It is a problem as old as human civilization that the old overlook that society itself changes and instead lament the willfulness of the young in abandoning the old ways.

It isn't like young people grew up surrounded by examples of mentorship and arrogantly chose otherwise. In the internet age 1-on-1 face-to-face instruction is rare. I feel really fortunate that I caught the tail end of it.

- Juniors are discouraged to ask for mentorship because they are under pressure to appear competent

- Juniors have internalized from bad experiences that seniors are not to be disturbed

- Juniors grew up in a world where nobody modeled mentorship as a possibility for them; a CS major probably learned async, online, parasocially, without much 1:1 face-to-face interaction

- Juniors don't know what they don't know just yet-- and it doesn't always work well for someone to try and teach them explicitly-- but once they figure this out they'll be more interested in reaching out

It would be cool if the stated goal of C++29 was compile times.

I think the US has been ramping up domestic oil production for a while, creating an interesting situation where (global) prices are high but (domestic) supply is healthy. Prices are up at the pump in the US, but I'm not sure how much of that OPEC+ price-fixing or "risk premium".

The big one to me is that it's interpreted. Claude Code does these wild `python -c` "one-liners" that end up spanning a hundred lines or more. It's so ingrained that it does this for solving general problems to create on-the-fly system reports, not just when you specifically are using it for Python development.

One of my more interesting experiments has been "mirroring" a Python codebase I maintain with a synchronized one in another language the AI maintains.

> When I first got introduced to [TempleOS], I was shocked and impressed by the flashy colors, graphical sprites and uncomprehensible UI. There are so many things that makes it so unique, weird and fascinating at the same time, somehow.... Basically, the command line becomes the direct interface for everything. You can write code, interact with the system and render graphics all in the same place, which is why TempleOS feels so unusual compared to conventional operating systems.

I think this could be a really cool approach. I enjoy tools like Chafa, imgcat, etc but something always feels a little clunky about the separation between text and images. Paradoxically having text and non-text all jumbled up like this feels better somehow.

Isn't logical incorrectness less of a problem in software than failures of imagination or conscientiousness in modeling the domain?

Centralization normalizes, but a very large reasonably similar group of people is an ideal target for infiltration by outside interests.

Decentralization incubates eccentricity or extremism, but are more likely to be beneath the notice of outside interests.

I think these trade-offs are more visible in online spaces where the scale of reach or opacity is exaggerated in comparison to physical space.

The lack of consensus on what features are essential in an e-reader must be hard to manage. Surprisingly exotic features sometimes.

- No deal, this e-reader doesn't let me play chess.

- No deal, this e-reader doesn't support bluetooth page-turning.

- No deal, I don't actually look at the screen I use text-to-speech.

The language on this site seems to position permacomputing in opposition to an unethical status quo.

Personally I'd rather more of a solarpunk computing initiative.

Instead of identity defined by what you are fleeing, define it by what you are running towards.

In so many markets manufacturers are antagonistic to repair and customization; project cars remains this wonderful little niche where DIY excellence is enabled and encouraged. That shouldn't end with ICEs.

We have hobbyist mechanics out here taking their engine blocks to the machinist, rebuilding hydraulic automatic transmissions on the workbench, not to mention safely handling literal buckets of combustibles. They'll be fine.

This resonates. It's a spectacular full-reversal kind of tragedy because it used to be asymmetric the other way. Author puts in 10 effort points compiling valuable information and reader puts in 1 effort points to receive the transmission.

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

I don't think the fun is gone from the internet, you just have to look much, much harder to find it. It's the needle in the haystack of attention and profit-seeking content. And the platforms aren't as neutral as the might have been in the past in helping you search.

Sometimes I swear the algorithm has learned it keeps me more engaged with incredulously dissatisfactory search and discovery rather than anything actually stimulating.

Both their AI policy and their rejection of Bun's performance PR were level-headed and well-reasoned. And the link seems more like a proof-of-concept than anything else.

It's true corporate sponsors are a big help with language development, but not at the expense of conceptual integrity.

I really hate it when I go to tap some touchscreen button, there is a bump in the road, and I fat-finger something unintentional. But it happens every time I drive, turning routine interactions into safety threats as I must look at the screen to determine what went wrong and how to fix it.

I don't feel like text-to-CAD is a viable workflow for me because of the "language barrier". I would need, like, a visual dictionary of terms.

I'd almost be more excited to see the opposite, a benchmark/dataset of ME-blessed CAD-to-text descriptions so that I can build up vocabulary.

Absent that, what's the best I can do, find a machine design book secondhand with a glossary?

The difference between the indescribably saccharine images that come out of chat UIs versus watching someone with some artistic skills driving the slick comfyui [0] nodal editor around.

I can't unsee echoes of DALE-2 horrors that color my perception of post-2022 digital art, but it will be normal to my kids.

[0]: https://github.com/comfy-org/ComfyUI