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  • Now, hold on, didn’t they save The Expanse after it was dropped by Syfy? And if you ask me they did a good job of the remaining seasons.

  • Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
  • Same energy: this legendary comment in an issue on the Docker github repo (by the issue OP, no less)

    https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149477

  • Thoughts on Hong Kong urbanism?
  • Huh… I had no idea. I lived there as a kid, and now you mention it, yeah – flyovers all over the place and lots of cars. I miss being able to get anywhere cheaply with the combo of KCR/MTR and taxis though.

    Thanks for teaching me something new!

  • Thoughts on Hong Kong urbanism?
  • Row after row of copy-pasted high-rise apartment buildings does not spark joy.

    Unfortunately, Hong Kong has so little buildable land, its terrain hilly with scattered flat patches, that this approach is the only one that gets you enough units for everyone. Last I heard though property prices were absolutely skyrocketing.

    More to the point, a huge mall does not compare with green outdoor space to walk around in. On the other hand, there’s at least four months each year when outside is a fucking steam oven and a mall with air conditioning is 100% where you want to be.

  • Paul Auster died yesterday at the age of 77
  • “For the loneliness you foster I suggest Paul Auster – a book called Timbuktu.”

    Lyric by Fionn Regan that eventually led to Auster being one of my favorite authors throughout my teens and early twenties.

  • Is Memmy dead? No longer available on the Apple App Store
  • Settled on Voyager months ago. Sometimes I wonder if I’m missing out on newer alternatives for iOS but Voyager does everything I need it to and has that comfortable, familiar Apollo aesthetic.

  • Canada's maple syrup reserve almost empty as sap season at risk of becoming another casualty of the winter that wasn't
  • Out of curiosity, do you have to refine it somehow, or is it good to eat straight from the tree?

  • Friends don't let friends buy HiDPI displays
  • I’d love to switch back to Linux but this is why I moved back to macOS for good several years ago. Once I got a taste of reading code at 4k/retina (faux-4k) – not to mention the better font support – there was no going back, for me at least.

    If it’s considered user error for someone to want a high DPI display in 2024, then I can only surmise that people who share that sentiment have convinced themselves that more eye strain is a worthwhile tradeoff for FOSS. Commendable but a tough sell.

  • Medieval micro
  • I have to force myself to see flags instead of tower-mounted air defense turrets

  • 0AD>AoE3
  • Honest question, from someone who’s recently gotten back into AOE2 (thanks to the Return of Rome DLC): is 0AD worth checking out?

  • What less popular text editors do you like or should have a shout out more often? What stuff do you do with it?
  • Another vote for hx!

    Getting a productive setup for Python work is a matter of a few extra lines of TOML. The pre-release version on master also allows for multiple LSPs per language, which means I can combine pyright with ruff.

    The modal key chords are verb-object instead of object-verb. It’s not a main selling point to me. However, you get multi-cursors out of the box, which I’ve always found simpler than e.g. macros. In general, keybindings are discoverable. I learn something new every week.

    All in all, despite a few rough edges, it’s a nice alternative to needing to get a PhD in neovim configuration to get anywhere remotely near the cool setups other people are rocking.

  • Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How good is Asahi now?
  • All my old macbooks eventually get the Linux treatment. On modern hardware, however, the trade-offs of non-macOS just don’t make sense to me.

    For now, Apple Silicon has made a fanboy out of me. I can’t overstate how big the jump in performance felt going from intel to my first M1 – not to mention the improved thermals. And obviously part of that is due to excellent alignment between hardware and software.

    Still, once that first M1 hits retirement, I’ll no doubt experience that familiar pang of gratitude towards those engineers that put up with the trade-offs of running Linux on it today in order to get everything working.

  • What game feels 'timeless' to you?
  • Community consensus is that AoE 2’s mechanics are an improvement on its predecessor, but I personally have a weak spot for AoE 1: Rise of Rome expansion. Fewer things to manage, beautiful wonder structures, and cheap axe man hordes.

    My dad and I used to play against each other over LAN. Hearing him shouting and cursing from the other room while I razed his city with scythe chariots is such a happy memory. Man, I miss him. To the dads here, play AoE with your kids.