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@user-192
I'd agree with that. it's not designed for performance, not really. Mostly
ubiquity, which is it's strength. As long as something can be compiled to a
binary, BASH can execute it. That's why it's good, for accomplishing
*diverse* tasks that you cannot have the capacity to program yourself.
Scientific computations or cultural approximations, things that are beyond your
intuitive understanding as a human on this earth, but which compel and align
your thinking.
I'm sure someone could create a more intuitive or accessible syntax, but syntax
isn't the point - the capabilities, what you can do with it, has always defined
the purpose of programming paradigms. And BASH is (currently) at the forefront
of it's niche, the "terminal" language that handles "command line"
applications. Powershell is good, yes... but it's not as good as BASH. Neither
is Fish or... the one that starts with a z? zfs? something like that. The
acronyms are hard to keep straight sometimes.
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@user-192
Sounds like the tech was misapplied. If you are aware of the different software
approaches to solving problems, you can assign resources toward solving
particularly critical or important tasks. That's why engineers who are
*also* leaders or directors are sorta treated like, a "triple threat"
in musical theatre? Someone who can act, dance, and sing. Because as soon as
anyone has a single flaw, they are vulnerable. Evil only pushes your being
toward the things that are weak, obviously, why would an opposite seek toward
your meek?
... sorry sometimes I say strange things
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Layoffs are the perfect opportunity for a bunch of people who worked with the
same tech stack to sit down and think "what could we make together?"
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seasoning is more impactful when applied to bland ingredients because it
constrasts it's spark, it's most unique expression, upon the blank canvas that
is rice, or bread, or [bland thing]
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your bookshelf is a list of sources you can glance to. sources you've used for
solving mental problems, things that you've enjoyed and engaged with, things
that taught you lessons or brought you joy - things that you shared with a
friend or perhaps read time and time again, there in your vision to glance
towards.
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║ idea: BASH script that runs a game of Majesty through an emulator that included │
║ an API to interface with x11. You could set a game of this fantasy kingdom │
║ simulator as your background, and it would move the camera to show you │
║ interesting events. It could build resources as you directed, through double │
║ clicking an icon on your desktop or whatever. And the wallpaper would zoom to │
║ the part that seemed important. Just based on like, which heroes you clicked a │
║ button that was triggered by a program running in a qt wrapper. Or maybe if you │
║ said "notify me when this project is completed" or whatever, it'd zoom one of │
║ it's screens toward the goal that you'd designed - or perhaps it'd just be done │
║ by an AI. Either way, the result is that you've got an example of a wallpaper │
║ that displays my favorite game. │
║ │
║ gee wish I could make that. First I'd have to learn X, then probably get better │
║ at BASH, then I'd have to do some kind of input manipulation - probably maybe │
║ with C? that could interface with a machine learning algo │
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║ or like, a window that your window manager could window manage as it pleased. │
║ I'm thinking of like, i3 or dwm where you have "tiles" instead of "windows" you │
║ drag around. Really saves on screen real estate, but it lowers the ability of │
║ your screen to show width. Or height, depending on how you set it up, but since │
║ monitors tend to be wider than height-er (higher?) they (the users) tend to use │
║ setups that sacrifice width for visual density. │
║ │
║ anyway in such a setup the screen is divided into like, 3rds or 4ths, and each │
║ window takes up part of it. That way you can reference information from │
║ multiple sources without having to move anything but your eyes. Really helps │
║ with keeping it all in your head, because eyes are not reading information like │
║ a computer - they aren't using a cursor, it's not one bit of text at a time. │
║ Well, unless you're reading of course. But generally when looking at something │
║ it's a more parallel experience - shining through and forth from to our gods. │
║ Wow, cells in the body have an intere │
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║ socialism doesn't necessarily look like the DSA. It's more like, the bonds you │
║ share with others. Ideally you can trust your fellow countrymen, but that's not │
║ always a given. Alas, if only we could see that through cooperation (it is the │
