neutronicus

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by neutronicus 8d ago
Yeah my wife and I inherited her parents' Highlander from Boston when they moved back to their home country. The drive shaft literally fell out on the road because the brackets holding it on rusted out. Was lucky I had enough momentum
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by neutronicus 9d ago
No, I'm not, and I've also never rented a storage unit. It seems hard to imagine the sums involved becoming comparable to other amounts of money lit on fire to avoid fights with family though (i.e. home renovation, travel).
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by neutronicus 9d ago
They gave away my Charizard ;_;
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by neutronicus 9d ago
You're hauling the stuff regardless. Dealing with renting a storage unit vs deciding to throw away your Pokemon cards feels like kind of a wash.
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by neutronicus 9d ago
I assure you we have plenty of homeless people without cars. When people are falling into homelessness, they keep the car for longer because (a) it generates income, either directly through something like Uber or by getting you to a job on
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by neutronicus 9d ago
It's just the ultimate procrastination. Like you can literally put this task (getting rid of junk) off for your whole life. Why wouldn't you?
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by neutronicus 10d ago
I actually think of it as a tumblr thing. Like my first thought whenI see it is that the person who wrote this runs in queer or activist circles. Not my read on OP, but “tech bro” is not my first thought associated with the style
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by neutronicus 11d ago
If you're re-writing emacs at all , it's because you believe that a Lisp interpreter is the best way to extend a text editor. Or, at the very least, you want to execute pre-existing elisp. I can see moving some core functionality
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by neutronicus 11d ago
RMS aside, there are a fair number of AI enjoyers among the emacs community.
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by neutronicus 11d ago
Does it run Spacemacs?
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by neutronicus 11d ago
I may be mistaken but I'm pretty sure it's been the case since at least 2022 when I switched from Android
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by neutronicus 12d ago
I tried SwiftKey but decided it was worse
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by neutronicus 12d ago
"ABs"
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by neutronicus 12d ago
I can't comment knowledgeably. I just regularly have to try over and over again to get it to produce the word I want, and my memory is that this happened rarely on Android. Wait! I do have a specific criticism! There are certain two-wo
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by neutronicus 12d ago
It's unclear to me if they're alleging that it's recently broken. I switched to iPhone at my wife's insistence 3-4 years ago and I have pined for Swype the entire time. It's so bad and I was spoiled by Android.
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by neutronicus 12d ago
Damn no wonder she got a supercomputer named after her
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by neutronicus 15d ago
I agree! Missteps are inevitable, though.
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by neutronicus 15d ago
I guess all I'm doing here is arguing that a little hubris can help a person avoid being timid, and far be it from me to say that computer scientists, mechanical engineers, and chemical engineers have not been imbued with any hubris by
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by neutronicus 15d ago
Yeah, I guess my point is that IMO a lot of people have so little interest in solving the problem that they aren't even approaching it at all, open mind or no. It's not my experience that I'm constantly arguing with people, f
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by neutronicus 15d ago
From a one-time physics grad student, I do think there advantages to being ... like this. The flip side of being confidently wrong sometimes is that we treat understanding new systems as something approachable. So, yeah, it's annoying
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by neutronicus 16d ago
> allowing it to be imposed on foreign societies without accusations of cultural imperialism. I don't actually know if this is an accurate representation of 21st century feminist thought. If anything, I think they just take an inevi
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by neutronicus 16d ago
Again, agreed. I just don't think it's particularly shocking that the US government would try to co-opt some of its rhetoric as a justification for military adventurism. They already do w/r/t the Middle East.
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by neutronicus 16d ago
This particular rhetoric is usually applied to the Middle East.
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by neutronicus 16d ago
C++ developers, too. I suppose they're splitting out the real powerful stuff (Debugger, LSP) for VSCode's consumption.
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by neutronicus 16d ago
Visual Studio brings a lot to the table for C++ development. Specifically the Debugger, although IntelliSense also often succeeds at queries that stump clangd. If they can replicate that capability, I think it can be a draw. I was a mac &#x
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by neutronicus 16d ago
Sure. I thought briefly about using the phrase "American Feminism". But, regardless, to be more nuanced: Feminism gets rhetorically roped into the case for Western cultural hegemony, which in turn gets used as a justification fo
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by neutronicus 16d ago
Feminism has always been bundled up in the idea of American cultural superiority that justifies pursuing hegemony (although the term used is usually "women's rights").
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by neutronicus 17d ago
I think public sentiment about surveillance is complicated. People have a lot of fears about being done injury by rogue antisocial actors. Ranging from nuisances like dog shit everywhere, stolen Amazon packages and car break-ins to life-def
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by neutronicus 18d ago
Hell, it took like 5 years for the market to get back to its peak after 2008.
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by neutronicus 21d ago
At least one reasoning trace I saw considered a helmet and discarded the idea because it was worried about obscuring some detail

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