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by olivierestsage 10mo ago
I can only speculate, but people can feel resentful toward a technology while still using it. "I need this shitty tool for work but I'm increasingly uncomfortable with its social/environmental/economic/etc. implicat
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by olivierestsage 10mo ago
Big vibe shift against AI right now among all the non-tech people I know (and some of the tech people). Ignoring this reaction and saying "it's inevitable/you're luddites" (as I'm seeing in this thread) is not
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by olivierestsage 10mo ago
Gonna try to be charitable, but this really feels like gaslighting. There's a lot more to the story of how much someone is thriving than "Nice place to live. More than enough stuff. Family and friends who love you." I'm
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by olivierestsage 11mo ago
I realize this question goes against the point of the article, but: What specialized tools/languages are people currently using in this space? Every time I go down this rabbit hole, I wind up hesitating forever between Csound, Supercol
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by olivierestsage 11mo ago
I'd argue it'd be psychologically healthier to roleplay in a chatroom with people who are human on the other end (if that could be guaranteed, which it no longer can).
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by olivierestsage 11mo ago
And That's a Good Thing
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by olivierestsage 1y ago
I made the move two years ago and it's going great. Currently running Debian 13. Gaming was the last thing for me but in my case, that's no longer an issue thanks to the Steam Deck.
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by olivierestsage 1y ago
I didn't know about these Sonic games, but as a Doom fan, I have to say that the use of the Doom engine for Sonic makes good sense. The way it feels to move around in "3D" space in Doom is one of the best parts of the game, I
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by olivierestsage 1y ago
I have not implemented a solution to this, but it's been on my radar for a while. The two best options of which I'm aware are: 1. Export a .ics file based on your agenda (support for this is built-in) to a shared folder to which y
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by olivierestsage 1y ago
Slight off-topic, but getting organized was a lifelong struggle for me (I was the person who had a five-foot high stack of unorganized papers and crap in their locker in middle and high school), and org-mode is the only system that broke me
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by olivierestsage 1y ago
Whether this is true or not, it's an emotional reality for the Millennial generation. The Boomer/Millennial rift is fundamental, and only getting worse. Everyone I know (barely an exaggeration) is financially struggling, but has B
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by olivierestsage 1y ago
Pumped for this. I was (and am) massively impressed with Debian 12. I've been an on-again off-again Linux user since around 2003, but this release was the one that finally got me to switch completely. The jank factor actually seems to
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by olivierestsage 1y ago
Cynic in me says: "wait as long as possible and hope that the next administration doesn't care." I think there was a similar event recently with Apple vowing to make a big investment in US factory infrastructure or something,
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by olivierestsage 1y ago
This is a candidate for one of the all-time greatest HackerNews comments, IMO
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by olivierestsage 1y ago
I'm not a Christian, but one of the main questions I have, reading this, is whether Francis would have had the same reaction if Catholics had been the ones doing the massacring after their faith was insulted. Something tells me that he
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by olivierestsage 2y ago
It's been a while since I've seen it, but isn't it just that he has been swallowed up by the house and now he's "at" the eternal party where he saw all the ghosts during that one scene?
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by olivierestsage 2y ago
I can't believe I'm saying it, but I agree with you about GNOME being my forever desktop. I used to really make fun of GNOME during the 2->3 transition, which seemed so profoundly misguided, but now I love it. I don't know
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Pipe Dream (Animusic) – Remastered 4K 60FPS [video](youtube.com)
1 points by olivierestsage 2y ago|0 comments
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by olivierestsage 2y ago
I know it's a bit silly to criticize something offered for free -- I'm glad it's there for those who want it! -- but I really feel like something of the original aesthetic has been lost in translation here. The before-and-aft
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by olivierestsage 2y ago
I'm betting on LaTeX significantly outlasting both Typst and VS Code, per the Lindy effect.
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by olivierestsage 2y ago
Just stopping in to give a shout-out to Brother. The black and white laser printer I bought a few years ago (HL-2390DW) is the first reliable printer I have owned in my life.
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by olivierestsage 2y ago
Does anyone have a recommendation for the best way to get the "original experience" playing Myst (i.e. without updated/remastered graphics, etc.)?
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Ask HN: What do people mean when they say transformers aren't fully understood?
3 points by olivierestsage 3y ago|1 comments
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by olivierestsage 3y ago
While acknowledging that I don't know whether I can tell the difference in every case or not, I would summarize my own preference for lossless audio in the following terms. Choosing lossy audio, my best case scenario is that I save spa
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The Biggest Scandal in Speed Typing History [video](youtube.com)
3 points by olivierestsage 3y ago|1 comments
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by olivierestsage 3y ago
SerenityOS and Ladybird are some of the only things happening in tech right now that lower, rather than raise, my blood pressure.
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by olivierestsage 3y ago
I think that this is 10+ years of resentment on the part of Reddit's users against Reddit itself coming home to roost. The perception of Reddit's attitude to users for a long time now has been "well, we're making all the
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by olivierestsage 3y ago
I've often wished for this (a system where some users pay to circumvent tracking/ads, others get the "general experience"). One theory I've heard as to why companies don't go for this idea is that the paying us
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by olivierestsage 3y ago
Emacs comes to mind: it has a codebase stretching back to the 1970s and is still actively developed, with a dedicated following of users (myself included).
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by olivierestsage 3y ago
For anyone interested in understanding more about the context behind this, I recommend checking out this presentation [0] and HN discussion [1] from a little while back. [0] https://growth.design/case-studies/mario-kart

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