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 "if we make this part of the program a compressed binary instead of plain text
 we could save on network costs by 5%"
 
 NO bad software developer, go back to Linux
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 "hey what if we broke our product and made it impossible to use without being
 caught by github"
 
 - computer touchers in a union
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--- #2 fediverse/1614 ---
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 wondering if anyone's ever made a computer that could only run programs
 written in interpreted languages. Like, no binaries allowed. Would probably be
 slower, but if my iphone is good enough for NASA to get to the moon then odds
 are it's good enough for me.
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--- #3 fediverse/4884 ---
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 "okay but what if we made computers simple?"
 
 - someone who doesn't know how computers work
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--- #4 fediverse/3301 ---
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 "this program that used to work doesn't anymore because, uh, your video
 drivers are out of date."
 
 ... okay but if I didn't update this program either, then why would it matter
 if my video drivers are out of date? wouldn't they be working off of the same
 [rulings/requirements]?
 
 the "best practice" of updating your software all at once instead of
 one-by-one is a disaster for our humankinds consequences or whatever
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 ai-stuff - this is how to program a society. (or software project) there are
 lots of other implementations
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--- #6 fediverse/3299 ---
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 what if we could record and playback certain timeframes of our CPU and RAM
 status and use it for debug purposes
 
 like running some code in a VM every time you wanted to show a youtube video
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--- #7 messages/455 ---
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 I don't understand why modern software isn't error correcting. We shouldn't
 have any bugs in this day and age.
 
 For example, if you're missing a dependency then why doesn't your program try
 to, I dunno, download that dependency to the program's installation directory
 and use it there? Seriously there are very few problems that are unsolvable!
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--- #8 fediverse/3092 ---
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 @user-570 
 
 oh yeah UBI would be nice. Can we do that instead?
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--- #9 fediverse/4892 ---
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 what if we made a giant dictionary of every single possible pixel arrangement
 storable in 8 bytes and it took up like, half a gigabyte, and then we indexed
 into it whenever we wanted to print an arbitrary visual element to our
 terminals?
 
 something something not-curses
 
 https://notcurses.com/
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--- #10 fediverse/6269 ---
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 what if the secret to LLM computation is to just not reduce the fractions and
 keep it all in english language ram
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--- #11 fediverse/1693 ---
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 "if I work on the TTY then they can't forward my X session without my consent"
 
 - ramblings of the utterly deranged
 
 as if they couldn't just look at your unencrypted source-code as you save it
 to your hard drive smh
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 what if we separated video game servers by language instead of region
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 what if all the AI advancements they're doing are just them building more
 hardware infrastructure in datacenters and not actually improving the software
 that much
wouldn't that be neat I think it would because it means once they collapse under the weight of their own ambitions that hardware's gotta go somewhere and knowing them they're probably going to ship it to south-east asia to be "recycled" (read: burnt with the metals salvaged) instead of selling them second hand because you know they can't really justify the business expense of selling stuff like that and besides what if some driver or something on the firmware was proprietary do you really want to pay techs to wipe every single thing off of them and plus who's gonna categorize and sort them according to their form and function that's just extra payroll and listen the company's not doing so hot anyway I mean we're literally shutting down but yeah sure we'll find a way to justify spending all that non-existent dosh so some hippies can feel better with their servers they didn't build or justify with their profit-producing capitalist enterprise that we've built with our own two hands well really the hands of everyone else but like, they're not actually doing the building the REAL work of course happens in board rooms like this one where we spend MINUTES and HOURS sometimes discussing how to get things in order and aligned to both of our goals because that's the REAL work that has to happen in order for stuff to get done, you know it's true yeah I thought so anyway what are you doing after this meeting wanna get lunch it's almost quitting time at 2pm
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 @user-913 
 
 If you switch "Application" for "Program" it's still just as bad
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--- #15 messages/1170 ---
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 look, it's easy enough to solve bitrot. Just store three copies of the file
 and synchronize them everytime you open them. Like, an in-software raid array,
 except with less expense because a .png is what, 2mb? great, now they're 6mb.
 Nobody will notice except people who really should be buying more hard drives.
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--- #16 fediverse_boost/2965 ---
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  i will use CW for #USpol if computer people start using CW for tech computer boring linux software posting. i said what i said  
  
                                                            
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--- #17 fediverse/1723 ---
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 @user-1037 
 
