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by usrn 4y ago
I have a blog I generate from org mode files. I think it's better for my mental health than comments like these.
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by usrn 4y ago
I did everything under my real name up until last year, this is why I stopped. I remember being told over and over again never to use my real name on the internet. I wonder why we stopped telling people that, it was a good idea.
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by usrn 4y ago
I know someone who got hired recently to get PDP11 software running in an emulator to control an industrial process.
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by usrn 4y ago
People keep telling me "wasps are great because they eat the spiders" and I really don't get it. I'll take spiders over wasps any day of the week.
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by usrn 4y ago
I really love the greenfield situations where you're building stuff up from scratch and have minimal APIs to deal with so you can just keep everything in your head and plow through writing tons of code. No one pays you to do that thoug
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by usrn 4y ago
There's a ton of carbon in the Martian atmosphere. It sounds like a great place for an algae farm (which is where terrestrial oil came from.)
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by usrn 4y ago
"Trust the science" when there isn't any public study or experiment really means "trust the conjecture" but that's not so great for PR.
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by usrn 4y ago
You will never destroy ethnic identity in humans because once you manage it for one or two races, one of the many remaining will just over run them. It's not just a waste of energy to try, it's actively harmful and often causes re
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by usrn 4y ago
Software rots man. It can be really hard to run some open source software from the 80s and 90s. This is actually one of the big arguments for Open Source: Access to the software is way less interesting than the support/community&#x2F
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by usrn 4y ago
I can taste the different kinds but I honestly don't mind the Folgers bagged coffee. It's nice because I can just use my normal electric kettle and there's hardly any mess.
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by usrn 4y ago
Solar panels are pretty hard on the environment and (in places with poor regulation) the people manufacturing them but once you've got them set up they're pretty fantastic (provided you don't accidentally smash them like I di
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by usrn 4y ago
A lot if you're posting from your Apple ][. Users should really be signing their posts themselves anyway, not relying on authentication and vouching from a third party. Session authentication is kind of silly for blog posting IMO. The
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by usrn 4y ago
I'm blaming blindly siding with environmentalists (especially corporate funded ones) without reasoning through the consequences. If you want to call those hippies than yeah I'm blaming the hippies, this is a direct consequence of
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by usrn 4y ago
China is 1) Not self sufficient, they have to import food from the US 2) Burning nearly a million more cubic feet of coal per capita than the US does (and they have way more people, so that means they're really burning far far more coa
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by usrn 4y ago
Part of the reason Germany is still stuck on fossil fuels was the ultimatums of the environmentalists that killed their nuclear power. IMO if they really care about the environment they need to chill out so people can work out how to transi
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by usrn 4y ago
I own a Pinephone, I go back and forth with it. Once you take away the psychological manipulation and crappy mobile GUI from popular smartphone OSes you start to realize the form factor isn't that great over a very small (like 7-9 inch
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by usrn 4y ago
You probably could have just stepped through an ex script. Also it's not really live coding if it's pre recorded.
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by usrn 4y ago
I don't bother with spam filters. Yeah I get some spam but it's not worth missing emails. Gmail has gotten really bad about throwing away legitimate email btw so I wouldn't say even theirs is good. Much better IMO is address
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by usrn 4y ago
America is effectively two nations forced into one at this point.
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by usrn 4y ago
I was paying $2k for a very nice apartment in a very nice DC suburb within walking distance to my office. I moved to an even cheaper house (in a very walkable neighborhood) just outside Richmond. No people are not paying anywhere near N
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by usrn 4y ago
>No home button >Crazy menus This is why on my sites I refuse to use a CMS and just write everything in vim with a single link back to index.html at the top. It's the only way.
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by usrn 4y ago
>Apps No. Stop using smartphones. GNU/Linux and FOSS only.
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by usrn 4y ago
It's a lack of consensus, not a search for validation. This is a natural (and fairly well understood) consequence of "diverse" democracies.
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by usrn 4y ago
It filters js per domain IIRC.
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by usrn 4y ago
idk people do weird stuff with windows servers and nfs.
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by usrn 4y ago
Zombo is supposed to parody. You know things are rough when it's better than some popular websites!
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by usrn 4y ago
By default it more or less has everything besides ublock (which is why I haven't switched yet either.)
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by usrn 4y ago
Tokyo can exist in Japan because of some properties intrinsic to Japan which I'll get flagged for pointing out. The reason I tried to emphasize "expensive" is because those cross links are probably where a lot of the crazy pr
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by usrn 4y ago
>for the same reason they don’t wear seatbelts and drive drunk everywhere. They just don’t care. This doesn't match my experience living in a rural area. Most of the people I knew either avoided drinking (your WASP) or drank with th
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by usrn 4y ago
That sounds... expensive.

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