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terrasite is a phenomenal nomination for AotY 2023.

gerund: a form that is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun, in English ending in -ing, e.g., asking in do you mind my asking you?.

you could believe you're inhaling purified air but, lo! you are breathing impure air, muahahaha!

deniers do believe climate acceptance is dogmatic, that our modern epistemology is a deviation and largely a political ideology.

there are dozens of us!

increasing wealth inequality and unaccountable mega corporations. more of the same, basically.

I don't "believe" there is a solution until enough people get really hungry.

not allow private companies to accumulate so much capital by breaking them up and taxing them fairly. then use the budget for things like single payer healthcare and affordable housing

convenient for you, less so for the partner, eh?

seriously these other people are missing out on the joys of working from home

oh my god when will js devs learn this cycle has been going on so much longer than 7 years? I mean it's almost funny if it wasn't so depressing that JavaScript is eating up all the web dev jobs.

yep reddit is now either bots or people so banal they may as well be bots

my current dd laptop is also an early 2013 MBP, which I had installed Linux on a few years ago. however recently I picked up music again and preferred to use Mac for certain software. oh man was the reinstallation process a nightmare. the recovery install didn't have a browser that would render the Firefox download page. the Mac app store didn't have downloads for the highest version of macOS I could install on Intel architecture. it was problem after problem but now in finally running the last version I'll be able to run: 11.17. funny how much can change or become obsolete in only a decade :D

summoning a lisp from the aether never gets old

but wasn't that the point of pdf? we consumers of PDFs are the downstream users, not the target demographic. PDF solved a problem for publishers and magazines, not for consumers needing to read properly typeset digital documents. we just got the bread crumbs and then they became standard

epub I believe are essentially what we as programmers would come up with, xml, html, and style sheets

disclaimer: this is only partially informed speculation

doesn't that slow down your thought process?

probably yes.

also, when being asked questions I rehearse and rephrase the answer in my head often stumbling or pausing uncomfortably long to actually get it out for fear of it sounding weird or wrong or dumb.

norway is highly unionized and particular sectors do implement minimum wages.

singapore is uh... ranked 149 out of 157 in the oxfam inequality index.......

printing money obviously can't be the "root" cause because it's not an independent variable - it's the product of a social institution implementing policy which was decided on.

so, who decided? why? to benefit whom? i suppose therein lies the root cause.

hacker news is social media

there's another one in Munroe (east side) http://www.letsplaycafe.com/

me three! it was the first video of his I watched, so good and one of the YouTube classics that make YouTube so extremely special to me

in seattle theres a chain called quality sewing and vacuum, which struck me as a very weird thing to sell together.

turns out, vacuums and sewing machines share a lot of the same internal parts so for repairs they go together quite nicely.

this is why Amazon is doing it. netflix led the way and their membership overall stayed.

sadly instead of consuming less it seems amazon is losing its monopoly status to online stores like Temu instead which direct ship from producing countries to the US under the $800 import tax limit making it comically cheap...

Well, it seems obvious that they can say "in exchange for sending you this video you must watch the ads".

"you must watch" is bodily autonomy. currently what they can enforce technologically is "you must wait" for these 30 seconds of ads, which I can close my eyes for, or similarly with technology block the domain name they are served from

> If it were, leaving the room with the television on while ads were playing would also be theft.

Who says it isn't?

"you must stay" is bodily autonomy. I'm not sure how this is hard to understand

holy fucking shit. no. you've been gaslit into this absolutely insane reality friend.

bodily autonomy is basical human right number one, including the right the close your fucking eyes. there's no fucking "contract law" with https requests. if you're playing devil's advocate, well the devil forgetting basic human rights is bad rhetoric

everybody deserves a room of ones own. [1]

ads are just a parasite pretending to provide it, manufacturing demand for overproduced commodities that are mostly harmful for humanity and our environment.

so long as the public library remains upheld as a public institution, with free access to information for all, ads remains merely a parasite slowly eating away at our perception of the public good. and it's no surprise in our rent-seeking, enshittifying economy that the library is crumbling.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_of_One%27s_Own

it's weird because I think like others here, reddit has lost it's allure for me (after 12 years of devoted active participation). but I can't point out something specific that caused it. I knew many comments were bots and trolls before, and the ratio hasn't changed (probably) since I quit, but I definitely can't trust basically anything I read on Reddit anymore. maybe chatgpt killed it for me?

I'm glad I finally quit, but now I just check hn twice as much. at least there are less memes tho

yes this makes sense because ruby is a message passing language. even accessors are messages. only self can receive private messages.

and the sharing a private instance variable between separate instances example is exactly what protected does, which ruby also has.

sure but cache warming works on the order of 30 minutes

I read this as "who prefers to work non-standard workday" e.g. 11-7 which I used to do to avoid traffic. I really enjoyed it and the slower morning was really helpful for me. early morning stand-ups post-pandemic really killed my morning happiness.