netmare

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Jan 29
Just a guy born in the late 70s.

My woefully neglected site: https://efotinis.neocities.org

Some scripts I've written: https://github.com/efotinis/scripts

My HN CSS: https://userstyles.org/styles/117336/hacker-news-slick

"The only way for ${anything} to survive is for the good people to stay" -- Sam Carter

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Comment · 1 month ago
Yup, it's exactly the same.
Comment · 1 month ago
There's a Greek proverb disputing the latter: they are spitting on him and he thinks it's raining.
Comment · 6 months ago
The religious have managed to make every YouTuber say "gosh" though.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not per se, but indirectly penalizing modest people is not OK.
Comment · 2 years ago
I had the same problem initially. It's sometimes easier on the command line, since piping file and directory objects to commands generally binds their PSPath to LiteralPath using a parameter alias.
Comment · 2 years ago
Marquee, blink, i, b... Older people like me remember the old "innocent" days of the internet. It's probably nostalgia, but the modern web doesn't seem exciting anymore...
Comment · 2 years ago
IANAL, but they either have to honor the verbal contract (pour an additional cup AND pay $20) OR the contract is void and therefore they can be sued for assault. Of course, the "can" in "if I can" may be construed as "being able to", but that's up to the jury I guess.
Comment · 2 years ago
That's a great point about stripping authorship. It would be nice if there was some sort of blockchain linking every bit of knowledge to its source. Some people at least would like getting attribution--I know I would. Instead we get a planet-sized meat grinder producing the perfect burger material. Just make sure to add enough spices to make it edible, i.e. not to offend anyone.
Comment · 2 years ago
You are using LLMs to summarize bloated articles probably generated by LLMs. Maybe stop paying attention to such "articles" and cut the middleman?
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm also not a fan of overly-funny writing, but I just wanted to say that I found your style quite enjoyable. Maybe it's because a can relate somewhat to your situation... :b
Comment · 2 years ago
If A can die from sesame seeds and B can't and the A-to-B ratio is something like 1:1e+6, doesn't it make more sense for A to bake their own bread instead?
Comment · 2 years ago
The Wikipedia entry on text-based user interfaces uses IT as an example of a text-mode program featuring a pixel-accurate mouse pointer. The "citation-needed" had always been annoying me, since I knew it was true, but I couldn't prove it. Now, we can finally link to IT_MOUSE.ASM and be done with it.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think it was a rhetorical question. I wasn't a big fan of the SS series, but those damn kamikaze still echo in my mind. I've even had nightmares about them...
Comment · 2 years ago
You could then fix the inverted x axis by using the mouse on the underside of the table. Works fine with optical mice, but a ball mouse might require fiddling with gravity (or magnets, but that's no fun).
Comment · 2 years ago
I still prefer it the way it was when I started using computers with DOS 6.x and Windows 3.1: underline in console, bar in GUIs, block in both with overwrite mode. Always blinking of course. My problems with modern programs are 1) overwrite mode is usually not implemented and 2) moving the cursor does not reset the blink timer. The first I can understand (although it's trivial to do), but the second results in the cursor getting invisible when moving while pressing the arrow keys. It's the little things...

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