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  1. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Then you have missed some of the best programming drama in a while!

    Then you have missed some of the best programming drama in a while!

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  2. Comment on What are your favourite fragrances, and why? in ~talk

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    What are your personal top two, for sample order purposes?

    What are your personal top two, for sample order purposes?

    1 vote

  3. Comment on What are your favourite fragrances, and why? in ~talk

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    You might enjoy ordering some samples from Pineward? Some of their stuff is quite challenging, like Murkwood (@tomf I just remembered Murkwood has a lapsang souchong component, so I guess that’s...

    You might enjoy ordering some samples from Pineward? Some of their stuff is quite challenging, like Murkwood (@tomf I just remembered Murkwood has a lapsang souchong component, so I guess that’s two smokey fragrances I don’t hate), but many others are just well executed pine fragrances. I don’t really like pine fragrances much, I really wanted to like Velvetine, but it’s pine.

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  4. Comment on What are your favourite fragrances, and why? in ~talk

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    It does seem like a fun endeavor to learn, I was considering trying my hand at it a while back! I have an oakmoss tincture steeping right now actually, from some I harvested this spring.

    It does seem like a fun endeavor to learn, I was considering trying my hand at it a while back! I have an oakmoss tincture steeping right now actually, from some I harvested this spring.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on What are your favourite fragrances, and why? in ~talk

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    There is one smokey fragrance I don’t hate, I believe it is Allegretto 7.2. But that is the same perfumer behind Bogue, who does some pretty great work.

    There is one smokey fragrance I don’t hate, I believe it is Allegretto 7.2. But that is the same perfumer behind Bogue, who does some pretty great work.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on What are your favourite fragrances, and why? in ~talk

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    I think I still have a partial sample of the original. I do remember trying it again at a shop and disliking it even more, so perhaps that is related!

    I think I still have a partial sample of the original. I do remember trying it again at a shop and disliking it even more, so perhaps that is related!

    1 vote

  7. Comment on What are your favourite fragrances, and why? in ~talk

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    Got a favorite for a recommendation?

    Got a favorite for a recommendation?

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Neuromancer | Teaser trailer in ~movies

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    Predictions on when Snow Crash will get an adaption? Surely we are not far off at this point.

    Predictions on when Snow Crash will get an adaption? Surely we are not far off at this point.

    7 votes

  9. Comment on What are your favourite fragrances, and why? in ~talk

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    Geosmin! Barrister and Mann makes a shaving soap that does capture petrichor quite well, but I haven’t found it in a perfume that doesn’t lose it in the dry down.

    Geosmin! Barrister and Mann makes a shaving soap that does capture petrichor quite well, but I haven’t found it in a perfume that doesn’t lose it in the dry down.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on What are your favourite fragrances, and why? in ~talk

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    Olive flowers sounds interesting! I have an old (1930s to 1940s) bottle of Shalimar, so it could be a fun one to compare!

    Olive flowers sounds interesting! I have an old (1930s to 1940s) bottle of Shalimar, so it could be a fun one to compare!

    1 vote

  11. Comment on What are your favourite fragrances, and why? in ~talk

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    Oh man, I hate Mississippi Medicine! That perfume made me realize I don’t like smokey fragrances.

    Oh man, I hate Mississippi Medicine! That perfume made me realize I don’t like smokey fragrances.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on What are your favourite fragrances, and why? in ~talk

  13. Comment on What are your favourite fragrances, and why? in ~talk

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    Oh, this is a question I am excited to talk about! Musk Khabib from Bortnikoff - beautiful perfume. Sillage is medium or intimate on my skin. I love Coumarin with Ylang-Ylang, and the musk used is...

    Oh, this is a question I am excited to talk about!

