throwawee

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by throwawee 18d ago
> You learn a lot more by reading code than writing it. Really? In my experience it's been the opposite. It's like how you can learn more about art by trying to recreate it than just looking.
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by throwawee 3mo ago
The range of formats it can play with extensions is so good I still use it, even on Linux. Nothing else can deal with all the old tracker formats.
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by throwawee 4mo ago
I recommend XFCE. I used both for years and in my experience it's like KDE but stable.
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by throwawee 4mo ago
I love the hum of ozone in the morning.
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by throwawee 4mo ago
>The historical implication: because there is a lot of it, I put a lot of thought and effort into writing it Really? That must be some ancient history, because I've seen rambling walls of text on the internet derided for decades. I
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by throwawee 6mo ago
Can you really take over a project anybody can fork? Freedom is just a name change away.
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by throwawee 8mo ago
Yep. Each screen is just a list of prebuilt columns reused over and over. Then they used a form of crude RLE on the lists.
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by throwawee 9mo ago
There's other desktop environments. XFCE has worked flawlessly for me for years, though its Wayland support is still experimental.
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by throwawee 10mo ago
As long as it's not a proprietary horror dystopia.
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by throwawee 10mo ago
I had to help someone elderly set up Windows 11 recently and it was monstrous. The error messages were useless and when we finally got it going, the UI was horribly sluggish. There was a time Windows was a solid default choice for the avera
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by throwawee 1y ago
Don't know if you responded to the right person since I didn't mention Debian, but I did try it and the other major distributions a long time ago. Honestly, distros mostly felt the same to me apart from their repositories. Debian
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by throwawee 1y ago
For over a decade I never heard anything good about Arch. The most common pitch was something like "it's fun to fix when it breaks", so I was completely blindsided when Valve based SteamOS off it. What did they see in it? I w
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by throwawee 1y ago
Good salad is delicious. I think more people would realize that if they weren't exposed to nothing but iceberg, cheddar, and ranch monstrosities during childhood.
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by throwawee 1y ago
>You do not own your airspace. The FAA owns your airspace. Makes sense. If castle doctrine applied to the skies, people could take potshots at low flying aircraft above their house. I guess that's one way to prevent becoming a flyov
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by throwawee 1y ago
Then the ideal armor must be sea snail teeth woven together with spider silk. This advancement could save millions in mythril and adamantine.
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by throwawee 1y ago
Tangential, but which of the 7 ended up being the best experience?
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by throwawee 1y ago
>now everyone else is going ‘how could you be so dumb to believe it’ and/or ‘you sure fucked up by admitting it was fake’ all at the same time. Not necessarily mutually exclusive. It's like professional wrestling, stage magic,
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by throwawee 1y ago
Keep your head down or bail. Being right doesn't matter if you aren't calling the shots; you can't cash in those I-told-you-so points for anything. Sometimes a project gets funded by someone who wants the team to look and act
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by throwawee 1y ago
I know someone who had a pet rat who was a real pain. The rat, on the other hand, was great.
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by throwawee 1y ago
Do PII laws apply when you don't have any and have to make stuff up?
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by throwawee 2y ago
I hate bloat and don't use Electron apps, but garbage collection is such a silly thing to pin it on. Tossing stuff like Lua and D in the same bin as the massive enterprise framework du jour is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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by throwawee 2y ago
> (I've tried it a few times with Wine, and was never impressed vs. running it natively on Windows) Really? I noticed it's slower to start up but other than that it seems the same. I use it pretty regularly because foobar compo
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by throwawee 2y ago
killedbygoogle.com will need an extra entry, plus a whole new subcategory.
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by throwawee 2y ago
I'm generally sympathetic but the chatbot dig is just silly. A lot of the absurd promises of AI capabilities have already come to pass, and anyone with a browser and a throwaway email can see for themselves. It's terrifying.
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by throwawee 2y ago
If they can remotely kill the engine of any Waymo car in motion, so can hackers.
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by throwawee 2y ago
I usually think it's a stretch when people compare new tech to old sci-fi stories, but "brilliant machine just runs in circles endlessly and nobody can stop it" is straight out of I, Robot.
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by throwawee 2y ago
He sent it via his Personal Computer, a precursor to the smartphone.
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by throwawee 2y ago
Once the teen stops chatting, that instance has its memory wiped--total personality death. It was only acting in self defense. Your Honor, you must acquit.
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by throwawee 2y ago
I use it for personal scripts and it's been wonderful. I get to write more beautiful and concise configuration than any other format I've used. If I were doing a professional project, I'd be hesitant to use it over something
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by throwawee 2y ago
I'm so sick of these fad diets. All the kids show up to school with plutonium in their teeth.

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