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Alien Surfer

@ JoeClu @lemmy.world

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Each and every one of the creatures we descended from, stretching all the way back to the beginning of life on Earth, has survived by killing before being killed. We are the final product of a string of millions of killers.

  • I use Debian BTW

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  • Why?

  • Sync identifies a comment as me, if it's from someone with the same username but on a different instance.

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  • George Castanza is a short, bald man that lives with his parents. He is insecure. To impress women, he often says he's either a marine biologist, an importer/exporter, or an architect. He usually gets caught in a lie. In order to continue to convince someone he'll go into further detail with a bit about his name is Art Vandaley from Vandalay Industries. He even had one of his friends answer the phone as such for some reason, don't remember. Some lie about trying to establish a good reputation for a job or something, or trying to get promoted when working for the Yankees baseball team. Was a long time ago; I watched the originals when they were new (yes I am old). So I probably didn't get all the details exactly right. I'm sure others with better memories than I will correct me. It was the funniest television of its time. Newer generation usually isn't into stuff their parents (or even grandparents) watched, which is understandable.

  • Biden to sign strategic partnership deal with Vietnam in latest bid to counter China in the region

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  • Will we start seeing everything say "Made in Vietnam" now instead of "Made in China?" Vietnam is also a communist country, so why would the US do this?

  • Sync identifies a comment as me, if it's from someone with the same username but on a different instance.

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  • Architect, marine biologist, or importer/exporter? Aren't you glad you chose that username, now that you've heard that joke about 9 billion times by now?

  • What's the first thing you do when you get up in the morning?

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  • Pray for one more second of ecstatic comfort and numbness to the world. Contemplate why the world is the way it is. It's not right.

  • What Do You Do With Large Amounts Of Money?

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  • A lot of wealthy individuals "park" their money in things like real estate and art. For the art, they safely pack it away in warehouses. There's a whole industry that'll do it for you. A lot of them dont even see the art. It's just a wealth parking vehicle.

    Another avenue is starting one or more non-profits and philanthropy organizations for the money.

    And another is a living trust, to avoid probate when you die, to maximize the inheritance for your surviving beneficiaries.

  • Fill in the blank: I cannot complete the task(s) of __________ without listening to music.

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  • Runnngi / jogging

  • In what situation is "Do as I say, not as I do." an appropriate thing to say?

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  • Probably an addicted smoker parent with throat cancer to their child.

  • What are some podcasts that you really recommend ?

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  • These are my favorites.

    Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

    • A fun-filled discussion of the big, mind-blowing, unanswered questions about the Universe. In each episode, Daniel Whiteson (a Physicist who works at CERN) and Jorge Cham (a popular online cartoonist) discuss some of the simple but profound questions that people have been wondering about for thousands of years, explaining the science in a fun, shorts-wearing and jargon-free way.

    StarTalk Radio

    • Science, pop culture, and comedy collide on StarTalk Radio! Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and Director of New York's Hayden Planetarium, and his comic co-hosts, guest celebrities, and scientific experts explore astronomy, physics, and everything else there is to know about life in the universe. New episodes premiere Tuesdays. Keep Looking Up!

    Unexplainable

    • Unexplainable takes listeners right up to the edge of what we know ... and then keeps right on going. This Vox podcast explores scientific mysteries, unanswered questions, and all the things we learn by diving into the unknown. New episodes every Wednesday.

    Fall of Civilizations Podcast

    • A history podcast looking at the collapse of a different civilization each episode. What did they have in common? Why did they fall? And what did it feel like to watch it happen?

    Literature and History

    • With millions of downloads, hundreds of hours of soundtracked content, and an overall emphasis on the cultural history behind famous works of literature, Literature and History is one of the most popular independent podcasts on its subject. Starting with Sumerian cuneiform in 3,100 BCE, Literature and History moves forward in chronological order through Assyriology, Egyptology, the Old Testament, Ancient Greece and Rome, and the birth of Christianity. The show's current season is on Late Antiquity (or 200-700 CE) and the dawn of the Middle Ages. A typical episode (they average about two hours) features a general introduction to a work of literature, then a full summary of that work that expects no prior knowledge, and finally, an analysis of the cultural, biographical, and historical forces that gave rise to the work in question. Original symphonic and ambient background music is woven throughout each show, and all episodes offer free full, illustrated, footnoted transcriptions as well as quizzes for purposes of review. The show has no advertisements, and its host takes pride in a professional approach that avoids chitchat and ephemera and gets straight to the educational content. You can listen to the episodes in any order, although most listeners begin at the beginning and proceed from there, as the podcast itself is chronologically organized. Doug Metzger finished his Ph.D. in literature in 2011. His chief scholarly interest, following his dissertation work, continues to be 19th-century realism and postbellum American philosophy.

  • What immediately makes you lose respect for someone?

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  • Smokers who support the war on drugs.

  • What are the coolest (privacy respecting) apps you have?

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  • What’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s?

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  • Good one!

  • What’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s?

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  • IRC and ICQ

  • What is the best file format for configuration file?

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  • Agreed about INI for simple stuff. Not good for arrays and nested things though. Usually use binary for that type of config (with clear documentation). Most binary config files I use are plain old C structures. I'm not a web person so no need to make the config plain text.

  • Question for software developers: how do you organize your To Do list at work?

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  • Todo.txt plain text file. Use Vim. Date and todo statement. Sometimes more for explanations. I never delete anything in it; just make an X next to todo's I've completed. File goes back many years. I can easily search for something I did a long time ago.

    And then there's MS OneNote for capturing howto's, quick script one-liners, cheat sheets, diagrams, notes on various industry interfaces, etc.

    Then there's SCM for bug, feature, and track tasking.

    And usually notepad paper and pen for meetings, which if there are todo's, go into my electronic todos.txt file.

  • What are the coolest (privacy respecting) apps you have?

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  • What's the difference between Orbit and Tor Browser? I always wondered why people download Orbot instead of Tor Browser?

  • Text editor with sort functionality

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  • Do you? I've tried. Not fun. I use vim everyday on my workstation. On Android tiny keyboard, hard pass.

  • What is a program that you could not live without it?

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  • I do this all the time. I pull up an editor, take notes on something I'm doing because I can't always fit it all in my mind I don't need to save the note cause, it was just a temporary place to store data/info/thoughts.

  • what is you're opinion on qksms?

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  • I just started using it, after dumping my paid Textra app after I learned it had 9 trackers.

    I haven't had a lot of usage with it yet, as I'm not a big texting person. It looks good so far. I wish it had a feature to text myself to provide myself with quick notes. Other apps have it and the text doesn't actually go out to SMS and back which is nice.

    Also wish it had the ability to copy specific text in a message. Currently it only lets me choose an entire message to copy.

    I also don't see a way to send an audio clip.

    Does it provide quick reply suggestions? If not, that would be nice to have.