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by throwaway328 1y ago
And here's a list of stuff I've seen or that the non-computer-experts tell me they're doing with it, since the last month or two when suddenly even people who were against it are accepting it, along with people who'd nev
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Thanks, will be reading it!
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by throwaway328 1y ago
The pre-release AppImages that John Mercouris is working hard on are getting verrry solid, if you get an hour I recommend a play around :) https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/releases
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Yes, because the problem isn't that Europeans are being abused, the problem is that they're being abused by Americans ! Instead, let's develop a local system of abusing people, so Europeans can be abused by Europeans , as
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Any essays or articles in particular you're thinking of in relation to his philosophy?
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by throwaway328 1y ago
"True names and the opening of the cyberspace frontier" is a very nice edition with essays (Tim May's is very good) plus the novella of True Names, worth checking out!
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by throwaway328 1y ago
I've read one or two of Moore's things. Only very recently saw Transmetropolitan described somewhere as the best depiction of neoliberalism anywhere. Will definitely try something from Ellis soon then, thanks!
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by throwaway328 1y ago
The Dispossessed was great! I wanted to read something by Ursula K. Le Guin for ages, and then happened to be staying in a friend's house where that book happened to be on a bookshelf. So I'd the happy experience of just giving it
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by throwaway328 1y ago
There are worlds of difference between analysing the syntax and semantics of languages in a structured and scientific way, and writing "good" prose (as subjective as that is). I guess you're just a huge fan of Tolkien? In whi
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Ah, thank you for sparing me another misinterprtation, how good of you!
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Recently read and enjoyed Red Team Blues! It was very cool yes, readable and a good yarn too, straddled the line between "making points" and keeping the story going well I thought. Is there any you particularly liked or recommend?
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by throwaway328 1y ago
I recently stumbled upon Michael Moorcock, by explicitly looking for fantasy authors with "anarchist" (in the original, European sense, not the crypto-bro sense) tendencies. Read an essay, watched a few interviews, will be reading
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Zing!
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by throwaway328 1y ago
No no, there's a very good reason people might think that! It's called poor engagement with the written word. Another way to refer to it would be making ungrounded assumptions and then acting like it's the agree-upon reality.
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Nyxt Browser is about to bounce back hard (with Allah's blessing), after a major rewrite to use Electron. I wonder what this means for them...
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by throwaway328 1y ago
> Just like how they refer to anything left of oligarchy as "communism" To the left of oligarchy ? I thought it was anything to the left of getting hit repeatedly in the head with a hammer that they labelled as communism? Ther
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by throwaway328 1y ago
I'm following my own advice there at the end and browsing around a bit more, and one book dynamicland links to on their bookshelf ( https://dynamicland.org/2024/Roots/ ) is "Tools for Thought" ( https
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by throwaway328 1y ago
I didn't comment on OP's story of being called a cunt, nor claim that they were friends, nor make any guesses about how the word in the original story was employed. From the other comments in the thread, it seems it very well coul
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by throwaway328 1y ago
> I’m actually a huge fan of Brett Victor and I felt like he’s kinda missing the dynamic, adaptable nature of AI that allows non-technical people like me to finally access the system layer of computation for our creative ends. To "g
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by throwaway328 1y ago
We don't call each other cunt that much, but of course we do it now and again with a smile on our face. Right. My point was simply that the word is much more common in places like the UK and Australia, to the point where being called t
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by throwaway328 1y ago
I'm not falling for any stereotypes. I'm responding to a post where someone said they'd been called that word once in their life. This surprised me, as a non-American very used to the use of that word. As an Australian, how
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by throwaway328 1y ago
> Of course with very close friends it's fine I know you wouldn't use it straight away in the British isles without first establishing context and familiarity, sure. But the comment I responded to said they'd only been cal
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Absolutely on board with you and GP, I forgot Kernighan, I've only looked at a couple of chapters of the C Programming Language, but it was totally wonderful to read yes! He's definitely up there
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Hunter S Thompson, James Joyce, Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Knut Hamsun, ...
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by throwaway328 1y ago
I really should have included Bob Chassell, of "Intro to Emacs Lisp" fame, what a personable and gentle introduction for beginners! Very beginner-focused, but if you read it as a beginner, it's like your slightly chatty Uncle
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by throwaway328 1y ago
> Four years later, this MacBook Pro is still a delight. It’s the longest I’ve ever owned a laptop Is this normal? Changing laptops every 2 or 3 years seems absolutely bonkers to me
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Just a quick word of public interest - there are countries where the "c" word is really quite a normal word amongst friends and acquaintances, male and female. When you say that you've only ever been called that once, you may
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by throwaway328 1y ago
Maybe that's a good recipe for reliable technical documents, but arguably not great ones. Some of my favourites writers - Donald Knuth, Leo Brodie, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Harley Hahn, Jeff Duntemann, Beej, Nils Holm, surely missing mo
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by throwaway328 1y ago
If someone used comic sans for their cryptographic software landing page, and someone else said: "this font makes me wonder if I can have any faith in this human being's aesthetic sense", I am willing to bet a nickel that you