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  1. Comment on Is Emacs or VIM worth learning in today's day and age? in ~comp

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    Oh gosh, there are a lot of "not really" answers in here. I dunno. I mean, yeah, to be honest a lot of the most effective developers I have EVER worked with are VS Code users who couldn't cd their...

    Oh gosh, there are a lot of "not really" answers in here. I dunno.

    I mean, yeah, to be honest a lot of the most effective developers I have EVER worked with are VS Code users who couldn't cd their way out of a paper bag. It's crazy and counterintuitive to me, because I got trained at an intense-ish Linux shop where vim and emacs and, most of all, the shell were placed on a pedestal as problem-solving tools.

    I started with vim and I really treasure its consistency and effectiveness. I used it for 4 or so years and never felt tempted to switch - any feature of PyCharm or VS Code that I learned of could easily enough be replicated in vim, and my navigating was so much more convenient to me. Never needing to leave the keyboard is super comfortable and it just feels like a harmonious state to exist in with your computer.

    And then I learned about Doom Emacs and I eventually gave it a try, and it's mind-blowingly good once you commit to "learning the emacs way" of doing something. (emacs users may say that I'm still not there yet, since I'm using "evil mode," which is the punnish name that emacs has for its vim keybinds, which Doom has on by default).

    Before I embraced these editors, coding was a constant rigamarole of "Okay, gosh, this is command-line output, but I need to copy and paste it to a file so I can pass it to my django-admin command... Oh, wait, was that an error response or OK? How do I check? Oops, an error is coming from X package, what subdir is that found in again? Jeez, it's a lot of clicking to open that..." I don't want to promise you the moon or anything, but if that kind of thing bothers you, vim and especially emacs have some really wild stuff to offer you.

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  2. Comment on Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk's X in ~tech

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    Ding ding ding

    Is he just trying to get on the good side of a fellow rich person?

    Ding ding ding

    5 votes

  3. Comment on What do I do if I don't have any clothes? in ~life.style

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    Hi, I'm 36 and am also 6'1" and I definitely relate to your post a lot. It's scary to try to choose clothes, knowing that they're likely overpriced, especially when I was your age and money was...

    Hi, I'm 36 and am also 6'1" and I definitely relate to your post a lot. It's scary to try to choose clothes, knowing that they're likely overpriced, especially when I was your age and money was scarcer, and knowing that for all you know they'll shrink in the wash and leave you with high-waters instead of nice fitting pants.

    The step I take to address these issues, whenever I can, is getting my clothes from thrift stores. If someone has worn and washed something a few times before deciding they don't like it, that item has already lasted at least a couple of months or at least weeks, and it's very likely to last me several years. It can be harder to find clothes for atypically sized people such as ourselves in such a store, but that's true everywhere. I hope it helps.

    Stitch Fix and other services that let you order clothes by mail, and return what you don't like, also might be really good options for your particular use case. (And remember, any online store that allows returns is also effectively "that kind of store." I've had good luck with Patagonia, Lucky Jeans, J. Crew, and LL Bean, in no particular order. Good luck.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Ryan Gosling movie 'Project Hail Mary' set for Spring 2026 in ~movies

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    I hope not, I loved the language learning subplot. Although as a programmer, it was pretty risible to get to the part where Ryland was like "I literally barely know anything about how computers...

    I hope not, I loved the language learning subplot. Although as a programmer, it was pretty risible to get to the part where Ryland was like "I literally barely know anything about how computers work, so it was slow going to convert my ad hoc database of Rocky's sounds to a real-time sound translation engine"

    6 votes

  5. Comment on Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of April 14 in ~games

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    Outer Wilds is 40% off right now -> $14.99 US on Steam, so I picked it up - I had bought it apparently about four years ago and decided it wasn't my vibe, but super glad that I got a little bit...

    Outer Wilds is 40% off right now -> $14.99 US on Steam, so I picked it up - I had bought it apparently about four years ago and decided it wasn't my vibe, but super glad that I got a little bit deeper into it this time; it's outrageously exciting and fun.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Twitter replaces twitter.com with x.com without user consent. Bad implementation invites an influx of Phishing attacks. (german source) in ~comp

  7. Comment on Book recommendations, specifically in ~books

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    I've only read the first one but it absolutely has space combat.

    I've only read the first one but it absolutely has space combat.

  8. Comment on Book recommendations, specifically in ~books

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    "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)," which is the first book in a series, has some good space combat that your post reminded me of, and is an overall enjoyable book (although space combat is probably...

    "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)," which is the first book in a series, has some good space combat that your post reminded me of, and is an overall enjoyable book (although space combat is probably only 10% of it or so).

    4 votes

  9. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    Spoilers for Ted Lasso through s02e07 "Headspace" I just got through "Headspace", the one where Roy is smothering Keeley by spending all his time with her, and he screams at Jamie for not running...
    Spoilers for Ted Lasso through s02e07 "Headspace" I just got through "Headspace", the one where Roy is smothering Keeley by spending all his time with her, and he screams at Jamie for not running up to his teammate to support him, and all the players agree that no, Jamie was right to trust the player and give him space

    - that episode was so well written and funny. It's an amazing show so far, in a "Scrubs" kind of way.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on The real danger to civilisation isn't runaway AI it's runaway capitalism (2017) in ~misc

  11. Comment on CMV: Once civilization is fully developed, life will be unfulfilling and boring. Humanity is also doomed to go extinct. These two reasons make life not worth living. in ~talk

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    If your line of reasoning only lets you be satisfied if you personally become relevant and useful on a cosmic scale, the word for that is "godhood"; your philosophy is demanding your apotheosis. I...

