marssaxman

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by marssaxman 3mo ago
My first digital painting program literally was MacPaint! We had the 512k Mac, not the original 128k, with the external drive, so there was just a little bit less floppy-swapping to deal with. I spent hours using that program - much of it
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
The world is changing for the better, then; not so very long ago it would have been four out of four.
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
"That, I suspect, is why the explosion never came. The takeoff story assumed the limit was thinking" Fable 5 has been available to the public for approximately five minutes now; how could we possibly know already what the conseque
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
https://archive.ph/zOZpD
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
> feeling I get from the author is that targeted advertising is the problem Non-targeted advertising is also a blight. If you've never visited a place where billboards are illegal, it may be hard to imagine what a relief it is to be
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
how are you supposed to know the book has been scribbled on if you buy it online, as you must do for the great majority of used books you might want to acquire?
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
Handling discomfort is a skill we must all learn, and different skills are required to manage different kinds of discomfort. Because we all vary in our degrees of sensitivity to different unpleasantnesses, and because our life paths give us
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
Is it really a curse? This poem takes as axiomatic the ideas that life is a race, that winning matters, that winning involves a specific destination, and that this destination is more or less the same for everyone: but none of those premise
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
I think you are making some pretty broad assumptions there. Not everyone sees the world that way.
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
That may well be true for you but it is not true for everyone.
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
I would probably have a DualUp by now if I could find one available anywhere: it's a very appealing form factor. I looked at the INNOCN site, but only see normal-looking monitors there; do you have a model name or any pointers I could
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
I know exactly what this article is talking about, but for me the progression out from more mainstream genres initially branched off into industrial music, and from there into psytrance. I definitely prefer music with no vocals, or with occ
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
"It sounds like behind the fear of a loss of creativity and inspiration and passion in the world, we are OK with automating away the work that we don't want to do." Yes, of course. This is and has always been the point of com
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
I tell Claude to record everything in Linear as projects and tasks. Larger design docs get saved in git as markdown files, and the linear projects reference them by path. I could never stand to use project management software when I had to
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
When I was young, "autism" was seen as a severe and generally debilitating mental disorder, and "Asperger's syndrome" was known as an affliction with similar but less dramatic symptoms. When the two were folded toge
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
MeshCore is growing rapidly. Check out this map of CascadiaMesh - connectivity all the way from Vancouver down to Klamath Falls, and now east to Spokane: https://cascadiamesh.org/map/
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
Also a source: back in the '90s, I once resolved a disagreement with a friend over the pronunciation of the man's name by emailing him to ask, and "Crichton rhymes with 'frighten'" was his exact answer.
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
The situation is much better than you think. I actually have a little DSL project along these lines: it's meant to be a declarative component in a larger application which enforces certain data guarantees. It is not based on JSON or an
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
Oh, well, that's even more absurd in the north; in summertime the sun rises long before one wants to get up and lingers well after the day is done. What's to be saved? We have an irritating superabundance of daylight. Blackout cur
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
I do live far enough north, which is probably part of the reason "daylight savings" strikes me as a bit silly: no arrangement of clocks can work around the fact that there's not enough sunlight for all we want to do in a wint
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
I'm glad we're agreed that changing the clocks twice a year is a bad idea, but I don't understand why we should abandon Daylight Savings Time by adopting it permanently. What's so wrong with Standard Time? Oh, well: whet
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
The blogosphere was all about random people writing whatever they felt like: blogging died after the professionals took over and tried to make money at it.
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
Likewise - it's not just about generating production code faster; it's now feasible to create all kinds of experiments, test fixtures, visualizers, analyzers, and support software you never would have had time for before, which yo
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
I spent most of a week with no phone recently, and I have to say I enjoyed it. I mostly communicate via Signal, and have the app installed on my computer as well, so I wasn't really cut off - just less available. WhatsApp doesn't
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
I really don't want permanence, no! I start to feel fidgety and uncomfortable after I've spent too many years in one place. The idea of living in a single house for decades on end sounds like a kind of imprisonment. I think of Sea
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
> Caturday -> Saturday enjoyed with or similar to a cat There's a well-known underground nightclub in Seattle which has a monthly event called "Caturday" - I had no idea there was another meaning for the portmanteau! Ma
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
I'd prefer that my software isn't connected to servers in a datacenter that require me to pay monthly bills, either!
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
Your concern is reasonable but misdirected. This article is a publication of the "Modern War Institute", a research organization at West Point, the US Army military academy; it is literally their job to anticipate and plan for the
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
> I remember when folks had to have a degree to enter the "profession" of software developer. I am not old enough to remember that era; by the 1980s, when I was learning to code, it was already quite normal to get a programmi
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
Thank you for the reminder! I got out of the habit of checking StreetComplete since my previous neighborhood was well populated in OSM, but having just moved, I should check it out again.

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