smitty1e

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by smitty1e 3mo ago
A third alternative, to quote Dirty Harry, is "A man's got to know his limitations." https://youtu.be/CG2cux_6Rcw?is=44LjSt5DpEhY6BWr
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
It's not impossible that everything in the universe can be explained within the scope of human reason. Life just seems to exceed that scope, is all.
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
"The Gästeführer would like a word with you..."
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
Can confirm for some dumb joke subs. You want to blow off some steam, and there is a laundry list of rules to read through. Yeah, not bothering with all that.
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
I went to a party in Germany some years ago. It was a birthday for someone. What was fun was that people all offered jokes or poems or whatever. I remarked at the quality of the offerings, and was told that there where books of content to c
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Stop the GUARD Act and age verification laws worldwide(fsf.org)
15 points by smitty1e 3mo ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
Why hasn't AI proposed the ultimate "fair" taxation scheme?
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
Same vibe. Plus, there is a very "community" spirit in successful distros. The Linux version of TempleOS is of clinical interest only.
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
Case study: Turso[1] Rewrite the open source SQLite in Rust under an MIT license[2]. Of course, once you complete the core product, there is the extended ecosystem to consider. [1] https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-li
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
> And it’s not like there’s anywhere to go. The real world is strip malls and axe throwing and escape rooms. While the ersatz realms of AI regress to the mean, religious traditions chug on, bringing joy to adherents. Find your community
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
Nice. I'm going to go through https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs as well as https://www.masteringemacs.org/
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
I've been on spacemacs.org for a while, but since I've got a Keychron G6 Pro where I can reprogram the caps lock, I'm going to try out some hard-core init.el stylings. Suggestions welcome.
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
Really? One more way in which I'm just not a representative sample, I suppose.
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How Much Is AI Manipulating Us?(americanrefugees.substack.com)
4 points by smitty1e 3mo ago|8 comments
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
I went with feedly whe Google reader died.
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
The author wants tau=2*pi, but in the Greek alphabet, tau has one vertical stroke, and pi has two. So, visually in Greek, pi=2*tau would seem an improvement. Oh, well.
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
Your reply was as substantive as my original, but I'll upvote you anyway, because there is no point in being a jerk.
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
Well, there's always https://grokipedia.com/page/Odin_programming_language
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
> In 1980, 38 percent of private-sector workers had defined-benefit pension coverage. By 2023, that number had fallen to 11 percent. [15] Government workers, who have the political power to maintain the old arrangement, still have pensio
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
Everybody's "Blatantly Obvious To A Casual Observer" (BOTACO) solution is somebody else's "Scam Amounting to Large Amounts of Dollars" (SALAD).
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
I just got a really great keyboard...except that the space bar and my Linux distro don't get along at all. So now I have a surprise deep-dive to make this thing usable. It's a Nietszchean Bargain: that which doesn't kill you
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
> C99 isn’t a compiler. Sure, but the pojt here is that if we say "Write in X" we generally understand it to mean "Treat X like a standard and don't get too colloquial with the stylings." Pedantry is worthwhile,
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
The whole discussion consistently fails to acknowledge that, in a day where we have a Supreme Court Justice who cannot define "woman", education devolves into anarchy. Surf the chaos, bro.
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
Open Source puts the onus on the user to know what they are doing. The learning curve is not too vertical on the established components, but stand by on the New Shiny.
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
Not sure how to vote for it, though.
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
As I am fond of saying: "The good news about Open Source is that you've got the source code; the bad news about Open Source is that _you've_ got the source code." That is, you may well get sucked down a rabbit hole in or
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
A montage is a fantastic device in a movie. But a montage about weight lifting does not a body builder make.
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
I read PyNomo as "Py no mo' " and was overcome by a feeling of loss.
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
I'm generally encouraging my two high schoolers toward: - trades - military service ...or some blend of the two, i.e. SeaBees or Army Corps of Engineers. White collar/tech chops are fine as far as they go, but know how to swing a
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by smitty1e 3mo ago
I didn't know what WEB was, but I thought the dots were related.

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