zagaberoo

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zagaberoo, (edited )

Not that it’s a good excuse, but isn’t that true? Investors ultimately elect executive management.

The abstraction between investor ownership and company management is one of the most damaging structures ever built.

zagaberoo,

That’s what I get for not using autocorrect 😆

zagaberoo,

There’s a bit more subtlety to it than that. The PC architecture that dominates today is a direct descendant of the 1981 IBM Personal Computer, which was made to run DOS and later Wondows. The cultural association makes sense in that context.

zagaberoo,

I feel like part of the impetus for the name change, and perhaps the extreme hype to some extent, came from trying to distance themselves from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

zagaberoo,

It’s a good filter: any Canadians who aren’t immediately put off by that are easy prey.

zagaberoo,

I just saw an OwO scrawled in a cargo bin on a commercial flight last week myself.

zagaberoo,

No need to exfiltrate the whole video stream: extract features and call them ‘telemetry’.

zagaberoo,

It does happen among Esperanto speakers; parents whose common language is Esperanto is a major source of what few native speakers there are.

zagaberoo,

Isn’t one of the major selling points of neovim that stuff like that is supposed to be easier?

zagaberoo,

“Bones, help me, I’m injured!”

“true”

zagaberoo,

I can’t help it, bio-pic just sounds dumb to me :(

zagaberoo,

Well, YHWH, but hopefully he doesn’t begrudge us picking some reasonable vowels so we can say it.

zagaberoo,

What got you onto Linux so early? Wasn’t it much less practically useful than BSDs at that point?

zagaberoo,

Horga’hn!

zagaberoo,

I dislike the common definition of sci-fi as science-flavored fantasy. It’s just not a useful distinction to me vs plain ‘fantasy’. What I love the most about sci-fi is the exploration of what it means to be human by projecting the implications of drastically improved technology. All a matter of taste, of course.

I’m curious, though: why should a kryptonite explanation be any more sciency than mutant DNA? I see one as an entirely unexplained magic rock, and the other as an extension of the scientific triumph of understanding genetics (plus hilariously and deliberately misunderstanding evolution). X-Men is very nearly sci-fi to me; if mutants were a human creation it would be.

zagaberoo,

Perhaps not, interesting example. It’s more of a political drama overall, though it’s been ages since I read it.

The space travel is just a drop-in for different countries, really. The examination of humanity doesn’t extend specifically from the implications of advanced technology; I feel like it could be pretty easily re-framed into a mideval drama about a fief rich in (magical?) opium poppies.

zagaberoo,

Absolutely, genres are muddy bullshit. That’s what makes debates like these so fun.

Looking at things from the perspective of the characters is interesting, but I struggle to imagine how kryptonite would be ‘science’ even in-universe. I guess ‘technology’ is really what I mean, and kryptonite is a natural element. That’s how I see it. There is some engineering around kryptonite-based anti-superman weapons, but that’s ultimately ancillary to the philosophical meat of the series.

With Superman being a lens on geoplolitics, it’s simply the fact that he’s a natural being and not a human engineering accomplishment that makes it solidly not sci-fi to me. Many if not most great works examine the human condition to some extent no matter the genre.

zagaberoo,

I am not, it’s easy to find examples where tabs first then spaces breaks down.

zagaberoo,

Yes, but keep reading. That strategy is a pain to maintain especially across editors.

zagaberoo,

Just fine. The built-in file browser combined with a tags file works very well for project navigation in most circumstances.

zagaberoo,

One thing I haven’t heard others mention is fun. The better I get with vim, the more fun I have applying my skills to work efficiently.

I also love that I can use it with a phone keyboard and still remain highly efficient. Being able to SSH into my server on the go and not be terribly hampered in my admin and editing is pretty amazing.

Ubiquitous, powerful, flexible, lightweight, fun: it’s a pretty good mix of positives in the tradeoff for vim.

zagaberoo,

There is always VSCodium for the second issue.

zagaberoo,

I’m blessed to be the kind of pleb who is happy with built in DACs and $9 Panasonic earbuds. Headphone jack for life!

zagaberoo,

Ne havas fratino, nur filino!

zagaberoo,

Because people value working from home a lot, so a company doesn’t have to offer as much pay and they’re still likely to find interested, qualified candidates.

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