lordleft

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by lordleft 5d ago
Something I really dislike about modern consumer products is that companies simply don’t care if their decisions leave their customers embittered and feeling negatively about their decisions. It seems like that used to be a salient factor i
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by lordleft 8d ago
I don’t agree with this characterization of the article at all. What you see as clickbaity I see as using a reductive idea to set the stage for a more complex one. I just think this is good, engaging writing.
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Windows Task Manager's Creator Rebuilt it 30 years later(youtube.com)
11 points by lordleft 29d ago|9 comments
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by lordleft 1mo ago
It blows my mind that Russell invented (formalized) types. Such an elemental concept, but so useful.
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Aristotle's Physics: A Physicist's Look(arxiv.org)
2 points by lordleft 2mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 2mo ago
While 42 minutes would be hard to beat, I think that stenography was and remains a highly mature and impressive skillset.
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by lordleft 2mo ago
I’m a heavy KOReader user and absolutely adore it, but I think it definitely trades user-friendliness for power and flexibility. The Kindle proprietary store has a far more user friendly UI imo, though it’s getting progressively worse (and
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by lordleft 2mo ago
Fagles was what I read when I first read the Iliad/Odysseus years ago, and I was happy to see him pop up as my revealed preference via the test. I'm also a big fan of Lombardo.
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by lordleft 2mo ago
It's almost refreshing to see intense debate about something DBH wrote that isn't about theology.
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by lordleft 2mo ago
Not only Linux/BSD, but MacOS. Not that Apple isn't annoying either, but it tends to avoid the windows bloatware stuff.
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by lordleft 2mo ago
Forgive my ignorance; I'm not a Sanskrit speaker (Malayalam is my first language) -- but I love the sound of Sanskrit. I have lots of questions: what's the use case for this? Primarily religious / liturgical? It also seems th
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by lordleft 2mo ago
Got a message that I owe 37 million on an account that I haven't used in probably...6 years?
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by lordleft 2mo ago
Naomi is an awesome writer and she's been doing many of these deep dives into literary journals. She's also reviewed entire historic genres (like old westerns), IIRC. She has a really unique ability to plainly grasp what's sp
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by lordleft 3mo ago
Beware the Sea Peoples
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by lordleft 3mo ago
All Cambridge Elements volumes are made free to download 2 weeks after publishing.
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Cambridge Elements(cambridge.org)
2 points by lordleft 3mo ago|2 comments
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Switch from Arch to Fedora [Chris Titus](christitus.com)
3 points by lordleft 3mo ago|1 comments
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SSPX Consecrates Bishops in Defiance of Rome's Schism Warning(ncregister.com)
3 points by lordleft 3mo ago|0 comments
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Apple Just Fixed Mac Gaming and Said Nothing [video](youtube.com)
4 points by lordleft 3mo ago|0 comments
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What a 40k-year-old figurine tells us about the human mind(figsinwintertime.substack.com)
4 points by lordleft 3mo ago|1 comments
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by lordleft 3mo ago
I remember burning this on a CD as a preteen. It's what got me into Linux. It blew my mind that an OS could be live-loaded off a disk. Ever since then, I tried to daily drive linux, but came back to Windows again and again for gaming..
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by lordleft 3mo ago
I switched to Bazzite from CachyOS and while I really appreciate how accessible it is, the immutability of the core OS doesn't do enough to scratch my Linux tinkering fix. So I'll probably install this in a few days.
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Making Windows 11 Suck Less in 2026(thurrott.com)
4 points by lordleft 3mo ago|0 comments
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If you want Linux for the masses, you've got to do some hand holding(christopherthomas.substack.com)
3 points by lordleft 3mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 4mo ago
You’re not wrong, but then we ought to pump the brakes in telling everyone and their mother to hop onto arch based distros that make installing AUR packages seem as safe as any other action (via Shelly on cachyos for example)
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by lordleft 4mo ago
This is especially gnarly as more people have been picking up arch distros as of late (like CachyOS).
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by lordleft 4mo ago
I sincerely hope this man get seek redress for this disgusting miscarriage of justice.
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by lordleft 4mo ago
IIRC, Bell ended up wanting to spend his life after inventing the telephone as a scientist and a researcher, rather than tending to the running of Bell Telephone and AT&T.
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by lordleft 4mo ago
The return of Xenix :)
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Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang(theatlantic.com)
800 points by lordleft 4mo ago|1381 comments

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