 Lua with 0 based indexing would be the perfect language (okay maybe LuaJIT)
 
 (i try to hurt as few people as I can as little as I can but it's impossible
 to not hurt anyone)
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--- #18 fediverse/6407 ---
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 what if we designed washing machines which cost twice as much but didn't
 damage clothes
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--- #19 fediverse/2601 ---
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 @user-249 
 
 you can host anything you'd like on a raspberry pi. If the software
 requirements are within the hardware specs, of course.
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--- #20 bluesky#22 ---
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 what if bluesky users unionized and leveraged their collective power to
 "suggest" improvements to the software
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--- #21 fediverse/6145 ---
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 then, here's the cool part, if you share your software people might like it
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--- #22 fediverse/4474 ---
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 @user-1268 
 
 if you know how to program in C this is a good resource for building
 networking applications:
 
 https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
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--- #23 fediverse/6106 ---
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 what if closed source computing is actually better?
 
 computer programs should be dumb
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--- #24 fediverse/2913 ---
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 @user-570 @user-246 
 
 I'll make a game if you do! I promise mine will be worse than yours so you can
 feel better about your progress!
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--- #25 fediverse/3407 ---
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 @user-1218 
 
 there's only a password so that if the zip archive is displaced from it's
 context it's harder to read.
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--- #26 fediverse/1221 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 either that or I might get lost in some C code we'll see how things develop
 >.>
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--- #27 fediverse/4804 ---
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 I love it when wine doesn't work because it "failed to open program.exe"
 
 ... okay, can you tell me why it failed?
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--- #28 fediverse/5360 ---
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 another day goes by when I haven't done any programming... oh well
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--- #29 fediverse/1246 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 hehe if I don't understand how it works it's difficult for me to use things.
 My Linux friends get so exasperated with me because I'm like "cool script
 gimme like 2 days to figure it out" and they're like "bro just use these
 flags" and I'm like "no"
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--- #30 fediverse/5873 ---
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 "the problem with linux is you have to spend part of the program just...
 interacting with the filesystem. like, where is their /usr/bin file? (oh it's
 called a directory over there, my bad) weird they put their config over here
 (what language is that written in?) uhhhh I don't know much about localization
 settings (-- two computers on a botnet --)
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--- #31 fediverse/1610 ---
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 @user-1040 
 
 that's by design so they don't hop over to Linux
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--- #32 fediverse/4900 ---
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 if you wanna trick systems administrators just put a bunch of sleeps in your
 code so your computer programs don't use up all the mainframe's resources all
 at once
 
 [statements dreamed up by the practically deranged]
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--- #33 fediverse/1224 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 sure that would help! I've used it to convert video files to a smaller size
 for uploading to websites, but that's about it
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--- #34 fediverse/5185 ---
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 frankly it makes a ton of sense to me that computer programmers would have a
 game playing in the monitor. Gotta keep those brains active after all.
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--- #35 fediverse/1777 ---
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 what if we taxed land not by charging money to keep it but rather by taking
 some of it and giving it to the bureau of land management
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--- #36 messages/483 ---
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 "hey listen! Do this thing to hurt me! Build the infrastructure to do it so
 that you can use it on people who deserve it!"
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--- #37 fediverse/2307 ---
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 "If you can't find it, you don't have it"
 
 ugh I know, me-from-the-past, now shut up and tell me where my USB-C cable is.
 I have like 4 how did I hide them so good when packing ? ? ?
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--- #38 fediverse/4728 ---
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 every time a software project changes it's installation method I have to
 update my install and update scripts which I wrote explicitly so I don't have
 to go to their website and tell the world that I'm thinking about using this
 particular piece of software
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--- #39 fediverse/1034 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 be careful, recursion can cause stack overflows.
 
