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  1. Comment on Best news sources and blogs to keep you informed about IT and Software Development in ~comp

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    Also - I want to read this article but I am not a Medium member. OP, can you help?

    Also - I want to read this article but I am not a Medium member. OP, can you help?

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  2. Comment on Best news sources and blogs to keep you informed about IT and Software Development in ~comp

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    Agreed. There is absolutely no shortage of cool new projects out there and if I had to integrate them all into my mental model I'd be totally overwhelmed. I rely on getting my information from a...

    Agreed. There is absolutely no shortage of cool new projects out there and if I had to integrate them all into my mental model I'd be totally overwhelmed. I rely on getting my information from a couple of tech communities based around projects I'm already invested in - if it's relevant to someone else in the community then it's more likely to be relevant to me.

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

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    pair programming over tmux is a personal favorite of mine. also, +1 on vim being appealing for the sake of solving mini-problems all the time - it keeps my dopamine receptors firing on the more...

    pair programming over tmux is a personal favorite of mine. also, +1 on vim being appealing for the sake of solving mini-problems all the time - it keeps my dopamine receptors firing on the more complicated refactors

    2 votes

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

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    I've been a vim user since pretty much the first time I logged onto a UNIX system. I have zero regrets about dedicating time towards learning how to use it, specifically because it's always...

    I've been a vim user since pretty much the first time I logged onto a UNIX system. I have zero regrets about dedicating time towards learning how to use it, specifically because it's always available to me. I don't consider myself an expert, I've pretty much learned to the extent that I've found useful. Sometimes I write a macro and then mash @@ until I'm content.

    To me, part of the appeal is that full-service IDEs are slow and clunky unless you have a decent computer. They take a lot of resources to install and run, and if I find myself working on an old system with 1GB of RAM then I'd rather be working without a desktop environment and Electron taking up 90% of my resources before I even run the code.

    I also try to use stuff like awk and sed when I can, so it's possible that we just have entirely different priorities. I would rather use and master tools that are already available to me rather than install new ones. UNIX has been around for a long time, there's no shortage of learning for me to do.

    5 votes

  5. Comment on Kendrick Lamar - Meet the Grahams (2024) in ~music

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    Excellent turn of events: Metro Boomin releases a free track for people to rap over, recruits diss tracks from across the world. https://twitter.com/MetroBoomin/status/1787038173501039095

    Excellent turn of events: Metro Boomin releases a free track for people to rap over, recruits diss tracks from across the world. https://twitter.com/MetroBoomin/status/1787038173501039095

    6 votes

  6. Comment on AJJ x Kool Keith x Kimya Dawson - Best Of All Possible Worlds (2024) in ~music

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    I think that a collaboration like this one could have only been birthed through multidimensional travel.

    I think that a collaboration like this one could have only been birthed through multidimensional travel.

    4 votes

  8. Comment on Man sets himself on fire near courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial (gifted link) in ~news

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    Offhand thoughts - the main goal of this type of art is disruptive. Successful performances involve rattling people who put on a generally secure persona as they move through the world. Art isn't...

    Offhand thoughts - the main goal of this type of art is disruptive. Successful performances involve rattling people who put on a generally secure persona as they move through the world. Art isn't necessarily about being happy - it's about self-expression and honesty.

    Also, that camera guy is totally in love with her.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Man sets himself on fire near courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial (gifted link) in ~news

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    "A black woman who painted herself white sexually harassing the pro-Trump protestors" good ol' crackhead barney, at it again.

    "A black woman who painted herself white sexually harassing the pro-Trump protestors"

    good ol' crackhead barney, at it again.

    8 votes

  10. Comment on Keanu Reeves joins 'Sonic 3' as Shadow in ~movies

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    "When there's nothing left to lose - you win" -- Keanu Reeves

    "When there's nothing left to lose - you win"
    -- Keanu Reeves

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Evennia: a modern way to create MU*s in ~games

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    Hey, this seems like it might be really useful for something I've been planning to make. Thanks for sharing

    Hey, this seems like it might be really useful for something I've been planning to make. Thanks for sharing

    3 votes

  12. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    That's the idea! I'm offering up tea, coffee, bread, snacks etc. for people and offering a place to gather in my suburban neighborhood. Most of what I serve is either directly donated or purchased...

