machine and Non-work machine. If I'm working for a company and the company needs MS Office, they will give me a machine with MS Office. I will treat that machine like a radioactive zone. Full Hazmat
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by isolatedsystem 10mo ago
I've recently had to migrate over to Python from Matlab. Pandas has been doing my head in. The syntax is so unintuitive. In Matlab, everything begins with a `for` loop. Inelegant and slow, yes, but easy to reason about. Easy to see the
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by isolatedsystem 10mo ago
I don't care, simple as that. I'm also in an adversarial relationship with LTT, and with Google. I realised over the last years that my weariness with the internet was born mostly out of Youtube and Reddit. Reddit I've succ
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by isolatedsystem 10mo ago
There are children and there are adults. Children have more free time. Children watch more YouTube than adults. So LTT's audience is probably more children too. Children are attracted to soy-boy suprised pikachu face on clickbait thumb
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by isolatedsystem 10mo ago
I switched myself to Arch about 4 years ago now, with Sway. So fucking amazing. Everything is at my fingertips. Config files are easy to understand. AUR is a massive productivity boost. As I got more comfortable with Linux, I decided to cha
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by isolatedsystem 10mo ago
You'd be surprised. I have to run RHEL at work, with Gnome. No Albert, no Wofi, no Rofi. Fuck all in the repositories. For months I missed typing Alt + Space, typing filename, hitting enter and having it open. One evening with Claude.
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by isolatedsystem 11mo ago
Whoa. This looks very interesting. Does it support maths? Are the images stored locally? Can fonts and typography be changed? How does it differ from your open-source version which looks similar?
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by isolatedsystem 11mo ago
Yes. I'm over the hatred for Electron too. Programmers have few options if they want cross-platform compatibility without Electron. What else are they going to use? QT? Please, give me a break. Some angelic developers like the KeepassX
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by isolatedsystem 1y ago
Highly recommended. What you will find is that the title does the book justice. The top executives at Facebook aren't so much cartoonishly evil but rather hopelessly inept for the job at hand. They have no idea what they are doing, and
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by isolatedsystem 1y ago
Thank you ever so much for this recommendation. I'm already through half of his upskilling document. It is as if he wrote the book exactly for me. I've been studying first thing in the morning off and on for a while now, and I&#x2
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by isolatedsystem 1y ago
This article is visibly, annoyingly, distractingly in threes. > It promises clarity. Control. Mental leverage. > but to keep it alive, replayed, and reworked. > A dusty collection of old selves, old interests, old compulsions...
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by isolatedsystem 1y ago
I mean, I'm in Switzerland and I recently deleted my Whatsapp after reading Careless People. Too few people in our modern world have the courage to let the leaves fall where they may.
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by isolatedsystem 2y ago
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. Frost is incomparable.
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by isolatedsystem 3y ago
Seems a touch uncouth to say it, but 'Dating Without Kundera' has been the little voice in my head that catches me any time I start spouting pseudo-intellectual pop philosophy, in dating or otherwise.
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by isolatedsystem 3y ago
https://isolatedsystem.com CERN engineer writing about cooling systems and simulations.
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by isolatedsystem 3y ago
Pipewire also worked out of the box for me, and abstracts away ALSA and PulseAudio. It can even handle JACK. It's very nice.