MattyRad

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by MattyRad 4y ago
Getting new hardware+software used to be so exciting- consoles, TVs, phones, the works- anything before ~2015 felt like an upgrade. Mostly that feeling has completely evaporated. New hardware+software instills dread, frustration, mistrust a
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by MattyRad 4y ago
Agreed, particularly given the grammar mistakes. Although, ironically, the grammar mistakes increase confidence that this is an article written by a human.
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by MattyRad 4y ago
Because I could not stop for Death, by Emily Dickinson.
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by MattyRad 4y ago
It's been said before, but piracy is not theft. The media which is pirated is a copy of the original, a new entity separate from the original. The original media is still intact and in place (not stolen). The argument that not paying m
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by MattyRad 4y ago
Jargon takes quite a bit of collective time to establish. Instead of jargon, how about offensive phrases? Since AI lacks both creativity and the ability to be offensive (barring current workarounds/hacks), perhaps an easy way to (tempo
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by MattyRad 4y ago
- Ukraine-Russia war is protracted throughout the the year. Russia is increasingly unable to sustain the war by any metric, economic or otherwise. Russia and Post Soviet States enter a period of political instability, Putin disappears and i
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by MattyRad 4y ago
This is cool, but the killer feature I'm looking for is a UI that matches the functionality of grit https://github.com/climech/grit . Grit itself isn't particularly functional for every-day use, but its write-
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by MattyRad 4y ago
This exactly, I can confirm the Steam Deck is perfect for 5-30 minute gaming jaunts. It's similar to the Nintendo Switch, but the Deck actually has a huge number of varied, high quality games- frequently at bargain prices. Idling on th
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by MattyRad 4y ago
I take your point. But note that I'm here upvoting and commenting still! I saw the link to this article in my RSS feed, and I took the time to open a browser, find the link, and comment because RSS adoption is something that I genuinel
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by MattyRad 4y ago
I've used RSS to follow all media for the past 2 years (FreshRSS+FeedMe, I have a guide here https://soapstone.mradford.com/hn-rss-guide/ ). It's been the single best thing I've done to reclaim my attenti
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by MattyRad 4y ago
As others have said, you're in a precarious position: working with pure tech debt for a business that clearly has no interest in addressing tech debt. First thing would be to use source control and get some sort of code review/rel
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by MattyRad 4y ago
Agreed, OP's comment is a perfect example of moralizing that saps energy and interest from generic everyday life, the exact type of conservativism that would rather live in a safe, boring world than an interesting but flawed one. Eve
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by MattyRad 5y ago
Any todo list that doesn't account for dependency tasks is exclusively limited to short term planning (i.e. days not weeks). After skimming the spec, I don't think dependency tasks are accounted for? For example, say this is my (o
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by MattyRad 5y ago
I've always thought that the only way to lose at Dark Souls is to give up, and go Hollow. It's a small missed opportunity that From Software didn't indicate where in the Game players went Hollow; that is, if a player died,
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by MattyRad 5y ago
Ah, they went with a 403 status code. A couple days ago I asked about which status code was most appropriate for non-compliance/sanctions: https://serverfault.com/questions/1094841/which-http-status-... Perha
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by MattyRad 5y ago
It's been difficult to find the operational objectives [1] of the war laid out plainly, which ACOUP once again does expertly (as best as any expert can do at this stage, anyway). The Siege of Gondor writeup[1] is worth reading by itse
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Search using your terms, verbatim(search.googleblog.com)
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by MattyRad 5y ago
Jeez, this has been around for a decade https://search.googleblog.com/2011/11/search-using-your-term... Now I'm embarrassed about all of this wailing and gnashing of teeth. Excellent pointer, thank you!
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by MattyRad 5y ago
This is true, but I think the main concern is that Google appears to be asleep at the wheel. Will Google combat the low quality internet? If not, search will continue to degrade, so what alternatives exist? That's the thrust of this su
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by MattyRad 5y ago
It's probably worth noting that Wikipedia breaks character occasionally and does the banner panhandling, intentionally nosediving UX to put an ad front-and-center. This is the behavior that should be penalized by search engines- howeve
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by MattyRad 5y ago
Wikipedia is the perfect contrast to google search results. - It contains 100% signal- no noise- and provides helpful related links if you need more information. - Pages are organized and brutalist . - Every page has a steward who (thank
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by MattyRad 5y ago
My 2 cents, I think the browser wars are lost, handily . We should start focusing on contingency plans. I don't think we all agree on what the impact of Firefox market share evaporation is, but my main concern is Google having totalit
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by MattyRad 5y ago
Compiz has been my daily driver for the past 10 years, I highly recommend it to everyone (make sure you use CompizConfig Settings Manager to configure it). If you do try it out, please _please_ ignore all the gimmicky effects (yes, includin
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by MattyRad 5y ago
I think this is a step in the right direction. It's definitely a better initial experience of emacs (including Doom/Space), but even after trying this out I experienced several (emacs-core) frustrations. Just now I experienced: we
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by MattyRad 5y ago
My wife is pregnant and we just had a really good time going through names, thanks for this! Just like searching for recipes, searching baby names can be a miserable SEO-hijacked/ad-stuffed slog, so this really makes a difference. I di
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by MattyRad 5y ago
Listicles have gotten on my nerves, I googled 'how to remove listicles from search results' and got, yes, 2 listicles in the SERP. I tinkered with ddgr[1] and jq for removing listicles with some success, if someone wants to pick u
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by MattyRad 5y ago
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/
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by MattyRad 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey
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by MattyRad 5y ago
It's important to draw the similarities between attempting to have dialogues with Christians/Progressives, in that they both argue their position exclusively from an emotional standpoint, never from an objective one. For example
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by MattyRad 5y ago
I was auditing Keto recently, I came across this discussion: https://github.com/ory/keto/issues/47 It's a impressive example of high functioning discourse: all the participants provide valuable insight,

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