║ key) we could reach further and build brighter? casting ourselves inward is the │
║ only other option, which leads to starvation and plight. What's the honest │
║ opinion, what's the goal of their dominion? Are they true to the heart [of the │
║ night/light/in their heart]? │
║ │
║ downside, there's no guarantee that your opposite is doing the same thing you │
║ are. So to more fairly determine your direction, you should be able to talk to │
║ them and co-re-align yourselves. │
║ │
║ is that why they don't let people in jail talk to each other? I mean, like, │
║ they could keep two people separate, and that way they'd never be able to talk │
║ to someone who they could trust. Not in a private setting, of course. Wow, such │
║ ethical confusions, such thoughts we dare to bring to bear - maybe save it for │
║ after the revolut │
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something something "those who study history are doomed to watch others repeat
it" or something like that
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║ Relinquish your privacy, and you deserve not a scrap of it. │
║ │
║ "those who would sacrifice a bit of [privacy] for a bit of [convenience] │
║ deserve neither" - babe-roham lincoln or thomas bettersons or something. │
║ │
║ ... │
║ │
║ EDIT: okay but so like c'mon it's the 21st century we live in a society │
║ │
║ yeah │
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║ there's a lot of paths we could take, that's the nature of circumstate. Depends │
║ on who's yearning for the future... true true okay how about we all share a │
║ singular belief - whatever a fully open sourced and non-biased machine decided │
║ was our best and most unified direction? then we could slowly build out │
║ accomodations that would provide for people who didn't agree with the same │
║ things that we did. Essentially, "we're in charge because we're the largest, │
║ but we're going to provide to you to the equal ratio that you're population │
║ represents." Essentially, we all can have what we want. AKA TRUE JUSTICE, like │
║ Adventure Time when Finn solves a problem by helping BOTH SIDES of the │
║ argument. (usa politics are not comprehensive). │
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maybe our most experienced and talented individuals should get together and
work on a project. We could just... see what they come up withlawful good
aligned project manager
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Makes sense, that way we know which direction to avoid.personally identified
"lawful evil" [person-above-project-manager]
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@user-470
sorry, I'll go to sleep now : )
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║ @user-470 │
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║ oh sorry I'll "en-longify" that for you: │
║ │
║ most monitors have a fixed resolution, somewhere between 720 pixels wide and │
║ 480 pixels high to 2560 by 1440 pixels high/wide. │
║ │
║ This is due to both the desire for humans to read left to right (ingrained in │
║ our minds at a very young age by learning to read) (or right to left, same │
║ direction) that we develop the desire for wide-screen monitors. │
║ │
║ Therefore, the windows of perception that we have unto this digital world are │
║ constrained (necessarily) to their own individual specifications. Of which, the │
║ property value "width" is more valued than "height". Because of this, we │
║ believe that computers are mistakenly re-acclimated - for everything is most │
║ efficient when it's aligned to the smallest bits of it's design. │
║ │
║ sorry, I like programming in C. Basically I'm very porous, and thinking about │
║ low level topics (like C programming) is an easy way to burn characters when │
║ there's only so many in the mastodon post that I can use to express my intents │
║ and tr │
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Remind me again why we need computers that are so mind numbingly fast that we
can't possibly hope to understand their entire stack?
Oh yeah, so we aren't able to understand their stack. How could I forget.
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║ │ │ │
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║ │ │ │
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why don't we just demand backwards compatibility of our software as a
requirement?
ah because that would reduce demand. Nevermind that it's more flexible,
nevermind that we could accomplish so much more with it - it's expendable
[expensive] because it reduced market penetration. Not because of the
technology, because of the deluded and self-perpetuating
mechanicosmic-mechanicommunication that designed our lives. It's name is
capitalism, and it thrives where we survive, so that's good enough to
maintain-em? Sure why not. Brb sleeping for 8 hours. Or playing games.
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@user-473
you shouldn't be looking directly at the ground?
