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  1. Comment on Never have outdated footer dates again in ~comp

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    OK the best one is definitely

    OK the best one is definitely

    “ handy but for footer ”

    7 votes

  2. Comment on Never have outdated footer dates again in ~comp

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    hahahaha you got me at first and I was mad and going to needle you. Good job

    Service degradation: Our API is occasionally returning 2024 instead of 2025. Our intern is investigating and working on a fix. We apologize for any inconvenience and would appreciate if you could stop emailing us about it.

    hahahaha you got me at first and I was mad and going to needle you. Good job

    5 votes

  3. Comment on What contemporary books do you think will still be widely read 100 years from now? in ~books

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    I think it'll be less fiction and more philosophy-lite books as we move into a more mature information age. The same way industrialized cities messed us all collectively up and we had to work...

    I think it'll be less fiction and more philosophy-lite books as we move into a more mature information age. The same way industrialized cities messed us all collectively up and we had to work through it in culture and art, I think there will be ideas that take more hold and shape our collective understanding of our post-modern world.

    These probably won't be it, but if I had to share some ideas:
    https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095
    https://www.amazon.com/Incognito-Secret-Lives-David-Eagleman/dp/0307389928

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Have you seen The Searchers? I have been watching a lot of movies I missed and if Lawrence of Arabia is top of your list, just imagine that level of camera work and almost as epic a story in a...

    Have you seen The Searchers? I have been watching a lot of movies I missed and if Lawrence of Arabia is top of your list, just imagine that level of camera work and almost as epic a story in a post civil war western. It's not as good as LoA but it's pretty rare to watch a film that gives me that 'feeling' of grandness and scale

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    I just use IMDB with good results. Not cluttered or pushing you to interact much and you can watchlist and rate movies.

    I just use IMDB with good results. Not cluttered or pushing you to interact much and you can watchlist and rate movies.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

  7. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    If anyone's interest is piqued by Dune movies, I'd encourage you to read the first Dune book and Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein. You could read Dianetics if you want, but I haven't and...

    If anyone's interest is piqued by Dune movies, I'd encourage you to read the first Dune book and Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein.

    You could read Dianetics if you want, but I haven't and opted instead for all the HBO Scientology stuff you probably have seen too. I still need to read Nightfall and always forget it's part of this quote.

    The reason is this quote:

    “Back in the day, the story goes, four science fiction writers - Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert and L Ron Hubbard - were hanging out late at night in 1940 in LA, drinking and putting the world to rights. They made a bet, who could dream up the best religion? Asimov explained in a TV interview in the 1980s that it was more of a dare than a true bet, and the goal was not a religion proper but ‘who can make the best religious story.’ The results were ‘Nightfall’ by Asimov, ‘Dune’ by Herbert, ‘Job’ by Heinlein and ‘Dianetics’ by Hubbard. If the first version of the story is true, Hubbard won the bet. They”
    ― John Sweeney, The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology

    2 votes

  8. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    I saw them in Sydney 10 years or so ago -- Such an incredible performance. I love how they say they're not a band they're an art piece and write all the songs in 10 minutes or whatever haha.

    I saw them in Sydney 10 years or so ago -- Such an incredible performance. I love how they say they're not a band they're an art piece and write all the songs in 10 minutes or whatever haha.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    This week I've been listening to Arthur Russell and Sun Ra -- two artists I just discovered in the last couple of months. Both sound much later to me than when they were actually making music and...

    This week I've been listening to Arthur Russell and Sun Ra -- two artists I just discovered in the last couple of months. Both sound much later to me than when they were actually making music and never achieved massive mainstream success.

    Russell's Cello and general shoegaze-y but genre bending songs are magnetic. Here's the best one and a more upbeat one to get you started:
    Planted a Thought
    A Little Lost

    I don't pretend to understand Jazz but Sun Ra definitely does in a way most people don't. I think it's like a Dread Pirate Roberts situation too because they still release music under Sun Ra and his Arketstra, which is also really good!. There's everything here from doo-wop to syncopated Jazz, and way more.

    Nuclear War
    Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lie
    Hour of Parting
    Dreaming

  10. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Watched this last night based on your recommendation -- Great movie!

    Watched this last night based on your recommendation -- Great movie!

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    I have a couple good ones for you all -- Fitzcarraldo - A slightly unhinged German man in the 1800s hatches a wild plan for getting rich off the south American rubber trade and bringing opera to...

