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The whole point of Omarchy is for people who want to use Arch Linux but have it configured the way DHH does.

So I think it's a little different. Anybody using an opinionated respin should understand what they're getting.

The pessimism is justified. This is the way most Americans want our country to be run. It's unambiguous.

Most Americans either actively supported this administration, or didn't mind it enough to even do the minimum (which is to vote against it).

How you'd possibly convince such people to reconsider is beyond me, and an uprising without popular support would go essentially nowhere.

Follow AI people and watch their reposts.

Starter packs can help bootstrap it. Perhaps this? [0]

A lot of the biggest boosters of AI are aligned with the politics of Musk, and so they're just going to stay on X. This means the AI discourse is far less on bsky.

[0] https://blueskystarterpack.com/starter-packs/@nimobeeren.com...

Yeah, and how long / how many tokens do these attacks take?

The user has to send the agent off into these weeds intentionally, or else be totally asleep at the wheel while something goes very far off the rails.

Attempts to find plausibly deniable rationales for this administration's anti-immigrant policies other than "gutter racism" are ridiculous.

Occam's razor. When somebody shows you who they are, believe them. Nativism is possibly the only stable and coherent political ideology this admin holds. Everything else is negotiable, but not this one.

> The funders are not funding the development of a Linux distro, they are co-signing the political statement.

It's not even a Linux distro. It's an Arch respin with tweaks that DHH likes.

This is for people who want to work like DHH.

I have trouble imagining it. The early rails community was very welcoming at the time. The things he now openly states were simply not welcome in most polite society at the time.

I'm not sure DHH really held the same views back then, either. The "Overton Window" has moved over the last 20 years so openly bigoted and racist views are accepted in the discourse now.

The main competitor in this space is sadly Instagram, which is no better.

> I don’t understand this logic. If I’m being honest, the most productive people with AI on my team are the two youngest.

It's high variance. A young person can move fast because they lack the accrued assumptions of a senior, but that also means they can quickly move in the wrong direction because they lack the wisdom to identify mistakes before they pile up.

"Use AI" isn't really a skill, getting an implementation is now as easy as google for an answer was for our generation. A senior can trivially learn this. But sniffing out the bullshit and knowing when you're going astray still requires a critical eye that not everybody is going to have.

So it seems reasonable to me that moving more slowly and being more cautious, letting the uncs use their knowledge to keep things from going too far afield, is a really smart idea.

And even where the signs and procedures exist, often the rules are not enforced... at least, not against people who appear to plausibly be customers.

If you're a well groomed adult and walk up to the counter at a coffee shop and ask for the code, they'll usually just give it to you no questions asked.

The selective enforcement is the point, because they use these policies to keep away the "types" of people they don't want in the businesses (i.e. unhoused people, teens, etc).

Is it not possible to build a mechanical handle with similar aero properties? It's the electronic activation that's at issue here, not the shape.

Sure can see the use cases where it might be helpful, but "a better bittorrent" on its own doesn't warrant the hype or cash flowing into it.

I guess the user base has proven this out in the end. Torrents are good enough.

Indeed, in music there is a fandom subculture where bands are appreciated only so long as they aren't too successful - hence the indie music scene. Some fans want to discover new bands that are obscure, but not too obscure (after all, they need somebody they can talk to about the band, thus the fan can prove themselves to be cool for knowing all about them). The ideal band is one that only cool people know about, not those lame masses who only ever hear commercial music.

I well remember the "sell out" musicians of the 90s - even the Rolling Stones sold a song to... Microsoft! They might have lost their cool with some people, but that didn't stop them from remaining one of the most influential bands of their generation, and they've continued their success for decades.

As you say, Pearl Jam are the exception that proves the rule, the non-sell-out who managed to get huge anyway.

> For Linux, there is https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar

I came here looking for a reference to Solaar, which is what I currently use.

AFAICT there's no reason to switch to OpenLogi for Linux users.

They could use ignorance as an excuse the first time, but only those who were too young to see the first term can use it now.

One of the failures of the US media is to continue allowing these voters to hide behind such plausible deniability. They knew what they were asking for and they need to be understood as people who wanted this outcome.

The current oligarchy has forgotten the lessons of history.

The implicit deal is that they can keep extracting the value from us as long as they keep tossing us enough scraps.

They show every intention of claiming a bigger piece of the pie in return for basically nothing, and that kind of shit will lead to an unstable system eventually.

Even just going backpacking for a few days highlights it. Despite access to some modern amenities (maybe a lighter, or a camp stove, and some food you bought and took with you) it's humbling.

Looking for water in the wilderness - even with access to maps - can be quite a challenge in and of itself!

> Garmin upper end stuff is where it is.

The problem for e.g. Google is right here.

The Garmin stuff is so good at its niche (and passable at the other "nice to have" stuff) that the market is already segmented. If you're this kind of "power user" you're already in the Garmin ecosystem.

