virgil_disgr4ce

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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
Opinionation (heh, opinionatedness?)'s value is entirely different depending on the user category. Hackers by and large don't want opinionated, because they're willing to spend the time configuring & customizing AND have
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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
> Linux is ready for prime time for anyone not bound to Windows/MacOS software. I suspect in order for this to be true we'd need a PR campaign that can shift culture on the scale of civil rights. I'm not trying to be hyper
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by virgil_disgr4ce 8mo ago
Now I'm imagining an app that automatically back-engineers a 'golden ratio' analysis or similar bullshit explanation for you to save you the time and trouble of making it up yourself. Being able to give fussy clients an insta
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
Here's the documentary referred to: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21945758/ It's rentable at the usual places. I might check it out.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
I've never once experienced this nor literally ever heard anyone say someone gave them made-up directions in the US. The only time I've ever experienced made-up directions were trying to get out of the souk in Marrakech.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
I also experienced this behavior :)
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Are Flow States Possible with Vibecoding? (2026)(inventbuild.studio)
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
ICYMI expands to ... wait, shit
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
My personal site is at http://tedbot.com :)
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
"PR purposes" IS doing it for money
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
> Apple tells its customers what's hot and then shoves it down their throats I don't really understand this. Is it shoving when something is actually popular? The iPod was legitimately extremely popular. Did Apple decide it w
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
> Apple is always behind on industry trends Huh, I always thought it was the other way around (whether people liked it or not): ditching floppy disks, ditching cdroms, prioritizing BT over wired earphones, etc. I am glad, though, that th
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
The word is tenet, not tenant, just fyi
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
> cautious that this is the type of reasoning which propels the anti-vax movement I hear you but there are two fundamentally different things: 1. Distrust of / disbelief in science 2. Doctors not incentivized to spend more than a fe
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
> The world is probably better off that we don’t need another 12 ways to develop a CRUD app or learn the framework of the month from gatekeepers with a bad attitude Are you saying that because you don't like web apps or the framewor
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
Exactly, the prevalence of the word "work" in this conversation is such a telling indicator of what 'western' culture-at-large has been taught to focus on
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
Just because all humans don't use reason all the time doesn't mean reasoning isn't a good and desirable strategy.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
Thinking is not besides the point, it is the entire point. You seem to be defining "thinking" as an interchangeable black box, and as long as something fits that slot and "gets results", it's fine. But it's the
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
Thanks for the tip, however all of the crackling I've heard was exclusively WITH speakers plugged in (via the 3.5mm jack). Though I've noticed lately I'm not hearing any crackling any more. I don't think I updated anythi
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
What is "this kind of environmentalism"?
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by virgil_disgr4ce 9mo ago
>a MIDI keyboard to play around with. Which 40 years ago people were saying that wasn’t real music, either. Citation needed
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by virgil_disgr4ce 10mo ago
Just as a datapoint: Not only do I actually like Liquid Glass, I don't have any errors or bugs on my MBP or my iPhone EXCEPT for the audio scratching sometimes on macos. Which alone is flatly unacceptable.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 10mo ago
why do we need to click anything? Why wouldn't the relevant information be there in the initial view?
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by virgil_disgr4ce 10mo ago
ever tried Pd or max?
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by virgil_disgr4ce 10mo ago
This was the part that my brother and I could never, ever, not even once, complete. I still rue it to this day.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 10mo ago
Hooray, actual user research and data!! This is what I tell all my clients: "We can speculate all day long, but we don't have to. The users will tell us the correct answer in about 5 minutes." It's amazing that even in a
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by virgil_disgr4ce 11mo ago
Yeah, imgur had very simple & humble origins and fostered a surprisingly active, reddit-like community (though I'm sure imgurians would resent that particular comparison), and then holy shit it just turned into a bizarrely bloated
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by virgil_disgr4ce 11mo ago
Kind of funny to find this on the front page of HN. Makes me wonder what percentage of today's HN readers didn't live through the Slashdot era. (I'm aware it's still around.)
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by virgil_disgr4ce 11mo ago
Pretty sure the poster knows their kids better than you do
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by virgil_disgr4ce 11mo ago
> They could include graphics that don’t look the same but I guess that defeats the reason for the game. How does that defeat the reason for the game?

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