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hogdanish

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About hogdanish

https://fractalcounty.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45952827

    The README.md says the author was twenty years old when it was written. Am I missing something here?

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    Comment #45952584

    That's why I specified that it's widely available in plenty of metropolitan areas, not a large part of the country. Internet service absolutely is abysmal in the US as a whole, but…

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    Comment #45952510

    My point was that 1 Gbps+ internet is available in enough select metropolitan areas that saying "almost no one has it" is inaccurate, not that it's widely available everywhere to t…

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    Comment #45952356

    macOS isn't without its sins, but I feel like "ad-ridden” is a stretch compared to the baseline of Windows 11 injecting promotions into the Start menu, OEM Android flavors full of …

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    Comment #45952216

    Even as a diehard Linux user, I totally agree. If you can look past macOS's weak support for gaming, mediocre window management, and hostility towards unsigned binaries, the stabil…

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    Comment #45909126

    It's more so the fact that 2.5 GbE NICs are really cheap and already fairly common in consumer devices. And game downloads aren't the only use case, file transfers could benefit fr…

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    Comment #45909082

    That's an exaggeration. Affordable multi-gigabit fiber is widely available in plenty of metropolitan areas in the US and Europe and mid-range motherboards have included 2.5 GbE for…

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    Comment #42573510

    `git -C (brew --cache --HEAD fish) fetch --tags` and `brew install --HEAD --fetch-HEAD fish` seems to do the trick for now, just be prepared to wait awhile for it to build

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    Comment #42573371

    The last time I visited a Fandom wiki on mobile, it autoplayed two videos simultaneously at full volume and required me to scroll through 75% of the page to get to the actual artic…

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    Comment #42573349

    The expression "polishing a turd" comes to mind.

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    Comment #42573265

    I interpreted the poem less as a literal manifesto against the practicality of blogs and more as a metaphor for how the format impacts us psychologically. Blogs, being chronologica…

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    Comment #42573060

    Lovely poem, but I don't 100% agree with the idea that the wiki possesses some kind of ethereal, spiritual advantage over the blog. The post-SEO internet has been unkind to all for…