AnAmericanPotato

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[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thomas Nagel: "What is it like to be a bat?"

Colossal Biosciences: "lol who cares as long as it looks like a bat?"

Dating website: probably way too soon to share, just looks cringe

You might be right in this case, but I also want to point out that most dating profile fucking suck, and it's not because they are too "cringe" or immature; it's because they are all the same generic pictures. Wedding, gym, hiking, dead-fish, bar, dog.

This is the kind of thing I call a "loser filter". It stops the kind of people you don't want to deal with from entering your life in the first place.

Likely this. Temperature and humidity also affect your sense of taste and smell, plus they can affect a hot drink's evaporation rate.

Buy a dozen and you could fit a good chunk of LibGen.

Thanks for the link. I'm not up on the latest in anarchist philosophy. The last meaningful work I read on the topic was probably In Defense of Anarchism by Robert Paul Wolff.

The perverse ideas that money is speech and corporations are people can make a lot of simple common-sense statements suddenly completely insane.

I support free speech. Money is not speech.

I support personal freedom. Corporations are not people.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 52 points 4 months ago (22 children)

he viewed other libertarians as having the same level of honest compassion as he does but over time it’s become more and more clear that libertarians are overwhelmingly selfish rich white guys who don’t want to be called Repuiblicans

I had a similar progression myself when I was in my teens, maybe even early 20s.

The basic principle of libertarianism is appealing: mind your own damn business and I'll mind mine. And I still agree with that in general — it's just that a single generality does not make a complete worldview. It took me a while to realize how common it is for self-identifying libertarians to lack any capacity for nuance. The natural extreme of "libertarianism" is just anarchy and feudalism.

In a sane world, I might still call myself a libertarian. In a sane world, that might mean letting people live their own damn lives, not throwing them to the wolves (or more literally, bears ) and dismantling the government entirely.

I'm all for minding my own business, but I also acknowledge that maintaining a functional society is everybody's business (as much as I occasionally wish I could opt out and go live in a cave).

I've never replaced a watch (smart or otherwise) in less than 5 years.

Wat.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How's navigation with Pebbles? If I start bike navigation in Google Maps on my phone, can I get turn-by-turn directions on the watch, and does it not suck?

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

According to the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2013, the median score for the US was "level 2". 3.9% scored below level 1, and 4.2% were "non-starters", unable to complete the questionnaire.

For context, here is the difference between level 2 and level 3, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_the_International_Assessment_of_Adult_Competencies#Competence_groups :

  • Level 2: (226 points) can integrate two or more pieces of information based on criteria, compare and contrast or reason about information and make low-level inferences
  • Level 3: (276 points) can understand and respond appropriately to dense or lengthy texts, including continuous, non-continuous, mixed, or multiple pages.

Geany is a nice GUI option. It's a bit more capable but still lean.

It's probably time for me to re-evaluate the host of coding editors out there. For the most part I just use good text editors. Though I do love Spyder, I only use it for a certain subset of tasks.

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