    I have a couple good ones for you all --

    Fitzcarraldo - A slightly unhinged German man in the 1800s hatches a wild plan for getting rich off the south American rubber trade and bringing opera to the continent. My favorite Herzog movie I have seen so far. Kinsi is incredible and you can feel so much how big and REAL movies were before everything was CGI-d.

    The Last Castle - A 3 star general has been convicted of an unknown crime and is sent to a military prison. While there, he realizes how corrupt the prison and its staff are and ends up organizing and leading a mutiny/revolt with the other prisoners.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Jack Black ends Tenacious D tour after bandmate’s Donald Trump shooting comment in ~society

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    I think it was Kant of Locke that already answered this for me. If you believe you can affect change in the system, no matter how small, you should work to affect change instead of destroy the...

    I think it was Kant of Locke that already answered this for me.

    If you believe you can affect change in the system, no matter how small, you should work to affect change instead of destroy the system.

    The new system after the chaos from the ending of the old system isn't really knowable. There's a ton of risk and uncertainty about the new system, thus, if you can move the needle on the old system that is preferable.

    I still think we are able to affect change though we are moving towards the other answer, but not yet at all.

    7 votes

  13. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~life

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    Make it less clean/well designed maybe or build a website resume. I find people with nicer looking designed resumes are usually making up for lack of xp

    Make it less clean/well designed maybe or build a website resume. I find people with nicer looking designed resumes are usually making up for lack of xp

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Divine Hiddenness argument against God’s existence in ~humanities

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    Yes! The Marcions -- Thank you. I always mix up my early Christian sects for some reason

    Yes! The Marcions -- Thank you. I always mix up my early Christian sects for some reason

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Divine Hiddenness argument against God’s existence in ~humanities

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    If you need a simple proof to break the YHWH stuff, may I suggest: God is all good God made man in his image Why does so much suffering and evil exist in the world? Another interesting one is...

    If you need a simple proof to break the YHWH stuff, may I suggest:

    • God is all good
    • God made man in his image
    • Why does so much suffering and evil exist in the world?

    Another interesting one is Christianity being polytheistic in a couple of ways.

    • The holy Trinity doesn't really seem like 1 God at all
    • ESPECIALLY with how mean and spiteful OT god is. Remember God is eternal.

    My favorite story about that is Arians who saw this logic gap and decided OT God and NT God must be different since they're eternal and so fundamentally different. They were swiftly excommunicated of course.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Divine Hiddenness argument against God’s existence in ~humanities

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    This feels kind of YHWH centric. Early Hindu/Jain/Bhuddist doctrine was barely a religion from what I gather and was more a philosophy on how to live (yoga school = stretching body and mind good)...

    This feels kind of YHWH centric. Early Hindu/Jain/Bhuddist doctrine was barely a religion from what I gather and was more a philosophy on how to live (yoga school = stretching body and mind good)

    I think the thing atheists (myself included) miss a lot is the purpose of religion over its 1000s of years of rule. You hint at it in your first bullet.

    We all hold different beliefs in our head. The further I go from my community, the more different the beliefs are. The world and strange things especially are dangerous and risky the further back in time we go. How then do humans trust each other enough to trade goods or culture or blood, etc? A supernatural thing based on faith and not in reality would be a great tool to do that with! Now we can all have something in common and have less a chance to freak out and run from or kill each other.

    I think the time for this as a necessity to enable trust is gone, pretty obviously, but to remove it from the equation feels like asking why they didn't just use hardened steel in the bronze age.

    5 votes

  17. Comment on Stops along a drive from Texas to Pennsylvania in ~travel

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    Pick a thing to do in each place and make it as banal or fun as you want to. go to Graceland in Nashville and view the Elvis cult Count the wig shops in downtown Louisville or go get a hot brown...

    Pick a thing to do in each place and make it as banal or fun as you want to.

    • go to Graceland in Nashville and view the Elvis cult
    • Count the wig shops in downtown Louisville or go get a hot brown at that hotel
    • eat 'chili' (blech) in Cincinatti.... on spaghetti or whatever
    • look at that big arch in pittsburgh

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

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    Yeah -- You almost certainly want git and its structure only commits files with changes -- that is its whole purpose. You might look at sync thing or rsync too based on your comment

    Yeah -- You almost certainly want git and its structure only commits files with changes -- that is its whole purpose.

    You might look at sync thing or rsync too based on your comment

    2 votes

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

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    What's your stack for this?

    What's your stack for this?

    1 vote

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

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    Sounds cool and I have been wondering about the shine in the sky too -- Have any links to the paper or your work?

    Sounds cool and I have been wondering about the shine in the sky too -- Have any links to the paper or your work?

    2 votes