archonis

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by archonis 3mo ago
There's nothing quite like the empowerment of discoverable user interfaces devoid of dark patterns.
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by archonis 3mo ago
We're talking about hot-rod culture here, which has been explicity coupled with projections of notional masculinity from its inception.
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by archonis 3mo ago
The inherrent dangers of nuclear energy stem from flawed actors admimistrating something which carries manageable and often avoidable risks. Fracking as a process carries inherrent unavoidable risk.
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by archonis 3mo ago
Indeed. This is an awkward era where we're using these artificial language tools to target abstractions made for humans to manually write. At some point the path from human language to machine code is not going to require an interstiti
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by archonis 3mo ago
Kowloon Walled City.
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by archonis 3mo ago
Cancer is also growth.
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by archonis 3mo ago
Conversely, Rexx scripting on the desktop was glorious in 1995.
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by archonis 3mo ago
2026 is an election year for the Governor. One year moratorium conveniently allows the incumbent to have cake and eat it too.
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by archonis 3mo ago
Regulate the business model, not the interface.
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by archonis 3mo ago
>> Smartphones in dumb pockets made it all possible. >>> Smartphones did nothing. The "people" who manipulated the reality within them did. So those manipulations and their machinations weren't enabled by the e
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by archonis 3mo ago
Apple certainly played a major part. The long distance culture war was enabled by long distance visibility. The whole 'own the libs' thing wouldn't have existed in an era where everybody wasn't paticipating in a medium t
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by archonis 3mo ago
Smartphones in dumb pockets made it all possible.
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by archonis 3mo ago
I wonder if rural farm town to Miami is the real story here vs. any sort of national culture clash.
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by archonis 3mo ago
At some point, (programming) languages themselves will become vestigal abstractions.
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by archonis 3mo ago
Well said. As mentioned in another post, it's not about intelligence, it's about vulnerability. One particular type of misery is mourning, and the western world does a pretty good job of creating mourners in a number of places whe
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by archonis 3mo ago
Terrorists organizations are members of high control (ie. cult) groups. High control groups succeed because they apply their tactics to people who at vulnerable. Vulnerability has no correlation with intelligence. Lots of intelligent people
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by archonis 3mo ago
I wonder if Metroloft cut corners on structural engineering practices given that they also exploit non-union workers.
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by archonis 3mo ago
How did you come to that conclusion? Were you alive and in the Northeast US during the 80s and 90s, if not, what are your sources?
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by archonis 3mo ago
You're talking about acting vs. lived experience. That doesn't invalidate the premise of the article, it actually strengthens it if you aren't overly pedantic in your read and interpretation.
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by archonis 3mo ago
Sometime in the 90s we started getting really good Dostoyevsky translations, and they make a huge difference.
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by archonis 4mo ago
It's not just 5 grams of some random cubensis, it's 5 grams of the enigma strain, which is ridiculously potent.
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by archonis 4mo ago
Style is a thing. Your version is not better.
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by archonis 4mo ago
Might be a great article. Overriding scroll behavior and velocity so that content moves when fingers aren't touching the screen seems like a suicidal choice for a publication. Mobile scrolling is a solved problem unless you make it one
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by archonis 4mo ago
Writes about a romantic relationship and: References Steve Jobs in a positive way References Elon Musk in a positive way References Ayn Rand in an extremely positive way Their inevitable breakup is going to be spectacularly dysfunctional an
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by archonis 4mo ago
Return on capital generates income at a much greater rate than return on labor. Time is a factor, but it doesn't seem like that's what you're talking about.
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by archonis 4mo ago
May her passing be a gentle one. For what it's worth, a random person on the internet just shed a tear for the both of you.
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by archonis 4mo ago
Really glad you finally got a correct diagnosis, and thank you for the tools/utilities you've contributed. My early rust skills benefitted significantly from having read your code! Good luck and good health.
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by archonis 4mo ago
Seriously. Exploring the topic and jumping from 1970s to 2003 without mentioning the Cocteau Twins is criminal.
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by archonis 4mo ago
Who needs occam's razor when you've got a mobieus shaped breadknife?
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by archonis 4mo ago
I wonder how many people IBM will layoff to celebrate this one.

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