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yeah i remember how hard it was to get porn, but all that changed when i became the visitor number 1000000 of a random page i clicked. i am the pornstar now, i even have my own geocities website |
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i should begin to keep track of the things i've been right about here, because it is starting to pile up post where it first dawned on me ~ it keeps going, but this was the start. then things like i'm always talking about the weasels running things so my mind can be elsewhere, and that is really about physical movement in the end |
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my typing, yes. freshman year of high school, the state is doing some study on "can students in this state type, and if so, how fast?" and so the class has been hoarded into a computer lab and a program asks you to type this or that. obviously, i thought this was an incredible deal to get out of sitting through english class. i think everyone did then someone says: "let's see how far up EpicMegatrax can make it go" and suddenly people have crowded around me and this amused me. the software let you cheat, really. that you could see what you were supposed to type before you typed it. i didn't want to let everyone down, so i found myself... going off into my head and, like, pre-typing it. queuing up the motions in advance... so when the buzzer went off to type a little blurb -- like two sentences without difficult words -- i promptly clocked something physically impossible like over 200 WPM. then i'm like: there guys, i rinsed it, are you happy? there were. i realized: you know what, i already have been doing that... finger planning... thing already, just planning what to type next while the computer's thinking because i'm just waiting... and let's keep going on this; seems cool pre-visualizing motions in my head, then queuing them up for when the buzzer drops. and now when i record music it's pretty minutes of that queued up in advance. it can take me hours to get that far built up. it's not even exactly visualizing... is more like a control script of what patterns to move my fingers in... or everything, if i'm whipping around running 8 synths but it's a good story about my typing. even at 16 i was a ferocious beast |
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so i've worked out that, it was like drive is better for folders though" [mental screenshot of google drive rectangles, i can only pick out a few names driving on a golf course article on some nutty dutch guy who loved living and building sketchy data centers in underground bunkers. his sister says, "my brother was just always... too much. too much of everything." and i'm still pondering this. it doesn't sound like the 12-stepper "always want more" thing, it sounds more like... gigantic model numbers like Toaster 10000 and maybe this is a separate thing and shit how did i get here i'm in a yoga posture across the room from where this started, and i stack trace back as far as this. but i cannot suss out what made me think of [that bit of that post in that thread]. in the sense that it will help -- just a feeling -- i go back to the room and place myself where the train of thought started. then, yes, i recrossed my feet the other way a bit before that; i do so again. samsonite, right, i think, looking at a suitcase -- another train of thought from that comes back, but it's a few links in the chain before i before i thought if [that bit of that post in that thread] i could have kept fussing with it and gotten more bits back; perhaps actually sorted what the transition was, there. but it's really not that important. once i'd done the decided amount of yoga i gave up mulling it and here we are. |
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no, fuck me, that wasn't the dutch. that was belgium i think. off to argue with myself, if arguing with myself about arguing with myself about whether or not arguing with myself whether or not it the belch or the dutchians, is a waste of time big thx ever so much for that tag tip |
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you're not actually providing a chart with what the things look like. it doesn't matter. i'm not going to use most of these anyways. |
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divide by double-o error |
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<dead_circumflex> <U01B1> : "Ʊ̂" # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH CIRCUMFLEX <dead_caron> <U01B1> : "Ʊ̌" # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH CARON <dead_macron> <U01B1> : "Ʊ̄" # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH MACRON <dead_acute> <dead_tilde> <a> : "ã́" # LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE AND ACUTE <dead_grave> <dead_tilde> <a> : "ã̀" # LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE AND GRAVE i think "dead grave" is a meta-key in some african country? charmingly batshit. this is at the end under "XCOMM Diacritics used in African languages" i've no idea what XCOMM stands for, nor what the heck diacritics are. but i like the word |
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at first, i was all, "how do i get the windows ALT codes going here" because i actually know a good number of them. very quickly, though, ALT codes and FUCK OFF this is much more coherent. that all the currency is like meta+equals+thingy and e is going to be euro let's try € see there it is. and it's not fucking numbers, ¥ou k... fuck, none of the kroners have a currency symbol? there's no currency k? learning things already and this is why i am stoked about this. it's not that i'll do anything particularly grand with it tonight, but it's all patterns, and this encourages shower thoughts of... i wonder what... that would come out as... and you get some of this with picking numbers, but, now you're directing the chaos someẁḩàţ fucking hell, that order even matters. i don't know what language these characters belong to but already it was pretty casual to just paint a helix around the last four letters of the last paragraph. sicwquidetc |
