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johncoltrane
·เมื่อวานซืน·discuss
Parent said "impartial", which rules out both The Economist ("pro") and Jacobin ("anti").
johncoltrane
·เมื่อวานซืน·discuss
Group policy sadly doesn't like newly registered domains so I can't check this one out right now but it immediately reminded me of this one, that I favorited 4 years ago:

https://yamanote.style/
johncoltrane
·8 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Well, debugging is the only intellectually stimulating part left in my job so I enjoy it, a lot, while it lasts.

To each their own, I guess.
johncoltrane
·9 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
hjkl AND the cursor keys equally suck for moving the cursor because they only move by one line or by one character.

jjjllllljjh is just as bad as <Down><Down><Down><Right><Right><Right><Right><Right><Down><Down><Left>. There are much better ways to move around and touch-typists and non-touch-typists would be better off learning them instead of obsessing over hjkl: :help motion.txt.
johncoltrane
·9 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
jkl; are (on QWERTY keyboards). hjkl are not.
johncoltrane
·9 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
hjkl are more of a cult/status thing anyway because they are not _that_ touch-typing-friendly to begin with, and they suck just as much as the cursor keys for moving the cursor around.

Insisting so much on hjkl is silly. No one is using an ADM-3A in 2026, so the official documentation should let users use the more intuitive cursor keys and downgrade hjkl to what they have always been since vi: __ham-fisted alternatives to the cursor keys__.
johncoltrane
·13 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Happy birthday!
johncoltrane
·19 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Capitals are good. Use capitals.
johncoltrane
·24 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The entirety of 1999 and 2000 was a nightmare. "No, buddy, we won't change millenium next january." "Nope. We are still in the 20th century." And so on...

I think that's more or less when I lost faith in humanity.
johncoltrane
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
What's the problem, here?
johncoltrane
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
ext in tonga
johncoltrane
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
When will that "dashboard with tacked-on tablets" trend stop?

It can somehow be excused in cheap models because new versions are generally incremental evolutions, which would make proper integration of the touchscreen harder/more expensive. But not in a brand new model of a luxury brand.
johncoltrane
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
That would be a third track since the current Web is already (at least) "two-track": humans and search engines.
johncoltrane
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The world goes on.
johncoltrane
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
A bunch of William Gibsons.

Philip K. Dick's Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, and Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.

Clifford D. Simak's City.

Classics.
johncoltrane
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I was 11 when I started roleplaying with gamebooks. I vaguely remember L'œil Noir as a classic among "Livres dont vous êtes le héros". The same year I saw the older kids play a full D&D campaign with the adults during summer camp. In the following months Casus Belli and Jeux & Strategies, two magazines dedicated to RPGs, gradually replaced comics… and we eventually put together an "official" club at our middle school, where we played D&D for a while, and more games as we discovered them: MEGA II, Paranoia, Rêve de dragons, le JRTM, Call of Cthulu, Zone, etc.

Fond memories of Laelith ;-).
johncoltrane
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Not sure what's the most surprising to me. That an attack on ANTS happened or that the Entrevue rag still exists. Also, for what it's worth: https://ants.gouv.fr/toute-l-actualite/communication-sur-la-...
johncoltrane
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> Do you separate the product from the founder?

Yes… if the founder does. I don't care on which side of which ring they are as long as they keep me out of their pointless fights.
johncoltrane
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
FWIW, you don't have to do any of that to enter China.
johncoltrane
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The problem is that compositors typically don't have the notion of 3D scene.

It's all just a stack of layers, one window per layer. There is no shadow to speak of, only a mask around the window that provides the illusion of shadow. So there is no real interaction between all those items, no source of light, no distance, and no way to do ray tracing or some other techniques.