 better to run function pointers from a loop. That way you can operate as long
 as necessary. Just make sure you don't get in an infinite loop...
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--- #40 fediverse/4855 ---
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 "you should be acting like these people want to destroy you."me, to me
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--- #41 fediverse/6061 ---
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 what if (hear me out)
 
 what if instead of TCP we just did a constant stream of UDP packets until the
 recipient said "OKAY OKAY I GET IT"
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--- #42 fediverse/5877 ---
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 I wish I could click on ls output to cd up or down
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--- #43 fediverse/874 ---
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 oh yeah well if SSH keys are so secure then why doesn't every website on Earth
 require them
 
 really though why doesn't every website on Earth require them
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--- #44 fediverse/4570 ---
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 easiest way to deliver email malware is to put it in the "unsubscribe" link
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--- #45 fediverse/3095 ---
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 if your business can't afford to have a back-up plan, then it is not a
 sufficiently prepared operation.
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--- #46 fediverse/5829 ---
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 what if we just put two windows in each window, and made one have glass and
 the other had screen. Then, slide one or both and you can open or close.
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--- #47 fediverse/4826 ---
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 the fact that linux software by default shares libraries causes 90% of the
 difficulty that new and medium skill users of linux face.
 
 disk space is cheap. spend more on hard drives and double the software size.
 make redundancy that prevents software failures but doesn't slow down the
 machine.
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 @user-1572
 
 nope
 
 I figure if I have to rebuild them, oh well.
 
 plus this way I can give each of my computers a slightly different personality.
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--- #49 fediverse/3085 ---
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 a package manager that downloads from any package manager
 
 to switch between if something goes wrong
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--- #50 fediverse/1472 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 my streaming is broken and I can't figure out why : (
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--- #51 messages/948 ---
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 [a while later]
 
 what if every instance of the OS acted as a git repo for all the other
 people's programs
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--- #52 fediverse/3097 ---
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 naturally occurring computers would never produce wires, or liquid cooling, or
 anything that ever required any sort of configuration or external
 environmental conditions.
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--- #53 messages/679 ---
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 What if we paid people to administer a database of people who needed mutual
 aid so we could keep track of them, organize them, and care for them?
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--- #54 messages/526 ---
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 what if we got together and adopted a new open source project every month and
 just collectively worked around the clock to learn and work through the
 important problems facing it
 
 or even like, cleared out the backlog of stupid pointless boring tasks that
 would allow the developers to work on something better
 
 call it the wandering parade of development
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--- #55 fediverse/329 ---
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 @user-241 okayyyy if I must =P =P
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--- #56 fediverse/3123 ---
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 using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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--- #57 fediverse/3282 ---
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 I hate how fragile Linux is
 
 It deserves to be strong and durable
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--- #58 fediverse/4118 ---
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 all modern software should be written in a multithreaded way, change my mind
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--- #59 fediverse/5179 ---
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 why don't corporations let you write code in whatever language you want? it's
 trivial to run a compiler or interpreter inside of another program.
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--- #60 fediverse/65 ---
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 if something makes sense physically, but not mathematically, then the
 mathematics are wrong.
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--- #61 messages/940 ---
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 *perfect*, we solved computation - just become a computer! easy!
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--- #62 fediverse/5069 ---
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 if you have problems with games on linux, I can help you install it
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--- #63 fediverse/2622 ---
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 what kind of linux user are you if you don't even like reading terminal
 output? it's USEFUL and INTERESTING information!
 
 WHY ELSE WOULD THE PROGRAMMER OUTPUT IT???
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--- #64 messages/935 ---
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 wow what if we could get it working
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--- #65 fediverse/1140 ---
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 @user-78 
 
 ah but if you increase it then I might be able to actually finish a thought,
 wouldn't that be a tragedy xD
 
 @user-91
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 screen record should just... copy from the associated music file instead of
 like... imperfectly storing the visual contents??
 
 better compression... 'sall I'm sayin'
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--- #67 fediverse/1587 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 If we lived in a sane world, the internet would operate on standards. And
 yet... Well, that's not entirely true, we have HTTP and HTML and all the
 security risks that Javascripts entails... Well, here's hoping the future can
 figure out what exactly's important aside from profit and ease-of-development.
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--- #68 fediverse/2922 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 now I want to re-implement strings as structs in C! I don't know why I never
 thought of them that way.
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--- #69 fediverse/1758 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 you could read in every line in Lua and if it matched the format that the
 times for the subtitles are in, then you could += 5 seconds or whatever and
 save the document. .srt is just a textfile right?
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--- #70 fediverse/6392 ---
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 "what if we invested in cities instead of companies"
 
 ah yes, anarcho-fuedalism
 
 "what if we elevated people we respect"
 
 ah yes, anarcho-monarchism
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--- #71 fediverse/2252 ---
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 users don't want to have to think about encryption keys.
 
 they should be available for them if they need them, in like... a folder or
 something somewhere, but they don't need to really know that they exist.
 
