AnIdiotOnTheNet

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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
If they aren't manipulative, if I actually want what they are selling, why are they inserting themselves into my attention instead of waiting for me to look for them in a catalog? The entire industry is a blight on the human condition.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
A statement like this just makes me think most developers are the passengers in that episode of futurama where the brains take over and make everyone stupid. "I'm sending in more trains!" [0] Only the trains are additional la
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> I don't know if it's some sort of perverse Stockholm syndrome, or if young developers today are just not familiar with how incredibly fast desktop applications used to be decades ago. Most of them have no idea how fast a comp
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
To be fair, non-electron full-fat Visual Studio is also a pig.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> I could switch to vegan food only after I have discovered that I can make a home-made bread that is highly enriched in protein by removing about 75% of the starch during a 6 to 7 minute washing of the dough. With a longer washing time
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> If that bothers you, there are always more expensive ways to eat real meat. Or, you know, just stop eating meat.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Hypercard was also dreamed up while on an acid trip, IIRC.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Yeah. And no, I'm not linking them for anyone for two reasons: -I value the tiny shred of anonymity I have here so I can continue to express stupid opinions without being too self conscious about it. -Honestly they just aren&#x2
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
You're seriously comparing a cancer diagnosis with being bored while reveling in nigh-infinite opportunity? There is a simple and obvious solution to this "abundance boredom": remove the abundance. There. Done. Put all your m
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Have you played Scavenger SV4? Might not quite be the kind of thing you're into but it is definitely something the developer put a lot of time into making interesting.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> The AAA game may cost me 4 times as much, but it gives me 400 times the value. I... guess? If your only calculation of value is how much money was spent making the latest edition of a cookie cutter experience like 90% of AAA games are
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
That's what I like about Plasma. Unlike GNOME it is designed to be used by actual human beings who actually use computers to do actual work, not some imagined user and use case by some high-on-their-own-farts designer. It is consequent
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Precisely. We are constantly bombarded by messages to buy buy buy. Fill that hole in your life with plastic crap that will surely be the thing you were missing that finally makes you happy. And when that doesn't work, well, just buy
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Yeah, I agree (although with Kinoite because fuck GNOME). It still has plenty of issues, but at least I don't feel like I'm constantly fighting the system just to use software.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Is Teams serious? https://twitter.com/ernerfeldt/status/1640972391265230848
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> (and, of course, vice versa). True, but only one of these parties ever talks about fixing the system. To be fair, of course, that's partially because the data says they'd win almost every election if it came down to a straigh
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
He could have been driven to crackpottery also. Consider this hypothetical: A person in intelligence knows something you would rather didn't get out, but you suspect there's a chance they will leak it. Maybe they have a personalit
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Given the enormity of the universe and the seeming[0] impossibility of FTL travel, plus the complete absence of astronomical observation of extraterrestrial civilization, and the incredibly tiny (on astronomical scales) window of time in wh
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
You and me both, but it won't happen for several reasons: 1) The kind of people who bitch about tipping actually just hate the expectation of it. They're the same people who bitch about the price of everything and how "no one
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> Yeah right, counting calories works for "99.7% of the population" but then everyone struggles with weight loss, somehow. Yes, because being hungry sucks . Why this has to be explicitly pointed out to you, I don't know.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Except that's what I'm addressing: there is evidence that it really doesn't matter what you are eating, as long as you eat less.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
We don't have to do that, just make sure that dishonest behavior is not the dominant strategy. In our society, we could start by ceasing to promote and reward such behavior constantly.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Iff your diet doesn't change, which it often does because people often reward themselves after a workout, or a week of working out, or whatever. They tell themselves "I can eat this entire pizza, I've earned it", and the
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> What does the O mean here, exactly? Doesn't matter. Ignore the O, focus on the I. If you want to weigh a certain amount, look up what the sedentary metabolic estimate is for that weight and consume that number that despite any add
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> Consider the following: 1500 calories worth of Snickers bar would not have the same effects as 1500 calories worth of beans and legumes or 1500 calories of pure soda. How sure of that are you? Mark Haub, Nutrition Professor, famously a
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Maybe any game where the "proper" way to play involves dishonesty and sociopathic behavior isn't one we should be structuring society around, and therefore we really shouldn't be trying to play it in the first place.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
I think this is mostly survivorship bias. We remember the interesting stuff and forget about the 90% of crap, while we experience current crap in real time. There are some really stellar games that inspired and shaped the industry, a few od
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Android phone Settings -> Apps and Notifications -> Chrome -> Disable I can't even click on links in email. It's great.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Yes, it came to being in a time where "the obviously right way" to do FPS controls on a PC hadn't been settled on yet. I see similar complaints from people who play Goldeneye for the N64 without having lived through the era.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
So the situation is even worse than I had predicted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19502801

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