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Can you elaborate on BlueSky native apps being bad because they are written in TypeScript?

It’s not an actual bus stop. The bus stop is part of the installation. It depicts the scene where Totoro takes the cat bus [1]. But I was hoping it had an umbrella too.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vPOgiR5aUWE

AI for AI's sake might as well be a losing strategy. Apple will probably be fine.

Education is probably not enough. Maybe only a nature cult or religion could save the planet. I say this as a life-long atheist.

True, my comment implied more than was actually said.

Being "well-educated" is not the only desirable outcome of education.

Would you like to die with a young body, or prefer not to die at all? Serious question.

Would you like to die with a young body, or prefer not to die at all? Serious question.

I for one love this planet and would never want to leave it for an existence on life support in a hostile environment, fully dependent on technology.

What do you propose to do with life on Earth while you put all your unlimited resources into your flight plan, let it burn?

Reading some of the answers in this thread, I think I would put all my resources into a global education program.

In my eyes the greatest challenge is to find a way to enable humanity to live in a way that does no longer destroy the ecosystem it relies on.

Unfortunately, the solution won't be just technological but rather social, educational and political.

We must find ways to stop overconsumption, overpopulation and to teach children (and people in general) the value of our natural environment.

You would like to watch yet another step towards the dismantling of representative democracy in the United States as an experiment? There is enough happening right now that demands your attention.

Spotify has been accused of recommending their own AI-generated fake artists in order to avoid paying royalties to real artists.

There is a turtle graphics framework in the Python standard library: https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html

Pharo is a cross-platform implementation of the classic Smalltalk-80 programming language and runtime system: https://pharo.org/

$6.5 billion? Not bad for a company that doesn't even have a website.

Lua on the BEAM - Dave Lucia & Robert Virding | Code BEAM Europe 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBBoXXH_98

Found in a recent discussion on goboscript, a programming language that compiles to Scratch [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44027436].

Right, thanks! The correct link is https://alembic.com.au/blog/ash-ai-comprehensive-llm-toolbox...

Just announced: Ash AI: A comprehensive LLM toolbox for Ash Framework [https://alembic.com.au/blog/ash-ai-comprehensive-llm-toolbox...]

Suffixing a name with -ex often results in unique names, which helps filtering search results. I see a slight problem with name ending on an s though.

Also, aren't you the author of jqex? ;)

Here is a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC8Xl6tvjfk

Some instructions to install it on macOS: https://erlangforums.com/t/lt-using-luerl-to-run-spaceships-...

Have you considered "Luex", a nod to Luerl but with the typical Elixir suffix?

Found in the discussion of a similiar short story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43991396#43992097

That discussion is about a tweet that has since been deleted.

I got redirected here via this (only) post in the discussion of a news story on TechCrunch that looked like saying that the article is already being discussed in a different thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43991641

I didn't check the title and was under the impression that this discussion was also about the TechCrunch story, thus my question why this discussion was flagged.

TechCrunch story: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/grok-is-unpromptedly-telli...

Why is this flagged?

Cube has a model called "Trike Hybrid" that has a similar, more practical design: https://www.cube.eu/de-de/e-bikes/transport/trike-hybrid

"Bonfire is an open-source framework for building federated digital spaces where people can gather, interact, and form communities online."

https://docs.bonfirenetworks.org/readme.html

Further down the page it says it is built in Elixir with Phoenix/LiveView and PostgreSQL.

Good memories! Back in the days I used Kaleidoscope to style my PowerMac (System 7.5) to look like BeOS, but most importantly, I had an extension that gave me the column browser in the Finder that I had seen on the NeXT Cubes at university. In most courses, I was the only student who used a Mac for homework assignments.

FWIW, I started learning Elixir and OTP to overcome architectural bloat in future projects.

The Erlang ecosystem has many useful abstractions at just about the right level that allow you to build the simplest possible custom solution instead of reaching for a 3rd party solution for a component of your (distributed) system.

Building just the right wheel for the task at hand does not mean you have to reinvent it first.

For those who, like me, only knew Larry Wall’s quote “Lazyness is a virtue”, here are all three:

https://thethreevirtues.com/