MrVandemar

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by MrVandemar 11mo ago
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
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by MrVandemar 11mo ago
Yes. Being clear on categories of real things is important for being able to make informed choices and actions.
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by MrVandemar 11mo ago
God doesn't seem to disapprove of murdering 200 people.
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by MrVandemar 11mo ago
It's just a machine. Being able to distinguish real life from a television show is important.
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by MrVandemar 11mo ago
> 5. Read the Bible. Even if you do not believe, Jesus is the most impressive human I've ever learned about. When I started reading it I was agnostic. Yeah, read the whole Bible — the one people swear on in court, the one the prea
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How to Use YouTube to Learn Tacit Knowledge(commoncog.com)
2 points by MrVandemar 1y ago|1 comments
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
There is an easy answer, it's just obfuscated by powerful people who are benefiting from it an obscene amount, and supported by hoards of addled and thoroughly addicted enthusiasts. I think sticking a straw in Zlib or AA or LibGen or w
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
The number of (self-inflicted) existential threats facing Homo sapiens right now and all you come up with is "mass brain fog"? AI won't solve human obstinacy, human entitlement, human greed, human short-sightedness, anthrop
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
“Stupid” about covers it.
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
Roger Zelazny, the science-fiction author, relates a story of how he wrote one story that fulfilled the briefs of three anthologies/magazines, sold it three times, and it was enough to pay for a cruise. Things were different back in th
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
> It's truly shocking to live in a world where linux is a better option in every category over windows. I'm pretty sure it trounces Linux (for some value of whatever you think "Linux" actually is) on Accessibility. Th
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
That's not a great analogy. Firefox once supported RSS feeds as live bookmarks and dropped it, and not because people didn't use it, because people did use it and bemoaned its loss for years afterwards.
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
Immaterial. If the answer is either 'yes' or 'no', it makes no actual difference: gopher still exists, is still a thing, is still successful . It feels like you're just trying to move the goal-posts and redefine wh
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
The top 1% of users :-)
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
> I really doubt anyone would chose to use it for anything new these days. Use the correct tool for the job. If that tool is XML, then I use it instead of $ShinyThing.
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
A million websites is not even close to touching “the long tail”.
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
> The modern web is opt-in. I build and use sites that aren’t SPAs and shitted up with 3p resources and images and code. That is a microscopic subset of the modern web. I don't use Gemini— though I am highly tempted —but I expect so
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
Dreams of Flesh and Sand by William T. Quick reads like a rip-off of Neuromancer ... and it should be bad ... but I really like the writing style and the characterisation -- Berg, Toshi and Calley seem pretty cool and real, and so it may be
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
Oh, the “Alibi of Photocopies” is marvelous! I kind of did something like that back in the 2000s. I would buy a book or magazine on a topic (say Macromedia Flash), and then feel confident enough to say I “knew” that technology to employers,
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
Wrong pronoun. Joan Westenberg so "she".
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I deleted my second brain(joanwestenberg.com)
598 points by MrVandemar 1y ago|348 comments
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The Wiki Weekend(ratfactor.com)
1 points by MrVandemar 1y ago|0 comments
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Testing Phone-Sized Faraday Bags(mattblaze.org)
1 points by MrVandemar 1y ago|1 comments
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
Only recommendation I have is to stay the hell away from Google's parental controls. Once you've turned it on, there is no way to remove it. It is a trap, pure and simple.
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
Nutrients are largely material that plants draw from the earth, not atmospheric gasses.
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
I doubt it. Where would these enormous fast-growing trees get their hefty nutrient requirements from?
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
I'm unapologetic about using em-dashes. They're in my toolbox, and I reach for them. I can and do manually type em-dashes manually in both Linux and Microsoft Windows using the key-codes. Anyone who is basing their opinion of the
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I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back(fireborn.mataroa.blog)
71 points by MrVandemar 1y ago|47 comments
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
The pain and despair of using Linux as a person who is blind or visually impaired. It's almost a poem.
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by MrVandemar 1y ago
Some good places to start: - https://planet-if.com/ - https://intfiction.org/ - https://grumpygamer.com/why_adventure_games_suck/ - https://grumpygamer.com/puzzle_depen

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