theon144

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by theon144 6y ago
Does anybody have any read as to why FDM is only receiving this kind of attention now? It seems that the technology has been there for quite a while (and I mean decades at least). Is it just riding the hype from home 3D printers?
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by theon144 6y ago
> I wish that shell would be more sane. Absolutely agreed, shell is in many respects terrible. >I don't think that a shell should be a complete programming language. On the contrary, I think shell should be a more complete prog
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by theon144 6y ago
Mishima is unfortunately pretty popular in the alt-rightish kinds of circles too (one of the few articles I could find about him in English were published on Quilette, for instance), but don't let that colour your impression too much.
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by theon144 6y ago
Yes, of course it is a tooling issue. I apologize in advance for my jadedness, but I see this sort of comment every time someone mentions the possibility that information organization tools could be better: "This is all very nice, but
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by theon144 6y ago
>Not once did it tell me that I'm a robot Right, unfortunately you've completely misunderstood the point of Friendly Captcha, a question which is answered right there on its main page. >>How does FriendlyCaptcha tell apar
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by theon144 6y ago
Googled it, don't get the issue :/
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by theon144 6y ago
I would agree, but the feature itself does seem interesting, I am actually looking forward to trying it - to be honest I do feel kind of a weird social pressure on Twitter given that the tweets are somewhat of a public record; it's why
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by theon144 6y ago
Great question. I would assume there's some skew, but then again it's still a valid comparison even if the results were not to be generalized.
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by theon144 6y ago
I'm sorry, but as a fellow Python "devop" too, this really reads like empty apologism. >Nothing scales well. scaling requires lots of effort. Sure, just like all PLs have their flaws, and most software has security vulnera
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by theon144 6y ago
I've tried delays too, but it ends up being almost the same, because I just associate opening reddit/hn/youtube on my computer with the delay and discomfort - so I open it on my phone or another computer. If there's a
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by theon144 6y ago
Your attitude seems to mirror this xkcd https://xkcd.com/1597/ and I honestly never understood it. I'm by no means a git expert (I've actually just recently learned about bisect for instance), but I have nev
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by theon144 6y ago
>The same is true for all modern computing. Yes it is. Is this a beneficial trend? If not, is it not worthy of critique?
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by theon144 6y ago
You don't understand - we've had DNS for a couple decades now, but I often have to deal with IP addresses directly still. Even if just to check where a given DNS record points to. The problem is that an ipv6 address is not somethi
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by theon144 6y ago
I rely on the "let call through if it rings twice within 5 minutes" feature and I let calls on selected contacts through. My family almost never calls me unless its urgent (we communicate over IM and other channels), so this solut
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by theon144 6y ago
Thank you! I definitely observed a similar pattern using distraction blockers; it worked for a while, but after a while I just ended up wasting just as much time, except on different websites or on devices where the blocking wasn't ena
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by theon144 6y ago
I feel like this is a super surface-level analysis that's based on just the "epiphenomena" of the two paradigms instead of the actual forces driving the distinction (i.e. control). >I sympathize greatly with this view. For
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by theon144 6y ago
CSAC?
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by theon144 6y ago
Yeah, I literally couldn't even read the article without switching to Reader Mode. For a UX professional, this sure is fancy but terrible UX.
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by theon144 6y ago
Heh, way to make this a political issue and shoehorn in a completely unrelated topic. And who even is "they"? The entire tech sector? FAANG? Or just whoever makes the rounds in the news at any given point?
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by theon144 6y ago
Love it, one of the few tasteful "novelty" lamps that I've come across. Too bad one needs 3-4 of the exact same size displays though, I've got a couple unused ones laying around, but they're not the same size...
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by theon144 6y ago
>If we want to complain that MySQL has an utterly useless TIME datatype, and separately they really should have an INTERVAL datatype, then let's do that. Well isn't this complaint basically the last paragraph of TFA verbatim?
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by theon144 6y ago
Eh, kinda. There's a lot of stuff hidden in there that I would violently disagree with, for instance: >[synthetic fertilizers are] needed for for agricultural productivity, because all soil loses its fertility naturally over time if
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by theon144 6y ago
Was a geeky kid, so I got sent on an "IT summer camp" where the organizers were coincidentally linux afficinados, and there I saw the power of the command line, shell scripting and subsequently programming for the first time, and
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by theon144 6y ago
The web does, but I still can't connect on any device.
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by theon144 6y ago
I absolutely agree with the article in the sense that this sort of "industrial literacy", or rather just "system awareness" is necessary to make proper judgments about the techno/societal mechanisms that we utilize
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by theon144 6y ago
Honest question: So, I get the radio rewind feature, and I really dig the interface, but it kind of feels like it's a feature from some two decades ago? Are there really still that many people regularly listening to FM radio for whom t
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by theon144 6y ago
Way cool! Anecdotally, of course, but a sizeable number of Matrix rooms I was in were actually bridged Gitter rooms. Looking forward to tighter integration!
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by theon144 6y ago
Yup, strong agree. The article did a great job of capturing the "story" of the competing approaches really well, I didn't even mind that the acronym wasn't explained until later.
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by theon144 6y ago
I'll take a Twitter thread which would not have been a blog post or any other kind of format otherwise, thanks :)
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by theon144 6y ago
I honestly don't get the point of the article. Is it supposed to be a jab at the modern mindfulness wave? Or is it actually speaking of "enlightenment" as it's understood in most spiritual practices, in which case none o

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