Been waiting for this for a year+ so it’s awesome to see it finally out.

People are more likely to download more popular items, so I don’t doubt that people are affected, but given how botted moltbook was, I wouldn’t be surprised for download numbers to be botted aswell.

For example, take the title. Imagine if the PL was a declarative way of describing a distributed system, with HTTP endpoints or web sockets connecting modules. Then, for harvesting, it gives unbounded ability for nodes to read and write to other nodes outside of the standard interface. You can just go in and read/write their data, without any public interface needed. Of course someone else can probably come up with something better, but I think it’d be cool to see something that more fully uses what a “programming language” means.

Also, it using emojis helps as a signal that certain content is LLM generated, which is beneficial in its own right.

Gamescope is even fully open-source, so you could remove the steam deck UI, and still run any game with the same performance benefits of not running it inside KDE. Of course also, you could flash a new OS on the device itself if you wanted to entirely remove Valve’s presence.

When I was doing research on type theory in PL, there was an important distinction made between sum types and unions, so it’s important not to conflate them. Union types have the property that Union(A, A) = A, but the same doesn’t hold for sum types. Sum types differentiate between each member, even if they encapsulate the same type inside of it. A more appropriate comparison is tagged unions.

The way I see the current market, the hard part isn’t the interview-to-offer ratio, it’s the application-to-interview ratio. Grinding leetcode and improving your skills unfortunately doesn’t help you with that. Having a good resume helps (or having good networking).

Referencing back then to what I said originally, everyone has a degree, no one has work experience. Given this, having a cool project is one of the ways to specifically increase this application-to-interview ratio.

However, given this analysis, putting more effort into networking could yield similar results, so this suggests the original point possibly has some truth.

Projects are just about the only thing you can add to your resume to show competence. Everyone has a degree, and no one has work experience.

Not only did my projects show that I have completed semi-relevant work in something considered relatively complex, which presumably got me past resume screenings (confirmed by my hiring manager), my projects also gave a prime talking point in interviews that let me showcase my domain knowledge and way that I work. (Consider cliche interview questions like “what is the biggest challenge you’ve faced”, and how they relate to your projects)

This is especially beneficial if you’re being interviewed by other engineers, and you can geek out over a project. Being human and enjoyable, while demonstrating technical competence, is a great interview winner.

Ofc I have limited experience, but small samples can add up if other evidence corroborates with it.

The last few sections could have been cut entirely and nothing would have been lost.

Edit: In the process of writing this comment, the author removed 2 sections (and added an LLM acknowledgement), of which I referred to in my previous statement. To the author, thank you for reducing the verbosity with that.

When I tried out Dvorak, I learned touch typing for Dvorak, but after a while, it started hurting from having my hands in the touch typing position, so I decided it wasn’t really worth it to continue, since the point would’ve been to reduce injury.

The way that I type is a combination of knowing where keys are, having a muscle memory of common words, and knowing how to effectively flow between them.

It seems to me though that many of the advantages of touch typing, I already have gotten without it, so it doesn’t seem to be worth it?

One thing that I've noticed recently with the Arch Wiki adding Anubis, is that this one week period doesn't magically fix user annoyances with Anubis. I use Temporary Containers for every tab, which means that I constantly get Anubis regenerating tokens, since the cookie gets deleted as soon as the tab is closed.

Perhaps this is my own problem, but given the state of tracking on the internet, I do not feel it is an extremely out-of-the-ordinary circumstance to avoid saving cookies.

Everyone in a country with government gives up part of their natural liberties in order to form said government and create a civilized (safer) society. That’s the philosophy of government.

Perhaps there is something to be argued here about “essential” liberty, or “little temporary” safety, but the core idea seems nonsensical, especially in the context of a person not deserving essential properties of life because of a bad choice.

Any time I use my TV for YouTube now, I just connect my laptop to the TV so I don’t have to deal with those insane ads.

It’s extremely clear that YouTube is trying to maximize ad watch time, while keeping the acknowledgment by the user that they watched the ad, by acknowledging they’re paying attention enough to press “Skip”

NASA has done a large amount of work to use satellite data to forecast and then work to improve agricultural yields covering the entire planet. It definitely isn’t necessary, but to dismiss the improvement that has been made is crazy, and I’d hardly call “feeding people around the world” a first-world luxury given by space travel.