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by rogerclark 3y ago
Creatives will have their hopes and dreams stripped away so that artless and tasteless software engineers can type words into a box and instantly get exactly what they want, with no surprises, no feelings, and no economic upsides for anyone
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by rogerclark 3y ago
You don't know that the time will be freed for other things that are more important. We don't know for sure how this is all going to work out at all. And people who make fonts, create art, and write prose generally do these things
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by rogerclark 3y ago
It's so depressing to think that this is what people want.
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by rogerclark 3y ago
That's great. Not sure why I forgot about that. I take back the original comment. Thanks!
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by rogerclark 3y ago
All we needed was for vendors to ship development tools with the OS. Nobody ever did that. Apple could include Xcode on every Mac, but they don't. macOS and Windows... neither of them come with a code editor. The benefits are obvious.
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by rogerclark 3y ago
VB died because of .NET and VB.NET. The syntaxes were similar, but VB.NET was much closer to a "real programming language" in feeling and complexity than VB was, and that's not what anyone who used VB actually wanted. Microso
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by rogerclark 3y ago
While similar in spirit, CARI (the website linked in the post) is about aesthetics that can be found in consumer products. Aesthetics Wiki is broader, looser, and involved anything that people want to assign a name to. There are many things
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by rogerclark 3y ago
This website is meticulously curated by passionate artists who love this sort of thing. So no, neither of those things is true.
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by rogerclark 3y ago
Gumroad's design is itself a reuse of several design trends from 2021-2023. Wondermind is one example of another site using the same aesthetic. https://www.wondermind.com/
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by rogerclark 3y ago
Arc is pretty good. The vertical tabs are great, and the same tab list appears in all other windows you have open. For someone who easily loses track of tabs, this helps dramatically, and prevents the situation where you have multiple windo
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by rogerclark 3y ago
An existing project called "matcharoni" (spelling difference noted): "A pattern matching heavy language designed with Advent of Code. langjam0002 runner-up" https://github.com/sumeet/matcharoni
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by rogerclark 3y ago
They're only doing this so they can launch a public platform like Twitter or Substack. Nobody actually wants this except the executive team at Discord.
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by rogerclark 4y ago
The best nonfiction books are specialized textbooks. They're not fun to read, but that's where all of the valuable information is.
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by rogerclark 4y ago
I grew up in that area. Opioids destroyed the lives of my family and countless others. The health care industry in Appalachia is entirely corrupt. If any significant number of people are afraid of opioids now, that's good progress.
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by rogerclark 4y ago
Like most vegetables, cauliflower contains almost no protein. The sandwich probably tastes great, but cauliflower doesn't make any sense as a nutritional substitute for chicken.
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by rogerclark 4y ago
Clubhouse wasn't popular with kids. It was popular, and only briefly, with adult tech people.
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by rogerclark 4y ago
FWIW, "git" doesn't have an insulting meaning to most people in the US. "Git" can mean "go" in some US dialects. I would guess that the average person here has no idea that "git" has any kind of
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by rogerclark 4y ago
The article just says what we already know: we can't upload people right now. This is obvious: there are no available systems for mind uploading, commercial or otherwise. But why would that always be the case? And why should we assume
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by rogerclark 4y ago
Truly an amazing project. One person implementing the entire C++ standard, and then countless new, useful features on top of it. Circle did the interpreted, compile-time pass idea before any of the other new systems languages. Carbon and C+
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by rogerclark 4y ago
https://rogerclark.org Built with a simple static site generator in PHP: https://rogerclark.org/website.php.txt
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by rogerclark 4y ago
I stopped drinking in January 2014 as part of a Dry January challenge with some friends. This was after a decade or so of heavy alcoholism. I had one relapse two months later, and since then, I've kept it going. No alcohol since March
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by rogerclark 4y ago
Andreas will always be the GOAT
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by rogerclark 4y ago
In my experience, people with super clean desks aren't consistently productive. Garbage or dirty dishes are the byproducts of computer work. If you aren't neglecting the cleanup sometimes, you probably aren't working that har
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by rogerclark 4y ago
This argument is not "eliding" the hard problem. This argument is saying that Chalmers' hard problem does not actually exist. We have many explanations for what people describe as "the hard problem". But nobody who
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by rogerclark 4y ago
After playing it for 2 minutes there are clearly two kinds of obstacles that could only be surmounted by some kind of enhancement. And there's a Metroid-style grid map you can bring up. There's nothing useful about this kind of ne
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by rogerclark 4y ago
Severance seems heavily influenced by the works of Greg Egan, a sci-fi author famous for his writings about technology and consciousness. I assume this is the origin of the name "Eagan" used frequently in the show.
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by rogerclark 4y ago
Have you ever had tap water from San Jose, Los Angeles, or Las Vegas?
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by rogerclark 4y ago
Instead of yielding pure water vapor like evaporative humidifiers, ultrasonic humidifiers vaporize microscopic droplets of water, which can contain minerals and other contaminants. In areas with very hard water (Nevada, for instance) this m
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by rogerclark 4y ago
Minor writing nitpicks are worse than useless. The parent comment provided actual information that someone might want to know.
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by rogerclark 4y ago
I am the creator of this video. The screen capture was 60fps!

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