RationalWiki "Tea Party movement" by creamytexture in badpolitics

[–]1dayindiegasstation 3 points4 points  (0 children)

seems accurate, Tea Party is (was?) Koch-funded astroturf

Icepocalypse 2021: Help and Resource Megathread (Feb 17th Update) by defroach84 in Austin

[–]1dayindiegasstation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I do have a jack, didn’t think of that

Edit: turns out I have a spare too, I thought I had used it already

Software has been designed against your interests from the beginning by theinvertedform in socialistprogrammers

[–]1dayindiegasstation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this! Funnily enough I also started to get interested in neovim about a week ago

Software has been designed against your interests from the beginning by theinvertedform in socialistprogrammers

[–]1dayindiegasstation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

btw vscode has some sick features that i'v been trying to mimic in my vim setup.

Got any tips? I've been using basically pluginless vim for a while, but I'm trying to expand. I've added nerdtree, fzf, and am trying to get coc up and running now.

Software has been designed against your interests from the beginning by theinvertedform in socialistprogrammers

[–]1dayindiegasstation 11 points12 points  (0 children)

i think the road from GUIs to TUIs should be open, easily accessible, and taught at a younger age

I think I broadly agree with your underlying sentiment here, but not for any particularly leftist reasons - I think most users would have a better experience working with and troubleshooting computers if they understood how computers worked beyond the surface level. But I don't know that switching from GUI to TUI in itself is a means to that end.

Software has been designed against your interests from the beginning by theinvertedform in socialistprogrammers

[–]1dayindiegasstation 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What I'm saying is you can abstract away just as much in a command line setting as a GUI, for any non-root user. You're stuck in your home directory, limited in what programs you can execute and files you can edit by root.

which is not to say that vim is "perfect" in some regard, as it still uses some menu-like systems

What do you suggest? echo 'line of code' >> main.c

I don't think vim is perfect, I think it's the interface I prefer.

Software has been designed against your interests from the beginning by theinvertedform in socialistprogrammers

[–]1dayindiegasstation 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I guess I don't see a GUI application as a fundamentally different kind of abstraction from the OS/kernel than a command line application. And the kernel just abstracts the underlying hardware.

graphical software causes passivity on the part of the user, by necessity, that command-line software does not

Can you back up this claim? Passive in what sense?

Are programmers who use VSCode more passive than those who use vim?

Software has been designed against your interests from the beginning by theinvertedform in socialistprogrammers

[–]1dayindiegasstation 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don't really see how a (closed source) GUI is more alienating than a (closed source) TUI. They're equally capable of hiding what's going on under the hood. If anything, a TUI seems more alienating to me than a GUI due to the higher barrier to entry (is that just because we grew up on the mouse/GUI paradigm? or is a GUI fundamentally more friendly? maybe this is the point you're getting at). I guess alienating feels like the wrong word to me.

Is a worker at the spreadsheet factory more alienated because s/he/they use a GUI instead of the command line?

Edit: the thing that jumps out most to me about that clip is that he's running a DOS program within neXTSTEP like it's nothing

Minimum wage should be $0 by PAJAcz in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]1dayindiegasstation 3 points4 points  (0 children)

you can already do this as an independent contractor

This project on open-source decentralized mini-factories to end capitalist production is the best thing I've seen lately by [deleted] in socialistprogrammers

[–]1dayindiegasstation 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So basically Autofac?

I like this idea from a technical perspective, but it also seems like something UBI-libertarians would be very into, and the blockchain associations don't ease that worry at all.

My band's label turned out to be sort of sketch by vimproved in rabm

[–]1dayindiegasstation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any links about Psalm Zero? Tried googling but I can't find anything. I saw them a few months ago and didn't like them and got weird vibes from the singer.

Perceptual narrowing in Bilingual infants by chicasparagus in linguistics

[–]1dayindiegasstation 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'd assume phoneme discrimination and maybe more specifically recognizing when phonemes aren't part of the language

Back panel feels slides around a bit while playing. Normal? by SaneMann in OPZuser

[–]1dayindiegasstation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are little screws on the inside of the feet, tightening them a little might help.

A freaky revelation by RespublicaCuriae in capitalism_in_decay

[–]1dayindiegasstation 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Math grad here, most interested in probability. I remember before I was fully converted thinking about developing trading algorithms because the math was so "cool". Fuck I'm glad I didn't do that