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nycki

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  • Would it be difficult for me to build a Linux equivalent to a Chromebook?

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  • depending on your budget, consider the MNT Reform, a notebook computer designed to be as repairable as you can possibly imagine. Every plastic part is 3d-printable, every circuitboard is open source, and it uses off-the-shelf parts for its keyboard, batteries, and screen. really its only downsides are the entry price (around $1600) and the fact that it relies on a relatively low-power SOC (system on chip) for CPU, GPU, and RAM.

    disclaimer: I don't have one myself (yet) but I'm keeping an eye on them because it looks like an incredible hobby computer

  • What mis-stated phrases or words do you feel still need to be corrected (online or in person) in 2025?

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  • physche

  • Recommendations for teenager's first printer.

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  • I didn't see what c this was, and I was all set to say "Brother multifunction b/w laser printer", along with some colored copy paper and a long stapler that can reach the middle of a page. Everything you need to make some bitchin zines.

  • What mis-stated phrases or words do you feel still need to be corrected (online or in person) in 2025?

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  • none of them. linguistic gatekeeping is just disguised contempt for the poor. let people spell however the fuck they want.

  • How to become a competent coder?

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  • Good callout! I agree, don't rewrite just for the sake of rewriting. By "barely works" I am referring to code that functions but where a small change to the requirements would make it incorrect. In that situation you should "break it" in order to add changes, rather than calcifying the legacy code by building around it.

  • How to become a competent coder?

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  • I've worked in programming for the last ten years and the most important skill you might not have guessed: Bravery. People are going to say "if it works, don't fix it", but a lot of real-world code barely works, and you need to be willing to break it to make it better.

    If you're good at your job, you will spend a lot of time reading other people's code and testing small changes to see what happens. Write "new" code for yourself, because it's fun and its good practice, but also learn to read and repair "old" code.

  • How can we build a new user-owned and -maintained internet?

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  • In my experience, "making a new one" never works.

    What we can do is hack the old one. Go back to old protocols that work, undermine anything proprietary. Scrape fandomwiki to breezewiki, mod your discord client, make websites on neocities and nekoweb, use RSS to follow and email to comment. All the tools are there, leadership is the hard part.

  • Why are we expected to keep up with the news on a daily basis?

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  • I think you're just describing market forces. Good recaps are harder to write. You're describing cheap news. If we want proper news, we need to subsidize it.

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  • i dont care to play god. but i will play new super luigi u.

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    If human dreaming was a computer program, what would the algorithm/process look like?

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  • step one, defragment ram to free up space

    step two, read the now-unallocated ram directly to the screen

  • Could our modern military beat a classical fantasy military that has access to; magic; classic races like elves, dwarfs, etc. ; and fantastical beasts?

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  • That depends; whose side is Artemis Fowl on?

  • Why do the chats die as soon as I chat there?

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  • I used to have this problem and I'm not sure exactly how to fix it but I can say that it helps a lot if you consider what potential responses you might get before you speak. Don't just say things because you want to say them, say things because they open up the conversation for interesting responses. This is not the same as "asking a lot of questions" because that's exhausting, as anyone who's dealt with a Sealion knows. Instead, try to say things that are open-ended. If your chat's tone is comedic, try not fixing your typos so that someone else can chain a joke off of them. If the chat's tone is serious, try making an analogy that connects the current topic to a previous one. If the chat's tone is toxic, you can leave.

  • What is your favourite fact?

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  • yep! the ascii standard was originally invented for teletypewriters, and includes four 'blocks' of 32 codes each, for 128 in total, so it only uses seven bits per code.

    the first block, hex 00 - 1F, contains control codes for the typewriter. stuff like "newline", "backspace", and "ring bell" all go in here.

    The second block has the digits are in order, from hex 30 = '0' all the way to hex 39 = '9',

    The uppercase alphabet starts at hex 41 = 'A', and exactly one block later, the lowercase alphabet starts at hex 61 = 'a'. This means their binary codes are 100 0001 and 110 0001, differering only in a single bit! So you can easily convert between upper and lowercase ascii by flipping that bit.

    The remaining space in the last three blocks is filled with various punctuation marks. I'm not sure if these are in any particular order.

    The final ascii code, 7F, is reserved for "delete", because its binary representation is 111 1111, perfect for "deleting" data on a punch card by punching over it.

  • What is your favourite fact?

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  • Almost all web traffic now uses the utf-8 encoding, a clever hack which works because ascii is a seven-bit code but web traffic uses 8-bit bytes.

    • If the first bit is 0, treat the byte as ascii.
    • if the first bit is 1, treat the byte as part of a multi-byte unicode character.

    multi-byte characters in utf-8 can officially be up to four bytes long, with 11 of those 32 bits used for tracking the size of the multi-byte block. That leaves 2^21 code points available, about two million in total, easily enough for every alphabet you could need to write on a website, and all without breaking ascii.

  • what advice was great when you first heard it, but has aged like milk since then?

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  • Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia.

  • Are you in support of UBI?

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  • My stance on this is that if a machine can do the work of a hundred men, then ninety-nine men should be able to retire early with pay. Anything else is theft.

    So, yes, I support UBI, and no, I don't think it would break capitalism. It's the same amount of money being put into circulation, just for less work.

  • I want to learn how to code

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  • There's lots of options for starter projects, but I'd say a great place to start is making yourself a personal web page in html, css, and js. you can host it for free on github, neocities, or nekoweb, and its really cool to make something you can show off.

    Even if you don't stick with html as your primary language, the web is so ubiquitous now that you'll want to know it eventually!