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Hundun

@ Hundun @beehaw.org

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  • I have literally developed bespoke coping mechanisms around such scenarios

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  • If you work a lot with plain-text files (markdowns, office documents CSV etc.) try learning Git. It is a version control tool - it keeps timestamped versions of your documents, so if you edit something wrong, or delete a wrong file you can bring it back by "checking out" a previous version.

    It's a software development tool originally, so learning it might be daunting for a lot of folks - fear not, download a graphical Git client app and look up some tutorials.

    I promise once you get the hang of it, it will be hard to imagine doing anything without it.

    One of those tools I wish were more popular among people who are not into software/engineering.

  • Do you have experiences where your family members are so much engaged in doing something/sports that the their skill of "lets just sit and have a talk" is nonexistent?

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  • Thanks, but it wasn't so bad. I have learned exactly two things from that conversation: 1 - one can brake a dick 2 - some injuries have fascinating stories attached to them

    Overall, I wouldl rate this experience 8.5/10 - very enlightening and only mildly inappropriate.

    Sausage was fine.

  • Do you have experiences where your family members are so much engaged in doing something/sports that the their skill of "lets just sit and have a talk" is nonexistent?

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  • I grew up in a family of medical doctors, it came with its own set of similar challenges. Every problem discussion always revolved exclusively around solutions or practical harm reduction. I suspect God forbade the doctors from talking just for emotional support.

    Every problem I ever had (completely normal ones included) was medicalized and pathologized, neatly classified and wrapped in a set of actionable instructions: "this is how you get better, this is how you allow it to get worse".

    I still remember coming home from school and sitting down at the dining table, eating my sausages with buckweed, while my dad, mom and older sister discuss methods and techniques to install a urethral catheter in a person with a broken phallus.

    It wasn't good or bad, it was just weird I guess. Hey, at least I am not scared of blood/trauma/desease, and in a some cases I believe it allowed me to stomach helping people in need, when other people would turn away out of disgust or disturbance.

  • What are some good games with really awesome stories?

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  • Outer Wilds, if you haven't played already. Obligatory warning to avoid spoilers like your life depends on it, go in completely blind if possible.

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  • My first encounter with Linux was in 2007, I installed Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon on my dad's computer out of curiosity - I was intrigued by a notion of free OS you can deeply customize.

    I have spent countless hours fiddling with the system, mostly ricing (Compiz Fusion totally blew my mind) and checking out FOSS games.

    Decades later I switched to Linux full-time. After 12 years of daily driving OS X and working as a developer, I wanted a customizable and lean OS that is easy to maintain and control. Chose Arch, then Nix, havent looked back ever since.

  • Deutsche Herrschaft

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  • Stangenzirkel!

  • don't embarrass us in front of the cephalopods

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  • Cactus - Cacti Sarcophagus - Sarcophagi Octopus - Octopi Campus - Campi Mouse - Mice House - Hice

  • Why is HD or 3D so impressive on a flat screen, but we walk around in real life with the highest definition possible and the most realistic 3D and it's completely mundane?

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  • In a game, movie, work of literature or theater, your feeling of awe and immersion is maintained by something called the "magic circle". It is an area of experience that is separated from normal reality by the proverbial 4th wall.

    Everything inside the magic circle is filled with artistic purpose, it works (in good works) to drive meaning and communicate themes and ideas of the art work.

    Whenever this magic circle is broken, you suspension of disbelief becomes overtaken by cynicism, and the immersion is gone.

    Mundane life is full of this cynicism, because we are not conditioned (anymore) to find mundane reality purposeful, outside of really outstanding and dire situations. We take reality with it's amazing graphics and narrative for granted, not noticing the magic.

  • The Delhi heatwave is testing the limits of human endurance. Other hot countries should beware and prepare

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  • Don't forget that it only takes more than 35 degrees Celsius of wet bulb to kill any human in ~6 hours of exposure.

    Once air reaches certain humidity levels during a heat wave, it becomes impossible for us to effectively cool down - the sweat simply won't evaporate from our skin.

    Stay safe, harass your local politicians, advocate and for and demand climate action, eat the rich.

  • OCR for maths and english

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  • Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue

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  • The future's wasteland will be covered by bodies of web stalkers who were naive enough to get tricked by mid-2010s shitposts.

    "Turns out they never used this to make their metal cutlery darker - who would have thought the ancients were so casually cruel?"

    "After months of research we have concluded, that despite all their technical achievements, the ancients never figured out, what does the fox say"

    "Today prof. Drobyshevsky is going to tell us about their newest work in XXI cent. anthropology - what is 'streamer dent' and why do we have such long heads 2300 years later?"

    "Ass, coochie and the rich - dietary practices of homo sapiens in the age of over-production"

  • Palestinian resistance Rick and Morty

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  • Bug fixing ways

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  • Despite whatever your lead/manager says, there is always an option to nuke it from low orbit and start over.

  • He revealed the secrets !

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  • As a programmer, I concur. I sit on my arse all day pushing keys , anybody can do that.

  • What Linux "Productivity" (ideally FOSS) tools do you use?

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  • Please elaborate, I've been interested in this for awhile - what do you use/recommend for someone who's new?

  • Whats your such opinion

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  • I am not a professional educator, but in general I think it is worth to start with basic computer literacy: identifying parts of a PC, being able to explain their overall functions, difference between hardware and software, and what kinds of software a computer can run (firmwares, operating systems, user utilities etc.). This would also be a perfect time to develop practical skills, e.g. (assuming you are a normatively-abled person) learning to touch-type and perform basic electronics maintenance, like opening your machine up to clean it and replace old thermal compounds.

    After that taking something like "Operating systems fundamentals" on Coursera would be a great way to go on.

    It really depends on your goals, resources and personal traits, as well as how much time and energy you can spare, and how do you like to learn. You can sacrifice and old machine, boot Ubuntu and break it a bunch of times. You can learn how to use virtualization and try a new thing every evening. You can get into ricing and redesign your entire OS GUI to your liking. You can get a single-board computer like RaspberryPi and try out home automation.

  • Whats your such opinion

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  • We learn and teach inferior personal computing practice, and most people don't realize how much they are missing.

    The vast majority of people outside of enthusiast circles have absolutely no idea what a personal computer is, how it works, what is an operating system, what it does, and how it is supposed to be used. Instead of teaching about shells, sessions, environments, file systems, protocols, standards and Unix philosophy (things that actually make our digital world spin) we teach narrow systems of proprietary walled gardens.

    This makes powerful personal computing seem mysterious and intimidating to regular people, so they keep opting out of open infrastructures, preferring everything to come pre-made and pre-configured for them by an exploitative corporation. This lack of education is precisely what makes us so vulnerable to tech hype cycles, software and hardware obsolescence, or just plain shitty products that would have no right to exist in a better world.

    This blindness and apathy makes our computing more inaccessible and less sustainable, and it makes us crave things that don't actually deserve our collective attention.

    And the most frustrating thing is: proper personal computing is actually not that hard, and it has never been more easy to get into, but no one cares, because getting milked for data is just too convenient for most adults.