Arainach

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by Arainach 5mo ago
Yes, that's what I said, but there's no "2" in there. It's "one to one", not "one two one"
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by Arainach 5mo ago
> We don't install guards to prevent someone from poking into the outlets with a fork. We absolutely do, and they've been mandatory for a while. https://www.electricallicenserenewal.com/Electrical-Continui...
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by Arainach 5mo ago
> Is it war in general that accelerates material technology, or simply WWII The reply did not miss the point, it was addressing a question directly posed in the original comment.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
There's no abdication of personal responsibility. To be the kind of person who wants to constantly improve, it is incredibly important to surround yourself with similar people. You will always grow faster spending time with someone wh
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by Arainach 5mo ago
I agree with the content, but... "1-2-1"? From context, this seems to be "1 to 1" or "1:1", but the numeral 2 would never make sense. Am I missing something?
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by Arainach 5mo ago
.....what? Seriously, people are looking for reasons to get offended. Have you read anything written between 1990 and 2023? Plenty of people talk and write like this. Your post adds nothing to this discussion.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
Go out, meet people, talk to them. Note what works and what doesn't. Most friendships are made by doing something that puts you in proximity to the same people repeatedly. Go join (or start) a pickup sports team. Or a reading club.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
It absolutely makes sense (in a capitalist sense). Then you get more money/engagement/whatever on all of the other platforms. It's the same reason Microsoft built functionality to let users in Europe have links open in their
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by Arainach 5mo ago
This forces millions of users to individually monitor and fix dozens or hundreds of apps all the time - something most don't have time for and leads to an awful experience. Centralized controls are better for the user.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
No, because the mortgage companies' valuation is based on rent and does not consider any incentives.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
> This doesn’t even need to be a website at all It does, because it allows for quickly sharing a prepared response instead of saying the same thing over and over. It also works because the kind of person this link gets sent to is alread
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by Arainach 5mo ago
Interesting. The curses interface for histedit has been around since 2019, and I had no idea it wasn't the default since it's dramatically nicer to work with: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/relnotes/4.9
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by Arainach 5mo ago
It's "easy" with a single deprecated command that no one I know of has ever needed. I didn't even know that command existed.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
You can also undo things in Mercurial - there are just fewer footguns to need undoing.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
git rebase -i drops you into a text editor where you have to manually copy, move, and edit lines, knowing what words mean what and manually type them each time. hg histedit gives you a TUI which shows an interactive list and allows quick ma
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by Arainach 5mo ago
Mercurial doesn't require understanding a DAG. You can get by with `hg next`, `hg prev`, and `hg rebase -s <from> -d <to>` to move entire chains of commits around. Commands with obvious names that allow moving around witho
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by Arainach 5mo ago
The bad states Git "allows you to unfuck" are largely caused by Git's awful UX (confusing and multipurpose commands based on inner workings), so Git gets no credit for "solving" a problem it caused.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
How do you consider the UX "nearly identical" or "arguably worse"? The Mercurial CLI has clear, well named commands that are predictable and easy to memorize. hg histedit is clean and easy to use and visually shows you
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by Arainach 5mo ago
As if there are any Zip drives remaining that haven't succumbed to the click of death...
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by Arainach 5mo ago
No. No one should be running Win9x for anything connected to the internet. Ever, full stop. The only reason to touch it is for a dedicated retro gaming setup or (completely airgapped) for some industrial tool with drivers/software prov
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by Arainach 5mo ago
If these flaws are so important, users of open source (business or individual) need to pay up - literally. Pay the maintainers enough to justify spending the time on these things, including the opportunity cost of not working at other soft
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by Arainach 5mo ago
> OSS maintainer burnout is strictly a less important concern than software security, Burnout means that no more fixes come - ever - and that things sit vulnerable until everyone relying on that tool takes the time to build and switch to
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by Arainach 5mo ago
It is overwhelmingly one sided. The entire Trump cabinet is full of unqualified sycophantic reality TV stars not even pretending to run a competent government. The Republican Congress runs on obstructionism.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
I very much do want to see. A necessary step to fix our problems is for people to stop lying to themselves and thinking things are "going fine". A plurality of American voters are stubborn and stupid and won't change their w
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by Arainach 5mo ago
There is no boom. There are massive layoffs, massive inflation, and massive cuts to government services - all caused by the actions of Musk, Altman, and those like them.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
Almost no one in the country is feeling a boom. Everyone is feeling the consequences of their greed and recklessness.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
Because the party in control of the Federal government doesn't care about the well being of the populace and is focused entirely on lining their pockets and remaining in power.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
I find a life surrounded only by people who already do the things I do unfulfilling. I also find that almost no one who works outside of tech cares enough about privacy or other issues to care to move off the big platforms. I already spend
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by Arainach 5mo ago
Sure, for one category of music in some cities there's a resource. There are often community-curated lists that have some things, but if you want specific things or if you want everything/most things, it's the big platforms
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by Arainach 5mo ago
What does your social life look like? Because the reality for me is that in any major city, a significant number of places - even if they technically have websites - post all of their events and happenings on Instagram/FB. Sure, I can

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