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New comment by bowsamic in "The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)"

bowsamic — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:12:37 +0000

Roguelikes use text as symbols, rather than being primarily literary. This comparison doesn’t make sense

New comment by bowsamic in "The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)"

bowsamic — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:04:57 +0000

Classic Steve Jobs move. On the absolute limit of ethics for the sake of Apple

New comment by bowsamic in "Making"

bowsamic — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:55:37 +0000

> coding was never the main goal, it was always the means to create the finished end product

I think that's the main difference. For many of us, the process and how we grow through that process really is as important as, if not more important than, the result

New comment by bowsamic in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"

bowsamic — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:16:02 +0000

It’s easier in most companies to get a cloud bill approved than to ask for a big chunk of cash for hardware and also to pay someone to set it up

New comment by bowsamic in "Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond"

bowsamic — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:25:28 +0000

I don’t need to give reasons for my son to follow my orders

New comment by bowsamic in "Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond"

bowsamic — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:46:46 +0000

Why would I tell my son not to drink beer? He can do so as soon as it’s relatively safe to

New comment by bowsamic in "Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month"

bowsamic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:51:18 +0000

Significantly worse than the Deutschland ticket

New comment by bowsamic in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

bowsamic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:25:03 +0000

Same on macOS. Could be that we are missing some native compilation option though

New comment by bowsamic in "Your ePub Is fine"

bowsamic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:57:31 +0000

ePub compatibility issues are one of the worst parts of having a Kobo reader. I genuinely miss my Kindle and its simple but reliable MOBI format. At least there everything worked

New comment by bowsamic in "Inkscape 1.4.4"

bowsamic — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:30:58 +0000

No, I don’t want to name and shame. It was a few years ago

New comment by bowsamic in "Inkscape 1.4.4"

bowsamic — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:37:36 +0000

Inkscape is the only software that I see people get so defensive about when criticised. I even had the lead dev appear in my mentions and try and start fighting me on twitter when I complained on my own timeline about the performance on macOS. Weird culture

New comment by bowsamic in "We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G""

bowsamic — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:15:35 +0000

Solipsism is wrong.

New comment by bowsamic in "We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G""

bowsamic — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:57:50 +0000

This is why I don’t use this site. Low IQ discussions and insults from morons

New comment by bowsamic in "We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G""

bowsamic — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:37:13 +0000

You don’t need any observations at all to build up a complete knowledge of the entire universe. Hegel showed this

New comment by bowsamic in "We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G""

bowsamic — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:36:36 +0000

It can resolve them though

New comment by bowsamic in "We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G""

bowsamic — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:51:42 +0000

> Nobody can ever know an ultimate why, for obvious and well established philosophical reasons

Yes we can, you are just presupposing that philosophy is ultimately ineffective. For example Hegel gave a presuppositionless development of all metaphysics among other things. It’s not some kind of philosophical consensus that ultimate justification is impossible

New comment by bowsamic in "Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator"

bowsamic — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:05:04 +0000

I’m just curious if you are so dependent on LLMs that the idea of not using them at all seems extreme to you

New comment by bowsamic in "Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator"

bowsamic — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:29:17 +0000

> But I wonder does this mean no AI was used at all? Even for say, code review?

Would that be surprising to you?

New comment by bowsamic in ""Why not just use Lean?""

bowsamic — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:32:57 +0000

Any logic with LEM

New comment by bowsamic in ""Why not just use Lean?""

bowsamic — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:28:19 +0000

This makes it good for formal maths, but bad for philosophy, since it means it can’t encode the speculative movement