circuitfarmer

There are vim keybindings for Code. Discovered that yesterday.

Though, if you want vim bindings for Code, probably should just use vim…

I’ll tell you what though: one you get used to it, you really get used to it.

I typed :q to try and close a tab the other day.

Edit: a tab not in vim, of course

This is a good, nutshell explanation of late-stage capitalism.

As far as the answer to “what’s the endgame”, I do not know. I suspect that many or most of these rich folks are so moneyblind that they don’t know either. Or, they simply don’t believe that their collective actions will eventually cause the system to fail.

But most likely, I think, is that they believe someone else will bear the majority of any negative impact. Of course this makes less sense in the face of a systematic collapse, but again: it’s probably very difficult to see when you have dollar signs in your eyes.

This is really sad, tbh.

I personally would be freaking stoked. Would love to be a stay at home hubs, too.

But that level of stability would mean no one could make themselves richer!

The thing is: nature will bring the stability anyway. It just won’t include us. Sucks that we all have to die because the greediest among us cannot pull head from ass.

I enjoyed it, but it certainly isn’t too good for anything.

It’s a fun romp, albeit somewhat typical. Screenplay is decent, but filled with a bit too much forced fan service. The world building is fantastic, though, and pretty much worth the price of admission itself.

The deepfake version of Ian Holm is pretty egregious. Given that they developed a puppet, and that the character was meant to be a broken android anyway (not a spoiler), I do wonder why they didn’t just lean in to the weird face of a puppet. Why are his movements weird and mechanistic? Because it’s a broken android. That may have aged better than the deepfake.

But overall, worth a watch, which is at least more than can be said for other series outings.

Well, they will. Two things drive the trend, in my view:

1. Lack of informed opinions. If you don’t know that other options exist, you’ll buy whatever because you think it is the baseline.

2. Convenience. This one is a killer. People regularly give up a lot – even rights – in the name of convenience.

Between those two factors, it’s a hard sell for the average consumer to not support this kind of corpo garbage. A nihilistic view, maybe, but I think it’s an accurate one.

In a similar vein, it’s pretty easy to show someone that consoles have these needlessly expensive proprietary links, plus games which are very expensive for the same reason. But it is very hard to convince someone that the cool thing they saw on TV isn’t, in fact, “cool” because of the aforementioned reasons. And ultimately, people like having cool things, even if that coolness is subjective.

Historically, it’s been a push-pull between groups, but everyone has had a different future. Now that things are being consolidated wholesale – e.g. physical media going out the window because so many are happy to stream and never own anything – it is more necessary than ever to call out #1 and #2, since the market itself is changing for the worse.

It is intentionally difficult, of course.

The real solution is not to buy the console.

Soon conservatives will have to pay attention to their own bullshit instead of constantly distracting with Hunter Biden

The fact that consoles still get away with this inflated proprietary crap is shocking

I think the issue is a bit more nuanced. Graphics have gotten so good that it is relatively easy to get character animations which sit in the uncanny valley.

The uncanny valley is bad. You can have beautiful, photorealistic graphics everywhere, but if your characters are in the uncanny valley, the overall aesthetic is more similar to a game which didn’t have the photorealism at all.

In the past, the goalpost was at a different spot, so putting all the resources towards realism still wouldn’t get you into the valley, and everyone just thought it looked great.

Like, there’s enough batshit crazy right now without having to make it up. Don’t be a part of the problem so that you can earn internet points.

Same reason everything in the US is expensive: we have largely unregulated, runaway capitalism which pervades every facet of life. Everything from housing to academia to health care is for profit – not only profit, but for obscene year-over-year increases in profit. Those at the top regularly make money hand over fist even selling basic necessities, and if they don’t continue taking more and more, they’re seen as failures and replaced by one who will.

The cherry on top is that, for the most parts, the citizens no longer have any real power to change any of it.

Around the same time that health care becomes affordable in the US (major hypothetical, of course), it probably means a wind change has occurred such that university costs would also be coming down. But it would be a systematic change.

Yeah, I think they just want to lose at this point. Maybe that was always the point.

Thanks for the detailed explanation!

Same is true of many other AI assistants. They’re really neat as a technical exercise, or for a bit of fun for 10-20 minutes. But when it comes to folding them into workflows, the utility is harder to grasp.

Couple that with the extreme energy requirements of these systems, the worries about where the training data comes from, plus the fact that it feels like every single corporation is just flailing around “AI” because they see dollar signs… I’m pretty over it.

Interesting. It must do more than that though – for example, FLAC offers different compression “levels”, which you choose when encoding. To my knowledge all of them are lossless, but what do the levels do if it is only merging identical channel data?

It doesn’t. When you reset it, they take very little resources until you actually load them.

Bookmarks are for really important stuff. Open tabs are for stuff I want to be able to easily stumble back upon, but I won’t be butthurt if I dont.

There’s nothing wrong with having more than one way to categorize stuff.

Edit: and considering that session data is also written to disk, there really isn’t much difference between bookmarks and open tabs anyway.

Yes it happens. As others have said: just restart.

What might not be as clear: when you restart, if it doesn’t just come up and offer to restore your session, you can go to History and Restore Previous Session. This reopens all your tabs (actually, they won’t fully reload until you view them).