ritlo

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by ritlo 6mo ago
I've seen another headline today suggesting the UK might drop to a 3-day workweek to conserve fuel. Like damn, between reduced work-weeks and the prospect of wrecking our government-entwined spyvertising parasites, maybe the war was
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by ritlo 6mo ago
I never use them to replace a comma, certainly, and only rarely a colon. I find parenthesis often awkward or too heavy, so may use the m-dash to replace those. Especially if what might have been a parenthetical is going to terminate a sente
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by ritlo 6mo ago
Mine's tracking it complete with a leaderboard (LOL) and it's been suggested to me that it'd be in my best interest not to be too low on that list, so I suspect in the back half of the year some sterner conversations and&#x
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by ritlo 6mo ago
A related Dirty Secret that's going to become clear from all this is that a very large proportion of code in the wild (yes, even in 2026—maybe not in FAANG and friends, IDK, but across all code that is written for pay in the entire eco
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by ritlo 6mo ago
> senior engineer would hate their jobs reviewing more code from their teammates Jesus, yes. Maybe I'm an oddball but there's a limit to how much PR reviewing I could do per week and stay sane. It's not terribly high, eith
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by ritlo 6mo ago
The only way to see the kinds of speed-up companies want from these things, right now, is to do way too little review. I think we're going to see a lot of failures in a lot of sectors where companies set goals for reduced hours on vari
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by ritlo 6mo ago
Oh, sure, our fault, but fact remains that modern meat-chicken breeds are so incredibly fucked up that it’s not really possible to humanely farm them. They’re like that because of what we did, yes, but step one toward comprehensive humane
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by ritlo 6mo ago
> Farmed animals could live happy, healthy lives and then be culled in a humane way. > The problem is that it costs slightly more and our society is more concerned with cost than animal suffering. IDK about other livestock, but this d
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by ritlo 6mo ago
Agreed on the strollers. There are medical reasons sometimes or whatever I’m sure, but that doesn’t explain most of them. We pushed ours to walk outdoors as much as possible as soon as they could walk at all, otherwise you end up with the 6
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by ritlo 6mo ago
No, this goes beyond that. A well-written article or book doesn’t need to be padded with junk to cater to bad readers, or to preempt trolls, because they can’t scrawl all over it such that it disrupts others’ experience. You have to go to e
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by ritlo 6mo ago
Writing against libretro, I think you’d basically just draw on whatever surface libretro provided you. In retroarch booting on the Lakka distro (for example) this would ultimately draw using Linux Direct Rendering Modules (no X or Wayland).
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by ritlo 6mo ago
One of the worst habits distinctive to online discussion-board writing (especially the sorts of places with lots and lots of people and where it's fairly hard to get permanently kicked out—like here) is too much hedging and over-specif
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by ritlo 6mo ago
Same set-up here. Had tried many times over something like 15 years to get Kodi/XBMC working well. Nobody else could/would ever use it (the UI is so bad) and I bet I spent about 50% as much time screwing around to set it up and
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by ritlo 6mo ago
Build it on Retroarch and you don’t even need X/Wayland. And the menu/launching functionality is done, you’d just be making a theme for it. Really if someone made a WebKit “core” and a Jellyfin client “core” (which, actually, you