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so then i thought: how's mac on this? out of curiosity. and ~ Option + 3 = £ (British pound) this fired off a cluster of neurons entrained on me repeatedly doing this by accident on a class mac (LC 550), and, no, i wanted octot#orpe this keyboard is weird where is the the dos prompt and, i could be wrong, here, but... lol? that OSX still uses the fucking "special" character keybindings that date back to, like, the Apple Lisa perhaps? that they're perfectly solid but you're left with a few dozen to my few thousand to explore, with only having to learn simple combos until i feel content to try more. on a mac, you're just stuck with... "click and hold to select the character from a menu with a mouse" ...lol? i do need to use macs as well. if there's something this expressive in OSX, i'll gladly trade lol for knowing how to get to it. meanwhile: lol. this is an area where OSX is not only worse than linux, but it's worse than windows ouch |
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apple's is all: "hold down the key and a menu will pop up, maybe." and then "you can add an icon for the character to your desktop to click it anytime!" and this is where an OS starts to feel like it's trying to make wednesday adams watch a disney movie. (lol) |
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i do have a deep nostalgic fondness for those mac keyboards -- you know, the ones right up until they went iFruit. lab full of them, we called it "the flavor lab" sarcastically, they ran quake III, no complaints except THE MOUSE AND KEYBOARD WERE COMPLETE TURD and i suppose this worked alright back when all mac was actually worth the money for was running aldus pagebaker. that i want to know, and -- okay, it's back to the 90's, the current mac keyboard layout is from mac system 7. The Option key can also provide access to dead key functionality. For example, holding down ⌥ Option while pressing ` will create a highlighted grave accent which will be added to the next letter if possible – so if an e is then pressed, the resultant character is è. If an r is pressed instead, the two characters are not compatible so the result is `r. that okay, this is part of what i wanted to know how/if macs did. that i clicked on dead key and that also answers some of my question from earlier [XCOMM perhaps best left unexplained for now]. you can remap the mac keyboard, so let is drop the labels and just refer to option as "meta". if you give a shit, i've mapped it to the right alt key, which i never fucking use otherwise. so macs will accent to meta+` but i have, like... meta+` meta+~ meta+ _ metā + = meta + cǫmma and honestly i'm just trying this shit. i barely know what any of it is. it feels very similar to getting a new bit of gear can macs "just work" like that |
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i gave up and actually fired up the macbook right next to me answer is: lol, solidly in the lol camp. but not as abysmal as i was first lol'n@. that, fuck me, i actually have a very crisp answer indeed, option+` gives me... shit, i can just do it now! it gives me è. but how do i get ẽ? ę? é? on the mac? and the answer is: you can use the the menu, maybe! you can add an icon to your desktop it is because -- i haven't looked this up; pure feel here -- this layout was designed by some hippie on speed and amphetamines to be "the last keyboard layout ever needed." that it was going to do all languages from one thing forever, no one will ever need another, and it was all compulsively done up while tripping balls, or at least the broadstrokes. then let's go in like a mad squirrel and stuff every character we can in any corners we didn't full in with the general grand plan to cover french, spanish, german, mostly. that, really, for 30 years, that was solid. it was. but something something johnny depp; the things that were cute when he was young are just kind of scary and dysfunctional now that he's older than 30. and this leads us to the crisp part: apple fucking knows this. but they're stuck with this fucking layout; it's part of their DNA. and this layout is like: every cool thing i have, does something lame dating back to 1991. to get é i use [meta+']. when i go over to the mac and try [meta+'] -- or, directly, [option+'] the mac just types æ into the text editor, and cool, what was what you wanted, right? how quaint. this is why apple is going to such huge lengths to suppress any sort of discussion about it. |
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roger just can't option+' anymore |
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and for the record i did spend a good fifteen minutes trying every esoteric combo i could think of and the mac is just shitting out a ≤ before i'm trying to glue an additional key onto the combo. there are no combos. layout was cask of amontillado'd right good from the start. i figure you could somehow tell OSX to ignore this and do what linux does? oh, right, maybe in the terminal or some shit, but apple is god everywhere else, and option+3 is £ forever. hidden shame as they charge forward crusading against... headphone jacks... standardized power bricks... oh, we're so forward; we're all about ditching the past. no problem with using macs. OSX is fine. but hell, out of everything, this is like... for once, apple has a worse legacy problem than windows. lol |
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so, hi, i'm just here because jhdfgldfg OSX. nothing to do with the keyboard rant, except OSX, so i thought i'd put it here. please look at i'm just trying to pick out a binary in /opt/homebrew/bin here, dude. and i can't find my way to the root filesystem because ... ? it took me a moment to figure i need to "Go" menu at the top and the "Home" to dodge the drool-proof nonsense. but for the life of me, i can't get this one. i am inclined to say: perhaps i need this app from the command line as root, and perhaps then it will stop dicking me around in this asinine sandbox. in any case, i thought i'd just try clion to see if it was any better, and no, this is pretty stab-worthy so far. back to the other thing that sort of works. |
