fishbacon

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Lisp Lovers Lounge

Lisp lover, Emacs enthusiast, Traditionally grumpy

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Comment · 1 month ago
I wonder if they will ever see the wobble as a problem or if it is something people like about the iPhone somehow.

My iPhone 15 pro survives another generation.

Comment · 3 months ago
The intro followed immediately by obvious AI slop put me so off that I stopped reading. They may be trying to make a point. But the way they are doing it is off putting.
Comment · 5 months ago
I was hoping for a kind of joke. Like saying "idiot" as the last thing in your post and getting "Please don't sign your posts" as a reply.
Comment · 7 months ago
Excellent set of commands.

Of course the two most useful ones would never be useful in the code base I am currently working on.

"fix" might be the single most common commit message, and after that comes "."

Trying for two years, to get people to include at least some information in their commit messages, has exhausted me.

Comment · 7 months ago
The pop-up is about disabling javascript, to avoid this kind of website doing this kind of thing.

I thought it was clever. But it also seems ham-fisted, and in poor taste.

Comment · 7 months ago
The (very clearly AI-generated) watercolors were an immediate sign to be wary of this. But I read it because I liked the first paragraphs.

The prose is decent, I like the premise, thought provoking idea.

One issue though: I had to use firefox' reader mode, because the contrast between text and background was terrible.

Comment · 10 months ago
Thinking about how my television was only ever on the internet for 5 minutes in 2016. It must think the world is tiny.
Comment · 10 months ago
I swap back and forth between favorit movies. Every few days it may be Goodfellas. Some days it is The Room. But I always return to Kiki’s delivery service and Howls moving castle. Both are absolutely gorgeous and incredibly well told.

I also find myself quoting porco rosso a lot lately.

This a treasure trove of gorgeous lockscreen images. Very excited to put them into rotation.

Comment · 1 year ago
The font you chose is borderline illegible. Password being 3-20 characters makes me nervous.

Fun idea though.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
If sponsored projects and in-video sponsor spots dried up because of low view count I feel like a +20% loss would be something they would feel on their bottomline?

I suspect their business still requires that revenue.

But my example could be better. Take any moderately sized youtube channel which has a sponsorship in each video. Maybe one of the gaming channels that figured this out? If they lose the sponsorships it would probably not be great for them.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is completely unspoken by most of the youtube channels that are making videos about this. The reason they are worried is not because of the algorithm or vanity. Especially for channels like LTT it is economical. They get the vast majority of their money from getting a lot of views.

The interesting thing here is that since youtube did not change anything, it is actually adblockers successfully making sponsored content less viable. Something youtube has been trying to, at least on premium ([ytp]), where I get a little "Jump ahead" button on all platforms when sponcon is detected (in aggregate people skipping forward, it also does it for intros and similar).

I wonder if it will have a measurable impact on placement in the algorithm for channels like RLM that are seeing the drop. But rely on crowdfunding and youtube ads.

Comment · 1 year ago
I share my .emacs with people who ask. Not really for privacy, but because I would feel bad: If someone tried to use any of it and was not able to ask me what I was thinking.

The usual answer is that I was not and we should change it.

I would also have to distribute a couple of novel go programs that I am not proud of if I was sharing it publicly.

Comment · 1 year ago
> Even rather good students with a lot of potential see all this engineering stuff more as a media career or a fun hobby.

This seems positive, no?

I love the idea that young people want to make stuff and tinker in their free time.

Comment · 1 year ago
Kagi seems to genuinly have a good mission when it comes to the internet.

I want small web search. I want good results. I will pay for search!

I do not want to support Russia.

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