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"How many cucumbers can be pickled in a washing machine?"

Not pianists in Chicago, but you can get there, and it cant do it.

So is it like plugging in a normal distribution into some arithmetic?

Consider maybe 1 + 1 ~ +-2 like Q factor, if you know what I mean.

That would help to filter out more probabilistic noise in using it to help reason with.

That's a windows-ism, we don't like that kind of stuff. Not on any other OS we don't.

Aha. So he won his prize by his alonesome. With no exchanging of any ideas to any other party. Like, in his parents' basement, right.

Eh, this is poll data, is it not? So it's more like 46% admits they did not.

You got to adjust for shame and such. I'd bet it's up to twice as much in practice, that is 92% did not actually open a book. I'll give you that 46% do not own one, that sounds reasonable.

People are interested fundamentally in other people. That is why we read, listen, watch the Internet. It connects us to a mesh of person-hubs where you can find out more about or vibe with the people and ideas that you are attracted to. Maybe you could contribute something.

If the trend continues with LLM-related bullshitting technologies I will stop being interested in the Internet. I will stop coming. Many of us will.

Generated music is as far removed from jamming with friends as kissing a girl you like is removed from gang raping her with five of your teenage comrades over Twitch. Is that a good analogy? I think it is.

How about a Do-Not-Track alternative where I can specify what kind of ads I'd be OK to show up alongside my browsing? It could be a header with a hash of an entry in a public list of lists of interest. Cars, travel, fashion, whatever; any order or preference you might come up with. I could flip a switch or install a plugin in the browser to help learn from my browsing history locally, and populate that list accordingly.

Adsense needs to respect that header, is all. I'd ditch ad-block if that happened.

Provided ads are alongside my content and don't replace it's space and time.

I'd use that.

EDIT: apparently, the basic idea is there; but also cookies will now only come from the website being viewed, not tracking you across the whole Web.

I put in "m m m m m m m m m m!"

Got out all kinds. W's, v's, whatnot.

https://playground.play.ht/listen/18373

Sure, long as the sorting is also done by an AI. Like an AI category cloud. No changes to HN needed. Go for it.

if there were indeed hundreds of thousands of text editors, then yes, the way your thinking flows would be warranted

but in reality there are less then a hundred alltogether for all time

each is a project of passion, and all are resultant in a peculiar, particular and special kind of thing to do a special kind of thing

you can't select a thing the VIM way and then do something to it the Emacs way

you can't eat Catholic while working Maori

or you can, but then it is just another special thing that you made up

text isn't a thing

code is a thing (many ways, depending on the approach), prose is a thing (many ways), poetry is a thing, legal writing is a thing

text is not a problem that can be solutioned, it is not a question that has an answer

What is? Tap to that, hold to this?

In Mac? Never.

Shame tho...

You're stuck using things like that. For work, you're stuck choosing from what's available, because the work is to be done now, not later.

If choosing I'd go with Mac for work. They have hardware that is reliable, and software that is approachable. Unless it's 3-4 levels deep into MS tech, I'd be confident the Mac can handle it.

If I was starting a new project for myself, like a game or a SaaS thing, then I'd go with some Debian or Arch peppered with a RoFi search/command thing, and a window manager akin to i3. A development machine, entirely geared towards looking at and making of code.

But if time wasn't an issue I would not jump on any of the things available to me. They are all largely misguided with relation to my goals. None of them are particularly enabling. All of them are better than center-aligned Comic Sans in a Word.app document, but none of them integrate my prior knowledge, or even the projects I previously did. Every new project is entirely new anyways.

Computers kinda went the sellout route circa 2012, the PC makers do what they understand will sell well, and there aren't any projects that are different enough to warrant an interest. The commercial offering is geared towards the common journeyman programmer, in it's entirety. There are no niche computing devices, I'd expect to see thousands of those, but still there are a handful at best.

There is like one model of a 3-year old Thinkpad that I'd buy, but it doesn't get me excited enough to actually do that. I'd put some Linux on it, with flare.

I have strong opinions. I have the 20+ years of experience to have formed them.