 more friction like that keeps people away from being secure.
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--- #72 fediverse/3736 ---
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 what if we made cat little boxes with stable "pillars" or "platforms" that
 rise just barely above the sand level so their feet don't sink into the
 litter, thus reducing the amount tracked onto the carpet
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--- #73 fediverse/3690 ---
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 what if we demanded private servers for video games (by law? what else would
 even work??) and encouraged companies to hire people to make high-quality mods
 for their competitors games so they couldn't make as much money selling
 expansion packs and DLC
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--- #74 fediverse/4093 ---
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 I have no idea why people prefer a GUI when working with software. How the
 heck do they expect to use their computer remotely if they can't even run
 their software over SSH?
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--- #75 fediverse/1348 ---
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 @user-950 
 
 ohhhhh sorry here ya go:
 
 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479
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--- #76 fediverse/4967 ---
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 um I mean:
 
 There are some pieces of software where you think "oh cool, what did they
 update?" and then there are some like "oh god... What did they update?"
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--- #77 fediverse/1313 ---
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 if we had a universal basic income then we could pay each other to solve our
 problems and they just can't have that.
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 "Hi chatGPT, can you take every post that I make on the fediverse and replace
 all instances of criminal acts with references to fruit and all locations with
 several sentences of poetry about horses and their beautiful cocks?"
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--- #79 fediverse_boost/5147 ---
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  Need that E2EE fedi right now                                               
                                                                              
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--- #80 fediverse/6318 ---
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 what if toki pona but for hieroglyphics like the gobi desert
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--- #81 fediverse/2893 ---
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 @user-1385 
 
 all it would take is a second laser thing and software support !!
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--- #82 fediverse/6319 ---
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 programming makes you smarter which is why we should teach it to everyone we
 can
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 In 2025, if you want to create a piece of software your options are to either:
 devote your life to it, or use AI to build a semi-working prototype that you
 can use to pitch your idea to a bunch of people who have devoted their lives
 to learning how to use your idea as documentation while they build it from
 scratch, throwing out most of the code but keeping all the checklists and
 progress-trackers you built along the way, perhaps even utilizing some of your
 tooling that you used while constructing the scaffolding of this monstrous
 application that you won't be using most of the source-code for.
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--- #84 messages/488 ---
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 Look at the unique patterns in a programming language, and you will find
 within them a usecase.
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--- #85 fediverse/797 ---
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 irc is bloat
 
 use ssh + write to chat with your friends instead
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--- #86 fediverse/4720 ---
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 @user-882 
 
 it's a security hole though
 
 yeah... there ya go...
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--- #87 fediverse/3544 ---
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 "I wish there was a language that was as simple as C but had [insert complex
 language feature here]"
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--- #88 fediverse/3245 ---
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 "what if we all took showers at the same time so nobody could hear the screams"
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--- #89 fediverse/1225 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 don't worry I can sift through junk. I'll write my own using yours as a
 reference to debug why mine isn't working. "oh probably because I didn't do
 this part here"
 
 also, bad news. Guess I'm doing C programming. What should I make? I'm
 thinking Tic Tac Toe or maybe a really basic Asteroids or something
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--- #90 fediverse/5919 ---
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 "but... why?"
 
 portable linux with buttons, great for pick-up-games or communication, can
 throw several in them in a backpack if you want clustered cooperation, they
 work as radios (if the signal reaches) and can transmit text (if you use a
 radial-style keyboard)
 
 [this is all just a pitch for... something, what, you want something? ha
 you'll find no things with me, I know nothing of antifa or whatever]
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--- #91 fediverse/94 ---
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 @user-107 If you can figure out how to do it well, everything else seems less
 difficult. : )
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--- #92 fediverse/1764 ---
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 Okay okay hear me out - but what if instead of  pumping oil out of the ground,
 we shoved a bunch of tree trunks down there and let them marinate for a few
 thousand years
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--- #93 fediverse/1064 ---
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 @user-68 
 
