matthewmercury

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[–] matthewmercury@reddthat.com 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This sounds about right. My only quibble is about sick computers and web apps. Twenty years ago I felt good because all I needed was a text editor and a web browser. Nowadays, the hungriest apps on my desktop are Firefox and VS Code.

[–] matthewmercury@reddthat.com 11 points 2 months ago (12 children)

I use VS Code on the desktop nowadays, but vi will always be my editor of choice in a terminal. Many of the reasons it was powerful and ubiquitous 30 years ago are still valid, so it’s still powerful and ubiquitous. And I’ve been using it for thirty years, so why would I switch to a training-wheels editor?

[–] matthewmercury@reddthat.com 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Get a good dehumidifier with a drain hose option so that you don’t have to keep emptying the tank. It will produce some heat, so placement is important, but it will pull moisture from the air more efficiently than the AC and that will improve the cooling.

[–] matthewmercury@reddthat.com 15 points 2 months ago

It’s about a poll that concluded in August 8th, though? Do you think that’s useful now?

[–] matthewmercury@reddthat.com 67 points 3 months ago (7 children)

You wouldn’t download a car

[–] matthewmercury@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago

You don’t understand that I don’t believe these clowns are capable of doing either?

[–] matthewmercury@reddthat.com 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Buddy, I’m not the one trying to convince anybody of anything. All I did was read your comment, then read the article you linked to justify your comment and saw that it just paraphrased the campaign flack. You’re the one in here hollering around about how Stein isn’t a transparent plant. If you think it’s not obvious to any serious person, okay, cool. Enjoy that.

[–] matthewmercury@reddthat.com 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That article just says that the Stein campaign denies it. There’s no substantive investigation documented here, just statements from Stein and the campaign itself. This is just a denial, not a debunking.

[–] matthewmercury@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

Test your hypothesis. If it’s valid, you can make observations about people and from those you will be able to reliably predict their birthdate. Publish your results.

[–] matthewmercury@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

This is all entirely false. He was born James Donald Bowman.

He changed it to Jorkin Depeanux Vance.

[–] matthewmercury@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago

“Yes, we keep setting fires in the attic and flooding the basement. We don’t know how to stop that from happening. However, ignoring that, Carl, we are pretty sure we can figure out how to build a skyscraper across the street. And hey, if we screw it up, it’ll be across the street, not in the attic or the basement, which are still on fire and flooded. We might even figure out how to fix those by working on the skyscraper, maybe, you don’t know.”

[–] matthewmercury@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago

Some people live in a lovely old rambling mansion with a busted HVAC system stuck on full blast sometimes, fires breaking out in the northwest and west wings all the time, and rising damp from a basement full of water seven feet deep and rising, but they think they should start building a new skyscraper on the empty lot across the street.

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