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LLMs are vectoring towards solving problems of software quantity. What remains is judgment, caution, and taste for quality. Much as computers have made creation in other industries…

That is definitely not what the Maya did. Or really any civilization with large permanent cities. The record of forest cutting once settlements reach a certain size is consistent a…

To recognize the possibility, one has to grapple with incredible scale and deep time: In roughly 300 million years (1/10th of the time life has been around), the Appalachians split…

I know the link is by the creator of Odin, but I can speak personally for my passion for seamless tools. I have ever had as seamless, high-flow of a development environment as I do…

What "constructive" argument is anyone supposed to give about authorities having warrantless access to all private conversations?

The fatal flaw here being that secondary sources and tertiary ad infinitum are all always motivated. It's inescapable.

Calisthenics is a really easy way to push intensity at basically 0 risk of injury. They're all compound and depending on the variation could require high reps, but between push ups…

I recently learned, through visual intuition, how the relative perception of time between two subjects changes as relative speed between them changes. It's because they are observi…

A significant portion of the population DOES want to read and engage with long-form content and discussions. They simply don't want it to be drivel. Traditional corporate/state jou…

Man, all of the confusion and gnashing of teeth in the C++ world really makes me grateful for my job. Smaller company, I solo develop a central module on the product stack, and I w…

Janet is ALMOST an incredible tool...but what I want is a very clear bifurcation between the standard library's stateful mutating procedures, and stateless value-returning function…

The most fun I have playing Magic is a "Reasonable Cube" sealed draft: Buy or make a cube with a very normal distribution of cards, nothing crazy (I bought a cube made by Card King…

Ah sweet, manmade horrors beyond comprehension.

Nim does much the same. It prefers the stack, wraps dynamic heap types in value-semantic unique pointers by default, and avoids implicit copies wherever it can. I could see compile…

A creative's best work is born from constraints. It's why PICO-8 exists for people nostalgic for that specific olden era. I think the PSP could make a fantastic target for meatier …

The entire Internet can bear the burden of free speech. I hold encyclopedias to a much higher, gatekept standard.

Agitprop like "aesthetics are fascist" is pretty blatant opinion. Live up to your own standards.

A) Non-argument. B) Repositories of knowledge should not contain anti-knowledge.

Are you seriously suggesting an encyclopedia should be packed with crackpot conspiracy theories, academic charlatanry, quackery, and agitprop? Or does that not defeat the point? Ke…

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I've produced a staggering variety of documents with Typst. Books, booklets, slides, cards, documentation, everything. In most cases I only need a minimum of custom styles and beha…

Clojure might be the least esoteric language ever. Call a function, get a value.

If you use Nim, it's value semantics by default. Everything (and I do mean everything, all types primitive to composite) is managed by the stack, including stuff that needs to hold…

My prolific Typst use, along with quickly improving side-by-side editors like Typesetter, are rapidly diminishing (in my eyes) the reasons for WYSIWYG to be. Sure, normies need it,…