silasmariner

@silasmariner@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  FFS I was just about to buy myself one and now I’m obviously gonna have to wait until November

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Any more than 1 seems too much. Sometimes a whole one is too much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well opinions on this differ, but I think it’s a process, not a body of knowledge. You learn to apply the process…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah, because you didn’t study it at school and so it doesn’t come as naturally as it might

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok ok fine I’ll bite. Studying philosophy is a matter of refining your approach to problems, not memorising what some gnarled old Greek dude thought 2000 years ago

  Also literally everyone has a unique philosophy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution: 🖕⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if it’s useful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is very good trolling and I took a second

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah I suspect that’s part of the reason it’s slipped out of the curriculum. Shit teachers co-opted it for religion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I strongly suspect peak Aristotle would fucking wreck me but when he’s old and rotten? Yeah I reckon I have a chance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but imagine if he were personally a jerk to you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean also I studied philosophy and have had no regrets. It’s awesome and fascinating and rich and appeals to the fact that you just know that the world doesn’t really make sense

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Philosophy is genuinely a fantastic subject to study and I have no idea why school curriculums don’t reflect this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Babel fish, you say?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t speak medieval Italian so sadly he’s off my list

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Simply define it as i = e^(iπ/2) 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is exactly what copper would say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But how much copper they gotta steal to pay for driving out to it? I need to check the price of copper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else guilty of this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but (with the exception of Pokémon) the graphics have moved on a bit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Badly written fan-fic sequel to Snow Crash

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Micrexit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best calculator app is the interpreter for the j programming language

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not sure about this one ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not sure about this one ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely not. Lifeguards literally save so many lives. Maybe it’s different in the US with its weird power structures and motives, but lifeguards are more like the fire brigade than the police here…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow that article’s a blast from the past

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I worry that the prevalence of ill-informed hot-takes dilutes the validity of complaints, and I appreciate your work here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a very very good video. I loved the review of Atlas Shrugged

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit stopped being any good when that guy doing a batman/joker role reversal writing prompt stopped posting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Misleading you to what conclusion that you wouldn’t otherwise have reached?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, and whilst I don’t personally bother with vpns myself because I prefer other solutions, it’s one of the things that helps prevent insane UK politicians bad hottakes on tech becoming law

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t agree with you more. In particular, the way most state pensions are structured imply infinite exponential growth. It’s gonna be a tough drug to wean off of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly it’s not objectively false, it’s merely vague. There’s no equivocation whereby it actually specifies that the unit of measure is the individual animal, rather than, say, kg. It’s just playing on your assumptions (I did assume biomass fwiw, but who cares).

  But anyway, the point made by sheer fucking biomass imbalance is surely the thing to focus on here? Now that we know what it means, and are in agreement that the wording should be clearer, the statistic is still egregious, isn’t it? Humans have taken far too much of the world for themselves IMO. Vastly diminishing returns for us, devestatingly larger impact on the environment, the more we push it.