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- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 4 hours ago:
and people wonder why i don’t want to use urbit
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 5 hours ago:
that guy has literally never been mask on
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 10 hours ago:
well thank you for teaching me a new word!
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 11 hours ago:
i personally go with the most charitable interpretation, trying to figure out what people mean rather than assuming that the text as written, no matter how incongruous to the rest of their argument so far, is exactly what they meant. but you do you.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 11 hours ago:
we both know that’s not what i was referring to. i’m talking things like intellectual properly rights. also, there are plenty of subjectively judged sports.
But in general? Yah, it is.
one major criticism of the monomyth theory is that it relies, perhaps subconsciously, on confirmation bias. many classic works that have been called monomyth-conforming only fit that mold when you ignore stuff that doesn’t fit, stuff that in some cases completely change the context of the other beats.
folklorist Barre Toelken, in an essay from 1996, wrote
Campbell could construct a monomyth of the hero only by citing those stories that fit his preconceived mold, and leaving out equally valid stories… which did not fit the pattern
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 11 hours ago:
I wonder why people don’t make the same argument for sports players.
surely you must see how nonsense this sentence is.
people make to same argument for other creative arts all the time. books, music, painting. programming, even.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 day ago:
no the tech was very much the focus at the time. they did some incredible stuff for that film.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 day ago:
i was, but i also saw disney’s pocahontas as a kid. so uh… it was just that, but in 3d.
- Comment on Be nice 1 day ago:
the economy
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 day ago:
yeah they came down hard after someone crossed the line after looking the other way for like 30 years. i’m not surprised.
also, playstation is like the most legally well-tread area for emulators. remember bleem?
- Comment on I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust 1 day ago:
how long is a piece of string?
sorry. browsers are insanely complex pieces of software. like, operating system level. the standard has grown enough that the web is it’s own platform. so your definition of “daily use” is what is important; servo can open web pages, render html and css, and store cookies. it can also do some javascript. that’s enough to deal with like 80% of all websites ever written… but not the ones non-technical people use like facebook and twitter.
there’s also the matter of what features you actually require: tabs were not a standard feature for the first fifteen or so years of the web. search in the url bar was seen as an antipattern at first and wasn’t included. credential storage (like password autofill) wasn’t added until like 20 years in.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 day ago:
the big thing that caused nintendo to take action against the switch emulators was that the creators were taking money for it, and explicitly pirating games. like, they set up a patreon where you could pay for early access to builds specifically tailored to games that were not released yet.
- Comment on Substack prompted a Nazi blog again 2 days ago:
a blog
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 2 days ago:
he’s a gem though
- Comment on I'm never going back to Matrix - Terence Eden 2 days ago:
it’s crazy, we’we had no issue with matrix even though i was sceptical at first and there was some teething issues, but we’ve onboarded non-technical users no problem.
the main thing is, we don’t federate.
- Comment on Selfhosted - friendly ways to fight spam without email / sms verification? 3 days ago:
did we not tell you that this is exactly what would happen?
- Comment on This is why brexit happened 3 days ago:
yeah but it’s also not the swedish word for “moo”. it’s just to american one with an umlaut on top.
- Comment on Is it possible to make wireless charging broadcast electricity throught an entire house similar to how wifi can broadcast to the entire house? 3 days ago:
- Comment on Is it possible to make wireless charging broadcast electricity throught an entire house similar to how wifi can broadcast to the entire house? 3 days ago:
Disney Research actually developed a whole-room wireless power system some years ago. they called it Quasistatic Cavity Resonance.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 3 days ago:
why bring up the us? “trade imbalance” usually refers to imports v exports of that country.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 3 days ago:
it’s a quote
- Comment on 🚦 Don't walk... be gay! 5 days ago:
is this loss
- Comment on modern coding environment 5 days ago:
god i hate programming ligatures. makes code from other people completely inscrutable.
like, i’m fine with grouping characters together, but changing the shape of them completely defeats the purpose of ligatures. they’re meant to make flowing text easier to read, but in programming you don’t want flowing text. you want mistakes to stick out, so you need your text to be clearly demarcated and consistent.
like, with fira code, half of these characters should not exist. tell me at a glance what makes up those triangle ones, or the fat arrows.
- Comment on Ze princess 5 days ago:
- Comment on modern coding environment 5 days ago:
you can just patch in yourself, they have a tool
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 5 days ago:
that’s very hard to make idiomatic, and if it’s in the querystring it’s easier to change manually because you can annotate each entry more easily.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 5 days ago:
whuh? querystrings are integral to things like pagination. they are by no means a negative thing.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 5 days ago:
personally i like v=aO82NftCga to be in there as well
- Comment on modern coding environment 5 days ago:
- Comment on modern coding environment 5 days ago:
“modern” and yet not using
std::print