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I confess that this screed reflects my own experience. For the past decade, being a finance professor meant being asked about crypto or about novel valuation methods for unprofitable companies — and being smiled at (and ignored) when I would counter with traditional instincts. Every business problem, I am told, can be solved in radically new and effective ways by applying artificial intelligence to ever-increasing amounts of data with a dash of design thinking. Many graduates coming of age in this period of financial giddiness and widening corporate ambition have been taught to chase these glittery objects with their human and financial capital instead of investing in sustainable paths — a habit that will be harder to instill at later ages. ~ for, well, sounding a lot like me. particularly bold'd part |
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have i complained about microsoft in a while? no. i've been good. i've earned one i booted up my studio PC just now, and... right before my very eyes, a "Microsoft Edge" icon appears on my desktop, out of thin air. shitheads, i think, as i shift-delete it |
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oh, look. a microsoft edge icon appeared on my desktop again. this clearly makes me eager to use instead of upgrading from merely not giving a shit, to wanting to object rape your web browser with a very dry tree branch |
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that i got suspended -- effectively banned, since my account was old enough that i'd never had to enter a fone # and since i'm not giving them one microsoft got me banned -- for saying, effectively, "i hope whoever made this decision dies in a fire, slowly" and perhaps "slowly" was pushing it, but this wasn't a direct threat, this was an angry nerd, ok? not ok. microsoft reports it as "threatening" or something and that's last i used twitter, could have been two years ago almost. me venting at microsoft's horseshit and they report me like a fucking karen and dear microsoft: i want to object rape microsoft edge with a very dry tree branch. if you care at all about the well-being of its anus, keep it far the fuck away from me. bitch |
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i feel better. thanks xltronic, for existing. that i can post that somewhere. it's not that i need everyone to hear it or anything, just... get a bit pent up if there's nowhere i can say anything proper and have people hear it |
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[from twitter] [...i was actually quite ahead of the curve there] |
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personal note: people have been ignoring me in some thread. i've shitposted my way to the last post on the page; posted a bit of the OP as the first on the next as a bit of sampler looping; off for a smoke. then, wait, did i misread the original premise of the thread in a churning haste? that might explain it. indeed, i had, lol. now that i read it properly, i have a very succinct answer. to a very long post that began by referencing my very long posts. and now that i review it, there's actually a very nice musical progression to the texture of this thread, to me interrupting it, then, yes, hell, here's the central pickle, that's tough to even say aloud, whoops, sorry i misread the OP the whole first page. or not really, i think the weasels did it to me because they knew it would be fortuitous gardening that if i free-run on, say, "what's the best process for manually compiling Qt from source on OSX" that could be the end of me for a week or two, and, no, it's not worth it. instead, the above. much more bite-sized |
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that i will just continue 127511#02625942 here probably one of the more wonderful gifts i could give anyone would be to say: things weren't always like this, i noticed it going on by accident one day, then i started going at it deliberately... then we're at a place where we know we have something, down the road, but we still don't know what it is quite yet that i know some authors write books, where... they just let things happen... and this is delightful in the same way, in that, you're along with the audience, somewhat; you're not sure where it will go yourself, and that makes it exciting. this is different. this is more like smelling something delicious and i can't wait to have a bit of that, i just have to track down where that smell is coming from ...except, have to abandon my metaphor there; tack from smell to "a feeling like aphasia, but more granular." ohhh, that word, what is it, it's on the tip of my tongue. except, i'm sure i have something here, and ohh, what is it, it's on the tip of my consciousness, what is that |
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then, finally, i sort it: in retrospect, you can see it condensing like beads of water on a toilet: this shit is too much for snoop. it's a battle. it's a history thing... ..and yes, you can see it, there's a pattern: all of these are conservative totems, arguably: vietnam. watergate. finally i get to "gettysburg" and again, just running my mouth "aaaugh i am so close" that i still don't have it, i can just... like when you're really sure someone's staring at you, i'm sure i'm a hair away. and, of course: custard's last stand. snoop's last stand. because it knocks him the fuck ova and the only reason i'm continuing here is to make this point ~ at the end of the day, it was a pun off of "custard's last stand" and because it knocks dogg ova, yo. but what i'm getting is "snoop's vietnam" and no that's just kind of ugly and then "snoop's watergate" and i genuinely thought that was just my subconscious goofing off but the dark cluster of neurons missing from the equation was custard's last stand. that i could tell something fit, somewhere over there.. where other neural clusters like "vietnam" and "watergate" were lighting up and then i get to "gettysberg" and i am saying "aaaugh i am so close" after saying "it's historical, it's a battle" and turns out the one i wanted happened, i dunno, 15-20 years after gettysberg, definitely closer than vietnam or watergate but none of that had anything the fuck to do with snoop, or the stand/knock da fuck ova joke. that was just the answer to the equation, and what i got was a series of breadcrumbs leading me up to the thing i know i have, but don't know what is, like a james cameron movie recommend developing this as a skill |
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very much like dreams, really. it's a verbal pun based on "stand" and i have to backhack my way through reams of conservative nonsense |
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