Libra00 @ Libra @lemmy.ml

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Yeah, art deco is definitely high on that list. Also brutalism. I especially love brutalist interiors.

And all marketing budget at that, we don't even know what it cost to develop.

But I'm not running, I'm just a tourist!

Sure, I get the appeal as a feature, just not as a descriptor/category.

That sounds like a big increase in pain-in-the-ass for not that big an increase in savings. I'm happy to trade money for convenience on this one. ;)

No, what you did is come into a productive post with a fair amount of serious engagement--and no apparent confusion about what I meant from anyone else--with an attitude and a snarky comment. I tried in my response to ignore that and sincerely engage with your question and you decided to double-down. So I'm gonna take that as a solid 'yes' re:dead-set on being an ass and go do something more productive with my time. Have a lovely day.

Lunch meat. I eat sandwiches every day for lunch and I have tried all the discount store brands for various types of ham, turkey, and chicken, and it's all pretty shit, so I'm quite happy to pay the buck for the Hillshire Farms stuff cause it's the best.

Fly everywhere. I'm having breakfast in Paris, lunch in Cairo, and dinner in Kyoto, and checking out a bunch of other places in between. Also doing approximately all of the cocaine so I can stay awake for the whole thing.

...weird. I don't understand why drop-down terminals are a thing? I can bring up Konsole with a hotkey too, only it just opens a window instead fo doing a fancy animation. That's such a tiny part of its functionality that I can't imagine how 'drop-down' became a descriptor for a terminal instead of just a bullet point on a feature list somewhere, much less a whole-ass category of terminals, lol.

But, fair enough.

Did you miss the important part of the comment you're replying to?

What else did you imagine I meant when I titled that post ‘the terminal question’?

Did you think 'the terminal' question meant something else, or are you just ignoring the whole thing because you're dead-set on being an ass?

Huh, I didn't think about that. But I can just install uBO and disable the built-in ones if it ever becomes a problem, right? I thought I saw an option about disabling them.

Yeah I'm kinda getting that impression. Most of the responses to this post have generally been 'use what your DE ships with' or 'I use something obscure and tailored to this weird specific use case I have'. I've looked at a lot of the suggestions people have given and none of them seem like they would be a noticeable upgrade for me, so I'm content to continue using konsole until I come across a situation that requires me to do something fancy that it can't do.

That's why it was right there in the title? What else did you imagine I meant when I titled that post 'the terminal question'?

And yes, I genuinely value the opinions of others (because they can explain why they hold them) over the opinions of AI-generated listicles and 10 year old reddit posts that offer no explanation. Is that not why you participate in internet forums like lemmy?

Fair enough, although I'm not sure why you turned a color filter/processor into something that could process acoustics if that's all you wanted, but I get not wanting to be part of the problem.

Yeah, I mean it depends a lot on what you think the purpose of the experiment is, right? I take a somewhat simplistic view at the big-picture scale: I want to live, therefore it's better to be alive than dead, therefore continuing to be alive is exceeding my expectations and counts as a win in my book. But it's more complicated once you get into the weeds of 'purpose' and such. For me I think there is no point or purpose to life beyond it as itself, we're just a particularly complex chemical soup cast adrift in the universe left to work shit out for ourselves. But what that means is that I get to decide what everything means including life itself, and since I want to continue living and creating meaning I have decided that that means I am accomplishing my purpose in life. Yeah the world sucks and all that, but it is still populated by people and people are what matter; we can make the world a better place by improving the lives of those who live here by reducing the amount of suffering in it. As Camus says, the struggle itself is enough to fill a man's heart.

Chucking 8 years of work seems like a drastic step, especially since others were (and now have) surely developed similar algorithms and are a lot less scrupulous about how they train and use them. Why did you feel like you had to step away from the field altogether after such a big time investment? Not that I'm judging, I'm just curious at the motivations involved.

I dunno that 'like' is an accurate description; I don't 'like' my wrench, but it's useful for turning bolts. AI is the same. I'm working on a novel project and I've been using ChatGPT and related tools to help with things like worldbuilding, naming, formatting, structure, grammar, etc, basically everything but the actual writing itself. It's been a big help, but I can also see the concerns of people whose jobs/livelihoods/etc are threatened by it; that wrench also works pretty good as a blunt object to chuck at peoples' heads.

I don't have an answer for you, I'd never heard of ASCIIFlow, but holy shit that takes me back to an oooold piece of DOS software called FormTool. Used to make dungeon maps and character sheets and such with it back in the early 90s. Good times.

None, but I'm asexual/aromantic, so..

1992. I spent a lot of time on BBS's back in the day. One day a friend from there told me about this number I could dial with my computer to connect to a server at the local university that had a simple shell that couldn't do much more than telnet, and a few MU*es to check out. I played one of htem for a little bit, then learned about unix machines and shell accounts and managed to get myself one, but even then it was all text-based. I used gopher (before www was really a thing) and then lynx (text-based web browser) to poke around a bit, browsed some newsgroups, etc.