jeromescuggs

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by jeromescuggs 4y ago
10 follows the 'every other windows' pattern (xp good, vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good, 11 bad) windows 10 + open-shell + powertools + wsl + windows terminal is a really great combination right now for me, windows 10 essentially
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by jeromescuggs 4y ago
as someone who uses neovim because all my pure rice vim plugins run soooo much smoother on neovim, i'm going to go out on a limb and say that he is dramatically overestimating the representation of his demographic among neovim and mayb
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by jeromescuggs 4y ago
"lab technician for a biopharmaceutical company" i distill concentrates for a medical marijuana cultivator in a part of the country where it's still a real cointoss on how ppl her age feel about that
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by jeromescuggs 4y ago
i covered the same thing, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30759775 tl;dr: the russians are demonstrating the failure of a particular strategy/theory on how to deploy and use armor , not a failure of the con
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by jeromescuggs 4y ago
the "main battle tank" concept of armored warfare certainly appears outdated, but tactically speaking, the idea of using mobile/mechanized armor to support infantry is still super important a mobile, armored vehicle capable o
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by jeromescuggs 5y ago
tl;dr https://twitter.com/crackconnoisser/status/14850778668492185...
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Plaintext gameFAQs guide with fully justified paragraphs(gamefaqs.gamespot.com)
5 points by jeromescuggs 5y ago|1 comments
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by jeromescuggs 5y ago
so did wes anderson have a life-changing ride on this line, or what
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by jeromescuggs 6y ago
i recently sat down over a weekend and did the same after realizing that i should hammer out something i can use for myself - it dawned on me the work i thought i might be saving with frameworks was offset by the work i'd wind up doing
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by jeromescuggs 6y ago
drawing from my own experience, i once found myself trying to work on a client website. thanks to a series of events i was using termux from a cellphone. i grabbed my vimrc from my dotfiles git repo and that was that. took all of 30 seconds
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by jeromescuggs 6y ago
unfortunately there isn't an easy answer here, but you could always check out individual static site projects and peruse their available themes - hugo's gallery is pretty decent echoing the other comment: with the caveat that i&#x
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by jeromescuggs 6y ago
i mulled over this for a minute because i can't really find fault with your comment, but at the same time i look at the state of things and it seems far from ideal, or even acceptable. my guess is there's a factor that affects the
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by jeromescuggs 6y ago
Given the replies I think it would be wise to instead perhaps use a different term to distinguish it from the sort of area bill hicks was known to loathe. A term i used to see used back in the day was 'shameless self promotion'. P
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by jeromescuggs 6y ago
by 1940 it was already 4 years old :P in terms of development i assume this refers to the field of aircraft design, and i think it might not be obvious at first how dizzyingly complex modern aircraft can get. aerodynamics is already a compl
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by jeromescuggs 6y ago
think of the 'cold war'. it's always framed as a 'battle of good and evil' - this is the narrative. hopefully you might agree that the reality was far, far murkier than that - more senseless maiming and killing, so
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by jeromescuggs 6y ago
i highly recommend the work of adam curtis, in particular his documentary "bitter lake", and perhaps "hypernormalisation". he was influenced by baudrillard's critiques of narrative as well, one of baudrillard's
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by jeromescuggs 6y ago
this is only somewhat related, but i count my old coolermaster masterkeys S as my favorite keyboard of all time, it was nice and utilitarian and came with some absolutely fantastic keycaps - for about 80 bucks. damn shame they "updated
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by jeromescuggs 6y ago
mingthemerciless i cant even explain it but https://imgur.com/a/WszvRT5 just a front page that endlessly looped random static or animated images that had a perfect mix of absurd, funny, and oddly enough aesthetic quali
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by jeromescuggs 7y ago
wsltty is the most underrated app i use on the regular. i was pumped about the new microsoft terminal for all of 5 seconds, then i used it, what a letdown. with alot of help from wsltty and autohotkey, i am quickly approaching some sort of
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by jeromescuggs 7y ago
thank you for this link - i want to use jekyll or hugo, i do, but i am real bad at organization and i always fall back to using a local WP install to take content and do all the heavy lifting - organizing it, styling it, etc. i get insanely
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by jeromescuggs 7y ago
i'm bummed that everyone is coming here to basically post links for similar projects... ...but that is what i am doing :( http://www.marianopascual.me/ i think it's worth posting, though. i still find little thing
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by jeromescuggs 7y ago
mobaxterm helped me get serious about security when i ran the ssh server once and used the easy menu options to view who was knocking on my doors, and... man. people think the robocallers are persistent... i did a little screenshot ( https
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by jeromescuggs 7y ago
are you using it for remotely accessing linux boxes? mintty+wsl-bridge aka wsltty has really come a long way in a short time, and i'm beginning to use it even for remote work alongside using it for wsl. call me shallow but it really bo
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by jeromescuggs 7y ago
in my experience, if cruft is a major concern in your day-to-day use of linux, you probably already have a desktop/window management environment and theme you've settled on :P i consider myself a sort of power-casual linux user, i
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by jeromescuggs 7y ago
i really wish spacemacs didn't have that pretty lame loading screen, as a spacevim devotee i found alot of things that spacemacs does that specifically address some issues i have with spacevim. i know the correct path forward here is,
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by jeromescuggs 7y ago
wordpress always felt really overkill for what i wanted, and static site gens are fun for people who like to tinker under the hood. personally i use hugo, but i am still shopping around for something a little less convoluted. stumbled onto
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by jeromescuggs 7y ago
ive noticed my checklist has been slowly shrinking as microsoft sees fit to takeover alot of the typical first-run duties from the user some months ago i realized i no longer have to go grab my gpu drivers from a website or 'fresh inst
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by jeromescuggs 7y ago
i have pretty severe adhd which causes a somewhat difficult situation where i need to keep todo lists to remain on track for even basic stuff, and the system needs to be pretty foolproof because, you know, the adhd i dream of doing somethin
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by jeromescuggs 7y ago
being able to divvy up a desktop into 4 quarter panel windows on win10 with near zero effort absolutely changed my life, i think of how much time i've wasted clicking back and forth between two windows stacked on eachother, or having t
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by jeromescuggs 7y ago
i feel like i know where you're coming from here, this isn't exactly what you're describing, but it's pretty dang close. really made the transition to window tiling far less intimidating than i imagined. https:/&#x

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