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by handrous 5y ago
This is usually not because the artists involved are bad at what they do, but one or both of: deliberately catering to "bad" taste that is nonetheless popular, or making work worse than it could be to make the cost/demand cur
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by handrous 5y ago
Yes, exactly that. Though the niches don't fully solve the problem of people being unable to fulfill any in-built need—assuming there is such—to express themselves artistically and be socially rewarded for that, because there still are
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by handrous 5y ago
They clearly don't give a shit about this problem. Similar issues with Giphy & friends. If they cared they'd de-list sites that present different data to a real user than they do to the Google bot, so that all image search res
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by handrous 5y ago
We don't need new companies, we need open protocols to become A Thing again. For open protocols to develop and succeed, we need to modify the business environment so capturing users isn't the #1 goal of online megacorps. That prob
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by handrous 5y ago
Vonnegut wrote about this a few times. It seems to have been something that bugged him. The short version of his complaint is that mass media, generally, have wiped out the social value of all kinds of moderate artistic talent—for example,
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by handrous 5y ago
Percentage of the way to being as good as all desktop operating systems ought , at a minimum, to be: Windows: 70% Linux: 20-80% depending on your hardware, what you're doing with it, and how lucky you got with the current kernel &
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by handrous 5y ago
In a world without MacOS, I'd probably be running Linux on a really beefy Windows machine under virtualization, for work. Desktop Linux is so much more stable and pleasant to use in a VM with Windows or MacOS handling the actual hardwa
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by handrous 5y ago
> These issues notwithstanding, the total user experience of owning a Mac laptop is far superior to any Linux or Windows machine I've tried, at least in the past 3 years or so. That. I don't love Apple. They're a corporati
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by handrous 5y ago
Desktop Linux is easily the least-stable OS I use with any regularity. It was my main OS from something like '01-'10, but after I finally gave OS X a try, and since Windows got its shit together some time late in the WinXP service
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by handrous 5y ago
_why's style is like Wes Anderson: great, but divisive; and intolerably awful when anyone with less than excellent taste & skill tries to imitate it.
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by handrous 5y ago
Maybe the brilliant 5D chess move here would have been to download what was needed, then put it on a disc with a printed label. 6D Chess: set up an LLC to do this, and convince the place to buy the discs at significant markup.
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by handrous 5y ago
That one's evergreen, in Web Dev. Whatever pattern's current now was a laughable newb mistake that'd get you branded too dumb to do web dev, a few years ago. In another couple years, it'll be "common knowledge"
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by handrous 5y ago
Meanwhile, at the company that creates those disks: downloads images from the Internet, burns them to CD
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by handrous 5y ago
Trouble is, unless more of the industry starts doing them so they're unavoidable, I'm going to skip companies that put these anywhere other than at the tail end of their process. I'm not putting in half a day of work for ze
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by handrous 5y ago
> The real conclusion from your logic would be: why would you go to Docker rather than just using Vagrant? I use Docker as a nigh-universal package repository and package manager, with a huge and up-to-date selection of packages. It give
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by handrous 5y ago
Oh no, I practically never package my "app" with docker. I use it to install stuff like postgresql, and ensure it's at the same version & configured the same everywhere, regardless of the underlying distro (or even OS), u
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by handrous 5y ago
Oh no, I agree that it's not worth learning to package your "app" with docker that way unless you're planning to make it a big part of your processes, to reap the benefits. It's just excellent for replacing other me
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by handrous 5y ago
"My" consoles growing up were the NES and the Odyssey2. I had an NES, my grandparents had an NES and an Odyssey2. Where everyone else has one or another Atari as their blocky-graphics early console, I've got the Odyssey2. Man
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by handrous 5y ago
I don't mean for hosting custom images—I mean for using it as a cross-distro (indeed, cross-OS) very up-to-date, server-oriented package manager. That's most of what I get out of it, right now. It's currently, maybe, my fav
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by handrous 5y ago
At least 80% of Docker's value to me is as a consistent-everywhere, very complete server daemon package manager. Serious packages for work? They're there, and up-to-date. Screwing-around stuff for home (Minecraft server, Jellyfi
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by handrous 5y ago
> Docker You can basically just treat it like a package manager and config-assistant. It's often easier(!) to configure a Docker image than the corresponding package, or set of packages, in your typical distro. In part this is becau
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by handrous 5y ago
> I mean I felt it wasn't that long ago Vagrant was "the" tool for the job. Vagrant is my safety hatch, in case Docker goes under and aspect of it that's "the best centralized, cross-distro, server-oriented Linux
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by handrous 5y ago
That's another way to look at it, sure, but it still doesn't seem to explain anything about why perception of time speeds up with age. That's true, but why does it matter?
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by handrous 5y ago
I don't buy the "novelty" thing, either. Between high school and an evening job, about three of those years were the most regimented of my life, and high school definitely wasn't providing enough novelty, in any way, to
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by handrous 5y ago
I haven't tried it (yet), but know people who use it largely for that exact effect. [EDIT] the effect of making an hour hour or an afternoon feel as long as they did when you were, like, 6 years old, I mean.
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by handrous 5y ago
That's crazy. I'm coming up on 40 and I'd say a year feels maybe as long as three months did, when I was 18. If that long. Having kids seemed to increase the effect markedly, but it was already there.
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by handrous 5y ago
But the job does actually need to be done. They're just not paying enough to consistently attract and keep people who can do it well. What can't compete is the pay . That doesn't make it welfare.
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by handrous 5y ago
Oh just parse that 5MB of JS to 20MB of used memory for the code (after spiking even higher), then actually run it and oh my it allocates another 20MB for god knows what, and we're gonna need like 5 representations or outright copies o
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by handrous 5y ago
Judging from my Dad's trajectory, reconstructed from his accounts of his politics, during his adult life, from the 1960s-present, plus my own observations: talk radio in the 80s did it. 100%. Completely defined his worldview and all hi
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by handrous 5y ago
> I think it demonstrates that the average voter’s views on economics are more or less worthless. Poli-sci research is depressingly consistent in demonstrating that the average voters' views on everything are worthless. It's

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