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by bowsamic 2y ago
I just left academia (after one three-year postdoc). Good riddance. For myself at least. I do think one can thrive in it, if you are a good salesman, don’t mind sucking up to those with money with lies and exaggerations, and don’t mind isol
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by bowsamic 2y ago
You’re not exactly demonstrating your moral strength by calling them parasites
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by bowsamic 2y ago
You’re just repeating what I said in the first comment, that they’re totally interchangeable and that the distinction is arbitrary
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by bowsamic 2y ago
> Disclaiming HTML as a programming language when it is actually powerful for programming comes across to me as a No True Scotsman argument about "real" programming languages being used to program only in some contexts or to m
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by bowsamic 2y ago
That's not really what's going on though. Semantically, it is a type of document that browsers to display in certain ways. A HTML isn't really programming your web browser any more than a .wav file is "programming your a
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by bowsamic 2y ago
The article seems to simply assume that only programming languages have value, then argue that since HTML has value, that it is a programming language. EDIT: It's a very common logical confusion. Just because someone says "HTML is
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Even if you don’t see it as a possibility, the fact we are able to discuss it in such detail is reason to be scared and justification for ladybird
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by bowsamic 2y ago
What is the logic behind this? I genuinely don’t understand your moral argument
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Insipid? I don't see how my comment is tasteless at all
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Sure but would they? Currently they get it totally for free. If they had to finance the development themselves then it would get real hard to justify real quick. $20bn is a lot of money even for Apple It's not about whether or not Appl
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Andreas, creator of Ladybird and ex Apple employee who worked on WebKit, claims that WebKit dev is completely paid for by that deal
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by bowsamic 2y ago
So you think all leisure is immoral?
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by bowsamic 2y ago
WebKit and gecko are funded by google
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Ladybird did this because there really is a pressing social need for a free browser outside of the grips of Google. There is no really need for another free (as in freedom) OS. Serenity's existence is purely for pleasure purposes
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Ladybird has a very large political aim: to become the only browser that isn't funded by Google or based on Google's browser engine. The reason it left behind SerenityOS is because it has moved from a hobbyist aim to a very seriou
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Honestly this is the kinda stuff that put me off Godot. A million ways to do things and they all seem bad or feel like they’re going to shoot me in the foot later. Somehow I never had these issues in Unity
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by bowsamic 2y ago
I play roguelikes too
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by bowsamic 2y ago
I just find screen space effects a bit jarring
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by bowsamic 2y ago
> is RT really necessary to play games? Who cares about real-world reflections? I barely play video games but I definitely do
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Is there any actual empirical evidence that this is the case?
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by bowsamic 2y ago
The thing is for a product to fail means the failure is widely accepted, like how Stadia failed or how AirPower failed. The verb "to fail" is simply wrong in the case of a product when you really intend "to be bad". It c
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by bowsamic 2y ago
I’m not American so that’s irrelevant to me anyway, I just think it’s a moral good
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Isn’t this against net neutrality?
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by bowsamic 2y ago
I think there's a point where it's worth waste in order to enjoy life, for example writing on paper instead of typing, or eating a burger every now and then. Not using a small amount of thermal paper each day is I think a patholog
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by bowsamic 2y ago
It is exactly that. I've also been in a pretty intense therapy for 12 months (3 hours a week) and all the takeaways are really obvious. That I had to take responsibility for my life, that I would feel better if I made my life better, t
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Who cares, though? If I feel better it worked. And yes if I was in a mental health crisis and I thought prayer would help I’d definitely try it
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by bowsamic 2y ago
I agree. I’m a bit horrified when I hear about other people’s therapists being universally affirmative yes men. Then again, other people seem to be horrified that my therapist challenges me
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by bowsamic 2y ago
A bad day in therapy doesn’t mean the therapy is bad. I’ve had proper arguments with my therapist and even asked to quit multiple times. Thankfully stuck with it and turned out to be part of the process Really all you can do is stick with i
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by bowsamic 2y ago
These days most Python devs I know use types
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Then what is the point, that Americans aren't really prudish at all and that other people are silly for saying that certain things aren't porn? If it's sarcasm I don't really get the point it's trying to portray

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