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New comment by swayvil in "Computers are for girls (2022)"

swayvil — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 03:25:49 +0000

Where's the people in software engineering? It's a bunch of abstractions floating in my head.

New comment by swayvil in "Computers are for girls (2022)"

swayvil — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 03:16:26 +0000

I doubt that.

I mean we look and act different, we're shaped different, we even smell different.

Don't succumb to the temptations of irony.

New comment by swayvil in "How many dimensions is this?"

swayvil — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 02:33:43 +0000

Why do people disable zoom on their page?

New comment by swayvil in "A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer"

swayvil — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:38:06 +0000

That's a pretty darn cool looking thing.

Funny how, guided by pure mechanical necessity, pretty stuff can arise.

I've always thought that clockwork, chips and other machines were pretty.

And fractals. ( https://fleen.org/i40.png ) And plants and animals too. And weathered rock.

Which leads me to consider what isn't pretty. Naivety?

New comment by swayvil in "Cape Station, future home of an enhanced geothermal power plant, in Utah"

swayvil — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:00:46 +0000

The aim here is to get power from temperature differential, not vice-versa

New comment by swayvil in "Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk"

swayvil — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 13:55:09 +0000

Therefore city dwellers are demented and rural dwellers aren't.

(And this says nothing about the effects of noise pollution or aesthetic pollution)

EDIT

Oh come on, it's the obvious conclusion. So discuss already.

New comment by swayvil in "Cape Station, future home of an enhanced geothermal power plant, in Utah"

swayvil — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:16:42 +0000

Pipes, steam, turbines...

We need better peltier devices.

New comment by swayvil in "AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time"

swayvil — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 16:07:52 +0000

Surveillance is our overlords's favorite thing. And AI makes it 1000x better. So good luck banning it.

Ultimately it's one of those arms races. The culture that surveills its population most intensely wins.

New comment by swayvil in "Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25"

swayvil — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:39:30 +0000

>I think honesty is important

Lol

New comment by swayvil in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"

swayvil — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:55:11 +0000

Cookie monster is his strongest work. It has a VIBE.

Reminds me of permutation city

New comment by swayvil in "Classic 8×8-pixel B&W Mac patterns"

swayvil — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:53:19 +0000

I was doing up some 1bit patterns this one time. Like 8s and 16s and whatever.

Swastikas make a nice pattern. Ya I know. But there are actually only like 7 really good strong patterns and swastikas is one of them.

Such a good graphic. Too bad about the branding.

New comment by swayvil in "Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself"

swayvil — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:19:34 +0000

I dunno man, name a scientist who doesn't concentrate.

New comment by swayvil in "Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself"

swayvil — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:40:49 +0000

Sounds like concentration meditation. (The Buddhists call it "samatha")

Concentration causes your perception to penetrate things. What you observe dissolves, its former appearance a mere veil, parted, to reveal another appearance. And then that veil is parted. And so on.

The process could be described as a penetrating, blooming or revealing.

New comment by swayvil in "Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people"

swayvil — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:06:48 +0000

As individuals less work is a good thing obviously. But as a society less work is a bad thing.

Perverse.

New comment by swayvil in "Ten Thousand Lifetimes with Roguelikes"

swayvil — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:22:27 +0000

What do you guys play? Me a little DCSS. It's really come along.

I like Angband but its crudity repels me. It's enough to make me do my own roguelike. Almost.

Any of you try that dwarf fortress roguelike?

New comment by swayvil in "Google Pixel 10 series review"

swayvil — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:53:18 +0000

The ui developments are obnoxious. And there are weird delays. And it gets hot in unexpected new ways.

Seriously considering Mobian. But my banking app.

New comment by swayvil in "Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]"

swayvil — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 02:12:56 +0000

I've always considered you to be one of my most valuable assets.

New comment by swayvil in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

swayvil — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:12:31 +0000

There is a small community of billionaires who control everything to the best of their ability. They control for their own benefit.

Technology, its development and production, is one thing that they control.

The rest of the population (the nonbillionaires) is another thing that they seek to control. It's near the top of their list.

Phones, internet and social media are tools for controlling us. Arguably. Right?

New comment by swayvil in "Eternal Struggle"

swayvil — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 20:43:56 +0000

How on phone?

New comment by swayvil in "Eternal Struggle"

swayvil — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 20:42:22 +0000

It's cool.

It would be better if there was only 1 kind of edge instead of 2.

I refer to the broken edge and the circle edge.