ElfinTrousers

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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I guess, thinking about it some more, I find it kind of insulting. In the end, the source we write is text in ordinary files, and all the fancy tooling you can put in your IDE/editor only improves your odds of writing the _correct_ tex
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Couldn't have said it better myself.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
...Some places mandate tooling? I guess that answers your question, probably.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Because it's what I believe, for reasons. If you want an explanation of why that's what I believe, you are welcome to make up any in your own head that satisfy you.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I haven't read the article, but as a general rule of thumb, if Peter Thiel believes something about politics or economics to be true, the opposite is probably so.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Last time I was looking for work as a software engineer, I saw one req that listed, as a perk, using "my choice of IDE". I didn't apply to that job, and it took some self-discipline not to flame them too.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
"You know, I am pretty vocal about worker rights"...followed by five paragraphs of arguing against them. You sure about that first statement?
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
That seems actually logical when you consider that kanji presumably began as simple depictions of objects that could be drawn quickly. Perhaps the only difference between emoji and kanji is time.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Am I alone in thinking that this is not so much a separate character, as a doodle a bored monk made to relieve a tiny bit of the tedium of copying manuscripts?
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
That's impressive! Where did they find the time between MKULTRA and overthrowing Latin American governments?
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
If anyone from EA is reading this, please consider this to be a formal invitation to kiss my skinny white ass.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Now that you mention it, I do remember one author--pretty sure it was Gaiman re Good Omens--say that the parts you'd think were him were mostly the other author, and vice versa.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Well yeah, the point is not to make _literal_ sense, this whole book is fiction, not technical writing. It's OK in that context to use devices like hyperbole and irony. A previous author, can't remember who and don't feel lik
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
No, being in limbo is when you try to bend backwards under a stick for all eternity. [shows self out]
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I also seem to remember that the story went on to say that Crowley at one point had been praised for his work in the Spanish Inquisition. That was the first he'd actually heard of it--humans had come up with it on their own--so he went