    If your line of reasoning only lets you be satisfied if you personally become relevant and useful on a cosmic scale, the word for that is "godhood"; your philosophy is demanding your apotheosis. I think that philosophy is a little suspect. I spent a couple of hours at work last week teaching someone to program - a waste of time, since he eventually is going to die? It was an enjoyable interaction for me either way. Moreover, you never know what he will do with the small knowledge I was able to impart. He might program something that gets used by many humans over the years; he might teach someone else that ends up making a huge difference. Our interactions can ripple out from us, having downstream effects years or centuries down the line that are probably not for us ever to know about, but that can be pretty extravagant, considering how cosmically small a human is.

    15 votes

  12. Comment on Bespoke Synth - a highly modular DAW in ~music

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    I have a Korg Volca FM (and a lot of guitar pedals) but I've never really hooked anything straight up to my computer yet before. I guess I should get one of those amp pedals and get cracking. This...

    I have a Korg Volca FM (and a lot of guitar pedals) but I've never really hooked anything straight up to my computer yet before. I guess I should get one of those amp pedals and get cracking. This is one of the most inviting software projects I've ever seen.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    I've been catching up on Better Call Saul, finished up the second-to-last season last night. Insane, wonderful, electrifying performances from Jonathan Banks as Mike and Tony Dalton as Lalo. I...

    I've been catching up on Better Call Saul, finished up the second-to-last season last night. Insane, wonderful, electrifying performances from Jonathan Banks as Mike and Tony Dalton as Lalo. I can't stop watching it or thinking about it which is a huge problem because I'm supposed to be working on programmer stuff...

    4 votes

  14. Comment on How social justice activists lost the plot in ~books

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    Is his name Almost Every Human Being Ever?

    I've got a coworker who will believe just about anything when given a sufficiently tasty anecdote

    Is his name Almost Every Human Being Ever?

    3 votes

  16. Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2023: Hidden gems in ~games

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    I liked World of Goo so much I bought a twelve-pack of gift codes like 10 years ago, of which I still have like 4 unredeemed, so LMK if you'd like to check it out.

    I liked World of Goo so much I bought a twelve-pack of gift codes like 10 years ago, of which I still have like 4 unredeemed, so LMK if you'd like to check it out.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on 70% of US workers lie on resumes, new study shows in ~life

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    Saying things like "This is the highest we can go" is not a lie in the context of a negotiation. For Pete's sake. All that's required for it to be truthful is for the person speaking to be...

    Proven to be a lie (ended up getting more than this)

    Saying things like "This is the highest we can go" is not a lie in the context of a negotiation. For Pete's sake. All that's required for it to be truthful is for the person speaking to be understood to mean, "based on my current understanding of your value and our budget," and all that's required for that number to change is for the other party's understanding of your value and their budget to change.

    "This is just our standard offer" Proven to be a lie (the person in the same role just before me was offered more)

    Did they ever claim that they extend their "standard" offer to every single candidate?

    Don't take it personally when "the facts of the matter" that people present during negotiation turn out to be a little flexible / the subject of spin. That's just how it always is. You're right that outright lying is not even unheard of, and also the examples that you gave aren't even examples of that.

    7 votes

  18. Comment on The people who ruined the internet in ~tech

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    Props to the author for having the ability to bang out her damn essay without getting bogged down in every little rabbit hole. If she were prone to compulsively editing-instead-of-writing she...

    Maybe an SEO professional would get attacked by a gigantic, prehistoric-looking reptile right there in front of me.

    Props to the author for having the ability to bang out her damn essay without getting bogged down in every little rabbit hole. If she were prone to compulsively editing-instead-of-writing she probably would have found out that alligators are not just prehistoric-looking; they're prehistoric itself. They appeared "94 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous" (wiki) and in fact their clade, Crocodilia, is only surviving sibling clade of Dinosauria, and so crocodiles & alligators are the closest living relatives of birds.

    5 votes

  19. Comment on If you use ChatGPT or other LLM, how do you use it? in ~tech

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    At first I thought you were expressing a cruder version of "ChatGPT is my work wife" but now I get it.

    ChatGPT is my work bitch! I'm a Cognitive Data Scientist by trade.

    At first I thought you were expressing a cruder version of "ChatGPT is my work wife" but now I get it.

    5 votes

  20. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    Ever since I read There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm I've hardly read anything except SCP fiction. The top by year section of that site is an absolute gold mine, and I also have a lot of...

    Ever since I read There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm I've hardly read anything except SCP fiction. The top by year section of that site is an absolute gold mine, and I also have a lot of .epubs on my kindle that have been scraped from the same wiki.

    Does anyone have a recommendation for me? I had just sat down to read "The Antarctic Exchange" series from that site and was excited for some "project hail mary" but in set on an lonely Antarctic research station and featuring horrible visitors from beyond the void and attempts to contain them. But that's not really what The Antarctic Exchange is like so far. Any suggestions?

    4 votes