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by caslon 6y ago
DuckDuckGo is perfectly sufficient, but the above poster uses Google. So I used Google to demonstrate.
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by caslon 6y ago
This might have came off somewhat hostile to poor customers, but: I've been there, and managing how you're going to eat & pay rent at the same time on the average salary is really stressful, so I've always been empathet
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by caslon 6y ago
Not to give an argument along the lines of "You're holding it wrong," but...okay, yeah, I'm going to do that. You hold a gun in one way. If you mess that up in any fashion, you probably won't hit what you're
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by caslon 6y ago
I've done both! I don't know if you've been to America, but this is every hour of every day for employees in American retail. Something funny is a stark improvement over "normal" customers, because the rich customer
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by caslon 6y ago
It doesn't actually add to a retail worker's workload; retail workers (in the United States, anyway) are paid by the hour, and at any given moment will be forced to do something . Filling it with a laugh is a step up. Your pr
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by caslon 6y ago
Ah yes. Jokes. Such a great evil. You'd think the whole world is owned by the 1990s Microsoft, or Oracle: boring, lifeless and monotonous. Probably beige, too. I can assure you, this wasn't within the top-ten of most annoying thin
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by caslon 6y ago
They didn't interpret it correctly, and there's no rule stating a comma is necessary that's universal in every style-guide.
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by caslon 6y ago
I already have SE, I just wanted to know why I'd ever use it; from what you list it seems like everything can be covered via mods in the regular edition?
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by caslon 6y ago
Why use SE? Did it add content?
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by caslon 6y ago
A static site is really easy to host and HN's hug of death isn't actually that intense; the site itself only gets like six million views a day, a fraction of those click on every link, and no syndicated page has much reach.
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by caslon 6y ago
I didn't really have a strategy at the time, I just had time. Like, a lot of time. "It was one of the only games I could get to work with WINE and I had no hobbies because I was a child" amounts of time. Time, an abundance of
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by caslon 6y ago
Like the above poster said, doing it once or even a handful of times is cool. It happens all the time , though, and in a less-than-polished way. It's lazy. I normally love things like that in games. I read everything and there&#x2
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by caslon 6y ago
There's nothing wrong with environmental story-telling; what's wrong is boring environmental story-telling, or environmental story-telling that is as generic and poorly-implemented as "Hey look, the body has a letter on it.
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by caslon 6y ago
...what? I just checked on three different keyboards to make sure, but...no. Shift overlaps with A for a reason; you shouldn't be twisting your hand if you're using proper typing technique.
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by caslon 6y ago
It's not cursive for lowercase. Look at "which." The glyphs are just randomly cursive or print. I wasn't complaining about serifs, I was complaining about randomly mixing cursive and print.
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by caslon 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this!
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by caslon 6y ago
It's not actually cursive though! It's seemingly-random cursive/print mix.
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by caslon 6y ago
...does that font used for comments in the screenshot seem like visual terrorism to anyone else? Cursive might be fine on its own, and print is definitely the standard, but haphazardly mixing cursive and print is alarming.
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by caslon 6y ago
Anecdotally, this comment annoyed me so much that I decided to reboot my machine (that I typed this comment on) and see what the memory situation looked like. As I correctly remembered, it still starts up in under three seconds & using
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by caslon 6y ago
> Ah, so those employed by proprietary software inherently promote it? This is how it works, yes. We are complicit in our employers' deeds, whether that's working for a company that does ICE contracts or working for a company t
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by caslon 6y ago
It's all good! I was just trying to avoid looking like I was only responding to half a post! You're right about IBM & Google being there for a while, and I think their participation is largely innocent (ironically, one of the
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by caslon 6y ago
I described it completely accurately.
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by caslon 6y ago
> I never said it was, I said it was one which seems to have been created on the spot as a convenient way to demonize "others" given that the moral movement has never been morally bankrupt enough for the last few decades to exc
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by caslon 6y ago
It's hardly an arbitrary purity test; if you see proprietary software as immoral, and the free software movement as a moral movement, then people who release proprietary software aren't part of the free software movement. This has
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by caslon 6y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, I had forgotten this! Yeah, Red Hat has been rotten for a long time. I don't like it; I think it's been a terrible company for many years; but I do think it's never released non-free software, wh
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by caslon 6y ago
He funded a group trying to prevent homosexuals from having equal rights with everyone else. Regardless of your ethical views on the subject of homosexuals, it's wrong to try and prevent anyone from having freedom, especially in such a
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by caslon 6y ago
> So is GNU, though. For instance, https://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html identifies the affiliations of most of the GCC steering committee, and they're generally proprietary companies. (Several work for Red Hat, a subsi
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by caslon 6y ago
He has never not responded to anything I've sent him, anecdotally.
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by caslon 6y ago
Comparing Stallman to Eich is a bit weird, isn't it? Stallman hasn't actually done anything harmful; he's just terrible socially.
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by caslon 6y ago
I mean, the OSI is filled with people who work for proprietary companies, and open source was made to make free software enterprise. And the Linux Foundation has a bunch of people from companies that also promote largely proprietary techn

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