MrVandemar

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by MrVandemar 2y ago
"Still, I was determined not to write any code ... I just sat laughing as the computer wrote code." I can pop over to Midjourney and be determined not to draw a single line and "sit there laughing" as it draws the Mona
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
Is this an April Fools "joke"? It's hard to tell. One thing I can say is that we need more disinformation on the internet as much as we need a more polluting car on the roads.
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
There's some interesting papers in the balisage archives.
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
> I'd guess that they do that to make sure that you actually visit the site once in a while and might accidentally view an ad so they can make a few cents or they hope that you might see something else on their site you might be int
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
> Is it a "let's talk everything about guns"? Is it a "let's go to a shooting range and shoot guns" club? I know of no club where the purpose is merely to talk about guns. Gun clubs are typically organised s
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
A firearm is a tool. Do you think firearm ownership and usage is free from politics? Do you think a gun club is free from politics?
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
Several ways. To start with, I'm pretty sure it was established early on that the various vaccines don't prevent infection necessarily, but rather reduce the severity of the symptoms . Vaccines are always one step behind, like
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So You Want to Blog for Traffic(moddedbear.com)
2 points by MrVandemar 2y ago|0 comments
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
Meanwhile PFAS is in everything, including some paper and carboard (so don't burn it) and very little sign of it being regulated, much less stopped. See: - https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pf
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
Why are you tolerating a web that requires an ad blocker?
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Breaking Heavy Textbooks in to Smaller Books for Easy Carrying(instructables.com)
3 points by MrVandemar 2y ago|1 comments
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
What an appalling idea. 1. A walled garden? Run by Google? Aside from locking this discoverability away in a walled garden, how many years before Google kills it out of corporate disinterest? 2. So, blogs with Google tracking promoted highe
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
> Personal sites are dead because the Internet search is broken. Personal sites are not dead. I've got one, and it is entirely fulfilling its function. Other people have them too. Internet search is pretty broken, I'll agree wi
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
I think there's a roguelike on steam maybe that is written in Ada.
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
> On one hand this, on the other, being born there is a live sentence. The thought that somewhere exists a kid just like I was, but his fate is to pick roots and other local equilibrium things, all his life… bitter. You're judging t
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
That's an excruciatingly blinkered opinion. Ignoring the fact that our own level of "innovation" as you call it is built on centuries of brutal exploitation of land and resources and people. And the "sea level rise"
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
Yeah, see also Kathy Sierra[1], who had an excellent blog[2], and was intimidated and harassed away. If we can't have a safe space for people, we can't enjoy and benefit from their perspectives and the things they create because s
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
Introducing the search engine that will challenge you to Click On All The Squares With A Bus if you have a bunch of browser privacy and security extensions enabled. Hard pass, whatever this is.
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
But we're distinctly not in a society that leans more towards merit. From what I can see, the highest compensated jobs go to morally and ethically bankrupt raging narcisists, successfully masking psychopaths, and spineless puppets fo
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
Comedian Bengt Washburn describes his school-learning experiences of high-school geometry: "Hours of study. Straight 'A's. And now we are a comedian who can calculate the volume of a cylinder. Height times Pi R squared. You t
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
> many well-educated people voted red I think, then, there's a difference between "well-educated" and "intelligent" or even "critical thinker". I would go on to argue that most "well-educated"
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
>there's a deep strain of anti-expert feeling throughout Probably because the experts are telling them that if they want a future, everyone is going to have to compromise their current lifestyle. Not a popular message. People will a
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
I disagree. The follow-ups definitely wasn't more of the same thing if that's what you were expecting, but I feel they were interesting, challenging and original, and I enjoyed them. YMMV.
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How I Broke Up with Adobe (YouTube Video)(youtube.com)
4 points by MrVandemar 2y ago|1 comments
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The Art of a Heartfelt Apology(health.harvard.edu)
2 points by MrVandemar 2y ago|0 comments
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
You do need a hyphen for a custom-tag. The HTML specs have guaranteed never to create a tag with a hyphen, so it prevents collisions with any future tag additions.
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PmWiki(pmwiki.org)
1 points by MrVandemar 2y ago|0 comments
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The PC Is Dead: It's Time to Make Computing Personal Again(vintagecomputing.com)
6 points by MrVandemar 2y ago|0 comments
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
I went to a 2nd-Hand store and bought a bunch of teaspoons, no two alike. It reuses something, and gives you cool, weird teaspoons.
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by MrVandemar 2y ago
> She can't commit to no pursuing her career, and this scares me. It scares you that a woman might want to pursue work that might make her feel happy or is otherwise rewarding? It scares you. What's the weather like there i

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