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by frompdx 6y ago
Nope, I value my space. Besides, I already use my house for my own workspace. - Extra bedroom = office - Basement = gym - Everything else = room to pace around.
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by frompdx 6y ago
I would say the JavaFX webview API, but that's based on webkit.
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by frompdx 6y ago
If games are digital art, I made this interactive 2d space station as a teaser for a game I've been thinking of building. https://i.redd.it/y5ezuwoc2re61.gif
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by frompdx 6y ago
Unfollowing everyone was how I was eventually able to break myself of my addiction to Facebook. Before I did this I would mindlessly pull my phone out of my pocket and look at facebook. One day I just started unfollowing people and kept d
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by frompdx 6y ago
Neat project! The QL17 was my first rangefinder as well as one of my first cameras. I sold mine to someone in the Netherlands who insisted on paying cash. I had my doubts but a week later I received an envelope containing crisp new US cu
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by frompdx 6y ago
Well, you can use C# with mono or use GDNative. Personally, I think most are better off just using GDScript and focusing on their game. I say that because in r/godot there is always a lot of handwringing from newcomers who are wonder
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by frompdx 6y ago
I wouldn't get to hung up on GDScript. It works well and is well integrated into Godot. If you already have experience programming it will be easy to pick up. Where Godot shines is the ability to create something without a lot of co
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by frompdx 6y ago
This seams really optimistic and kind of glosses over the subject of scaling out websocket connections apart from this. Anecdotally, the typical single Rails server process seems to be perfectly happy supporting nearly 4,000 active connect
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by frompdx 6y ago
Solutionism seems like an apt term. In addition, solutionists may feel bound to their ideology and unable to see problems caused by their solutions for what they are leading the types of feedback loops you describe. People double down on
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by frompdx 6y ago
It is interesting that you bring up the 737 Max. I was actually talking the 737 Max in the context of software being both infallible and the perfect scapegoat with someone last week. The 737 Max is an example of how software was believed
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by frompdx 6y ago
This is an excellent observation about the process of bureaucratization in action. For some reason the solution to the failings of bureaucracy ends up being even more bureaucracy and even greater consequences for failing to play by the rul
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by frompdx 6y ago
That's true, and I am not arguing that useful software does not exist. Instead, a lot of energy producing software is often not useful, or useful in perverse ways.
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by frompdx 6y ago
Except software allows a scale and efficiency that is impossible with pencil and paper while also creating an ideal scapegoat. Software is being used to avoid accountability at a scale much greater than what was possible with manual proces
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by frompdx 6y ago
It's not that software is the exclusive enabler. It is that software is the ideal enabler because of its ability to create a truly faceless entity that seems to exist outside the power of even those who administer it. Of course t
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by frompdx 6y ago
Both news and social media have a strong bias toward articles that spark anger or outrage. Absolutely, and I agree that disconnecting can have positive benefits. On the other hand, at least for me personally, covid has disrupted the mech
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by frompdx 6y ago
My cynical take is that the lack of accountability is exactly what makes software enabled bureaucracy so appealing. If this true, there is no incentive to change.
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by frompdx 6y ago
I agree with what you are proposing in principle. However, the notion that it is up to each individual to combat the system when it has wronged them while they languish in some kind of bureaucratic limbo is one of the core sicknesses of ou
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by frompdx 6y ago
Indeed, software is an enabling technology and is morally ambivalent just like any other tool. A machine tool can make a medical device to save lives or military device to destroy lives. At the heart of the issue is the intricate web of i
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by frompdx 6y ago
I have a very cynical take. Probably too cynical. The ability to shift blame to software as opposed to the humans responsible for administering a bureaucracy is exactly what makes it so appealing. The question is ignored intentionally.
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by frompdx 6y ago
the person pushing for the software is looking to use software to enforce bureaucratic control that they have been unable to otherwise exercise This is frequently my observation as well. In the process of creating stricter control the bu
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by frompdx 6y ago
This is an outrage. It is also a perfect example of how software is used to create increasingly more elaborate and faceless bureaucracies that force individuals to spend more and more time contending with them. Somehow software has become
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by frompdx 6y ago
I picked up a Kinesis Advantage2 this year and so far I am very happy with it. Now I can type much longer without any wrist pain. I'm still struggling to reprogram my brain for some keys, but part of that is due to years of bad habit
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by frompdx 6y ago
It's time to speak to an attorney.
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by frompdx 6y ago
Privacy does not mean stopping the flow of data; it means channeling it wisely and justly to serve societal ends and values and the individuals who are its subjects, particularly the vulnerable and the disadvantaged. I found the conclusio
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by frompdx 6y ago
I understand how you feel. Playing musical desks is a big pet peeve of mine. Being shuffled around because it is "more optimal", or whatever usually makes me feel like the person doing the rearranging is on a power trip, exertin
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by frompdx 6y ago
Passwords are the most unfortunate part of the web. It is a bad user experience that leads to poor security. I've spent the last couple of years trying to convince friends and family to use a password manager (usually lastpass) and u
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by frompdx 6y ago
I personally had no idea this existed and I pay for dropbox.
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by frompdx 6y ago
Absolutely. For the last year I have been weightlifting regularly. This isn't my first foray into being serious about lifting either. Every day I lift I have to "make" myself do it. I can't really imagine something t
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by frompdx 6y ago
I believe Cambia Health Solutions also uses Clojure.
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by frompdx 6y ago
> Forth for anything on a microchip 2020 was the year I learned about Forth. It really is fun and practical. I run FlashForth on my Arduino Uno.

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