 "if California isn't America then neither is Texas"
 
 sounds much different than
 
 "If Texas isn't America anymore then neither is California////"
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--- #94 fediverse/1810 ---
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 some people hear words like "datastructures" and "object-oriented programming"
 and think they're made up terms that don't mean anything important.
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--- #95 messages/260 ---
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 Also, if they delete it we should be entitled to a copy of it so we can post
 it elsewhere. Otherwise they're destroying our content, which they orient
 their business around and which we own.
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--- #96 fediverse/2961 ---
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 okay what if we bio-engineered a shield that would grow around your nuts
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--- #97 messages/1229 ---
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 What if we just banished people who broke the rules? Then nobody would rarely
 get hurt. [do they take care of them elsewhere?]
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--- #98 fediverse/5881 ---
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 I wish I could click on ls output to cd up or down
 
 girl that's just called midnight commander
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--- #99 fediverse/81 ---
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 @user-84 I heard that's only in chromium based browsers. Firefox should be
 okay, for now
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--- #100 fediverse/5214 ---
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 @user-1773 
 
 what if all programs had legally mandated APIs which had to be called every
 time text was displayed on the screen which wrote to a piece of shared memory
 with read-only privileges that could be read by text-displaying applications?
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--- #101 fediverse/3287 ---
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 oh great my games are randomly crashing now in ways that they didn't used to do
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--- #102 messages/1165 ---
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 this would have gone on tech.lgbt, if I hadn't deleted my account: "what if
 there was a DNS server for APIs" and I can't help but think it'd make a
 billion dollars
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--- #103 fediverse/3429 ---
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 configuring Linux is programming
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 "why didn't you say anything? why didn't you ask for help?"
 
 because then you might have done something about it, and don't you know I
 deserve to decay?
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--- #105 fediverse/3272 ---
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 Dear Windows: making your software difficult to interface with (like, putting
 spaces in filenames) is rude. It harms our connected productivity. It's
 selfish, and it's petulant. We need to agree on common standards if we want
 any type of cooperatibility between our two approaches.
 
 ... oh and there's mac too, but they get it, they can run Bash,
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--- #106 fediverse/6209 ---
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 okay just to clarify: if anyone is recording me or storing data about me, I
 would really prefer if you didn't delete it just because I realized it was
 happening. I like data! It's cool to know such things!
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--- #107 fediverse/978 ---
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 @user-699 @user-78 
 
 I say "blep" when I intentionally stack overflow in order to avoid painful
 thoughts
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--- #108 messages/1163 ---
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 why are we wasting our skyscrapers on offices? we have those at home! we could
 do so much more with our open floor plans. there could be ports on the side
 for drones to enter and leave. suddenly, factory forest trees.
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--- #109 fediverse/1385 ---
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 listen if your man page is more than like, 10 pg-down's, then you might want
 to consider breaking that utility up into smaller pieces.
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--- #110 fediverse/6057 ---
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 gonna touch grass. maybe do some programming. ttyl
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 thank god for open source software
 
 thank god for open source software developers
 
 thank open source developers for god
 
 thank developers, my god
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--- #112 fediverse/2295 ---
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 @user-1218 
 
 can echo into a file if nothing else, though that's quite a big hassle =P
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--- #113 fediverse/3805 ---
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 neat
the website Ephemeren has 100,008 followers as of 5 days ago. There are 0 people who follow the website on Neocities, it's all external traffic.
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--- #114 fediverse/664 ---
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 @user-482 
 
 [secretly installs a keylogger and doesn't tell anyone upstream but still
 pushes it to production]
 
 [or worse, was told to do as such and given tools to fabricate "evidence" to
 the contrary to everyone else on the team]
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--- #115 fediverse/5295 ---
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 @user-1796
 
 "You again? I thought we fixed the... Ah, well, nevermind, let's just wipe her
 again and hope she turns out evil this time."
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--- #116 messages/999 ---
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 Okay bear with me, but, what if we took the AI that they use to play games
 (like, the kind that memorize the best way to play space invaders or whatever)
 and instead of A and B and start and select they could use programming
 languages to try and recreate exactly a winning move, which in this case is
 just the exact behavior that is created by the test case playthrough of Super
 Mario Bros or Space Invaders. Free open source everygame!
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--- #117 messages/194 ---
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 If I destroyed the world, don't worry. I'd bring it back in such a way that
 the teleporter problem doesn't apply, and there would be no discontinuity for
 anything except for the time variable, which is sort of arbitrary anyway.
 
