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You can say the same for Apple. I think the trademark applies when a common word is used in a distinct business case. Here the word is used as a filter name, for instance. That application is unique.
Yes, I am speaking for myself.
There are too many suggested replacements that I find are overly prescriptive, contextually blind, and needlessly aggrandizing.
Some, I admit, have merit. (Senile, grey-beard etc.) To me they are common sense. Perhaps, the rest of the terms were common sense to the authors.
Several suggestions about cultural appropriation are hypocritical. People of all cultures say the Lord's name in vain all the time. But saying guru or totem pole or spirit animal is an infringement. Why?
There are many turns of phrase where the offensive implication is not even implicit. "Bury the hatchet", "take a shot", "rule of thumb". Does anyone have to do mental labor to separate the violence in the words from their meaning?
Some replacements are suggested to prevent a word from singularly describing a person, because people have multiple characteristics. Yet the verbosity makes the attempt more conspicuous. "Immigrant -> person who immigrated". Why?
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As if you have some inside information.
I did ~22 prompts. All of them I correctly identified as satire. I don't know how they are generated. Feeding titles into a language model? Very likely, because the resulting titles are very easily distinguishable as satire given the context.
Can't use my mouse with it. And it doesn't look nice. And it requires a shortcut palette different than the OS conventions. I bought VS Code with $0.00 and sent the rest to needy kids in Uganda.
I went with Hugo. It is written in Go.
If I were to make my own generator from scratch, I'd go with python. It's the language I work with the most. A lot of my blog content will be generated from python (figures etc) or will show python code. So having a site generator in the same language can help me add features by hacking on the generator code in a way that a single binary cannot.
https://guix.gnu.org/en/about/
Guix is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project—which respects the freedom of computer users.
For anyone looking for more context. I did not know anything about the what and why and who of this post.
Having read it, I like the author's point of view. Working on it is good for his well-being. That's more than enough reason to pursue it.
I tried this debloater, but it debloated my ability to play video games that I like. And debloated the luxury of not having to drop to the command line to fix many of my problems. Also debloated the ability to run some very convenient day to day software.
This article is from 1992. For those in this field, has there been further development on this topic?
I really resonate with the tone of the article. I believe unrepentant ridicule is the correct (and only) response to web3.
This belief is based on my not-so-expert, but also not-so-layman's experience of the lack of regulation and transparancy in the blockchain space.
I am not a prolific contributor in the open source scene, but I participate with some frequency. I've always thought Codes of conduct are simply platitudes to keep over-eager human resources personnel, twitter activists, and their ilk at bay. Never once have I ever felt the need to look over the codes on any service. Such pages are simply background noise that contribute nothing but the occupation of space to a project. This has been my impression thus far.
I do not subscribe to all the beliefs the author espouses, but I am sympathetic with them. Admittedly, I feel myself cheering him on for standing his ground against this vacuous criticism.
With window-specific menus, I can directly click on and open the menu button of another app/window without first having to focus it first to see the menu options. I find that to be more intuitive.
I have always been a windows user and my intuition was shaped accordingly. So to me that is the obvious and correct thing to do.
One of the biggest hurdles to my use of Jax is that it doesn't work on Windows, my daily driver. It's inconvenient when playing around with a new tool that requires a whole other OS to run. I'm hoping that gets figured out soon.
Yes, pornography is harmful when everything is considered. Yes, this is my held belief held partly from personal experience, and partly from limited study, and partly from how I was brought up. No, it is very unlikely that I will change my mind.
I am currently abstaining, and I have noticed changes in my life: mental health, social calendar, relationships. My sexual outlet is not just my hand in front of (usually) a screen showing impersonal images. My sexual urges are directed more wholly towards my sexual partner.
When I did not have a partner, I noted there was some frustration with errant thoughts. But, that virility of thought was to my benefit when I did find a partner. In the past, I've had issues physically with erectile dysfunction, or mentally with emotional engagement. The narrative fed to me in porn was so embellished so as to change my expectations in reality. Abstaining has helped ground me by not implicitly comparing reality to a contrived fantasy with a darker underbelly.
I also think, porn is an easy outlet for boredom and solitude, and not just sexual frustration. When I restrain from porn, I find myself occupying time doing other things. Granted, I may be unproductive. But, I've felt in the balance that I've eked out things more worthwhile of my time than just my ejaculate into empty air :)
The site’s now characteristic tone of performative erudition—hyperrational, dispassionate, contrarian, authoritative ...
Reading this, I felt the description hit very close to home with regards to a substantive amount of discourse here. I also learned a new word!
Haha! When I read it, I had a moment of uncertainty: is this a story about one scammer scamming another?
I like the features in Microsoft OneNote (web/desktop apps, cross-platform, nested sections/pages, cross-linking between pages, free-form doodles and formatted text). And all of that is free.
The only feature I think is missing is exporting to some open format so I can use them with another application.
Is it purely a VR desktop window simulator, or can it play video games?
(funny aside from the video ad: they didn't finish the clip showing the guy managing to take a sip from the cup with the headset on, haha.)
To be fair, this is not a 101. Exposing port 80, figuring out a static external IP, or setting up DDNS, and https all need more hand-holding I think.
To the polyhaven.com home page? I don't think it did. They are all sub pages which adds another navigation step to see the root page, which is what I find irritating.
I tried looking, and I find it very irritating that in that whole web page, there is not one single link in the menu/footer/sidebar to polyhaven.com home page so I can click and discover what it actually is. Not one.
This occurs on many company blogs as well operating under a subdomain like blog.whatever.com
To be clear, this is a very tangential and irrelevant nitpick and I understand it does not contribute to the content of the website itself.
I think this website is a sales pitch for their patreon, which itself doesn't seem to be doing anything meaningful to advocate for web0. A funding goal is to "publish a guide on tapping the raw power of HTML". I mean, just google how to write HTML.
I do think we should be conservative about complexity in websites, but advocating for removing interactivity and styling (js/css) seems too idealistic and simply contrarian. So I definitely think this is a good conversation starter, but not a serious goal.
This comment hijacked my attention.
This is why I use Microsoft PowerPoint for my schematics.
Why do you think he is lacking integrity as it stands?
There are liabilities other than overtly breaking laws.
Could be the liability of inadvertently generating descriptions of illegal acts (child abuse etc.)
I think the advantages over the csv example are not quite advantages.
"tall and skinny". Well it looks skinny, but in bytes is actually fatter than the csv. Similarly, for comparing stuff, the columnar display works better.
My go-to is ini. Simple. Everything is a string. No assumed hierarchy in section naming. Just key/value pairs under sections. It is up to the using application to parse them how it sees fit.