    1. Musk Khabib from Bortnikoff - beautiful perfume. Sillage is medium or intimate on my skin. I love Coumarin with Ylang-Ylang, and the musk used is incredible. I have an older bottle, so new formulations may differ.
    2. Casablanca from Diane St. Claire - incredible, hyrax base. Everything I could say has been said better by Will from Barrister and Mann here. As much as I love this I find myself more frequently wearing Song of Aubrac layered with a sandalwood fragrance after dry down.
    3. Embers 2021 from TRNP - the best sandalwood I have ever smelled. One of the last fragrances before this perfumer’s break from ingredients like sandalwood and oud due to concerns over sustainable harvesting.

    Honorable mentions: Timbre and AEOOJ from Chris Rusak, 1888 from Casamorati, Minneapolis 5.3 from Berceuse, Shalimar from Guerlain.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on Your cookware got worse on purpose: who owns Pyrex and All-Clad now in ~food

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    This reminds me I need to order more beakers for my kitchen!

    This reminds me I need to order more beakers for my kitchen!

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Help me choose a HiDPI monitor for work in ~tech

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    Huh, hadn’t heard about this. Seems like I am not impacted due to use with Linux. I’ve also rooted my TV because of how annoying webOS was becoming, and that gives some tooling to tone it down a bit.

    Huh, hadn’t heard about this. Seems like I am not impacted due to use with Linux. I’ve also rooted my TV because of how annoying webOS was becoming, and that gives some tooling to tone it down a bit.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Zig creator calls spade a spade, Anthropic blows smoke in ~comp

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    This seems to be a major point that is conveniently ignored fairly often in these discussions (I will give a disclaimer here that I have mixed results with agentic tooling, my experience has been...

    … perhaps because of its popularity or perhaps because of features like the borrow checker, AI might write better Rust code.

    This seems to be a major point that is conveniently ignored fairly often in these discussions (I will give a disclaimer here that I have mixed results with agentic tooling, my experience has been that it’s overall pretty awful at writing anything over a certain level of complexity). For years, Rust advocates have exclaimed things like, “If it compiles, then I know it probably runs!” I myself have said things like this about Rust. Agentic tooling is all about building harnesses for a clever statistical tool that makes a really good guess about how to complete some text. Is it really any surprise that making the lowest level of this tooling more rigorous helps this autocompletion loop write working code?

    13 votes

  17. Comment on US Supreme Court lets states block trans athletes from women’s and girls’ sports in ~lgbt

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    Votes on aggregator sites have always been (as far as any example I’m aware of) “I think this deserves more visibility and contributes to discussion,” or in the case of those that have downvotes,...

    Votes on aggregator sites have always been (as far as any example I’m aware of) “I think this deserves more visibility and contributes to discussion,” or in the case of those that have downvotes, “I do not think this deserves visibility or does not contribute to discussion.”

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Solar with grid connectivity, but no networking? in ~life.home_improvement

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    Baffling that you would need internet for stationary panels. I would understand if there was a more complex control scheme, like using GIS data to track the sun, but cramming connectivity into...

    Baffling that you would need internet for stationary panels. I would understand if there was a more complex control scheme, like using GIS data to track the sun, but cramming connectivity into infrastructure that becomes less secure because it has it is insane.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on My Accessibility Stack and the future on Wayland in ~comp

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    This is a rare article that I wish had a more clickbait title, like “Wayland Does Not Support Users with Accessible Input Needs,” in the hope that it would reach a larger audience. Relatedly,...

    This is a rare article that I wish had a more clickbait title, like “Wayland Does Not Support Users with Accessible Input Needs,” in the hope that it would reach a larger audience.

    Relatedly, every time I hear about Wayland, I become more baffled that this was the chosen replacement windowing system…

    10 votes

  20. Comment on The one-and-done pen? in ~hobbies

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    I am not really a fountain pen person, but I have been eyeballing a Platypus Model 20 for a while. The bladder design is uniquely interesting to me.

    I am not really a fountain pen person, but I have been eyeballing a Platypus Model 20 for a while. The bladder design is uniquely interesting to me.

    1 vote