OtomotO

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by OtomotO 5y ago
Greed happened. It poisons whatever it touches. Mammon is the only thing that matters to a lot of primates.
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by OtomotO 5y ago
But I prefer to write other languages, so a compilation target is perfect. So it's either wasm or something like scala.js or fengari.io (lua on the web) (Worry not, I am paid to write JS and TS these days... But my rate increased due t
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by OtomotO 5y ago
> Our business model is to make the terminal so useful for individuals that their companies will want to pay for the team features. We will never sell your data. So, don't collect it to begin with, so even if you get bought the data
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by OtomotO 5y ago
The only thing that grows without limits in nature is a malign tumor and that usually kills the host. Yet for some reason regarding business and economy unlimited growth is the holy grail. Regarding the topic: Sure, do it... I'll gladl
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by OtomotO 5y ago
Same shit, new package
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by OtomotO 5y ago
But ceasing to exist and dying are similar yet also different concepts. A company can cease to exist on a whim, yet be reborn the next minute under a different name, with the same "genes", the same "information", because
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by OtomotO 5y ago
Ultimate power corrupts ultimately... okay, there are always exceptions to that rule, like e.g. Emperor Marcus Aurelius
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by OtomotO 5y ago
> How does it make you feel? The insignificance of our existence, everything that we ever did, or will ever do. It (that knowledge that everything I will ever do is absolutely irrelevant on the grand scale of things) makes me feel more p
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by OtomotO 5y ago
Counterquestion: Do they entice gambling?
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by OtomotO 5y ago
oO, was I downvoted? At the moment it seems to be a plus. But either way is fine, I am not self-censoring and don't really care for internet-points ^^ You're totally right, few people have read Marx but a lot of people have an opi
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by OtomotO 5y ago
March: -100, took 100 from my savings for the house, because I wanted to go to this concert. October: +100, finally paid back the 100 taken in March. Anothet option: you have multiple personalities. Btw. Semi joking
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by OtomotO 5y ago
As a (non game) developer, I can say, thay free to play is instantly dead on arrival for me. The moment something is known to become or becomes free to play is the moment I lose all interest. The dishonesty in the system itself is what make
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by OtomotO 5y ago
The best one is still "das Kapital" ;)
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by OtomotO 5y ago
Of course you can be in debt to yourself, over the dimension of time
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by OtomotO 5y ago
It's interesting because it could be _my_ profit! Nevermind the society or the environment. If money can be made, money shall be made, no matter how shady a business /s
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by OtomotO 5y ago
If in the end I have to show ß or Ø or È it doesn't matter how it's encoded, but I would certainly argue for a unicode standard to be better than some proprietary format. KISS doesn't mean that you can't have nice featur
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by OtomotO 5y ago
Ideally you have a compiler that simply refuses to compile ambiguous code
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by OtomotO 5y ago
People arguing about proprietary formats being supported by other applications and backups plus checksums being a solution against bitrot miss the major point: Simplicity. If "simple" text is all you need to fulfill a certain goal
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by OtomotO 5y ago
Yes, I can do all that, with a lot more effort, or just use plain text for content that doesn't need more and be happy with a simpler solution
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by OtomotO 5y ago
> But, regardless, most files are not text Hence the initial post. (Are we running in circles now?)
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by OtomotO 5y ago
It's the time and age of antinatalists. ;)
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by OtomotO 5y ago
The solution isn't to breed and then not (be able to) care for the own offspring (emotionally), because of low wages and an idiotic system. If you decide to have children, care for them. I hate this "the society as a whole has to
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by OtomotO 5y ago
> For better or worse, the age of the beaver is definitely over. At least in the US. I wouldn't be so sure about that. After all, the age of apes may be over sooner or later and who knows, maybe beavers will take over?
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by OtomotO 5y ago
Yup, he is a machine and I love some of his works, while others I find mediocre at best. It's the same as with all the other "machines" out there, really. Some very good books, many mediocre, some even outright bad. All my su
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by OtomotO 5y ago
Well, even if he never finishes, the red wedding still a better love story than twilight, I guess ;) As an absolute fan of ASoIaF, The Kingkiller Chronicles and The Gentleman Bastard I can say: I am waiting for Winds of Winter for over 10 y
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by OtomotO 5y ago
> Are you suggesting here that bigotry against Nazis is not justified? What exactly do you expect me to answer here? If I say no, I created kind of an ex falso quodlibet situation, a contradiction (from some points of view) If I say yes,
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by OtomotO 5y ago
Hm, it depends how you use it, I would say. I totally agree that in a ltr context left side screams "focus point". On the other hand, the project drawers/file explorer is mostly toggled off while I work, so it doesn't ta
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by OtomotO 5y ago
No (did that answer the kind of hidden but not ad hominem?)
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by OtomotO 5y ago
But in the eyes of the bigot their bigotry is totally justified. So it all boils down to "but I am right, trust me, my bigotry is totally justified" But yes, you're right with your assessment, that I view being tolerant as an
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by OtomotO 5y ago
We are not talking about believing if something is unbiased, or if something can be unbiased, we are talking about said something being actively biased in the name of "the greater good"

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