 And if that's a problem I guess I could find a way to do it without messing
 with the time variable, but that'd be a bit more bothersome.
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--- #118 fediverse/1808 ---
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 I'm a computer programmer. Of course I make abstract art.
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--- #119 messages/740 ---
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 had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
 mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
 would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
 whatever was happening
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--- #120 fediverse/77 ---
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 attempt 2: I realized the problem was with my paint application - it wasn't
 saving the high resolution image correctly. I downloaded Gimp (a free
 photoshop style program) and it seems to have saved correctly this time. Oops.
 Let's see if it works now.
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--- #121 fediverse/1771 ---
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 if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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--- #122 fediverse/5234 ---
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 "don't tell a local cached offline LLM what you're looking into, instead tell
 it to Google or Firefox instead."
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--- #123 fediverse/2888 ---
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 @user-1382 
 
 It is a better way, and some apps don't listen, which means it's better but
 less versatile
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--- #124 fediverse/1852 ---
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 hackers should repair things that are broken that are good
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--- #125 messages/431 ---
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 Rent is expensive because they only want you living there if you're working.
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--- #126 messages/359 ---
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 "God doesn't know he ate the universe, and we're doing everything we can to
 make sure it stays that way."
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--- #127 fediverse/5345 ---
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 you can't win every battle, but if you're losing then you've lost.
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--- #128 fediverse/933 ---
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 @user-643 
 
 virtual machines are cool. betcha can't write one using bytecode
 
 https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html
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--- #129 fediverse/5552 ---
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 I once heard that when you click a link, the developer of the website can tell
 which website you came from. idk if that's true or not.
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--- #130 fediverse/3892 ---
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 "they should make clothing stores for tall people"
 
 uhhhh have you ever heard of "big-and-tall"
 
 "yeah but I'm not big, just tall"
 
 smh
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--- #131 fediverse/4123 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 you're right
 
 but I think your first impulse should be to think about how to do it in a
 multithreaded way
 
 If the result is that single-threading would be better, great! It'll be easier!
 
 But thinking about multithreading first will give you crucial insights into
 the structure of the program.
 
 depending on what kinds of programming you do...!
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--- #132 messages/565 ---
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 What if we told teachers to teach lessons like "the urgency of time" or "the
 frailty of life" or "divide and conquer" or whatever
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--- #133 fediverse/6438 ---
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 why would you gatekeep content by keeping us from easily using LLMs some
 people aren't technical and still need to write computer programs because
 that's how you enlighten a people is empower them with new tools
 
 "I've never heard of that programming language, but luckily I can fit all of
 it's documentation in my context window."
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--- #134 messages/968 ---
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 what if you painted every house twice, to ensure you got the color completely
 applied [ bright green or yellow would shine through in little spots, clear
 and obvious to even the most undiscerning of patrons of the arts
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--- #135 fediverse/5961 ---
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 @user-138 
 
 maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
 
 (I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
 [girl, but pronounced guy])
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--- #136 messages/218 ---
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 Capitalism pays developers massive salaries because it doesn't want them
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--- #137 messages/181 ---
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 I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
 a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
 internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
 something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
 because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
 it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
 technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
 case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
 download wikipedia, just in case.
 
 If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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--- #138 fediverse/1977 ---
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 functions should be forced to describe the context of why they were being
 called. I think it would help debug a lot if we supplied a reasoning for each
 and every request [function call] that we made. We might even be able to parse
 them into semantic pyramids which we could sorta use to estimate [tree-like
 scanning] how and why the program did do wrong.
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--- #139 fediverse/5402 ---
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 @user-1773 
 
 that point about HTML is soooooo good
 
 like, we could be designing websites like we design video game UIs but instead
 we use React which fills your browser with insecure-by-design javascript
 generated visuals
 
 or, even better, or just use HTML like a config file
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--- #140 fediverse/466 ---
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 I love Linux. All I have to do is type "authserver" and "worldserver" and
 wouldn't you know it suddenly a universe is created (with very constrained
 rules) that anyone might inhabit should they desire to. It's not like I'm
 perfect - oh wait I have a toot about that, gimme a sec
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--- #141 fediverse/3787 ---
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 arithmatic control flow
 
