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I use geany for coding in LaTeX, and occasionally teaching myself some programming stuff when I have free time. I'm aware it's not a great choice for experienced programmers, but I don't really need something feature-rich and extensive, so I appreciate the simplicity.

I think we had the basics covered early. Too early maybe.

I basically had my sex ed delayed a year or two from the other students because as a fourth grader I would mostly just tune out when the teacher started talking.

I remember thinking that surely Duke Nukem Forever would turn out awesome once it's finally finished. After seeing the reception I just decided it wasn't worth checking out.

There's a feeling of panic that sets in when you really don't want to hear the alarm and realize you had better rush to disable it before that last minute counts up.

Interstellar was the first thing I thought of too. I thought the reading of the poem was badass and fit in perfectly.

The devs' politics led to them valuing building a welcoming community over the principle of free speech. There was a strictly enforced moderation policy from the start, which may seem crazy now but it's a lot easier to do when your community is small. Toxic people definitely came in and got banned. On their way out you'd often see them complaining about how ridiculous it is to filter out slurs. The community that stuck around was really great. I'm not someone who posts a lot on any platform, but I was viewing lemmy every day for a couple years because the discussions were good, and there was very little hostility.

Today the community is more like reddit than it is like old lemmy, lemmy actually feels a lot less friendly today than it did like six months ago.

I do think the devs were wholly unprepared for reddit to shoot itself in the foot as badly as it did. Their project went from a passion project to serious business almost overnight. With time I'm sure they're capable of working through the issues we're facing today, but I don't think they were ready for the big migration when it happened.

"You seem like the kind of guy who would write poetry on an aircraft carrier" is my new go-to insult.

Not my analogy, but observing people living under capitalism and then concluding that humans are naturally selfish is like looking at workers in a factory where pollution is poisoning their lungs and then concluding that humans naturally cough a lot.

I saw one of these in action! I never actually knew her, but she was cc'ed in a lot of the emails I was getting. Our emails were first initial, middle initial, first three letters of last name, then extra digits if needed. J. E. Lloyd had "jello@..."

I'm using an android phone because apple doesn't allow anything like fdroid to exist on iphone.

Some stuff that’s colloquially seen as capitalism is okay. Me paying someone to clean my house because I hate that chore is fine with me.

Sometimes I do wonder how many "pro-capitalist" individuals actually think we're railing against exchanging money for goods and services.

It's been a long long time since I touched this but I'm still almost positive deterministic machines can solve everything in NP already.

I read it cover-to-cover like fifteen years ago. I've lost most of that knowledge since I haven't touched it in so long, but I remember I really enjoyed it.

Borderline whether it should count as pizza but the prosciutto pie is crazy good.

I'm local but haven't heard of Louie's, I'll have to check it out.

A good quality Detroit-style, like from Buddy's or from Frank's in Wyandotte a little Southwest of Detroit, those are my favorite pizzas. If I'm getting something cheaper like Jet's though I actually prefer the round.

Gotta admit though, it was pretty cool when that subreddit simulation bot generated an askreddit thread titled something like "Redditors of Reddit, what's the biggest mistake my mom makes in bed?"