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jjjalljs

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  • What to you, is always a losing battle?

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  • I've had a couple cases where I didn't change their mind on the spot, we at least reached a point of "I see what you're saying and why you believe that" that was better than we started.

    It's just a lot of work, and is doomed if the other person isn't present in good faith. But it's nice when it happens. It helps to ask sincere questions, and try to clear up any assumptions you might not share.

  • If your lifes goal was to make life better for as many people as possible how would you go about achieving it, assuming you could get start-up capital for your project?

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  • Probably get as many conservatives out of power as possible. Once they're gone we can work on climate change, better electoral systems, removing the evils of capitalism, and so on.

  • applogies

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  • It's wild to me how some places I've worked are like locked down, all the infrastructure is in terraform or whatever and can be deployed immediately... and other places are like "ssh into prod with the credentials from confluence, edit the config in vim, and paste the new code into a new file"

  • Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now - Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.

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  • There was an article on a tech news site recently about how to unshittify windows. Just like 4 pages of stuff to turn off and uninstall.

    People in the comments unsurprisingly were like "Linux is free and getting better all the time". People were mad. So mad.

  • Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now - Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.

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  • If you are using sudo all the time something has gone wrong

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • I could accept it matters more than 0, but it is pretty far down the list of issues given the state of the world.

    I occasionally become insufferable and recommend people play other games, but people don't really care. It's like getting people off twitter.

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • This is broadly true, but given the low level of rules mastery I've seen I say "shared understanding of the rules" is a generous description.

    Still, like a national fast food chain sometimes you just want something familiar even if it's not as good as other options. You know it's not likely to be worse than your expectations

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • Everything is an option according to them but it’s ultimately isn’t.

    It really is a more restrictive system than people think. If you have a concept that's like "psychic batman" you can't really make that concept go in DND. Trivial to make in the other games I play the most (fate, CofD).

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • D&D is not as good as it is popular. It's a very idiosyncratic game that's mostly focused on a particular kind of play, but people treat it like it's a general purpose tool.

    Clearly people can have fun with it, and that's what really matters. I'm still convinced many of them would have more, easier, cheaper, fun if they picked up a different game.

  • Anti-AI people, did you ever like AI? If so, when did you stop?

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  • I briefly toyed with some of the early image generation stuff. It was a fun toy for making NPCs for RPGs.

    But now it's everywhere and being used as an excuse to squeeze labor harder and deliver dubious value. If it just stayed as a toy I wouldn't mind it much. I get annoyed at the aggressive "do you want me to rewrite that for you??" shit that pops up now.

  • Drive through etiquette

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  • This should be a climate crime and the management responsible forced to pick up trash or some other appropriate punishment

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • I don't think an average user is going to know how to interpret the output of mount or findmt

  • Why did the mathematician get thrown out of church?

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  • He kept talking about sin

  • What would you do with this power?

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  • Probably max out all skills by spending time in appropriate settings. If I can learn magic as per, say, mage the awakening, then I'm doing that as well.

    Then I'm coming back here and fixing the world with extensive application of five point Mind and Fate magics.

  • Where is modern Punk?

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  • It's hard to break into the mainstream when the mainstream is increasingly owned by rich assholes. They have a lot of influence over culture. Not total control , but enough that many people who might have found punk instead brain rot through their day in Spotify or tiktok or whatever.

  • Dear Amazon

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  • What are people ordering so much of from amazon? I apparently haven't ordered from them since late 2024, and those were a handful of small orders.

  • Why the fuck is Ticketmaster allowed to be this awful?

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  • I'm pretty sure Reagan's administration decided to just stop enforcing anti monopoly stuff

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    Sometimes people like to complain about windows and iOS

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  • may genuinely be unskilled when it comes to computers in general.

    I do not accept this idea that people are so unskilled at computers they can't install Linux, and are so immutably so they can't get better.

    Like yeah sometimes you have to ask for help or watch a YouTube video. That shit's free and right there.

  • Microsoft responds to Gaming Copilot controversy, says it uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not for training AI models — optional feature can be turned off, but not easily uninstalled

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  • Setting up a windows VM at my old job took like a few minutes, but I already had virtual box (I think that's what I used)

    And I needed to see some software running in a Windows box while editing the code that talked to it.