natecox

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[–] natecox@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

I don’t think it’s really gaming-to-politics. I think it’s more like gaming-to-very-loud-bigot. The fact that bigotry is so tightly coupled into right wing politics is just coincidental.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 35 points 1 week ago

So is plastic, apparently, but nobody is insisting that if I would only eat it prepared differently that I would love it.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

So are you just trying to be an ass here, or are you genuinely just so invested that you can’t see you’re arguing in bad faith?

[–] natecox@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

I carry around a 3x5 split keyboard with Colemak-dh mapped via firmware. Because I, too, am absolutely useless at a qwerty keyboard now.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rust introduces novel features and makes notable changes from its ancestors.

Arch was just blue Gentoo.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Chocolate, cherry, pistachio is where it’s at.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The mind-boggling thing about Idaho to me is that they have convinced a bunch of people from Oregon that Idaho is so great that a bunch of counties should secede and join Idaho.

I’m not making this up. It’s called the Greater Idaho Movement. They want to take over about 2/3 of Oregon.

I learned about this after moving to Oregon and was relieved to hear that at least my county had already voted against it.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Also, “dot” with a hard T is like super common in programming naming. It’s a pretty reasonable mistake to make.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago

I also use them. They’re a tool for emphasis, like ! and 😡.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

The UK has, for some reason, 5 different voting systems, only one of which is FPTP.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

We can’t have more than two political parties, this is one of the major failings of our first-past-the-post voting system. CGP grey has made a couple of really good videos breaking down the why of this, but the tl;dr is that FPTP voting effectively necessitates strategic voting (voting against who you don’t want rather than for who you do want).

Until we move to something better, such as ranked choice voting, we’re always going to effectively have two parties.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 130 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

… as a TV show, right? Right?

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