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2018-11-09 at 11:36 PM UTC in New KeycapsCheck it:
SA caps, surprisingly few sets made in this profile, people seem to have something against spherical caps even though they're my favorite and even then DSA seems more popular for some reason. I have DSA caps on the keyboard I carry around for use on the go and for that context the low profile is preferable but for the board that never leaves my desk the additional sculpting is really nice, and I think it looks sick.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-13 at 12:25 AM UTC in Infinityshock's Ban
Originally posted by -SpectraL Source? When I bring out arguments in a debate, I cite sources. You don't.
This isn't a debate spectral, even though think seem to think it is. It's you complaining ad nauseam, scronoldo sucking your dick not because he agrees but because he's insecure about me stealing HTS away from him, and everyone else laughing at how seriously you take yourself.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-12 at 11:48 PM UTC in Users you would doThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-12 at 11:41 PM UTC in New Keycaps
Originally posted by Zanick I think it's pretty rad looking and that's great if it's better for your purposes. As far as my keyboard use goes I'm with Narc, I find the MacBook keyboard to be sufficient. What are the advantages you're looking for in substituting?
Verses a macbook keyboard (and I'll talk about the last generation since the new ones are the hottest garbage you could possibly put on a >$1000 computer), the main things I'm looking for are greater travel (distance that a key is depressed before activating), tactile feedback (usually brief drop in resistance at the point of activation, accompanied by a sound with "clicky" switches), and hysteresis (different resistance curves when depressing a key vs. releasing it). Cap shape and thickness also affect the feel, but that's pretty much just a matter of personal preference.
Originally posted by Odigo Messenger - Now With Free 911 Service Can't imagine wanting to do without the number pad on a keyboard.
I can see both sides on the number pad thing. I have full size keyboards and use them regularly, and it's undoubtedly better than using the top row if you're typing out a lot of numbers. Originally I picked up a TKL just because I couldn't fit a full sized keyboard in by backpack. I didn't miss the number pad as much as I thought I would, and I found that since the numpad is on the right side of keyboard, and I use my right hand to use the mouse, I had to move my hand like half the distance to go from the mouse to the keyboard. It's a small thing but it's a motion we do an enormous number of times if you're using any kind of DE and when I use fullsized keyboards now I notice it and it's perceptibly slower.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-10 at 8:18 AM UTC in should lanny stop pretending to be an important philosopher
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny the though question is which one of them should represent aristotle, socrates and plato.
Socrates is obviously the one on his back. Plato is the one sucking dick, representing his unending desire to pull on Socrate's skin and fellate his persona, if not his philosophy. The one kissing him is Aristotle both on account of him being the most attractive of the bunch and also because he actually loves Socrates and his philosophy, not just his image (phallus), and is the true successor to the western philosophical tradition.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-11 at 7:07 PM UTC in Infinityshock's BanMy reaction to all of spectral and scron's butthurt ITT:
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2018-11-11 at 12:37 PM UTC in Why I feel Marijuana is a menace
Originally posted by PrettyHateMachine It's cute that any of you would think you could take me on
There's literally no one on this site that wouldn't beat your ass in a fight. Schizophrenics, creepy probably decrepit pedophiles, fat cunts, drug addicted hobos who haven't had a proper meal in a month. Literally none of them is incapable of fucking you up.
You are at the bottom of a really shitty ladder when it comes to being tough.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-11 at 12:45 PM UTC in Why I feel Marijuana is a menace
Originally posted by PrettyHateMachine Lanny I could destroy you blind folded and while listening to a Japanese language podcast.
You live in a van and probably have pneumonia. I could put you on your ass with a firm handshake.
Also even my shitty broken Japanese is way better than yours, and always will be.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-11 at 7:17 AM UTC in Why I feel Marijuana is a menace
Originally posted by totse3.com You're sick and twisted.
what the hell is wrong with you for advocating the exploitation of the "mid-lower class"
You've literally read my post and taken away exactly the opposite message of what was written.
Like I said just a couple posts ago: I think a society should represent all it's members, not some special elect among them. If you read my posts in context it's pretty obvious what I'm advocating is equal representation for, and social investment in the well being of, the proletariat, women, ethnic minorities, and people with socially atypical lifestyles (within some reasonable bounds such as non-violence).
Even if you take that one single post you quoted wholly out of context you've still missed the most basic point I was putting across, even wholly devoid of context.
To reiterate: I think every member of a society should be represented in that society. I think any society should look after the well-being of all its members. I don't think exploitation of the poor is OK and, in fact, think it's one of the greatest moral crimes our society commits.