It's tough for me to imagine what a Pixel Watch could possibly do to win me over (and I say this as somebody who has a Pixel phone and even had an Android Wear device early on).

> I've heard some refer to this as a "nature is healing" scenario for the industry where if you only signed up for a high paycheck and didn't care to think critically about any of the work you're doing then this will be painful because that previously manual process has been automated. The floor of what's necessary to be considered valuable has been raised.

I feel like this is a bit of cope.

Right now you still need to have some skill to guide these things correctly to produce cohesive and functional products, but at the rate we've seen them improve I question how long this will remain true.

It's stuff like this that really makes me wonder about the great man theory of history.

Without JW Booth, maybe Lincoln would've broken the southern white aristocracy, and maybe Reconstruction would've succeeded. One man could've made the difference and finished the job.

Likewise, it's difficult to imagine any other con man so skilled and beloved (by a certain subset of the population) as Trump, and his singular abilities and predilections have potentially derailed the entire project of American empire - maybe permanently.

Yep - there are issues still with this class of product (bulky, wired) but they're getting much better. It's not quite portable enough yet and the ux is a train wreck since phone OSes don't handle them appropriately yet, but they're impressive pieces of tech and you can imagine a few iterations getting them where they need to be for general use.

These exist already; they're sometimes called "XR glasses." They simply act as a monitor for a connected device.

The market is maturing and the hardware is pretty cool. The software situation is pretty dire though; phone OSes don't have a way to use them effectively. Samsung Dex is probably the best experience right now to just use them as a desktop display.

Not to mention, if it's seasonal for any reason then it's something that should be baked into the cyclical expectations already.

It's like reporting that Spirit of Halloween employees accounted for the biggest retailer layoffs in November. It's a totally useless statistic that tells you nothing about what might really be going on that month that's abnormal compared to baseline.

> Was it level 5? of course not.

You realize there are fully autonomous waymo cabs operating at "level 4" in several regions... today. Anybody can download the app and ride in them now.

Google didn't go around promising this "next year" every year for the last decade. They just went out and did the work to make the product work, and released it.

Nashville politics operate in an extremely narrow window.

The local government has a degree of autonomy, but there are unspoken checks on it by a generally hostile state government. Nashville is represented by Democrats while the state is controlled by Republicans. There is an implicit threat that if the city fails to pursue the state's objectives the state will punish it.

Recently the city angered the state because it refused to hold the Republican convention. The state retaliated by passing a law to shrink the Nashville city council and another to take control of its airport. The state also took control of the Nashville tourism board that has a slush fund paid for by city taxes.

There is a direct line between state reps and local politicians. So for example when state lobbyists were angered at the loss of parking due to a bike lane they called up a council member to have the lane removed.

Which is all to say that the stadium deal was ordered by the state and not something the city had a real say in.

If the datacenter people go and cozy up to the governor or legislators the state will lean on the city again and they will ram it through as well.

The problems are 1) money is flowing so freely that you can't use the raise here as a signal of anything meaningful and 2) the industry (especially hardware) is in massive flux right now.

So what might look like success in this environment might look very different if the bubble pops.

Obviously Oxide has a ton of experience on its side but it's so opaque where any of this goes that even they can't read the tea leaves.

> The USA has never been defeated. It's never been taken over by force and forced to submit to a foreign power. War getting a little too expensive or politically unpopular for their tastes is not really a loss, and it implies nothing about their true capabilities.

It feels like semantics here. The US empire hasn't been defeated but its specific invasions have been.

But just knowing the US military is too weak to accomplish its objectives doesn't help much, because the US leadership is so mercurial it might decide to attack anyway. The deterrent effect only helps if you have rational leadership who is capable of evaluating the chance of failure.

Repelling such an invasion, while possible, is still a pyrrhic victory for whoever the US is attacking, because so much of their population will suffer in the invasion regardless.

The "100x productive" thing is some kind of bogeyman. It's pretty clear these things are useful and helpful and the degree to which they are such continually improves, but putting some specific large number on it is pointless.

If you didn't notice a difference between AI assisted coding in Jan 2025 and now beyond "marginal" improvements... well to be frank I don't think you've really been paying very close attention. It's a combination of the way we interact with the models and the models themselves, and this really did get much more effective in late 2025.

You can say the model improvements in that year were incremental, but the degree to which the overall capabilities have changed and what that means for software development is more than the sum of those parts.

I think the disconnect here is that you can't only retype the solutions. You have to already sort-of know what's going on and you have to also care to understand the gaps.

So transcription can definitely be helpful when part of a broader, intentional process, while also being insufficient to do much on its own.

And the next logical question to ask is whether there's a better form of intentional behavior that might be more effective.

You can do low(er) head pumped hydro storage [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...