If I were to take a job or a gig in coding ever again, I'd ask the employer for a machine and figure it out from there. I don't care what it is. As my employer, you make these decisions and suffer their consequences.

I'm just here to figure it out, clock out and go home, where you will never, ever call or message me. You got your 8 hours, and they are as you made them come out. Get screwed.

Thanks. Now having installed it a couple of months back, I'll actually try to figure it out. That's the motivation I needed.

TLDR: Apple is not handling the bugs and security issues well for it's OS releases. It does not mean that you should stop updating your software.

I don't know. I was a fan of what they were doing circa 2009-2014.

Big fan.

Haven't bought any computers since 2012 tho. And it looks to me like I am stuck with what I have, as what PC makers peddle is not meant for me.

If I was forced to, say for business reasons, to buy a bunch or even just one for the coming years, then in 2022 it would be Apple. Because they have memory and computing and bus on the same chip, and you can only beat that with a cluster. They even have a product that is a miniaturized computing cluster for a quarter of the price of one.

Apple is the greatest shit shoveler in PC-making right now. I'd go with Apple.

I can't disagree.

On the other hand, if thinking about the world as it is and not about the abstract, I'd have to say that none of what Apple did since 2015 has anything to make me upgrade my hardware.

So I have like 6-8 computers that are all more than 7 years old by now. I'm not looking for new hardware.

And looking at the software they've released in those years, I'm not looking forward to new software.

Methinks I ate myself, thanks Apple. You got me spoiled.

And you can't compete.

I could be a code mini-map thing. That would be perfectly reasonable.

I have a 2009 Mini connected to a Creative Labs 2.1 and it does.

But then, there's a Lenovo Yoga from like 2016 that plugs into a pair of SOLO7c and that doesn't.

Different stations I start with volume 55-85, they don't all have the same loudness (genre related, no doubt). But the use for radio is for me "fill space, drown out distractions, provide flow" so that I don't need it loud. I'm not actively listening to radio. I didn't choose the song. And that's the point.

Pretty sure overhead pilots will object heavily to that.

Vim starts in around 450ms with LSP and NeoVIM on RPi4/4gb/USB-SSD caliber of workstations. It will be 10x faster than VSCode on average, at anything.

Something like X11+mesa with AwesomeWM and Rofi+Kitty or Terminus running tmux will give you window/buffer management on crack to support your nVIM workflow.

Try that combo. It is a lean and mean combo.

The average engineering disposition might make you want for bigger, better workstation -- but you could, in fact, do 97% of engineering jobs with just X11, pdf reader, browser and a terminal. Jobs don't actually require you to run 100+ chrome tabs, install Steam, webcam in a video conference, etc. Those are there to endear you to the machine, so that part of you lives at work. The whole concept is not to the benefit of the employee.

what is life > what is life

what is what > what

life is life > life is life

is life life > life - this life

is what what > what

life is what > life is something

is life something > so we live

something is life > something to live

something to live > what life?

what life > what is life

something living is life > life

something living needs help? > mandatory in housing articles?

Define broadly said articles, please. > Determine the most common details.

Internet access preference? > See the Internet?

what is the issue leaving > Do not use

perhaps pack, write outside or read from outside, then live again > May -Della Pack, Outdoor, Read FUD

something i can do for living > What can I do?

live a life something > Live

That describes how it is, wherein there is no place for the above question. QED\

But, what if you're not using your perceptory/sensory consciously and can't even read that answer in the way it's formulated. Then you still have a question, still think it's a question about a subject.

Where is the subject though? Is there a subject?

The thing that goes "bad idea" when you're about to do a thing is a form of God. An expression of God.

Future you knows anything you choose to know right now. Is ready for anything you wish to be ready for, anywhere. Has anything you require, given time enough. And so, is basically a form of God as well. If future you doesn't love you then you've solved the only problem in philosophy in a surprising and quite lethal manner.

So, I will through alchemy transfigure your question into "what would you encounter that you rather avoid on your way to being God?"