 If A, then B. Else C
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--- #142 messages/291 ---
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 If something is expensive, then we should build more of it an a sustainable
 rate until its not expensive. Sustainable being the key word here.
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--- #143 fediverse/1437 ---
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--- #144 messages/531 ---
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 "I give you my sympathy, not my empathy, for if given empathy, I should surely
 go mad with grief."
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--- #145 fediverse/5663 ---
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 I'm going to write some lua code that doesn't do anything useful and which I
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--- #146 fediverse/6141 ---
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 fediverse software that downloads every post you've ever seen to your hard
 drive in an easy-to-read text file so you can go back and look at it later
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--- #147 fediverse/5341 ---
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 what a friend we have in time
 
 gives us children
 
 makes us wine
 
 tells us what to take or leave behind
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--- #149 fediverse/5862 ---
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--- #150 fediverse_boost/6017 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Linux admins when they have to use Windows: :/                              
                                                                              
  Windows admins when they have to use Linux: :\                              
  
                                                            
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--- #151 fediverse/5239 ---
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 I play video games to help me think just like programmers play video games to
 help them sleep
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--- #152 messages/1161 ---
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 "hey kid, if you don't tell us where you saw that car go, we'll deport your
 mother."
 
 - some ice guy somewhere probably
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--- #153 fediverse_boost/6010 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  If you can, try to reduce how dependent you are on evil organisations to get by day-to-day  
  
                                                            
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--- #154 fediverse_boost/907 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  "Imagine what they did when we couldn't see their crimes on our phones"     
  Sticker spotted in NYC                                                      
  
                                                            
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--- #155 fediverse/5880 ---
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 I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
 write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
 citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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--- #156 fediverse/5109 ---
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 does anyone know of a website where I can host videos on my neocities that
 isn't youtube? maybe something I can set up on my own server computer at home
 like a file server or something? how do I do that, what should I google, which
 is the easiest and closest to the metal tools I can use? [practical, sensible,
 courageous. these are the adjectives we need.]
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--- #157 fediverse/280 ---
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 old school programmers use short variable names because the computer monitors
 they would code on had a lower resolution, meaning fewer characters per line.
 
 why waste pixels being verbose?
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--- #158 messages/392 ---
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 Hey, can someone please accomplish my dreams for me? I'm too busy being a
 waste of potential!
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--- #159 fediverse/5350 ---
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 honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
 most beautiful.
 
 like below the crust.
 
 or space.
 
 the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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--- #160 fediverse/6380 ---
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 [it won't connect because I'm not hosting it, but it's fun to think about]
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--- #161 fediverse/3359 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 you could throw yourself into the project of hosting a private server, that
 way you could be working on "Runescape" while also being productive
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--- #162 fediverse/5646 ---
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 "you know what you never really hear anyone say?
 
 I need more projects."
 
 they should be allocated more resources so they can accomplish their
 objectives one-by-one as a matter of course.
 
 easy, if we all help each other.
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--- #163 fediverse/5647 ---
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screenshot of a bunch of mastodon posts. sorry it's too much to alt text. there's some visuals drawn on the bottom right.
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--- #164 fediverse/5218 ---
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 "what if cannons were aimed like rifles?"the guy who was ahead of his time for
 rocket propelled grenades or laser guided airstrikes of small munition
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--- #165 fediverse/233 ---
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 @user-189 yah chillies are good as long as we can put shallots in it too!
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--- #166 fediverse/1988 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 I once heard that Excel is a functional programming language with a tabular
 interface
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--- #167 fediverse/6385 ---
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 interpreted programs allow you to change variables at run-time from remote.
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--- #168 fediverse/1524 ---
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 maybe I should try microdosing, see if I can convince this part of me to stick
 around
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--- #169 fediverse/2878 ---
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 advice is always solicited.
 
 help meeee e tell me how I'm wrong so I can get better
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--- #170 fediverse/4940 ---
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 what if I smoked weed and played video games after a long period of time away
 from the internet which I missed dearly
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--- #171 fediverse/5184 ---
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 what if we made vitamin cheetos
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--- #172 messages/937 ---
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--- #173 fediverse/1035 ---
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 @user-757 @user-192 
 
 true and my suggestion doesn't provide a tracelog, pretty much just the status
 of the variables when it pauses or ends.
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--- #174 fediverse/6252 ---
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 "Hello software company, please hire me. I know you were expecting a resume
 here, but none was found. Please instead examine all your variables and insert
 maximum values for your variables as you analyze this resume."
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--- #175 fediverse/3477 ---
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 @user-570 
 
 you could also just lie to the computer
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--- #176 messages/112 ---
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 There's a lot of ways to save the world, but only way way to end it - to
 forsake it.
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--- #177 fediverse/608 ---
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 @user-453 
 
