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[–] expr 2 points 13 hours ago

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine path/to/file will remove that shit.

Though personally, I get as much software as possible on my work MacBook through Nix, and only use .dmg files if absolutely required.

[–] expr 6 points 13 hours ago

It's not that hard, technically speaking, though of course it takes skill to come up with a set of glyphs that work well together and such.

Also, there are websites that can scan your handwriting and turn it into a font file, which is pretty cool. I have a font I created of my wife's handwriting.

[–] expr 2 points 13 hours ago

PSO? Fuck yeah.

[–] expr 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That's fine. In the US, it's a dog whistle for Nazis. It's not gatekeeping when it is simply factual. There's a giant facility off the highway here in Nebraska called "Tactical 88" (with a logo that's quite literally based on a nazi symbol: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsadler) that is 100% a nazi training facility. They even have a giant billboard that says "free AR-15 for signing up".

Fascists love to use it all over the place. So here, in this context, it has a very specific meaning. And when we are dealing with a fascist takeover of our goddamn country, we have every fucking right to tell Nazis using nazi dog whistles to fuck off.

[–] expr 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Erm... You might be confusing millennials with Gen Z or something. I was 19 when annoying orange first showed up, and I'm on the younger end of millennials. Me and my friends found it pretty obnoxious.

[–] expr 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep. It does increasingly feel like developers like me who find it deeply disturbing and problematic for our profession and society are going to increasingly become rarer. Fewer and fewer people are going to understand how anything actually works.

[–] expr 13 points 2 days ago

Anduril has had many, many recruiters desperately trying to get me to work for them. On the surface, what they make does sound incredibly cool: embedded systems/operating systems for autonomous robotics.

The only problem is those robots happen to be death bots (and Palmer Luckey, who makes me want to stay far, far away).

[–] expr 4 points 3 days ago

Flossing must be a bitch.

[–] expr -2 points 5 days ago

https://www.visidata.org/ is way, way, way, way better than excel and it's FOSS.

As for the rest:

  • I don't really miss Word because WYSIWYG editing is just kinda bad across the board. Much better to write with markup rather than fighting an auto-formatter all the time.
  • I thankfully have not needed to make much of any PowerPoints, but I think I would probably feel similarly about them and want them in some kind of markup language as well.
  • Teams just sucks ass compared to many other alternatives, though I'm admittedly not familiar with good FOSS ones
  • Outlook is basically just a dinosaur and there's a million ways to do email better. Frankly, FOSS has it beat by a huge margin

The rest of Office isn't really even worth talking about tbh.

[–] expr 0 points 5 days ago

For excel stuff, https://www.visidata.org/ is way, way better than excel assuming the data is tabular (which, frankly, it should be anyway). Like it's not even close.

[–] expr 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Completely agree. Just a bunch of people who clearly don't play the game and know nothing about it talking out of their asses.

IMO you can't have a serious opinion about the game without having actually played it competitively. If you're just somebody that's casually played a couple games with friends and family, your opinion about the game isn't really relevant.

[–] expr 0 points 6 days ago

This couldn't be further from the truth, and it's pretty clear you don't actually play the game. I had no idea this misconception was so common.

Chess is ALL ABOUT creativity and figuring out how to outplay your opponent and secure a win. It's a game of strategy and tactics, of timing and technique. The way "memorization" works is that players tend to have some number of moves in their opening(s) memorized (typically 5-10, though top players can go to greater depth), at which point they are "out of book" and into the middlegame, which is where the game is actually played using some combination of positional ideas, tactics, and calculation. Many players opt to play less theoretically viable openings (that is, variations that are not quite as good with best play), because it gets their opponent out of book faster. "Novelties" (a move in a variation not previously played by a master/grandmaster in a tournament) are played all of the time, even by grandmasters.

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