Hm. It seems that to really want to, desire to avoid something I have to had been traumatized by it to some extent, prior. I will posit that aversion and attraction are two parts of what Buddha called "attachement", though there are more to it.

So if I wanted me to not have an experience, that (would) only happen if I had that experience, which means the experience has to have been had. English is very good at processes, relations maybe not so much. I don't know how to have the thought that breeds the question that you wrote down, OK.

Or are you asking me to make a choice for you? If so, then, emphatically: "DO LIVE YOUR OWN LIFE", none of your problems for me, thank you..

All of the time. Isn't this what computers are personal for? Doesn't everyone?

I've been using computers since ZX Spectrum days. I've seen all kinds of design-activity and design-philosophies. What's missing from today's design-thinking for me, is context-appropriate direction.

Some things should be flat, or more precisely - subdued. An Instagram photo page shouldn't be all buttons and underlined links, sure - the photo is the important part so that the rest should be subdued. But the settings page should be all skeumorphic buttons and links and dials and switches, that's what it's for.

It looks to me like there is an unhealthy tribalism invading design-thinking. As long as I have the correct ideology, no matter the context - my design is "good". Get on the flat-design bandwagon. Forget decades of UI research. Think in screenshots, doesn't matter if it's all jank and moves things in and out from under the user's fingers. Put everything on one screen, don't contextualize.

"I'm being paid to deliver", not to think through. To ship, not to test.

My designs require a gaming PC to run a document-like page, and don't scale down. "I'm designing for the future", it will all work out. Eventually. For some.

My tools and my education are a sliver of what a designer used to think about, so I can't really do anything about it anyway, that's just the way it comes out. You don't honestly expect me to learn about the systems and devices my users are running this on, do you? That would make me a coder, that is to say not a designer.

How did that happen?

How did being knowledgeable and well-rounded at your industry become rare? Business reasons? How did using a computer become constantly surprizing and never straightforward? Business reasons? Why do I have this and that humongous app just for one or two things it does, and now there's 200+ apps in there? Always waiting for something to load all that, just so I can do this one thing. Business reasons?

It's not business reasons. OSS is no better.

Maybe it's that the approach that got us to where we are, the moving fast and breaking things, keeping your nose down in your own corner isn't what will get us out of here?

I mean, my computer usage went down over the last 12 years, like 5x. I just don't want to. I'm more or less done with all of it.

It all feels like it got bolted on, and then bolted on, and then ducktaped around.

Terminals, mobile UI, desktop apps, the Web, games, appliances, work tools, control systems; ALL OF IT.

Sure, there's loads of it, and it's cheap. But there is still no choice, not really. This jank or that, it doesn't do it for me. I've checked out, more or less.

I stopped looking at new laptops, and when my phone breaks I pull a couple of old ones from the drawer and make me a working something. I'm not giving them my money, why would I? They got nothing I want. Apple, Google, Lenovo and the rest of them equally.

The last MS product I enjoyed using was MASM. That's until I found out about NASM.

There is no dumb car I can buy. Everything is finicky touch and not user-serviceable. Many things are so flimsy you can't lean on them at all.

But then, one has to understand that if the whole world around you seems to have lost the plot, chances are it's you. So, is it me, what do you think?

Because I can't handle it, I'm legit checking out.

Back then dogs would probably be preferable over the kind of fauna that would impose on you, even in the city. Besides they are a walking hand-towel, are they not.

Kinda similar to "look out" in English.

Plausible deniability does not work in Russia. If you dry your clothes on the balcony and happen to put a blue towel next to a yellow teeshirt expect a knocking down of your door and family inside. Rounding up of neighbours too.

Let me say something about what you wrote.

You're not telling us what you're thinking, or you're telling us something without thinking about it. What you posted reads like a collection of ideas and not an argument of any kind. The quality of individual constituents in that above collection seems suspect as well.

An argument might go something like: hypothesis, supporting evidence, prediction, theory, course of action.

What you wrote reads something like: prescription, direction, story, conjecture, prediction, dismissal of example to the contrary, proposed emotional response.