jrm4

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by jrm4 4mo ago
I've taught about 10 or 12 different courses. I only have one course in which I require a textbook, and it can be found for about 20 bucks.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
The war on general purpose computing is real.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Higher ed instructor here and -- yeah, no. It's the publishers. You're speaking as if we, as professors or administration love this system and strongly benefit from it. We don't. It's just inertia. Put differently, re: y
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by jrm4 4mo ago
I've always wondered why this case hasn't been made more obviously . Like, the entire point of a library is not "to provide a limited number of books."
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by jrm4 4mo ago
I have not read the article, but it's interesting to be at a point where the headline is so bad that it deserves commenting on its own; i.e. understanding that there is no way possible for the connotation (not denotation) of the head
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by jrm4 4mo ago
You're not. You're not bad at all. Please ignore the negatives here, they're certainly more a result of AI paranoia/fatigue than meaningful criticism. Anyone reading this and who is complaining that it's too long an
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Yeah, but I didn't do that. I think I really did mean "little tool" here. This (likely) just isn't the right scale for a pay-to-play project. Obsidian kind of figured this out, but my gut is that this thing is too small.
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by jrm4 4mo ago
Nah, this is a very good point; I've seen things similar to this in the past and it's a cool idea -- but "subscription modeling" every little tool is not a good path to keep going down. Free and open source is important
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by jrm4 5mo ago
Most of my downvotes I'll take very proudly, but this one just confuses me
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by jrm4 5mo ago
A good update. The next good question might be, okay, what happens next knowing all of this? I ask because (yes as someone who has dabbled in crypto and also respects the generally valid views of the haters) this stuff isn't going away
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by jrm4 5mo ago
Okay, so another pro-tip for prep. I can promise it's not bad at all if you're already very regular. So what you do is, schedule it for weeks or months out as you can and use that to develop good eating and fiber habits over t
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by jrm4 5mo ago
Again, try Ocenaudio. I'm old enough to have used Cool Edit/Adobe Audition. Similar flow to those.
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by jrm4 5mo ago
Have you tried Ocenaudio (which is roughly the same as old school Cool Edit/Audition?) Far more intuitive, I think. Keyboard shortcuts and cutting and pasting similar to what you'd get in e.g. Word.
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by jrm4 5mo ago
Hehe ditto I get flak for this, but Audacity is my "proof" that GIMP's name is why people don't use it, not the UI. Like GIMP, Audacity's UI is awful, but people still use it. :)
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by jrm4 5mo ago
As for point 3, I've found that the especially silly looking one that works so that the tube "points out of your forehead" eliminates that problem in an even better way.
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by jrm4 5mo ago
That seems -- quite high actually?
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by jrm4 5mo ago
I often get (perhaps reasonable) pushback for this, but the level to which CPAP equipment and supplies are gatekept by the industry is absurd. They're a fan tube, a mild heating element, and a sensor, and I'm nearly certain tha
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by jrm4 5mo ago
At no point was the name a factor FOR YOU. Your individual anecdote isn't data.
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by jrm4 5mo ago
Why the worst outcome, though? "Sticky notes" are absolutely superior to third-party password managers in regard to "attackers." Third-party password managers INCREASE your threat surface by orders of magnitude more tha
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by jrm4 5mo ago
Not at all, even if the data collection is exactly the same. "Where the authority comes from" matters a lot, probably much more than the actual collection itself.
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by jrm4 5mo ago
GOOD. Those cameras are absolutely an infringement on 5th Amendment rights.
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by jrm4 5mo ago
Third-party password management as an isolated paid service (i.e. you don't get password management unless you pay specifically for the password management) is just a terribly bad idea all around. Waiting for people to get this.
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by jrm4 5mo ago
Weird take, but okay. So, I like the hip-hop. Timbaland and RZA have embraced it; a number of other unknowns who are okay but not great haven't. But nice try!
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by jrm4 5mo ago
This is personal opinion anecdata, but I'm noticing the following. It's only the mediocres that rail against AI; actual geniuses are like "hey, another tool. Cool."
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by jrm4 5mo ago
Yes, me too. And also, no one would USE IT. That's my point. It really is that simple. I'm not primarily talking about "being offended." Jokes are fine in some contexts. I'm saying that if you want people to take yo
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by jrm4 5mo ago
But what it DOES mean is -- okay, is it really worth it to KEEP it, or might you be able to get adoption, fans, traction, possibly more developers etc. etc. if you were to change it? What is the strong motivation behind keeping the name and
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by jrm4 5mo ago
Thank you for this. I hate doing "offense aside" but. Offense aside, you can still understand that this is a bad idea without bringing in the spectre of "is it offensive." Like I'm saying elsewhere, what if it was
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by jrm4 5mo ago
This is so painfully wrong it hurts; many a company has lived and/or died PURELY on name.
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by jrm4 5mo ago
Respectfully, that's kind of a ridiculous "impression," easily refuted by many of us who have wanted to recommend GIMP to people. And again, it's called "reading the room." Even if you don't care about it
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by jrm4 5mo ago
Individual adults absolutely do, but "systems, PR, and institutions" DO NOT, and that is the important lesson that so many people here aggressively dodge. I personally can download this software and use it on my computer. Now, c

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