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michaelbarton commented on Yes, It's Fascism   theatlantic.com/ideas/202... · Posted by u/mickle00
drcongo · 18 days ago
If you haven't already seen it, I highly recommend the documentary film "Orwell: 2+2=5", it's considerably better than its IMDb rating would suggest and frames a lot of his writing around recent / current events. It also gives a little insight into his prescience.
michaelbarton · 18 days ago
Sounds doubleplus good! Will try to find it streaming somewhere!
michaelbarton commented on I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool   evanhahn.com/i-set-all-37... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
arbitrandomuser · 24 days ago
leap.nvim

you press a keybind and then press one or two characters , all instances of that character pair in the viewport will get get a hint (a characteror two in highlight) , hit those two hint keys and the cursor jumps to that location

its incredibly fast to navigate around your viewport with this.

https://codeberg.org/andyg/leap.nvim

michaelbarton · 18 days ago
Nice! Thats what I was thinking of. Thanks!
michaelbarton commented on Yes, It's Fascism   theatlantic.com/ideas/202... · Posted by u/mickle00
fallinghawks · 19 days ago
It's appalling how they go straight to making things up to suit their narrative, as if video evidence doesn't exist. They know the MAGAs will believe them, and may shed doubt on interpretation for people who aren't that curious about truth. A lie can travel halfway around the world, as they say.
michaelbarton · 18 days ago
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

I remember reading 1984 when I was a kid and enjoying it, at no point did I think it was more than sci-fi though. I suppose it goes to show how much we took for granted the last 80+ years.

It also makes me respect Orwell so much more. Which was already very high based on how he makes tea. How was he able to see you presciently?

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

michaelbarton commented on I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool   evanhahn.com/i-set-all-37... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
omoikane · 25 days ago
Instead of having encyclopedic knowledge of every feature, I think editor fluency is being really good at the few features you need such that the editor is no longer the bottleneck.

The few features you really need to know for VIM are mostly in `:help motion.txt`. Knowledge of other features is obviously helpful in actually editing text, but being able to navigate well should remove most of the bottlenecks, especially considering how most VIM commands take motion into account.

michaelbarton · 25 days ago
Does anyone have a motion jump plugin they use with neovim they can recommend? I used to use a plugin where you could just to a given character in a given buffer, but I can’t remember the name or if it even works with neovim.
michaelbarton commented on Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons   alinpanaitiu.com/blog/dev... · Posted by u/alin23
alin23 · 2 months ago
Author here, I was mostly referring to the practice of coating the wood in a layer of smooth plastic that makes the wood not feel and look like wood anymore. It's like something that you want to keep encased forever.

I'm of the same opinion as you, drying oil polymers are still plastic, it's just that their method of curing makes them look better on wood, most likely because of the very thin layer that remains at the surface, but also because of the polymer surface texture.

Every epoxy resin, even the more penetrant ones, end up looking like plastic on wood, not sure how else to describe it.

But in terms of chemistry, food safety and how inert they are, they are indistinguishable.

I'm also aware mineral oil is food safe, I was trying to say that it will leak into the hot food and not stay in the wood fibers, which renders the finish useless after just one use.

michaelbarton · 2 months ago
I really enjoyed your article. In regard to the parent comment: it’s also enough to say “I enjoy this and this is how I want to spend my time”. So what if it’s reinventing the wheel - the act of learning and crafting itself can be immensely satisfying regardless of the end result.

I came at your article from a slightly different perspective. Rubio monocoat is quite expensive, especially if you’re trying to run a business selling products coated in it. You’re probably already aware, but I think base Rubio is essentially oil + carnauba + a small amount of paraffin. I make large pieces of furniture, and finishing with Rubio can go through multiple cans! So making my own finish has become a priority. That’s not even accounting for Blacktail Studio coating too.

michaelbarton commented on Doge 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter   reuters.com/world/us/doge... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko
TheAceOfHearts · 3 months ago
I knew some people that were initially very optimistic, and I tried to keep an open mind when DOGE got started despite the outlandish claims that they would be able to cut $2 trillion dollars from the budget, but it's apparent at this point that the project has been an extreme failure. It'll probably take a few years to really sort out their damage and overall impact though.

It's also imperative to mention in every DOGE-related discussion and conversation that the funding freeze to USAID is directly responsible for killing thousands of people [0]. Most of the damage done by DOGE can probably be reversed, but the thousands of death as a direct result of actions taken by the richest man in the world should not be forgotten. (Although I'm told there is a bit of uncertainty with any specific figures because the funding disruption also impacted the mechanisms for tracking and reporting deaths.)

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary...

michaelbarton · 3 months ago
I think this article is correct in spirit but a little disingenuous in parts. Would it not be more fair to blame Russia as the primary cause for the deaths in Ukraine due to the collapsing health care system rather than USAID subsequently intervening to stop easily preventable deaths.

I say this not to defend DOGE but rather to emphasize that we should always make abundantly clear the humanitarian disaster in Ukraine lies solely with Putin

michaelbarton commented on Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending Spree   forbes.com/sites/rashishr... · Posted by u/rramadass
layer8 · 3 months ago
I wouldn't characterize that as “incredible commercial potential”. And especially in the case of translation, you save some of money, but also get poorer quality.
michaelbarton · 3 months ago
Speaking from experience I was recently in a tiny fountain pen shop in Sendai[0] where the owner doesn’t speak English and I don’t speak Japanese but we were able to talk for an hour or more about fountain pens and tomoe river paper alternatives using Google translate’s dialogue feature.

Maybe not massive commercial potential but it was pretty amazing and reminded me a bit of the Babel fish which use to seem like impossible sci-fi

[0]: https://share.google/64xTBRThXcFR72r3G

michaelbarton commented on Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending Spree   forbes.com/sites/rashishr... · Posted by u/rramadass
otabdeveloper4 · 3 months ago
> have incredible commercial potential

That assertion is unsupported and unproven.

Also, if a commercial use for LLMs is ever found, it will be in the local, personal computing market, not the "cloud".

michaelbarton · 3 months ago
Aren’t LLMs being used by business successfully in many “unsexy” domains like translation, sentiment analysis, and image recognition?

Though I do agree that many of the breathless claims that you can stop hiring or even layoff developers because of LLMs seem unsubstantiated

michaelbarton commented on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race   nbcnews.com/politics/elec... · Posted by u/jsheard
michaelbarton · 3 months ago
I hope this win signals (to both parties) that voters are receptive and will get engaged when a clear message is presented about cost of living and quality of life issues. Some of which are taken for granted in most other western countries.

I’m no political wonk, and I’m curious what others with more insight might say about his ability to fund and implement his polices.

I’m reminided of Obama and his hopeful message but he was mostly stymied on policy goals. Specifically Obamacare as an example ended up being watered down

michaelbarton commented on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe · 4 months ago
Some are still resisting this kind of attacks. The hiplok D1000 has a thick rubber like abrasive coating that makes it super hard to cut through the metal with power tools
michaelbarton · 4 months ago
I had one of these for my e-bike in Oakland. The thieves used an angle grinder to cut through the bike stand instead

The solution in the east bay seems to be “don’t use a valuable bike”

u/michaelbarton

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