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I have 2 years of experience and a degree in computer science. Why is it so hard to find a job as a junior?

I specifically and purposefully ignore anything Microsoft. I'm interested in open computing, which Windows and Microsoft exist to spite. I assume Microsoft does everything in bad f…

If it's productive and you like it, then that's great! I stopped using Windows about 7 years ago; I've slowly radicalized myself to the point where I just genuinely hate Windows as…

Stability is an important thing. The fact that 30 year old scripts still work, and still can be run, is a testament to the staying power of the underlying technology. That staying …

Honestly, if you're going to modify Windows, why not just go Linux? Monkeypatching Windows into a good (useable?) OS seems like more effort for less return than just picking up a d…

This seems more like a perspectivism, egoism, or absurdism than nihilism. Ultimately, nihilism is the position that even any meaning you create is likewise inherently meaningless. …

What are the use cases and often how do you use it? (reposting to everyone who says they're open to questions)

What are the use cases and often how do you use it? (reposting to everyone who says they're open to questions)

I have a bookmarks folder for small search engines I like. I don't think there's a need for it to be a default.

For context, this isn't from a player; I steadfastly refuse to run google services on any of my devices, so I'm incapable of downloading your game from the Google Play store. I'll …

Another really good point that I just failed to take into account. I've always been amazed at how well Emacs Just Works between its TUI and GUI.

Yeah, fair; I'd read that Clojure runs on the JVM, I just hadn't really put 2 and 2 together on that.

I've been getting imto LISP recently. I like Racket, but there doesn't seem to be many (any?) TUI libraries. I much prefer TUIs to GUIs, so I can write applications that target bot…

Unfortunately, I was born into a world without FOSS phones yet where phones are mandatory. I've therefore unhappily furnished Google with more money than I'd ever have liked to, di…

I absolutely respect the technical challenge of the Metaverse, but also: I'm not really interested in it. I live a fairly tech-minimal lifestyle already. I have my computer, which …

I wouldn't use a non-FOSS platform or experience for non-corporate reasons. My employer wants me to use a particular hardware? Fine, but I'm not using my money for it, I won't like…

Then much of science is irrational; what about those times where it's understood that a belief is false, but it also holds the most explanative power of all other considered belief…

That's not irrational in the sense of there lacking inherent reasoning or rationalization, it's just a poor deduction. If you mean that rational agents are incapable of flawed reas…

Irrational in what sense? I can, indeed, claim that NFTs have value to even a purely rational actor, if I'm allowed to ascribe self-determination to that actor. Particularly, I thi…

Economics is not a philosophically-laden exercise. Economics defines value as that which a rational agent is willing to make a sacrifice for, and the degree to which something is v…

Tons of modern systems built from and on top of legacy. Modern != !legacy. I can also access a lot of legacy systems through modern browsers.

Absolutely! Are you likewise a fan?

I highly recommend reading it as a comedy, in the vein of inherently absurd shitposts. Stirner's bragadocio really underscores the absurdity of self-interest vis-a-vis the individu…

Keep in mind, rationalism is about "this, therefore that;" the root of rationalism is ratio, as in the multiplicity of proportions which lie between integers. Rationalist thought i…