MetroWind

So... can we expect they all have AC in 2027?

> Personal projects must be fun above all else. The joy of working on personal projects comes from the process, not from the outcome.

I think that's my fundamental difference with the author. I only write programs I actually need. I enjoy the outcome more than the process.

"I can refuse."

Only in theory. Yes you have "rights", but they have power.

What a shit show lmao.

Problem: corporations pushing harmful ads and arranging social media timeline in harmful ways to kids

Solution: restricting the individuals. Giving corporations more control. Giving people less choice.

Yeah makes sense.

I have said this in multiple occasions both on and off line. The world is converging to China in terms of how and how much the governments want to be totalitarian. China already has decades of experience on this, and is both strong and subtle in doing this; almost elegant. US and Europe just got started. It's just too good to resist. (For the government, that is.)

They can just ask you to unlock it for them.

I don't know... I read it as another mathematician thinking they are so mighty and different from any other workers out there whose job was slightly touched (not even begin to be "replaced") by automation.

Maybe he should just touch grass.

Because most engineers nowadays have the fundamentally wrong idea about how their software should utilize the user's hardware: they treat user's CPU and RAM as their playground and being infinite, and therefore act as a platform to make their life easier instead of their user's.

Yes, coding is solved, for the developers, not for the users.

lmao US needs China's input on how to build the GFW.

I don't understand why people still bother with these kind of choices anymore. Why not just write your own service and self-host? I just vibed a git hosting thing and it has been running fine for some months.

I mean "cheap" is in the name...

I have my own version of this. The 98 style is still my favorite.

OpenCode hijacks the terminal to the point where I can't even paste into it on my Linux with Hyprland. It's just trash.

The real scary part is China's compute capacity is orders of magnitude smaller than US's.

Nope, that's not true at all in China. Everybody in China is using AI, even the elderlies and the kids. DeepSeek is already earning money.

My wife has been visiting an eye doctor several times. The doctor always use ChatGPT to double check (I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt; another way to frame this is the doctor didn't know shit and just used AI for answers).

I'm sure he doesn't think AI is making his job worse.

"Jerry began drawing a map of an imaginary city"

"an elaborate set of rules and randomly generated instructions"

... so which one is it?

Lmao I read the readme and still don't know what it does.

For many years I've been saying to people that the world will all copy China because it's just too good to resist. Reactions from people were usually along the lines of "we have laws", "believe the system", "we are a democracy", etc. lmao

I'll never understand why someone would store their password on someone else's computer...

FIIIIIInally someone understands.

Apple has trained people to believe their software needs to be signed by someone they don't know or trust.

I don't know. My grandpa is 96. He uses a smart phone just fine. He even uses LLMs through the web chat UI. He also uses Photoshop to edit photos. My grandma when she was alive was also using a smart phone.

Lmao why is it running Windows at all...

"Trust me bro"

Nah I'm not installing another JavaScript slop.

The idea is you write your own apps now, instead of waiting for others to write one for you.

I don't know... It doesn't look very "small" to me. I "next post"ed a few, and most of them ended up being just some typical tech bro blog talking about boring tech.

But I did eventually stumble upon a post about two corgis, and another about medieval Europe...thingy. So it's not all bad.

Oh cool. US people paid for the tariffs. Now they are going to pay for the refund

OR... maybe they want to do it.