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Technically, he's an anarcho-syndicalist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Noam_...

Amusing because PC user have been saying this for years and years and years.

Think it's safe to assume gp meant paid advertising.

A company owner who doesn't see the points of unions... unsurprising.

My previous roommates (a couple) were both big into xanax and crystals. They'd go on walks around the town, f'd up on scrips, and pick up rocks, bring them home and gush at me about what they found 'look at this ruby!" They'd proclaim (it was just a shard of broken beer bottle, I kid you not). By the end, the side of our house had accumulated a several hundred pound collection of (totally mundane and worthless) rocks. Their plan was to crack these rocks open by throwing them at the (concrete) ground, hoping to find crystals inside. In my opinion the benzos infantilized them, because they were not like that when they moved in, it was a downward spiral of a transition over two years.

This wasn't even thier worst quality. But I will always remember thier 'crystal' hobby.

At least in my case, it's because I don't know of any better options. Mint is very easy but if something else was almost as easy but provided similar features (or more, even) I'd give it a sincere try. But other options I've heard of are cli tool/emacs packages, which is too much to ask for what is usually less robust and requires significantly more effort/time to get up to speed with and use.

Windows default products have also been improving in quality, like the mail and calender client. The calendar one is quite good actually. Typescript is also a pleasurable experience (as a new web dev, great timing!) vscode is nice to use too.

Indeed it is not, as the definition given for the word is not even it's colloquial usage anymore, although the new usage is related:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=Boof&amp=t...

Many Americans are allergic to the idea of the government doing anything but managing national defense.

"thousands of kids" ohoho... Right ...

I've seen the term 'market socialism' used when describing China's system.

Perhaps foolishly optimistic, but maybe they can turn things around. They abused a lot of people's trust, but it isn't impossible to imagine they could win it back.

Since we're being pedantic, insects are still animals, and therefore eating them is not vegan.

Eevee is a gpu only renderer.

Blender is good for character animation, but it's learning curve is higher and there aren't as many QoL improvements as in other 3d software. 2.8 is a step in the right direction but I still find cinema4d to be much much much faster to get results with for my purposes of motion graphics.

Gimp/inkscape are not drop in replacements for ps/illustrator. Unless your use case is very basic.

On a 60% and no idea where scroll lock lives (time to check the manual). But I've come to really prefer ctrl in place of capslock. I'm also somewhat of a madlad as I remap every game I play from wasd to esdf. This allows my pinky to use 'a' key for functions normally mapped to shift (like running in games), have two 'shoulder' keys (instead of q/e its qw/rt) and I can leverage the finder-key bumps for quicker hand placement. It costs a single 5 minutes per game but provides and overall more ergonomic (and consistent with touch typing) experience, in my opinion. There are also a few other benefits, but I won't go into them. Figured if I had the patience to learn/write emacs chords, I could do this much, and it paid off quickly.

You pinpointed exactly the rub I was experiencing. Reminds me of "Rules as Written" vs "Rules as Intended" dichotomy I see mentioned on the Dungeons and Dragons stack exchange.

If this really is the year of the linux desktop, it's not what I had imagined.

What you've written is extremely interesting. Not sure how much of it I truly understand, but I wanted to add that your explanation for everything as a wave function reminded me of oscilloscope music, ie. depicting images with waveforms. A tutorial I watched demonstrates the drawing of a mushroom, then animates it by modulating with a larger wave. In my laymen's head model, Spacetime is like a very large wave that everything else is being modulated by.

Here's the relevant video: https://youtu.be/rtR63-ecUNo

Was an avid user of kpxc for a year. The auto type feature did not feel secure compared to other pwm's. It requires the username input field to be focused, and if the wrong field is focused (click didn't take?) or otherwise changes mid-type it spills your credentials into the input and sends them. Other managers seem to at least try to validate the entry types.

Mozilla seems to (or will) be doing exactly this.

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/hey-advertisers-track-this/

Indeed. As an anecdote, many of my left-leaning friends have become full-blown communists over the last few years. The political situation is likely going to get much much worse before it gets better.

So we can push those users out of thier censorship-laden safe space, and into the rest of the 'public' so to speak, thus they can be engaged and in cases of rule-breaking, reported.

Took a piano 1 class at a nearby college last fall, and I agree with all of your points. I did walk away with a firm grasp on major and minor chords, which is something that escaped me in the 20+ years I'd played music.

I'll also vouch for syntorial. Completed the demo years ago and I still use those techniques every day.

There used to be this thing called the fairness doctrine. It's abolishment paved the way for 'infotainment'.

Yes. This is exactly the case with music, too. Once the song's basis is created, everything that comes after has to 'fit in'. It's much harder to do sound design without that blank canvas effect.