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by npsimons 3y ago
> but I guess this kind of point of view comes with the job and wealth I am very much convinced that a big downside to being rich is it allows your opinions to ossify. No matter where you started, how hard you worked, or how world-changi
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by npsimons 3y ago
It's funny, that link was grey before I clicked on it. If you can find a copy, you might like to pick up MindCandy ( http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ ), but of course they can all be found on YouTube these days. "Unreal
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by npsimons 3y ago
This might help (and it's only 6 minutes for the whole playlist): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrnjie9klQEkZGar3zZ4hRurU...
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by npsimons 3y ago
Given the history of the writer of the blog post's (apenwarr) involvement in Debian, I highly doubt they missed that particular bugaboo. Mayhap he's just burned out by it at this point, or he's just stating the facts: there&#
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by npsimons 3y ago
> For instance, if a language's garbage collector goes from annoyingly slow to basically invisible, it wouldn't be surprising for the preferred paradigm to change. Funny you give that as an example - I recall attending a talk r
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by npsimons 3y ago
Netflix just ended their 25 year long DVD by mail service. I subscribed to it a good chunk of that time (it was comparatively cheap), but didn't use it much over the last decade, because I'll admit I'm a dopamine fiend who li
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by npsimons 3y ago
> For everyone that isn't part of that mainstream, the system doesn't care about. The sad part is, this is exactly why I left broadcast radio and TV and movie theaters behind. With some heuristics and filters in place, this s
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by npsimons 3y ago
> Perhaps I am a snob - but when I see the logged out YouTube feed I wonder what is wrong with humanity and where it went horribly wrong, have we already arrived at the Idiocracy depicted in 2006. If that makes you a snob, then I am too.
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by npsimons 3y ago
> I found it surprising that changing the cost of delivering a movie could so dramatically shift company-wide priorities. I mean, not to yell at clouds, but this is kind of how technology and our use of it progresses - things get faster&
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by npsimons 3y ago
> I find it helpful also not just because of the startup speed, but because I usually have one or more org buffers open taking notes on what I'm doing. As someone who lives in org, this is the way. I'm still shell bound for a l
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by npsimons 3y ago
> The people on the assembly line would look at you like the most spoilt people in the world. And farmers working hard manual labor from before sunrise to sundown, in heat and UV exposure would look upon factory workers as spoilt. So wha
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by npsimons 3y ago
I strongly feel a large number of people complaining about "lack of collaboration" have a dark pattern of not documenting things. Sure, you don't need to write everything down - but how many times could someone have simply
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by npsimons 3y ago
> Virtually none of them own their commercial premises. Of course this is probably the case; but how many people in higher positions are invested in REITs that invest in commercial RE? I bet it's a fairly large proportion. Hews to t
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by npsimons 3y ago
> "The market" is a bunch of rich assholes that act in their own self interests. For instance, demanding that people commute to the RE they've invested in before their investments fall through the floor in valuation. Lot o
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by npsimons 3y ago
> People just don't seem to value my time over their convenience a lot of times. A good tactic is to ask them about rubber duck debugging when they come to you with a problem. If they don't know what that is, have them Google i
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by npsimons 3y ago
> What makes them always available in the office and not always available at home? I remember, way back in like 2012? 2015? Not sure when exactly, but we visited the office of a contractor we were working with, and they had a flatscreen
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by npsimons 3y ago
My brother was 100% remote for 13 years before the pandemic. I was 100% remote way back in 2001. It took the pandemic and WFH to remind me how much better it is, from every conceivable angle. I'm never going back, and have shut down
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by npsimons 3y ago
Same here, as well as the original Jagged Alliance 2 DVD case. Glad to add HoMM3 to my list of previously closed-source games that are now open. Now if only they'd open source NeverWinter Nights . . .
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by npsimons 3y ago
> While this might seem to be intended for DJ remixes a demixer also lets you jam along to your favorite songs. Not to mention arranging or just notating songs.
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by npsimons 3y ago
> Open source seems like the only real hope there. Pretty much, yeah.
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by npsimons 3y ago
> No matter how enlightened we think we are, we're all part of the masses and behave this way at one point or another. While this is true, it stands to question: why build systems to encourage this? Shouldn't we be trying to
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by npsimons 3y ago
> It's that they are catering to the worse impulses in all of us and encouraging us to become those people. That is incredibly unsettling, and not just because it makes me uncomfortable. Dumbing down should never be a deliberate g
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by npsimons 3y ago
> I have no such loyalty to large faceless internet companies, and negative loyalty to companies that enshittify everything as a way to eke out profit when bound to forever growth fantasies. You do, sure. But you're not a marginal u
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by npsimons 3y ago
And I'm reminded of the recent thread here on HN regarding "porting" games to Linux using WINE. Just give us the source!
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by npsimons 3y ago
I mean, I've been running NES, SNES and GameBoy games on emulators (in Linux, natch) for decades now. Hell, I played through FF5 for the first time a few years back. Edit to add: I also run DOS games like Ultima Underworld, Master of O
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by npsimons 3y ago
Chances are, you are not the exception, and neither am I. Also, it's not easy , but is as simple as counting calories. Conservation of mass and all that.
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by npsimons 3y ago
I'll just toss this in, since I haven't seen someone else put it out out there yet: Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have the
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by npsimons 3y ago
> Eat healthy and you become obsessed with it and get a eating disorder. Except that's the exception, not the rule - the vast majority of people who eat healthy are not disordered eaters. > Work out, get injured, need pain killer
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by npsimons 3y ago
> I don't think anyone is disputing that? Oh, but they do, even right here in this very thread! I admit it's hard losing weight - I've been there. But there are some people who will compound the difficulty of following thr
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by npsimons 3y ago
> How is one supposed to cast an informed vote without following the news? You do know that in most countries, how representatives vote is public? See https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes for example.

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