Comments by "Chrysippus" (@4.0.4) on "Luke Smith" channel.

  1. Imagine eating a hamburger like that - first eating the top bun, then the meaty part, then finish by the bottom bun. The analogy itself shows why it's a bad idea. You want a bit of meat with each bite.
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  2. Number one: In 1945, corporations paid 50 percent of federal taxes. Now they pay about 5 percent. Number two: in 1900, 90 percent of Americans were self-employed; now it’s about time for making a time machine and going back to 1933.
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  3. 6:30 >wants to give an example >first thing that comes to mind is a lawnmower Truly a boomer.
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  4. I also think a lot about the Third Reich.
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  5. Uncle Ted: Ideas worth sharing.
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  6. Seriously though, if your parents blocked your internet, you'd grow into a rebellious teen that learns how to unblock it and becomes proud of it. The solution always involves talking to kids about it. Communication is key.
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  7. I disagree with this but only tangentially. The important distinction is ownership, in my view. When you pay for a Goyflix account, nothing is yours. When you pay for a solar panel, not only is the panel yours, but so is the electricity, now. If it breaks, chances are you can just buy another from whatever company, since you still have the converter, batteries and everything. Sure, you might not be able to make a solar panel from scratch, but you don't need to - if there's a zombie apocalypse and your panel breaks, just get used to cold showers or something.
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  8. It actually sounds like a good browser. At least the devs seem to be normal human beings as opposed to palemoon's basement dwelling fedora crossdressers.
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  9. "Here's how the Alt-Right is appropriating cooking and why that's a bad thing".
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  10. I would have spit my coffee but I wasn't drinking coffee.
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  11. Python is a LOT faster... ...than Ruby!
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  12. Agree 100%. Having kids and raising them properly is essentially your own ethno-state. Be the change you want to see in the world. Don't cry about 1945, work towards the 2038 centenary.
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  13. The editor I use has these keyboard bindings, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, I use them a lot.
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  14. Wow you pronounce romance languages very well. Wonder if you actually speak Spanish/Italian with any degree of fluency. That said, Cornu*o is probably the least romantic of the romance words, even more than El Divorcio or La Creatura.
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  15. "man up" could be used like RTFM.
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  16. It doesn't look like the limiting factor was Luke's internet, when his laptop was struggling to encode a 480p webcam stream and show a site at the same time.
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  17. Finally I can write programs that use emojis as command line parameters.
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  18. You're killing it with the memes man
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  19. I disagree, Adobe has certainly did some things wrong.
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  20. 3:34 he's using the mask wrong smh.
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  21. Being able to read the text.
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  22. There is a lot of cases where GUI > terminal. Image editing is a prime example (and no, not everything is as simple as what you can do with ImageMagick). Or 3D modeling, or video editing. Or whenever you want a rich visual interface to represent and interact with complex data that involves lots of zooming in and out (like an audio's spectrogram, some relationship graph, etc). I'd even say there's use cases for voice-controlled software, and I'd be using a lot of it if it was strictly offline. Like getting to your home and just telling the lights to turn on and what music to play - I just don't want spyware to come up every time I shout "Hey Botnet!".
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  23. What's most surprising is that Wikipedia is bad for quick summaries too. If you want a quick understanding of a topic, there's almost invariably a better resource for that.
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  24. Look, I get the appeal. If it's 3 in the morning and I need some stubborn software to just work, I much rather this than editing some makefile to get some snowflake software to compile into a working version.
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  25. The reason people expect it to be different than say plumbing, is that plumbing is a job, and they expect computers to "just work". This is taken to the absolute extreme, hence boomers who can't even operate a DVD player.
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  26. Respectfully disagree on part of this. Most computer time is idle. A lot of Linux wouldn't exist if all the shell scripts had to be rewritten in assembler to be perfectly efficient or something. That said, I completely agree that you should "waste" some time on dead-ends to find actual good ideas that work for you. Maybe Vim (or something else) is not your cup of tea, but it's good to try out new stuff, you might find a gem.
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  27. >text-only file managers are better >workarounds hacky image support
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  28. The size of source code is a really bad comparison IMHO. I could make code smaller with a script that deletes all documentation, comments, converts spaces to tabs, and lossy-compresses icons. You know how big Linux source code is.
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  29. A canticle for Pepe.
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  30. I want that memearchive.tar.gz
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  31. Wait, do you work remotely? I thought you worked for some uni.
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  32. I'm trying to see what meme is the thumbnail. Is that a phallic joke from the graph shape?
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  33. I don't get the problem with config files as a general concept. You can't build really complicated stuff without them (unless you're the only one writing and using it) and if someone fucks up the config file you can just error out until the user fixes it. I mean, all the stuff you add to your particular suckless program is hard to share, hard to keep track of when you bring in changes from other people, and depending on what you do, similar to keeping a dependency tree on your mind (say, a change you made depends on something else you use on your machine).
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  34. I wish the video was more than strawmans though. Maybe you could make a follow-up. I see a lot of people having issues with PulseAudio too, it just seems to be that, as crappy as it is, there's no proper replacement.
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  35. Whitespace is good. You don't want a page crammed with info, or it would end up looking like a Chinese site.
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  36. Does it sound as different as it looks like it does? Amazing that it still means the same.
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  37. About the "[[ a == b ]]" bashism, I've seen distros that have a symlink from [[ to BusyBox (I think).
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  38. There's a big problem with "a recipe site". Not all recipes are the same. If you look up a recipe for pesto, some recipes tell you to goddamn cook the pesto till all the basil taste is ruined. The only solution is to have authors/sources who you can trust. It's not like typing "man chicken_parmesan" on the command line and getting the single possible way in which you can link and compile the recipe ingredients.
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  39. File managers shouldn't handle drag&drop. That should be an "OS level" (desktop manager) thing. You can have two "incompatible" file managers in Windows if you want, and drag and drop would work.
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  40. Now that you mention it, it's kinda obvious.
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  41. RMS was fired for your sins.
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  42. Why is cyberpunk romanticized so much? Honest question.
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  43. Before you go missing while you hunt for another week's dinner again, could you point me to that wallpaper?
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  44. Can't you configure it to auto-play gifs?
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  45. Bash is very fast. No matter what script you write, any (significant) slowness will come from using tons of external binaries for e.g., string manipulation. Bugs however are very easy with bash. Imagine how many scripts you will break if you have, say, a newline in a filename (it's valid!).
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