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@user-473
oh, what did you have in mind? : )
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there's a difference between *designing software* and *using
software*. Some things can be made, and then saved for another day when
their implementations may be accomplished more ethically. It's okay to say
"let's leave this as 'okay' and work on the next thing we've chosen."
Check out this piece of C code I wrote last night:
it doesn't compile, it's not finished, but I wrote it as-is
[pretend like it was called "main.c" instead of "main.txt" - had to change it
because mastodon thinks it's an invalid file]
[actually .txt didn't work, try .png]
[hmmm it realized it wasn't a valid png file, okay try screenshotting the code,
there's only 300 lines]
[sure glad there's only 300 lines]
[too bad it won't let you send .zip]
[won't let me name it main.png, presumably because they already have a
failed-verified version on their machine. will rename to main-src.png instead]
![sorry, when I pasted the source code in it was negative fourteen thousand, six hundred and thirty one characters. Phew that's too many. basically it's a C source code file with a lot of comments left in... odd locations. They details ideas the author has had about the tech industry and all of creation, and with it a song is woven of truth and liberation. We'll see where life brings us, but we know it's just ours for a moment, so let's carry forth on our own torms [terms, but pronounced as "dorms" for some reason?]](../media/5df7196ebd179284.png "sorry, when I pasted the source code in it was negative fourteen thousand, six hundred and thirty one characters. Phew that's too many. basically it's a C source code file with a lot of comments left in... odd locations. They details ideas the author has had about the tech industry and all of creation, and with it a song is woven of truth and liberation. We'll see where life brings us, but we know it's just ours for a moment, so let's carry forth on our own torms [terms, but pronounced as \"dorms\" for some reason?]")
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@user-475
perhaps you're right : )
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Why would we say not to divide by zero? We literally do it every time we use
the percent sign smh [silly]
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@user-473
flight simulators, being representations of real physical interactions, can
also bring truths of our lives up and to the light. It's interesting how
certain mechanics seem intertwined in our own personal dynamics, but what is
the point of un-delight? We're probably fine with what we've got, this life is
more than enough, let's cherish and celebrate what we've all got. only then can
we see to the future, when our goals and purposes seem oh-so-brighter, and
that's not an easy thing to trust. But with time, and perseverance we (as a
kind) might surface through the turbulence, and onward we carry our selves and
ourselves to our [new port/home/destination/future-pre-dispositio-nation]
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@user-478
uh-oh, I should watch out D:
[it's probably fine]
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posts and replies: the superior way to view a performance
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[you should play some games]
(oh! yes I like games, they're very much fun ^_^ ^_^)
{world of warcraft? I've got my own server, I designed it myself. There's a lot
of cool things about it and waaaaaay more that I'd like to add. Problem is,
building things is haaaaaard. If only we had an AI machine to do it for us,
instead of waiting for a team that was assigned capital by capital to
accomplish the destination that they deseigned as perhaps to our desired
location (mainly, the propagation and promulgation of profit-ous lust)}
sorry the witch started talking halfway through that idk where exactly anyway
point is I'm going to play WoW now brb
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https://youtu.be/toeicPBlZQM
2 minutes later, as if I had prepared it beforehand
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it's usually good to have some beer on hand. Just in case someone else should
need it.
Same with a lot of things, like common medicines and dietary requirements.
Frankly each of us should have a well-stocked pantry, tended to by a
quartermaster who knew what held worth. But hey that's just team dynamics, what
can I say that's with more mirth?
[okay fine I'll be sillier, I promise]
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bonus points if you can guess which game I'm implementing
https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111735963109819158
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The most extreme of a belief are those who are most predictable. See an example
of an evil person? They're indicitave of a trend that reaches far beyond in
increasingly minusculest of doses. a trend or preference given manifestation by
the most extreme implementation - it works also for good and other stuff too.
Like "hope" or "honor" or "[frankly there's a lot, it's a long list -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tYflj8Tuj8
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