    That's the idea! I'm offering up tea, coffee, bread, snacks etc. for people and offering a place to gather in my suburban neighborhood. Most of what I serve is either directly donated or purchased with donations.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    I don't really have a solid schedule, so sometimes it's difficult for me to remember what happened over a given stretch of time. Spring started happening, it made me really happy and productive...

    I don't really have a solid schedule, so sometimes it's difficult for me to remember what happened over a given stretch of time.

    Spring started happening, it made me really happy and productive for a day or two. Cleaning up the garage and adding flooring to get ready for season 2 of my non-transactional garage café.

    Rain started up again and my productivity tanked. Still making slow progress on the Solar system, hoping to get to a point of building a basic buy & sell marketplace by the time my cafe gains some traction. It's probably been the better part of a decade that I've been working on this project in some form or another (iterating, research, simplifying), and it's starting to get to the point where I feel like it might become something genuinely useful soon.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on New Music Fridays: Lizzy McAlpine, Lo Moon, and more in ~music

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    I'd like to give a shoutout to AJJ for representing Phoenix.

    I'd like to give a shoutout to AJJ for representing Phoenix.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Where will people commune in a godless America? in ~humanities

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    Interesting, I wouldn't want to claim that you didn't have that experience anyways - it sounds like it would have been an interesting one! What did you and Abraham Lincoln talk about?

    Interesting, I wouldn't want to claim that you didn't have that experience anyways - it sounds like it would have been an interesting one! What did you and Abraham Lincoln talk about?

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  16. Comment on Where will people commune in a godless America? in ~humanities

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    More or less the same way I square science with the Stanford prison experiment, Unit 731, etc. People will do awful things in the name of the 'greater good'.

    More or less the same way I square science with the Stanford prison experiment, Unit 731, etc. People will do awful things in the name of the 'greater good'.

    10 votes

  17. Comment on How to succeed in a cramming-based academic system? in ~science

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    No, I had lecture slides published. Going through them and writing down the information in my own words was what helped cement the information in my brain. If I was trying harder I would have...

    No, I had lecture slides published. Going through them and writing down the information in my own words was what helped cement the information in my brain. If I was trying harder I would have probably done those notes as soon as possible and then redone them for exam review.

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  18. Comment on Where will people commune in a godless America? in ~humanities

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    Right, we're moving into different territory with this post. I'm not opposed to that, but I'd like to point out that what I'm advocating for here is not draconian enforcement of religious law. I'm...

    Right, we're moving into different territory with this post. I'm not opposed to that, but I'd like to point out that what I'm advocating for here is not draconian enforcement of religious law. I'm advocating for recognition of spirituality as a valuable addition to personal life.

    On your second point, I would argue that religion does deserve tax-free status as a non-profit organization. It's not perfect, but putting everything under the jurisdiction of state law is no less totalitarian than putting everything under the jurisdiction of religious law.

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  19. Comment on Where will people commune in a godless America? in ~humanities

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    It is disrespectful. Spirituality is a subjective and unprovable aspect of life. If you consider yourself to be rational and scientifically minded, you must accept there are aspects of life which...

    It is disrespectful. Spirituality is a subjective and unprovable aspect of life. If you consider yourself to be rational and scientifically minded, you must accept there are aspects of life which are both true and unprovable (see: Gödel). Whether you choose to pay attention to these things is your choice, but to deny their existence is quite simply naive.

    The whole idea behind 'faith' and spiritual practice is belief in the face of uncertainty. These are systems that are built on unprovable truths, and as the above podcast mentioned - they actually do a pretty good job at making your life better.

    As @Moonchild said, dismissing someone's spiritual beliefs would be like me saying "I feel anxious about the state of the world", and getting a response of "Oh yea? I don't believe you. Prove that you're anxious." So yea, I'd say that dismissing someone sharing their own personal experience with you is kind of a jerk move.

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  20. Comment on Where will people commune in a godless America? in ~humanities

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    Wouldn't it be disrespectful of me to invalidate your experience if you told me you saw a demon? I mean, who am I to say that your lived experience is any more or less correct than my own?

    Wouldn't it be disrespectful of me to invalidate your experience if you told me you saw a demon? I mean, who am I to say that your lived experience is any more or less correct than my own?

    4 votes