swayvil

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by swayvil 3y ago
Did we learn nothing from The Lego Movie? Instructions are the dark side. Master Builders use The Force.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I love Angband deeply.
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by swayvil 3y ago
This is why easy coding is important. It opens the floodgates of creative production. In the fine arts we call it a plastic medium. A medium that's easy to edit. It's why we sculpt out of clay instead of beercans.
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by swayvil 3y ago
ok it works. And it's good. The snap install wasn't working but the tar gz download did.
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by swayvil 3y ago
ok I have no idea
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by swayvil 3y ago
I was in art pretty heavy. And ya, instability and dread the norm. And obsession. To fixate on the creation of the hour 24-7. To be master of my tiny creative walled paradise and let everything else go to hell. Now I'm not doing that.
937.
by swayvil 3y ago
Can anyone recommend a nice peer to peer social media thing? Hey https://getaether.net/
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by swayvil 3y ago
Can anyone recommend a nice peer to peer social media thing? Hey https://getaether.net/
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by swayvil 3y ago
Timeline vs thread tree. I strongly prefer the latter. How about you?
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by swayvil 3y ago
Implicit in the term "relativism" is the assertion that there is some kind of connection between the knowledge and what it renders. Of course there isn't. It might be useful, pretty, conventional, etc. But there's no act
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by swayvil 3y ago
And self-repair. And self propagate. They are definitely not optimized solely for making energy.
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by swayvil 3y ago
>looking continuously. Ahhh! That is the key to the design. A network of users consuming and producing in real time. Weird feedback amplification effects. A vast beast with a million heads, muttering to itself. (Having your notifications
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by swayvil 3y ago
I can't deal with the way posts are arranged in mastodon. The "timeline" or whatever you call it. I want a tree of threads. Posts and replies. Like reddit and hn. It's the only way that makes sense. Boggling that they do
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by swayvil 3y ago
>can see my review with my account, but no one else can. Your review got shadow-removed. That's a new one on me.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I agree. It's like painting by numbers. Or drawing from one of those "how to draw a pirate" instructional guides. It's a completely different thing. I know a guy who prefers the instructions. He builds them and then keep
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by swayvil 3y ago
I recommend HOGG. There's nothing else like it.
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by swayvil 3y ago
The republicans worship tyrannosaurus rex. The democrats worship hivemind. I think I saw this scifi movie before. It was all dystopian and 70s.
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by swayvil 3y ago
We can't trust individuals to distinguish misinformation from "I don't like it" or whatever else. So we shouldn't. Route around the unsolvable problem. Find another way.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Punishment for breaking a rule without telling you what rule you broke. This has become common in social media. And we seem to be ok with it. It's clearly a very fucked up thing. The only time I ever saw it irl was from a legit crazy p
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by swayvil 3y ago
Unless it's weird. Weird stuff happens. I mean you're naysaying the testimony of hundreds of field researchers on the weight of, let's face it, mere convention. And these aren't necessarily dumb people. They value time a
951.
by swayvil 3y ago
Superstition? I think they're getting results. It works.
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by swayvil 3y ago
A dowser recently told me that's how he dowses. By detecting kinks in the Earth's magnetic field. Thus he detects underground water, buried objects, disturbed earth, graves, cables, etc. He works for the state department of land m
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by swayvil 3y ago
The machine promises to make our dreams come true and the computer is the best machine. I call it a worthy expense. /s
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by swayvil 3y ago
I have a friend with notoothia. Only in one tooth tho. And ya, it's weird looking. She got an implant. One of those titanium screws. It works but the gum is weird and the tooth is missized. Would she switch it for a grown tooth given t
955.
by swayvil 3y ago
Capitalism is an infinite resource sink. Your competitors will always try to outspend you. Your exploiters will always try to exploit you more. It's like living next door to a black hole. It's a bad neighbor.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I hear that gravity is a contour in spacetime, or something like that. Does that mean that a gravity wave is a ripple in space or a travelling wave of pinched or stretched space? Also, assuming all that. I think we have 2 ways of squishing
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by swayvil 3y ago
Destitute outcast dressed in rags. But he could afford to slather his canvases deep with that pricey oil paint. And don't get me started on storage space. Those paintings take up room. Maybe he had a trustfund. Maybe he spent 99% on ar
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by swayvil 3y ago
It takes me weeks of ambivalating to come up with one halfway decent idea. I edit my posts so much that I've been accused of deceit. Strong opinions are oxymoronic. Like heavy feathers.
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by swayvil 3y ago
That would explain why the burnout persisted over the next jobs. It was the same work.
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by swayvil 3y ago
In your 3 jobs, was the work the same or different? I mean, was it all computer stuff or did you change it up with ditchdigging?

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