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 the best time to experiment is when cooking for one.
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 @user-883 
 
 nvim is nice because you can make addons or plugins or whatever in Lua, which
 is the easiest language in the world.
 
 I think VSCode sucks - it's literally a web browser that views your own code,
 and it's made by Microsoft so it probably SENDS it to them too. Probably.
 
 I like nvim because it's just Vim except you can use more plugins (the ones
 written in Lua)
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 I am not dependable.
 
 Do not rely on me.
 
 I'll never betray you, but I will eventually let you down.
 
 Such is the nature of a luck witch...
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 @user-217 
 
 photosynthesis
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 Picture this: BASH, except every command automatically generates an "undo"
 command which is the exact inverse of whatever the interpreter executed. These
 undo commands are stored in a file and you can move forward, backward, and jump
 around like you're a chronomancer.
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 -> file: fediverse/2015
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 Hey does anyone have a link to that paper where they used wifi waves on hacked
 insecure routers to "see" through walls and build a decent enough visualization
 of what a person's doing to be roughly equivalent to full-body-tracking in VR?
 I want to see if I can make it work for VR (with consent)
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 -> file: fediverse/2016
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 @user-889 
 
 I can help
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 @user-1129 
 
 Lemme guess, the C-suite executives have profit as their main goal, right?
 
 And they utilize their laboring force of citizens to generate profit which is
 given to the ~~crown~~ shareholders as tribute for their benevolent
 grace and favor bestowed upon *checks notes* the C-suite executives,
 right?
 
 Kinda sounds like taxation without representation to me. One sec, where's my
 darn musket I'm always leaving it somewhere strange like under the couch
 cushions or taped underneath my desk or hidden in the curtains right next to
 the window that has the best vantage point of the surrounding street.
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 @user-1132 
 
 The trick is to phrase your "divine insight" into a question. Like "don't you
 think that perhaps this strange intuition you're feeling might have something
 to do with the subconscious pattern matching capability humans developed over
 long years of differentiating tree-branches and snakes or uneven terrain and
 solid footing?"
 
 then if someone says "what the heck no I never thought that because I don't
 know anything about humans"
 
 then you say "oh well that's surprising, perhaps you should look into it"
 
 and then they come back later and say "how exactly did you know that
 information? It's not public knowledge"
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 @user-1112 
 
 It's a script I wrote that downloads and configures MTG-forge, the free and
 open source version of Magic. It's a little old, a little jank, but you get all
 the cards for free. All the way up to the most current expansions.
 
 Multiplayer is a bit harder than Arena, I think it's bugged or something, but
 it's great for testing out decks against a computer. If I like one then I'll
 usually buy it to play with my IRL friends.
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 @user-1135 @user-1103 @user-1074 
 
 Do tell
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 It isn't greedy to scrape the bottom of the pot when serving the last of a
 home-cooked meal.
 
 Just as it isn't greedy to expect the labor of our ancestors to provide a
 common decent standard of living.
 
 For our children's children's children, the ones we'll never meet, we work for
 tomorrow. But still, we should not labor in pain.
 
 There will come a day when our science and our progress may deliver us from our
 fate of fatigue, and perhaps that day may have come sooner if we had been
 better organized.
 
 But it will come when we build it. That bright future is waiting for us, and I
 do believe that we may live to see it ourselves.
 
 But for now, 9-5.
 For now, labor unionizing.
 For now, rice and beans.
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 @user-217 
 
 spidersilk masquerade
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 The unknown is scarier than the new. The more you learn, the more you
 experience, the less afraid you are.
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 @user-1074 
 
 Yeah, but, as it takes shape we can learn how to kill it.
 
 So, the more we learn of it's new shape, the more confident we can be.
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 @user-1074 
 
 Trump is not fascism, Trump is a face. Just as the map is not the territory, or
 the flag is not the nation.
 
 However, I think I understand how you're feeling. Please don't be frightened.
 When a deer is transfixed by headlights, it is sure to meet it's end.
 
 You understand the peril, perhaps not how it manifests but you know it's name.
 Now is the time to build bonds with people you can trust, and to learn how to
 get things done. The more you learn, the more capable you are, the less afraid
 you'll become.
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 @user-1074                                                                       │
 when it's time to fight, you'll know how. For now the best thing to do is to     │
 prepare in whatever way you want to contribute.                                  │
 I'm doing my best to find paladins. I think they are beacons of hope in a world  │
 of darkness.                                                                     │
 What you do is up to you. Be good, be honest, be true. Learn what you can and    │
 temper your soul. When it's time to fight, you'll know how.                      │
 The Democrats know the left is right. But they know the Right has the power to   │
 cause irreducible pain, should they be backed into a corner. I don't agree with  │
 their methods but their cause is just - prevent harm for as long as they can.    │
 And I get it, but that's not how you win wars. Appeasement only goes so far.     │
 I trust they will know who their friends are when they inevitably fail.          │
 queer people have been illegal before, we'll handle it. Don't worry. Nobody      │
 *wants* to relive that trauma, but here we are. It'll work out, trust            │
 me. Trust, but verify, and do what you can to ensure. We are on the same side,   │
 which is why I say "do more pushups"                                             │
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 @user-1074 
 
 if Biden loses this November I think we'll have bigger problems than mental
 health. Like, physical health for one.
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 Building community without structure is kinda like being a quest-giving
 non-player character in World of Warcraft.
 
