Semiapies

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by Semiapies 4y ago
points to Banana699's comment beside yours By pulling your head out of the sand and paying attention.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Anti Virtue signaling as a topic has been growing tremendously over the past 10 years It's definitely been growing as a dog-whistling tactic. It's not like people don't notice that those who complain about "virtue sig
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by Semiapies 4y ago
No, the icons are just an excuse.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Now enjoy spending a vast amount of effort finding which 50% of the billions of web pages have political content.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Because some people here look around at the rest of us and think they see easy marks.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
At this point, I think it's wasted breath to try to respond to the people who skim over articles without comprehension (or who don't appear to read the articles at all) and who instead just respond to the title.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
I'm comfortable writing prose in monospaced fonts, but I tend to switch out for reading and revising. In Emacs, I just hit variable-pitch-mode.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
And specifically certain prose issues in technical writing. It's like writing is a complex activity, and just one of its sub-tasks is editing prose.
100.
by Semiapies 4y ago
Only if you consider it worthwhile to spam with links about agile development in discussions of linters. Writing, like programming, is a task that involves work at multiple levels.
101.
by Semiapies 4y ago
I can't say that I believe this happened, but it's a fun story.
102.
by Semiapies 4y ago
After threads the last few days where people were suggesting getting monitors to use as TVs, it's amusing to see the reverse offered just as sensibly.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Yup. Time to close the HN tab for the week.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Fair enough.
105.
by Semiapies 4y ago
Well, what's a good starting book you recommend that gets you to there?
106.
by Semiapies 4y ago
I tend to think that social media deserves to be ranted about Maybe. While I dislike a lot of social media, I'm tired of the rants because they are the definition of echo chamber. When I see such a rant that actually acknowledges w
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Some people need to learn that their fetish is not the definition of fun.
108.
by Semiapies 4y ago
TFA is right there, and just the latest example of a trend.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
I'd say you're not reading it at all.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
That's sort of part of it. On the one hand, I'm absolutely for anyone with the urge to go out and build a web site, just like I'm the same way about someone wanting to write. If all they find out is that they don't a
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by Semiapies 4y ago
I support more people having websites, if only to make it harder for people to pretend it's revolutionary and special to do so.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Between s-expressions in Racket and indentation in Python, this thread really turns out all the people who whine about code that doesn't look like Java.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
I took it to this and found it even more so: https://sliderland.blinry.org/#sin%280.25%20*%20t%2Bx%29*0.5...
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by Semiapies 4y ago
This seems a lot like Pollen ( https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/index.html ), but aimed more at JS than HTML and PDF.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
You can have a point and make an argument while showing any kind of dignity or intelligence...or you can go looking for a response and titter "u mad?" when you get one. Looks like you made it clear what you're doing.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
They have the power to make some assholes uncomfortable, by existing.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
"The comment I'm referring to is by a different commenter twofornone" Then you're just being disingenuous, jumping into a thread responding to someone else entirely and talking about dead comments as if the person being
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by Semiapies 4y ago
I don't see any posts by him in this thread with showdead on that I can't see with it off, so I don't buy your complaint. As it is it, looks like what you think is "a bit rude" amounts to some guy facing criticism
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by Semiapies 4y ago
"I’m not saying it’s fair or right…" Good, because concern trolling like this is pretty shitty, and definitely not fair or right. Certainly not intellectually honest. You attack someone repeatedly for supposedly not standing up a
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Really, that's what fatigues me about a lot of these "I miss websites." posts. I think if more people would at least try to build and maintain their own website, starting with the barest of basic HTML, we'd have less of

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