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DrewRWx··on IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education
What I'm saying is that IQ tests specifically contain questions on esoteric matters that either don't matter or can't be accessed below a certain income.
DrewRWx··on IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education
More exposure to upper middle-class culture increases ones ability to take IQ tests.
DrewRWx··on How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card
Do you think she adopted her pokerface she learned it against you or was there another reason?
DrewRWx··on Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session
Do you have a Ko-fi? 'cause I would really enjoy that screensaver.

I adore this project on its own merits too because using the memory values in an emulated game is something that has fascinated me since Twitch Plays Pokémon integrated their Twitch display!

DrewRWx··on QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
Dang, I hate being authenticated by a grammatical error.
DrewRWx··on QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
Bruh, that's all me.
DrewRWx··on QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
No worries, mate! When the popular narrative is "you can run Doom on a pregnancy test" your blind spot tracks.

By the bye, I know Foone hates their threads being posted here, so I won't, but I absolutely adore their hardware and software finagling. It's also made me a better developer!

DrewRWx··on QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
This is incredibly constructive feedback!

When working on projects that meld digital and physical realities, ergonomics and aesthetics become a hyperfocus and observations like this are vital for course correcting.

DrewRWx··on QuakeNotch, Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
I have a hammer and am looking for a nail, but every day something sparks Marshall McLuhan ringing in my head.

The medium truly is the massage. The physical form in which information is being delivered (screen with notch) is beginning to work us over on a concept as old as the terminal.

Yeah, Yakuake; TotalTerminal; and others kept the Quake terminal flame alive, but now that game UI choice interacts with physical reality!

Which reinforces my spicy take...

Spicy take: Skeumorphism is a necessary and probably effective guard rail against tech usage unmooring us from physical reality.

Plus, this augmented reality take on the concept is taking that idea to at least eight strange new places.

Thankfully you don't see an artistic representation of a 3.5 floppy representing an app's "save" function yes-and-ing people into messiah complexes and public mental breakdowns.

All that being said, I am giving this a spin when my work laptop arrives! (Worst case I use the, mostly(?), iTerm2 functional equivalent because that worked pretty well for my needs when I set it up many moons ago.)

DrewRWx··on String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'
Thank you for providing this exhaustive and necessary context.
DrewRWx··on String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'
The Post Millennial is a right-wing rag from an anticommunist sex cult and any assertion by Ngo should be discarded out of hand.
DrewRWx··on Curl with Partial Files
Nice! This will make my podcast blog to RSS generator a whole lot easier since I just need to grab some headers from the MP3 in addition to info the the page.
DrewRWx··on uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind honey browser extension
Good thing the ends matter more than the means.
DrewRWx··on U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers
Police aren't labor and therefore are not a labor union.
DrewRWx··on Fallout1-ce: Fallout for modern operating systems
Budget your time wisely because Disco Elysium is going to get you coming back to it again and again.
DrewRWx··on Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
Do you have a use case you'd prefer they put their resources into implementing?
DrewRWx··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
And that long term perspective could be used constructively instead!
DrewRWx··on Freenginx: Core Nginx Developer Announces Fork of Popular Web Server
Everything in JS gets rebuilt until they are no longer in JS.
DrewRWx··on U.S. rice exports to Haiti have unhealthy levels of arsenic, study finds
Back in the day I hung out with of the Lunderberg kids and they were all in on providing the safest rice.
DrewRWx··on De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM
It is depressing that I had this same argument in college a decade ago and people are still so cavalier about not optimizing their code.
DrewRWx··on Versepad – A text editor for poets
I got stuck on consistently detecting syllable stress when I tried to write a similar tool, so I'm really interested too.
DrewRWx··on GraphBLAS
Whoa! That takes me back. During undergrad I did some work on the KDT Python wrapper for CombinatorialBLAS.
DrewRWx··on The Secret Service Texting Scandal Makes No Sense
That's just good opsec when you aren't under subpoena.
DrewRWx··on Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice?
And here I thought the schwa just wreaked havoc in English.
DrewRWx··on SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
The charlatan biologist?
DrewRWx··on Man sues American Airlines over identification, jail time
I think we would be far better off as a society if we chose a better civil rights backstop than a gaggle of genociders and pedophiles.
DrewRWx··on Man sues American Airlines over identification, jail time
The Overton window has actively been moved towards fascism, not the other way around.

Can you provide examples of baseline 2010 liberal that's now considered right wing?

DrewRWx··on Man sues American Airlines over identification, jail time
You really believe those are good priorities for pro-bono legal representation when they can just as easily defend individuals and organizations that aren't actively promoting genocide and/or pedophilia?
DrewRWx··on Man sues American Airlines over identification, jail time
Prolly a good call not to use a quote about Nazi atrocities and how they can't be given an inch to defend the notion that Nazis should be given pro-bono legal defense.
DrewRWx··on Man sues American Airlines over identification, jail time
That's supporting my point, right? Give the Nazis an inch and they'll slaughter everyone that isn't them.

Plus, as a socialist and trade unionist I'm up decently high on that list.

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