 I don't mean that you stand around waiting for a player to wander nearby before
 shouting at them to do what you want. Not like that.
 
 Building community without structure is more like meeting someone randomly,
 knowing them for longer than a bus ride or a baseball game, and once you've
 decided that they're cool saying "hey there's someone you might like to meet."
 
 If they're into it, then talk to the other person, and see if they want to make
 a new friend. Try not to recommend someone who has a lot on their mind.
 
 If they hit it off, great!
 If not, oh well!
 
 Worst case scenario the coffee shop only sells two drinks.
 
 If you're gregarious enough, after a while you might even have enough people
 for a potluck. Just don't forget to keep adding, and eventually it'll start to
 feel more communal.
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 @user-1074 
 
 We've always been that way in their eyes. If they make it legal, nothing will
 change in how people think of you. They might be a bit bolder if there's fewer
 legal protections, but laws have always just been words.
 
 There are more of us than there are of them. If you have community, you'll feel
 safer. I know it's scary but we can get through it together.
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 If you automate art, there'll be no more artists.                                │
 If you automate capitalism, there'll be no more capitalists.                     │
 Perfect! That's what we want, right? So that we don't have to work jobs for      │
 them? They wouldn't exist, after all, if everyone went on strike.                │
 But that kind of coordination is hard. So why don't we just automate             │
 capitalism? It's certainly doable, a lot easier than automating art (which is    │
 impossible btw, but bear with me)                                                │
 If you want to automate capitalism, you must first automate Magic the Gathering. │
 There are several ways to win a match in Magic. You could reduce your            │
 opponent's life counter to 0, you could force them to draw from an empty deck,   │
 and you can give them 10 poison counters.                                        │
 These are KPI's, and developing a critical path to reach them will depend on     │
 the composition of the player's deck. Each deck will approach the conclusion of  │
 the game in a different way, and developing solutions to reach those goals is    │
 part of each player's responsibilities on their turn.                            │
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 if god had a name, it would be "melody"
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 @user-889 
 
 this post inspired me to make soup for myself. thanks, I haven't been eating
 well recently.
 
 sometimes you gotta be your own friend. "you in the future" is both you, and
 someone else, and if you're kind to her she'll appreciate it.
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 Most people who are assholes are just traumatized and raised to be aggressive    │
 or violent. You don't defeat them with anger or hatred, you heal them by being   │
 kind and removing their power until they accept the responsibility of wielding   │
 it.                                                                              │
 Some people though are just cruel, and they are quite rare. There's very few of  │
 them, and those that do exist typically are easy to find because they're often   │
 located in positions of power, like high-ranking politics, executives at cruel   │
 corporations, or other such places.                                              │
 They are drawn to these places because power allows them to wield their          │
 cruelty, and they are allowed to become these roles because cruelty defeats      │
 kindness.                                                                        │
 Kindness builds more, it creates, it generates, it improves, it brightens and    │
 it nourishes. But cruelty cuts and burns, it severs and it hardens, it           │
 dessicates the soul and corrodes the mind. It is seductive with it's promise of  │
 bounty, and it flatters your greed.                                              │
 To defeat it, supply kindness. Remove power. A simple formula, but quite         │
 difficult.                                                                       │
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 @user-1138 
 
 Just don't forget to update the location in the spreadsheet, they LOVE
 spreadsheets at Intel
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 @user-1141 
 
 gender police: "pardon me but do you have a license for that presentation? it
 doesn't appear to be completely sedimented in society. Also I'm a bastard"
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 @user-1144 
 
 when in doubt, attack from above.
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 Everytime I unblock reddit in /etc/hosts because I need a particular search
 result when looking for something obscure on the internet I end up spending
 like 3 hours scrolling. Howwwww do I lack this much self control T.T
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 A democracy only works if the losing side consents to being governed by the
 victor.
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 @user-1049 
 
 I haven't heard of that but I'll look into it! Honestly I'm more likely to
 write my own script, it shouldn't be too hard just altering the /etc/hosts file
 and then changing it back in ~15 minutes with a cron-job, as Nikky says down
 below. I like things that I make myself because then if it breaks I know who to
 blame! And who to go to to fix it. >: )
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 @user-1147 
 
 That's a great idea, I'm probably going to do that! I've had this problem like,
 7 or 8 times now and if I keep repeating myself they're going to take my
 programmer socks away.
 
 ... I don't actually have any programmer socks. I should get some. Maybe
 they'll just take my Thinkpad instead, that'd definitely be worse. D:
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