silasmariner

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[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Well that makes sense

As more and more libraries are open source on GitHub or gitlab or sourceforge or whateverthefuck, asking questions on the libraries themselves (as an issue) is often the right thing to do, too... Less centralised than SO but also the only people who care about how to do things in a lib are people using the lib, so.....

Wellllll the implications of the ending of 28 weeks later is that the rest of the world had a reprieve but are fucked eventually...

Even there you need some basic critical thinking. Wildly impossible figures (e.g a human height of 1.84cm) should not be slavishly and blindly transcribe, y'know?

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Name just one job where critical thinking isn't important

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm glad that you have a workflow that works for you! I like to open up articles, instantly hit the 'reader mode' button, cmd+f for keywords, and hit 'next' until I find the relevant section. This usually takes just a few seconds to get to get meat (if there's anything worth skipping). One advantage is my internet connection isn't always great, so I only have to wait for a few kb of text to download (even on a shit connection that's not generally a lag I'm capable of noticing), whereas with videos I often have some loading issues. Also I hate the style of most presenters and can scroll back to the right point more easily in text articles if I've gone 'too far', so that's an approach that works for me.

Thanks for sharing! I've never heard of sponsor block, I rely on ublock origin (for Firefox, not the handicapped chrome version) when watching videos, and usually only watch videos that I actually want to watch, but I appreciate having another tool in my box.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Who are you, that can skim a video faster than skimming text? That's, like, the complete opposite of my lived experience 😂. What a rich melange of folks make up this world, eh.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 13 points 4 days ago

And the answer is no!

I thought that Sam Ryder one was fun!

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 15 points 4 days ago

That's a lovely little idea, imma steal that

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm still bitter about cha cha cha

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