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tasha0663

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tasha0663··on Write plain text files
Most of them should have an ANSI setting. It might be stashed as an option in the save dialog. If space is really an issue, zip them. Plain text always compresses wonderfully.
tasha0663··on Things you don't need JavaScript for
What if I told you...

(sunglasses)

We're in one right now?

tasha0663··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
It's not even spite. Spite at least has some emotion in it. This is lazy virtue signaling of the kind that sounds impressive when you've been bought enough drinks to forego further explanation of who this is actually helping.
tasha0663··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
> Only Russia (and collectively, Russians) can stop it.

And how do you propose they do this? What are you suggesting?

tasha0663··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
> People that are getting angry need to point that at the cause, their own government.

This is correct, but your actions are going to silence (or at least muffle or interrupt) these people's voices. Don't double down on it because you're riding some righteousness high. You still have time to backpedal and not act like a vain fool.

The tax dollars you are talking about are pennies to the oligarchs. You are only hitting regular people with this selfishness. It's a pathetic gesture, and I'll never use your services.

tasha0663··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
It's not whataboutism. Blaming the actions of a government on its citizenry in this way is a stupid policy that generalizes badly. That's obviously the point and you ought to be able to tell that!
tasha0663··on Universe Splitter
> It seems like retaining the information about all possible universes is kind of nonsensical; the volume of data is just too large.

Do you have to retain all the information? Perhaps a set of quantum events is more like a parameter into a function, and the return value is the universe state corresponding to that history. Yeah there's magical black box handwaving going on there but the point is when we literally have no idea, it's not entirely impossible that the quantum multiverse is sparsely populated and lazy loaded with nothing 'computed' into existence until it has to be.

EDIT: Mind, I'm not saying that it is this way. The validity of my proposal isn't the point. The point is that dismissing Many Worlds on the grounds of "too much information" involves assuming a lot of things we don't actually know.

tasha0663··on Universe Splitter
I'm in it. Are you? Is it Berenstein or Berenstain?
tasha0663··on Don't Write a Programming Language
> another good analogy is vampirism

No, that's a great analogy. I can neither condone nor dispute it on rhetorical grounds, but aesthetically it is rad.

tasha0663··on Don't Write a Programming Language
FWIW, I would assume this is the language: https://github.com/lokedhs/array
tasha0663··on Don't Write a Programming Language
I'm really confused by it. It's almost like some strange species of humblebrag. "Look at my _____, isn't it horrible?"

I can't understand why the writer seems so bitter about spending so much time on something they clearly love... I mean, what else is there to do? Lots of boring obligatory stuff!

tasha0663··on Don't Write a Programming Language
This is so strangely sad. Go ahead and write a programming language. Have a weird hobby you clank away on that might not see the light of day. If you burn out on it, that's one thing and that's okay; you've exhausted the medium. Move on to something else you enjoy. Grow for the sake of growing.

Just because something hasn't become big doesn't mean it's a failure. I've labored in dark early hours over paintings and music that will never see the light of day, but it's a vital part of how I express and cultivate myself. My journal.

99% of art is unknown personal projects. Embrace yours. Why be bitter?

tasha0663··on Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Feb 26, 2022
> A caught saboteur https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1497580425086128132

If someone asked me to find the hidden Russian saboteur in the room, I'm absolutely checking the guy squatting in an Adidas parka first.

tasha0663··on Make Linux look like Windows 95
Heh, the nice thing about XP was that I didn't feel obligated to force my Linux desktop into cross-toolkit consistency anymore. I seem to recall Outlook pulling from the XP widgets for the Inbox scrollbar and the 9x widgets for the Preview scrollbar. At first, disgust; followed by relief.
tasha0663··on Make Linux look like Windows 95
I didn't notice that at first glance. It's beautiful.
tasha0663··on Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
> Russians could rise en-masse

In order to do that in effective numbers that wouldn't get squashed immediately, there would have to be people leading and coordinating the opposition.