What I said was that if we find ourselves confronted with a society that is contemplating a discriminated against population, then I actually think the society which perpetuates that population in order to continue to exploit them might actually be doing something worse than the society that simply exterminates them. There's a consequentialist argument to be made that exploiting N generations for some sufficiently large N is always worse than exterminating one generation. I also think there's a simple argument to be made from human dignity: it's not at all an uncommon sentiment that it is better to not exist at all than to maintain an existence sufficiently deprived. Most people can think of situations that they'd rather be dead to finding themselves in. Some of these situations, I suspect for many people, include conditions of slavery or extreme social exclusion for which there is historical precedent.
You don't have to agree with me on this point, but at least try paying enough attention to my posts that you aren't taking the literal opposite meaning to what I say and calling me "sick and twisted" on those grounds. I mean you no malice when I say this, but you literally, based on the best evidence available to me, including posting with you for multiple years now, have schizophrenia and being called "sick and twisted" because you schizo'd out while reading my post is frankly kind of offensive.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-11 at 7:21 AM UTC in Users you would doOle narcy is a bit of a freak.
Good people, glad he's here.
But definitely a fucking freak.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-10 at 6:27 PM UTC in I made a thing
Originally posted by OG_GREENPLASTIC_JOHNSON_III it would be a lot cooler if i knew what was going on
It's a program for quantizing and building markov chains out of MIDI streams. So like basically you play a MIDI instrument to it, or in this case play it a MIDI recording of a performance, and it infers a probabilistic model of the piece which it uses to generate "new" music. You get a some influence over how faithful it is to what it was trained on, at the lowest level of fidelity it's basically just a random salad of notes that happened to appear in the training data, and at the highest it just plays back what it "heard", but there's an interesting middle ground where it takes little sequences and themes in the training set and splices them together that actually sounds intelligible, sometime it's surprising how coherent is, sometimes it gives an impression of actually having some kind of narrative structure even though it's just a statistical model and any larger kind of structure kinda just arises by chance.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-10 at 1:40 AM UTC in I'm gonna die of smoke inhalation
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2018-11-10 at 6:52 AM UTC in I'm gonna die of smoke inhalationI've definitely been guilty too in the past. The culture is such that if you're perceived to perform well and the money's coming in you can get away with a lot so it's easy to think of yourself as above the need for collective bargaining. But when things get tighter that freedom turns into you being expected to clean up when things go awry and pick up the slack on demanding schedules. Things have been sweet for a number of years now but it's important to remember tech has had booms and busts plenty in the past.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-10 at 3:53 AM UTC in should lanny stop pretending to be an important philosopher
Originally posted by Obbe Philosophers pretend to lead us back to reality on ways paved with more words of higher abstraction, like devils promising to lead us to Heaven. If the devil is the Father of Lies, words are surely the Mother. Paradise is a myth about a preverbal Consciousness, before men created words and subsequently mistook the symbol (idol) for reality (God); the Fall of Man and his Expulsion is the consequence of worshipping verbally fashioned images. The nemesis of abstraction is that the symbol becomes the reality, and the individual differences in the real world are occulted behind the Veils of Maja.
Where'd you find this one?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-10 at 5:14 AM UTC in Friday NightChilling at home, playing RDR2, drinking bourbon (to stay in character), shitposting with my favorite band of degenerate cunts. No major responsibilities I need to attend to. No creeping existential dread. You know, sometimes things are pretty good.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-10 at 6:41 AM UTC in Friday NightApparently it was FDR, but I could totes see mr. "get your hands off my penis!" saying it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-10 at 6:35 AM UTC in I'm gonna die of smoke inhalation
Originally posted by gadzooks Yeah, us code monkeys need to stick together and represent a union of sorts that demands telecommute or subpar performance.
Without my telecommute option I'd be losing my shit. I need that home-office.
Have you been following the Lanetix labor dispute at all? Personally I'm glad to see programmers start to organize around labor issues, I hope we see more of it in the future. I think a lot of developers kind of have this pride thing where they're like "I'm hot shit so I can negotiate my own contract, like a star athlete" or something and we've failed to take the notion of collective bargaining serious, even though it's widely acknowledged that many developers work in really abusive death-march style environments.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-10 at 4:53 AM UTC in Post a photo of what you see right now
Originally posted by gadzooks Damn and here I thought I was all clever with my work comp and pleasure comp rolled into one.
Still though, a lot can be said for cloud computing and the like. I keep one set up as my sanctuary and be telneting/SSSHing into a few remote machines for my dev work.
I did all my dev work on a remote machine for a little over a year. Wasn't a bad experience and it was nice to be able to sit down at any machine with an SSH client and go, but ultimately I prefer having the hardware I'm on be local. Network connectivity is certainly pretty highly available these days but even light-moderate network latency is kinda annoying when it's tacked onto every keystroke and there are still times when I just don't have a connection and my setup is effectively a brick. Also it's literally a fantasy scenario but I like the idea that if I were trapped on a deserted island that somehow had a power outlet but no internet connection I could basically build what I needed.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-10 at 3:35 AM UTC in US BankThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-11-10 at 4:20 AM UTC in Post a photo of what you see right nowThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