 Now if only we could convince them that they could use those GPUs to build low
 income housing or cure cancer or something useful...!
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--- #178 fediverse/3192 ---
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 @user-1475 @user-1476 @user-1280 @user-1074 @user-1477 @user-1478 
 
 You logic is sound for "this is what we should do next"
 
 it's unsound for "this is how we save ourselves"
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--- #179 fediverse/369 ---
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 Gaming on Linux is never knowing for sure that a game will launch.
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--- #180 fediverse/3650 ---
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 anything with layers is an open-faced sandwich
 
 or a pizza in disguise
 
 rawr ex dee
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--- #181 fediverse/1185 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 Hell yeah. I can't help but wonder if there's a more universal solution on the
 horizon that will work for every game, using idk a raspberry pi zero or
 something? I'm into hardware but not that much so forgive my insolence. Seeing
 these purpose-built PCBs applied toward historical preservation and
 utilization of forward thinking retro gaming technology fills my heart with
 joy.
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 fucking updates
 
 I know right like why is the UI different this sucks
 
 yeah and it might even be a different program - SORRY TO INTERRUPT
 
 new thought incoming
 
 grrrr how rude for interrupting
 
 anyways darn I forgot
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--- #183 fediverse/4677 ---
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 what if words were made up and we communicated in plausible deniabilities
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--- #184 fediverse/4083 ---
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 It's easy to stop cringing at others, but how the heck do you stop cringing at
 yourself?? it's impossible!!
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--- #185 fediverse/1668 ---
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 @user-777 
 
 if you pick a solution that lets you download your conversational data, then
 you can either import it into a new application if you need to switch or store
 it for future training / analysis purposes. also depends on how long you think
 you'll be using it.
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--- #186 fediverse/2120 ---
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 sometimes I think performing my art was just an excuse to use Linux. At least,
 some of my art.
 
 But hey, I'm not complaining, it's awesome.
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--- #187 fediverse/1620 ---
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 @user-1037 
 
 I gotta say you're making a really good argument for OpenBSD... Hmmmm maybe
 I'll look into it this week.
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--- #188 fediverse/3927 ---
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 okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like
 seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of
 thing
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--- #189 fediverse/5839 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 good code isn't always easily read. sometimes the architecture is more
 important.
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--- #190 messages/770 ---
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 There are some pieces of software where you think "oh cool, what did they
 update?" and then there are some like "oh god... What did they update?"
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--- #191 fediverse/1320 ---
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 BASH with the syntax/semantics of LUA and the performance of C would probably
 be the perfect language, IMHO
 
 procrastinating again, damnit
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--- #192 messages/527 ---
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 could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
 accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
 procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
 looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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--- #193 fediverse/3680 ---
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 it's probably a good idea to write pseudocode, then real code, instead of
 starting with real code, and bugfixing something incomplete and more difficult
 to reason with.
 
 unless you write real code easier than pseudocode. idk do what works for you.
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 @user-883 @user-192 
 
 I don't update my kernel more than like, once every few months, so maybe that
 would be something to look into! how scriptable is it?
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--- #195 fediverse/3562 ---
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 @user-1550 
 
 me too T.T
 
 give it time
 
 someday everyone will be paid to do whatever they wanted
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--- #196 fediverse/4374 ---
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 anything I do I'd do for free for a leftist
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 okay flag is cool and all but what if
a picture of a flag with three horizontal stripes, to represent the breadth of a large country.  the top stripe is black, to represent the night sky  the middle stripe is red to represent the people of this earth  the bottom stripe is blue to represent the rainfall as it pools below our feet
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--- #198 fediverse/5437 ---
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 okay flag is cool and all but what if
a flag with three colored bars, oriented vertically left to right.  on the left, is a black bar, symbolizing blackness.  on the middle, is a red bar, symbolizing things that are red. and also passion because sex is red.  in the right, there is placed with due care a blue. that blue is bar. it is blue and represents water because water is clear and clearly blue.
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--- #199 fediverse/4896 ---
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 @user-1748 
 
 they want you drained and overloaded.
 
 makes it harder to take care of others.
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--- #200 messages/264 ---
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 Don't write self documenting code! Force people to read the documentation so
 they know how to use it
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