• @4grams
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    228 days ago

    right. I feel like the world is desperate to pretend we aren’t standing on the shoulders of giants. who wants to reinvent everything, every time. use the paths already there and find shortcuts along the way, then mark them and leave them for the next traveller.

    • @[email protected]
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      98 days ago

      This is why I write down everything when I’m setting something up that’s new to me. Even if I go off someone else’s tutorial I put it in my own words. That way when I come back to it later I’ll understand it and if I run across someone else that’s trying to do the same thing I have at least one step by step guide to offer them.

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        13 days ago

        This might actually be helpful for those stressful github tutorials that I come across when trying to setup some open source software because I can’t understand it because of the way they’ve written it

    • @[email protected]
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      08 days ago

      Recognizing that for a second would destroy the basis of private property. How can you say “this is mine” when it comes attached to the work of a million others?

      • @4grams
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        17 days ago

        Uhm, you know what a metaphor is, right? I’m not talking about actual paths here.