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by brennen 10y ago
> Colonization largely ended This is not observably true.
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by brennen 10y ago
I'm in the later parts of a TNG rewatch right now. One of the most striking things about the tech on the show is that the Enterprise's computer is clearly a superhuman general intelligence, capable of modeling and spawning appa
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by brennen 10y ago
It's an interesting design with some real potential, and may have improved since I last used it, but at least 6 months ago it was a bit too sluggish for real-world use on mid-tier laptop hardware.
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by brennen 10y ago
Yeah, true. To the point where I suppose it's basically standard in a bunch of regional dialects.
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by brennen 10y ago
I'm pretty sure I have never encountered "ect" from any person of any nationality.
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by brennen 10y ago
Awright, awright, I'll give it a look. :) As a kind of generalized comment to the authors of tools written in smart-people languages: Y'all are great, but I sometimes suspect you'd get broader adoption of your stuff if you k
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by brennen 10y ago
While this looks appealing and I will probably try it, I'm not sure if I have cognitive room for another core tool configured in Haskell. Running xmonad is already like a commitment to periodic skirmishes with an angry badger.
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by brennen 10y ago
I'd say it's more like a terminal multiplexer for window management, if you're familiar with screen or tmux. (Using XMonad for windows and using tmux for collections of shells / terminal apps have followed similar track
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by brennen 10y ago
What a tiling WM does in this situation is remove the part of the equation where you have to think about maximizing your windows. Instead of mouse interactions with GUI controls for window placement and scaling, you just use a couple of ho
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by brennen 10y ago
> Honestly, what the hell is with PC manufacturers that still include the TrackPoint™ Style Point, Nub, Nipple Mouse, Clit Mouse[1]?! There aren't enough of them?
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by brennen 10y ago
> People are enamored with less accurate reproduction of vinyl records. I just did a quick estimate and would say that there're around 300 vinyl records in my household, which I suppose is at the low end for people I know with a rec
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by brennen 10y ago
> You can't just upload it and forget Leaving aside the specifics of Debian's tooling and social process (undeniably, these are arcane and complex), I suspect this has a lot to do with why Debian is such a reliable environment
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by brennen 10y ago
Eh. I see your point. I'll grant that it's more or less true, from a certain angle: My thoughts on reddit are influenced as much, these days, by its effect on the wider world as by experience on the site itself. My direct part
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by brennen 10y ago
Elsewhere in this thread you asserted that "there's a price", and you don't particularly care about cost. Very well: Hire engineers and pay them a market rate.
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by brennen 10y ago
It poisons the discourse every time you do this.
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by brennen 10y ago
Business, however, makes a pretty lousy driver of life.
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by brennen 10y ago
I used to make more or less this same argument, by analogy to Usenet, phpBB forums, etc. My take now is that this falls apart in that the pathologies of reddit are down to a shared platform (the voting system, moderation tools, etc.), userb
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by brennen 10y ago
BRB, walling off various cave entrances.
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by brennen 10y ago
This does not actually seem to describe the state of the internet generally. I gravitate more and more towards little pocket-universe parts of the network that are essentially invisible, but (apropos of the article) things like comment sec
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by brennen 10y ago
A building in n-dimensional hyperspace where a large group of violent assholes are on the other side of ~50% of all doors.
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by brennen 10y ago
> Rather than finding a technical solution or one that involves moderation There are no technical solutions. (There is, at best, tooling which helps to some extent but which can easily backfire.) Moderation is necessary and difficult. S
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by brennen 10y ago
> The end result is a sort of artificial consensus, which has been quite controversial and caused many long time users to leave. As a long-time user of the site and an occasional commenter (I seem to be sitting at around 1500 comments af
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by brennen 10y ago
> Reddit seems to be doing fine now Hrm. I resisted this view for quite a while, but as far as I can tell in 2016 reddit is a pathological and destructive ocean of trash fire lunacy which incidentally hosts a few islands of relative san
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by brennen 10y ago
I really haven't seen much evidence that media professionals expressing shock at, for example, Brexit and Trump's election are engaged in some strong form of deception. There's a reasonable set of critiques about media incen
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by brennen 10y ago
0. Leuchtturm (or Moleskine if I can't get a Leuchtturm) notebook, blank pages, the middle size. 1. vimwiki in a tmux session in an XMonad scratch buffer. Pandoc for occasional PDF output. 2. Some screenshot / screencast gif scri
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by brennen 10y ago
I'm really not sure how they could do flickr more damage than they already have.
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by brennen 10y ago
> But yes they don't allow other token provides like Yubikey or RSA fobs I think this is incorrect, at least provided you're using Chrome. The implementation was buggy somewhere in the chain the last time I tried it, but it&#x2
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by brennen 10y ago
Unfortunately, this is superficially true but not in practice all that helpful for a lot of us. Most vim-style input modes or plugins for other editors are woefully lacking, and even very good ones (evil mode) seem to differ enough to be u
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by brennen 10y ago
A futile but heartfelt plea: Stop putting computers in shit.
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by brennen 10y ago
I echo every other "stop building open floor plans" comment in here. It's kind of hard to overstate the sad hilarity of so many orgs with vast resources being constitutionally incapable of using technology like walls and doo

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