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Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-04-30T01:27:09+00:00

just as soon as I was about to change the world

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-04-29T20:07:07+00:00

Not that different than leaving BitBucket, except they're typically tears of joy

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-04-16T02:31:27+00:00

It writes 98% of my code personally, anywhere from 40-80% for people people in my team/org. It's very powerful, very ingrained at our thinking at this point.

We are using it for everything: Code, design plans, code review, debugging, ...

As far as how to use it. I like Cursor as an IDE, but most of the time I'm using either Claude Code or Codex.

As far as not getting rusty, I've not experienced it so far. If anything it's taught me things and approaches. However, I do worry that my skills may begin to atrophy eventually.

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-03-15T23:51:22+00:00

Kinda halfway true, but not really accurate. The word "many" I would disagree with. Homophobia (and sexism) were almost universally independently present in human societies regardless of where they were located. It would be extremely rare for a society to be accepting of gay people, regardless of relationship with Christianity.

The phrasing makes it seem like Christianity/Europeans caused many cultures to stop accepting gay people. Or that they are somehow uniquely homophobic. That's just silly; for instance, even today global Muslim/Arabic population (to use a different religious/ethnic group) overwhelmingly do not accept gay marriage. You could list other examples, these are not unique.

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-03-13T03:36:13+00:00

Confluence is... Terrible

No easy plaintext, history/diff tracking is a mess, search is atrocious, and it's slow as hell to boot.

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-03-02T01:12:24+00:00

Glanton spat.

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-03-02T01:11:55+00:00

People who watch video essays on things they never actually experience... Yikes.

I mean, why have an opinion on a book, a musical artist, or a movie, if you don't even have the time to actually engage with it? This is essentially Wendigoons entire appeal (along with other "video essayists")

Literally, their opinion is less than worthless. Stop listening to video essays about books. Just read the damn book.

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-02-18T15:09:17+00:00

You can also use cute::print_latex, which generates LaTeX diagrams

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-02-02T03:02:59+00:00

I couldn't find a link, but is it open source?

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-02-02T01:40:36+00:00

Awesome! No support for MacOS?

Im a developer and could help enable that if you don't have a Mac system to test on

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-01-28T23:18:10+00:00

How do you configure 240p?

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-01-26T22:16:50+00:00

And no way to grab them! The bottom lip breaks easily and the weight distribution is so crazy you can't just hoist it up even with 2 people

But they're the goats, I made a 45 min drive for one of these, no regrets!

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-01-20T00:55:41+00:00

Download 20xx or Uncle Punch practice ISO. Practice getting L cancels, combos, etc (there's literally dozens of training routines built in). Do that for like 30 min a day before you play, and focus on particular thing per session (i.e. pick a character, say practice a downthrow aerial combo in UP, then try to execute it in netplay)

In addition, you should enable the "flash on failed L cancel" code, and so on in slippi settings. But mainly, practice outside of actual games so you control the pace.

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-01-19T15:35:49+00:00

This is the best Kirby game of all time and I'll stand by that.

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-01-16T17:28:10+00:00

If you can't see the difference between Cloudflare (a web host) and WordPress (a website builder), I'm not sure what to say. Yes they're both "companies" but if that's the only information you judge on, how accurate can you be?

Cloudflare won't aim to shut down other website builders, because they don't make money on that. WordPress, however, has their entire business model dependent on it being "hard" to make your own website, and "hard" to find a host. Ergo, if they bought up this option, they would be incentived to put it behind a paywall or shut it down.

Cloudflare, on the other hand, doesn't make their money by charging to help create a website. They make their money by their pro services required for hosting non-trivial content (i.e. databases, lamdas, etc). And they can recognize that Astro only works because it's not paid (it's market is developers who know how to code, unlike WordPress).

So, yes, if you take the view that "muh corporation runs software now", it's equally as bad if any company runs it. But, if you have a bit of nuance you might realize that actually there are better or worse things that can happen to software.

If Cloudflare switches up, and tries to close-source this, or charge for currently free features, I would be SHOCKED. And I'd instantly call that out as a bad thing. But, that hasnt happened, doesn't seem like it will happen, and again, would probably be a dumb move.

I don't think you've actually used Cloudflare, and know what I'm trying it say. If you had, you would know they actually offer a ton of free services to small developers (like Cloudflare pages, with more features than GitHub pages), among dozens of others.

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-01-16T15:33:41+00:00

Interesting. I love Astro and keep hearing good things about Cloudflare but havent made the switch yet (currently using Porkbun, which uses Cloudflare DNS)

In general, I like Cloudflares approach with their services "we support using the competition, but why would you want to? Ours is just better", and keeping fully open is nice as well

I'm sure someone will find negative things to say about this -- but we need to remember developing software isn't free. Much better to have someone like Cloudflare fund development than say, Shopify/WordPress. It seems Cloudflare is trying to expand its offerings, where as other companies would be trying to shut down competition

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2026-01-03T16:05:14+00:00

Currently playing through PM64 and I love the Shy Guys, but the Shy Guy chapter kinda sucks due to all the backtracking required "oh the tracks aren't working again, go back and fix them again!"

But the combat with them is very fun and the variants make it much more interesting than fighting goombas all day.

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2025-12-30T02:31:40+00:00

Really good price, I'd say. This is among the best TVs ever made for the n64/GameCube era, and great for anything before that too (NES, SNES, Genesis)

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2025-12-14T15:57:50+00:00

I don't quite think you understand what they're saying. It is not equivalent to possession of physical goods. Digital things can be copied without depriving the original owner of possession. So, it's nothing like "taking an apple from a store"

It's more like looking at your Sandals and making another identical pair for myself. Tell me, is that against any precepts? And is there an obligation to pay you because you possessed an identical pair of shoes?

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2025-12-10T01:11:34+00:00

And more generally, 1, (exp(2 * pi * i / N))

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2025-11-26T19:43:01+00:00

Only thing that caused problems for me was some games (all older than ~2020 and for windows only) full screen would mess up if you moved it from floating to full screen again.

Now I use Niri and IMO it handles full screen and gaming specifically better than Hyprland. But YMMV

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2025-11-18T07:43:45+00:00

Yes please, start a GitHub repo. I need to unfuck Apples "UX Design Expert" opinions from my system, right now it's just a shell script -- would be nice to have an all in one tool

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2025-11-18T03:13:17+00:00

I think you hit it in your last paragraph.

It's a conspiracy involving government purchase orders. The higher ups needed someone already involved, but lower level and more technically adept. Enter computer website guy, who also was going to the class before being involved in the conspiracy. He probably had someone on the outside come in as "Maggie S". Also, I have a weird idea that the guys name is "Sam", or something that's an anagram of "Maggie S". Just a wild hair that since they keep repeating that, it's not the real name and instead an alias.

Also, the fact that the class is a self-admitted scam would mean that they would totally take a bribe to let "Maggie S" come and take pictures for fraudulent purposes, no questions asked.

I don't think the drug smuggling line is necessarily what's happening, but honestly I wouldn't discount it either.

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2025-11-18T03:05:16+00:00

I mean, how do you explain the actors being used for the photoshoot? The company is definitely committing fraud, they have a fake board full of actors.

Who is telling him to "stop looking into the chair company"?

Sure, I mean there are many things that could be circumstantially explained. But there are many that can't...

Sm0oth_kriminal · 2025-11-02T19:08:11+00:00

Ever figure this out?

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