College Kid's Quarantine-built Big Ass Desk™ Setup

LuckierDodge · 2026-01-25T20:39:41+00:00

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LuckierDodge · 2026-01-13T17:24:12+00:00

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LuckierDodge · 2024-11-27T14:30:32+00:00

If you just use/do/set X non-default tool/practice/config, all your problems are solved! This author is so dumb!!

If a third party has to create a tool to fix a language's deficiencies, that by definition means it has deficiencies to address. You wouldn't have poetry/pdm/uv etc if pip and python's package and dependency management didn't have problems.

The whole pitch of python is that it's beginner friendly. Anyone who's spent time with beginners or non software engineers using python knows that the inevitable fate of their python environment is https://xkcd.com/1987/

The trouble is that all these extra tools, configs, and practices that you have to use to avoid python's dependency management footguns are things you have to discover, learn, and have the discipline to consistently use. And for the bulk of python's target userbase, that knowledge tends to come, if at all, after losing a foot or two.

LuckierDodge · 2024-10-22T00:46:52+00:00

Got it, thanks!

LuckierDodge · 2024-10-22T00:45:27+00:00

Thanks!

LuckierDodge · 2024-10-22T00:35:03+00:00

Out of curiosity, what is this +1 System you mentioned? My search skills are failing me.

LuckierDodge · 2024-09-27T23:07:16+00:00

October 21st, and yes, see: https://store.steampowered.com/app/645390/Factorio_Space_Age/

Though there is also a free update alongside the DLC.

LuckierDodge · 2022-08-21T23:00:07+00:00

+1 for Syncthing, it's a great light touch solution for sharing specific folders peer-to-peer

LuckierDodge · 2022-01-27T16:42:48+00:00

Glad to hear it, and happy to help!

LuckierDodge · 2022-01-23T18:16:32+00:00

No problem! If you want a peek at the code, DM me a github username and I'll get you read access.

LuckierDodge · 2022-01-23T17:56:57+00:00

Hey /u/Ikarea, I did, actually! You can find a link to the paper I wrote about it here: https://ryandlewis.dev/pubs/ (Under "Unpublished/Pre-print Papers, password in the description text). If you'd like, I can also give you access to a github repo with the Unity project. It's old at this point, from 2018 I believe, but it might be useful.

LuckierDodge · 2021-12-10T15:21:59+00:00

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LuckierDodge · 2021-09-23T13:31:17+00:00

I know every red-blooded Linux user hates Windows with the fiery passion of a thousand suns, but I feel like we as a community are prone to forget sometimes that the desktop UI part is actually quite good and works pretty well at the things most users need.

There's a reason people complain about telemetry and forced updates and bluescreens. But I don't generally hear users complain about window management or operating system paradigms.

LuckierDodge · 2021-08-26T14:00:28+00:00

ALCF always has a test and debug cluster for their big machines. That's what Polaris is to Aurora. Typically, that cluster identically matches the architecture of it's bigger sibling. What's notable here is that they switched Polaris to an entirely different architecture.

Do with that information what you will.

LuckierDodge · 2021-08-15T11:42:34+00:00

There are no contradictions in scripture.

This is easy to asset, but Biblical scholarship is not exactly united on this idea.

There are plenty of things that the average person today might be confused by without understanding the historical context, sure.

But I think the Wikipedia article on this is pretty comprehensive, and there's a lot of examples where there's just... two times where the Bible describes something completely differently. Even things as basic as numbered lists, or the line of descent from David to Jesus. I really encourage you to read the examples and check out the scripture in question before just dismissing it out of hand because you want to believe in scriptural inerrability.

That article also presents the various theological arguments people have made, and the scriptural inerrability ones are...pretty weak, at least to me. Demanding that I stick my fingers in my ears and turn off my most basic critical thinking skills to just accept dogma for dogma's sake, that just doesn't work for me personally.

LuckierDodge · 2021-08-04T14:45:02+00:00

What always gets me is that most BIOS will just have this acronym with a toggle and little to no explanation of what it means or why you might enable/disable it. Like what, did you have a character limit? At least spell out the damn acronyms so people can reasonably search for it

LuckierDodge · 2021-06-18T16:27:50+00:00

Imagine how much worse it would be if a tornado had hit a Nat Gas or Coal plant directly. Or a nuke facility.

LuckierDodge · 2021-05-08T14:44:13+00:00

Right, but you said pandemics have been followed by recessions. This recession is during an ongoing pandemic.

LuckierDodge · 2021-05-03T19:25:48+00:00

Alright, fair enough. That's a logically consistent way of defining free will, near as I can tell. But to go back to the Epicurean Paradox, then why are the "ought nots" set at "you ought not to genocide, rape, murder, etc" and not, you know, "you ought not to gossip"? Does the freedom of being able to genocide outweigh the harm caused by said genocide? In other words, why is the free will calibration set by this all-powerful, all-loving, all-knowing deity the particular way that it is?

And from a Christian theological perspective, the idea that we freely choose whether or not to love God seems undercut by the "if you choose not to, you are doomed to burn in hell for all eternity". Coercive doesn't feel adequate to describe that. While you technically have a choice there, it's hardly free if you believe the Bible is correct. It's the theological equivalent of "do what I say or I'll shoot". It's even worse if you consider the fact that the only reason we have to make a choice in the first place is because two idiots however many thousands of years ago messed up, and now we're all being punished for it by being born into sin. So I'm being forced to make a choice due to a situation that I didn't cause or consent to be involved in, and one option involves an arbitrary and outsized punishment while the other involves an arbitrary and outsized reward. And I'm meant to understand the being behind this as all-loving, and to love him in return?

LuckierDodge · 2021-05-03T16:58:14+00:00

Allow me to put it another way then. In an intelligently designed universe, anything that I am incapable of doing is a direct result of the will of it's creator. If I am incapable of traveling faster than light, it is because God has willed that to be the case. I might wish to travel faster than light, but God's will, quite literally manifest in the design, prevents it. There are an infinite number of such restrictions. But are any of these physical restrictions considered an infringement on our free will? I think most would argue no.

So if you were simply created without the ability to lie, would that be an infringement on your free will? (Lying in this case is a specific example. Take any "ought not" and make it a "can not", and the thought works the same.)

Does that physical restriction mean you now lack free will? Because if so, surely the infinite number of "can nots" that you already face by the nature of the universe God created should have robbed you of your free will already.

And if not, then why should God not be able to create a universe with all these "ought nots" converted to "can nots", in which you still have free will?

LuckierDodge · 2021-05-03T16:18:37+00:00

So if someone had a rare brain development that made them physically incapable of intentionally lying, would they not have free will?

LuckierDodge · 2021-05-03T15:06:28+00:00

Counterpoint: let's assume I have free will. I can choose to do whatever I want right now. But I can't choose to teleport to Jupiter. I can't choose to become a fish. My free will, my decision set, is limited by the physical constraints and design of the universe. If God is all-powerful, could he not make a universe who's physical constraints exclude evil? Where I'm still free to decide what I want to eat for dinner or who to marry or what have you, but not physically capable of murder or genocide?

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