Appearing to be such a person is a quick way to accidentally eat plutonium for breakfast.

tasha0663··on Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
> doesn't have the power to muster a draft when China takes Taiwan

And rightly so. I don't care enough about Taiwan to instate a draft. I don't care enough about much of anything for that.

tasha0663··on Inside Pornhub
> enforcing that law isn't the responsibility of the victim or her family

IANAL, so I might be mistaken, but isn't the law in some places "if you see it, it is illegal for you not to report it"?

(EDIT: specifically when it comes to CSAM, that is)

tasha0663··on Show HN: Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer
> the cliche of it’s not the product, you are is cute but played out

Cute, cliche, and played out? If you dismiss it in three different ways are you magically correct?

It might be a losing battle in the face on increasing complacency and bad incentives, but it's not over no matter how many different ways you want to dismiss it.

tasha0663··on FLAC 1.3.4
$RESOURCE might be cheap and plentiful today. In the greybeard world you would have been right because everything was trending towards more-for-less. In 20XX you could wake up tomorrow and find out that some bullshit caused a global supply chain issue at the same time that a Proof of $RESOURCE blockchain is causing a scramble for it.
tasha0663··on The Price of Nails Since 1695
> you had to make them yourself

Well... not quite...

> Up to fourteen young male slaves, aged ten to twenty-one, worked at the forges of the nailery. From 1794 to 1796, while he was in temporary retirement at Monticello, Jefferson calculated the efficiency of the nailers, each day weighing their nail rod and the nails they produced.

(Source: https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/nai...)

Though it would seem the idea was to then sell the nails for extra income (TJ was always strapped for cash), so it's kind of an ugly stop on the way to "what if you could just go buy a bag of nails?"

tasha0663··on I have no capslock and I must scream
Not quite as succinct as you put it. Falls into the category of "automated tools probably wouldn't notice it, but don't leave it open for sensitive colleagues to see" back when colocating was a thing.

> When AM had altered Benny, during the machine's utterly irrational, hysterical phase, it was not merely Benny's face the computer had made like a giant ape's. He was big in the privates; she loved that! She serviced us, as a matter of course, but she loved it from him. Oh Ellen, pedestal Ellen, pristine-pure Ellen; oh Ellen the clean! Scum filth.

tasha0663··on Intel unveils BonanzaMine, a Bitcoin accelerator ASIC
> Bluetooth NFT Whoopee Cushions (every time you sit on it, it mints a fresh NFT for each farting sound it emits, and automatically posts it to your twitter feed).

Do I still have to pay gas fees to mint a fake fart? How about I rip a real one and we call it even?

tasha0663··on Intel unveils BonanzaMine, a Bitcoin accelerator ASIC
The "vanity receipts for badly drawn apes problem"
tasha0663··on Why I Like Java (2014)
I'm curious what these pitfalls are that you're referring to. Can you elaborate? It's been a long time since I was new to Java, and this sort of outside perspective is always a good thing.
tasha0663··on Why I Like Java (2014)
> I've seen this sort of elitism in candidates and I've made the mistake of hiring them. It turns out they're just not very good at all, and they blame their failures on anything but themselves, stunting their self-growth professionally and interpersonally.

If this is a trend for you, you're probably a bad hirer and in a toxic environment!

tasha0663··on Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
> Google recommends against using Cname for this

So use Cname? :D

tasha0663··on First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children
> Unfortunately... rational eugenics programs are taboo in the West

Fortunate! That's very fortunate!

> rational eugenics

No such thing unless your basis for it is incomplete or corrupted.

tasha0663··on First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children
Yeah, that's weird. Either the association is so strong with some people that they can't see Tay-Sachs without immediately thinking Ashkenazi, or there was a stealth edit to the comment.
tasha0663··on 95%-ile isn't that good (2020)
More time to spend bikeshedding the ultimate grocery list productivity process and integrating a smart refrigerator!
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