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I find this form you're commenting on less annoying than people starting posts with "this." What a stupid way to say "I agree."

> Japanese do not need grandiose motivational frameworks to keep going, but rely more on the little rituals in their daily routines.

Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be there?

Correct.

My last ghost-town MUD died a few years ago :'(

http://lostunicorn.org/

Wow, I'm surprised at the banking account from 1998. That happened rather quickly given that the web wasn't really on anyone's radar until 95/96 or so.

A practical definition of "creativity" is "can create interesting things." It's pretty clear that machines have become more "creative" in that sense over the last few years.

The "I did this cool thing" posts get way more upvotes than the "let's be startuppy" posts. I don't think the "hacker" population is as rare as you're suggesting.

I only just found out the other day that if you are playing a non-colorized GB cart on a Game Boy Color, holding down a direction on the dpad when the Nintendo logo appears will let you change the palette!

> When GNOME Shell happened, I was forced to go looking for a new window manager. I ended up installing Ratpoison.

Wow, I used Ratpoison around 20 years ago. SunOS labs in school used some window manager I couldn't stand (don't remember which) and I saw a classmate with basically no window chrome on their display, and was intrigued.

They helped me compile it (no small feat given our resource constraints) and off I went, until my hand started to cramp a year later from hitting ctrl-t so much. I switched to ion for awhile, and then ended up scavenging a linux box to do assignments from home.

I'm happy to see some folks still holding firm on the "no-pointer" front.

I guess this habit wasn't deeply rooted, else we'd still see him doing it.

/joke

For me, whenever people mentioned CRT monitors my mind always first went to "Chinese remainder theorem."

In Italian, it's common to append 'ino' or 'ina' to something when you want to imply it's a smaller or cuter version of itself.

So 'quinino' might work here.

This is my favorite anime/MIT association: The "SICP anime opening"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0YrCABCOEY

Sounds like you were an indent-ured labourer.

Mom had an issue where all her iCloud photos were syncing except the ones she'd taken after they renovated the kitchen. She had photos of everything but the kitchen synced.

Someone really should market a PC directly as a "midlife crisis gaming PC." I laughed so hard at that.

The Steam Deck is really the most delightful electronic device I've ever owned. It's incredible.

I'm glad someone else thought this!

And that's why it really Hertz them.

_he said, his face deadpan._

CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!!!!!!!

A few years ago, I read all of bash.org from beginning to end. It took about a week of transit rides.

There were a lot of laughs, but a huge proportion of it was slurs directed at Black people and women. It's probably time for it to fade away.

The quotes I remember the most were (paraphrased)

1. Best ebay review ever -- bought item for my brother who had cancer, item never arrived and my brother died

2. Something about writing a warranty about installing a cinder block in a window and then throwing it through a window at the Sony headquarters

3. "There's no such thing as a sin on the battlefield." "Opposite over hypotenuse. dipshit"

I hope "render itself" was an intentional rendering pun.

I hear that language ended up being a hot flash in a pan.

Which usually manifests as "your personal comfort."

I admire the dedication to the theme. It even extends to the code: https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/blob/master/main/views.py?...

> Who would be a programming God

Are you twelve?

You may not be taught to build it, but everyone sure seems to know how to argue it.

Yeah. A lot of it to me feels like the JRPG version of reality.