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It's simple enough: If you don't use it, you lose it. The more you have, the more there is to lose and the longer it may take. But skills and knowledge fade, just as easily as fitn…

From that link:- "With that said, permacomputing is an anti-capitalist political project. It is driven by several strands of anarchism, decoloniality, intersectional feminism, post…

With the use of quotes there, you've put those words in my mouth. I didn't say that. What I am trying to express with the statement you refer to is that zig appeals to me on an aes…

I'll bite. The first language I could "just write" in was C. I had internalised the language and its standard lib and didn't need the internet to work with it. Rust is pushed by ma…

Yeah, nah. Not so sure about that. I love zig, and I appreciate the rigour, care and thought that goes into the language and it's libs. What Andrew Kelley and the team are doing is…

Yeah, I'm aware. MitchellH posts about it quite a bit, most recently about AI "psychosis". Also, much of ghostty was created without the use of AI, I think. More recently, they've …

Yeah, there was a good article on here the other day where the author suggested going slower with AI and using it to help produce higher quality output. I think the idea is to be q…

Yeah, maybe it's rose coloured glasses on my behalf. Those examples you mentioned, I would 100% agree with. It's some of the best software out there. And yeah, there's probably alw…

It's not particularly revelatory to point out that this project has been generated largely by LLM (claude most likely, given the CLAUDE.md in the repo). Also looks like a bit of in…

"I’m a huge fan of the author Jack Vance;" I've enjoyed his work too. Particularly the "Dying Earth" stories. I also read "Planet of Adventure". My goodness did that man have an en…

That sounds expensive.

Hmm, Thanks HAL. :-)

Nice. HAL, from "A Space Odyssey", right? From this, can we infer you're not exactly "all in" on coding via LLM Walter? I, for one, am not. I've gone on the record with my thoughts…

Let me add to the chorus of admiration for this piece of writing. Poignant, accurate, appropriately cynical.

On the other hand, I have quite the visceral reaction to the name because of the influence Hegel had on Marx, and subsequent 20th century critical theorists.

100%. Seems there's a whole class of us. If I'd been old enough at the time to by an early VCR, I'd have chosen betamax.

The industry and the wider world are full steam ahead with AI, but the following takes (from the article) are the ones that resonate with me. I don't use AI directly in my work for…

Oh, well good then.

"Thinking (as a SWE) is still very much the most important skill in SWE, and relying on AI has limitations." I'd go further and say the thinking is humanity's fur and claws and tee…

LLMs are not for me. My position is that the advantage we humans have over the rest of the natural world, is our minds. Our ability to think, create and express ideas is what separ…

This is backwards. He's still 50 cent, but to have the buying power he had in '94, he'd need to $1.09. But he's still 50 cent, so really, in today's money he's more like 23 cent.

The opening line:- "The traditional wisdom says resting meat keeps it juicy. But when we put that idea to the test, we found a different reason to rest—one that has nothing to do w…

I had this idea years ago when I was moving house and redirecting my post. I'm probably not alone in that. Kudos to Japan Post for implementing it.

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That's true of everything we use as money, including precious metals. You can't eat them, live in them, use them as weapons, walk down the street in them. They have value bacause w…