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by jrm4 11mo ago
Hmm. A bit of weird anecdata; I'm a faculty point of contact for tech issues at my very (but not overly) microsofty university and also a very longtime Linux user. But I seem to have a better time of things in this realm than MANY of
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by jrm4 11mo ago
I mean, exactly. AFAIK, Remind hasn't changed in years and neither has my workflow. (relatedly literally writing this from Openbox; sometimes software is actually just finished )
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by jrm4 1y ago
For me it's not "overcomplication," it's strong interoperability with a workflow I like, specifically one that was kind of complicated to write once, but afterwards operates in a way such that I don't have to think
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by jrm4 1y ago
Ha, not sure why this is coming up now, but it's great. I incorporate it into a few bash scripts for my prompt as well as a nice HTML calendar to look at.
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by jrm4 1y ago
There are a whole lot of meaningless, or worse, misleading words in computing, and this isn't one of them. What it lacks in technical precision, it makes up for with that little bit of utility. It doesn't much confuse things. Off
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by jrm4 1y ago
Except that they do what useful words do; provide (more) useful information.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Y'all, just give me a terminal that strongly and fully integrates with a file manager. Dolphin is almost, but not quite, this.
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by jrm4 1y ago
But this is a perfect example of one of those "90/10" esque ideas. Even if Wine was 90% there technologically, the most important 90% is really that last 10.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yeah, I think you perfectly nailed why this is kind of pointless. Better to abstract this thing out into two functions -- file organization and backup, because that second thing is solved easily.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Wow. I mean, I imagine that this would be a hard thing for trillion dollar companies to somehow enshittify; and still, I'd never put it past them to figure out something that I haven't. I reflexively donate a little to things like
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by jrm4 1y ago
It's hard for me to not suggest though that, essentially -- the math people are "right." Which is to say, "=" meant what it meant for 400 years, and then computers come along and redefine it to be an action verb and
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by jrm4 1y ago
Is that the topic? I do think what I'm trying to say here is: sorry, but your "conventional notation" sucks because "what is actually happening" is so very different from how the thing is overwhelmingly used for mos
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by jrm4 1y ago
Doubling down on my downvotes, then: Look, I teach IT (to both novices and interested folks at a college) for a living; count this idea as one that, when I present it this simply, many a lightbulb goes on for those new to programming. Muc
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by jrm4 1y ago
For what it's worth, I'm stuck on the very first x = x + 1 thing. Not sure if you want to call it a screwup or bad grammar or whatnot, but it is perhaps the huge mistake that the "equals" sign was used for something that
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by jrm4 1y ago
Is this really terminal only? No autosave? Something GUI with nice enough proportional fonts and autosave seems like a very bare minimum here.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Again. Think about all that Notorious RBG merch etc. Do you people not understand the "anti-feminist" backlash this would have caused? Y'all are really doing a whole lot of checkers thinking for what is a chess game.
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by jrm4 1y ago
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by jrm4 1y ago
It is astoundingly naive to think that the forces in America make it such that "whoever is the president has unlimited power, whether they're an old rich white billionaire or a relatively young black guy on the Dem side." Aga
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by jrm4 1y ago
I'm Black. People like you utterly missing the context absolutely makes it personal.
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by jrm4 1y ago
I genuinely can't believe, still, that I have to spell this out for people. Obama did not do a U-turn . It is the worst naivete to think that what happened was "he had big ideas and he changed his mind." He had to bring up b
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by jrm4 1y ago
Right -- like "later" is one of the luckier outcomes. Win or lose, start or end the fight, regardless of what actually happened -- there's always the extremely lopsided chance that I'm seen as the aggressor and get stron
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by jrm4 1y ago
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by jrm4 1y ago
Interesting; for what it's worth, as a black person who grew up in a relatively privileged environment, the "one bad fight" rule was subconsciously our entire existence in a way that it wasn't for many people around us.
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by jrm4 1y ago
I dig it; and if the kids figure out how to get what they want WITHOUT paying for a damn thing, EVEN BETTER.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yes. And honestly though, this is the sort of thing that makes me generally proclaim that Free Software and Open Source won. It was extremely unlikely that it would be some kind of free utopia; but also, it's extremely remarkable wha
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by jrm4 1y ago
It's not a "CLI" and yes, "decentralized" was literally one of the points of it.
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by jrm4 1y ago
It is "incompetence," or at the very least, it is unwise. At the very least, a huge part of the intent of Git's very design was decentralization; though as is the case with many good tools, people don't use them as the
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by jrm4 1y ago
Cannot emphasize this whole notion enough; Very roughly, Github is to git what gmail is to email. It's mostly probably fine if that's the thing most of everybody wants to use and it works well; but also it's very unwise to
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by jrm4 1y ago
Umm -- not being tied to ChatGPT? Like, that's huge. I personally do not consider consistently using any AI tool unless it has a local option. I've been air-quotes "paranoid" about things like this my whole life and i
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by jrm4 1y ago
Broadly, I very much love this approach to things and wish it was more "acceptable?" It reminds me of the opposite of things like "the useless use of cat" which to me is one of the WORST meme-type-things in this space.

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