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This gives me hope that democracy can prevail even in the face of extreme inequality. Hopefully this administrations ongoing actions are evident to those whose minds need changing, and that those folks aren't too far gone (too accepting and welcoming of autocracy) to do the right thing for the country.

I think a tax strike could be incredibly effective, but also have really bad failure scenarios.

I said the rich should pay their _fair share_ of taxes, but you immediately took it all the way to “stealing from the rich to feed the poor”.

I think what just happened here is a good example of how far to the right (and towards blatant Aristocracy) we’ve come. The political spectrum is completely blown out to one side, to the point where mentioning paying taxes is considered off brand and bad, instead of patriotic.

On Ukraine? Or the US?

Either way - I’m pretty sure they want Ukraine and then there’s mutually assured destruction.

The expectation would be for the rich to pay their fair share of taxes and for the system to be for the people, by the people.

Definitely compassion and tolerance. Ensuring that the program serves the underserved is the right thing to do.

The right may criticise the left of pandering to identity politics but that’s rich. Sounds like projection to me.

Aware probably doesn’t cut it. “Aware and compassionate enough to _try_ not to abuse others for your own benefit” is probably a more complete and explicit statement of wokeness (along with all of that which was stated earlier).

Unfortunately I see “woke” as a brand the right uses to disparage compassion, tolerance and intellectualism.

I would rather have fibre built out as a utility. People can always opt for starlink or whatever wireless they want on their own dime, but I think tax dollars should pay for infrastructure to be built in the places we live.

Kinda sounds like they want to be able to give more money to the muskrat through subsidies for starlink instead of focusing on fibre (fibre would be a better investment), while also being able to charge whatever they want, while also “owning the libs”.

I had a buddy who worked at target for a while - specifically in supply chain management. They were writing software to manage their distribution topologically, or something like that, if I recall. They were using Conal Elliott’s “compiling to categories” and it sounded like it was successful.

Anyway, my point is that software is often what wrangles the complexity of a business process and makes it repeatable. I don’t see that going away any time soon.

How is it that these executive orders are deemed "legal"? They're written in a way that make it seem like the President is Judge Dredd ;)

But seriously - don't we have institutions that verify and reject obvious overreaches of power like this?

> Hippies were never leftists, they were liberals. And when fascists come knocking, liberals flock to fascism.

I don’t understand this, can you explain what you meant? Maybe with examples?

But will this be investigated? In the words of the great Keenan Thompson, "ain't nothin gon happen".

It does rot though, as an apparent effect of everything else changing around it.

Yes. There’s also Indy game 2, which is ok.

Why is it that leadership gets these ideas all at the same time?

Not that I remember. But there was a Mac clone called Carracho, and a little later there was a cross platform clone called KDX made by Haxial. Those were the days.

Who are these icons?

This would be a great move for a president who wanted to cause harm, but spin it as helping.

I don’t think growth was ever the goal of Trumps tariffs.

In hindsight it looks like grift. If Elon controls the payments systems and Trump can enact tariffs, it seems like they’ve set up a very easy way to take money from taxpayers and put it wherever they want without oversight.

I’m betting it’s hollow, and the Repubs even back him up all the way to the… …wherever this ends.

Sorry, the people who came up with the concept are not grifters. The folks who own AI companies claiming to be afraid of the “very imminent” singularity are the grifters, I highly doubt they truly believe that. And they have profited from this AI hype.

> Perhaps this is why our generation often approaches technology with a mix of fluency and skepticism

This resonates with me, as I was just last night telling a friend about the grift that is “the singularity”. Remember that? The tech bros were really concerned about that for a hot moment, then their stock went up… …but nobody seems worried about the singularity anymore.

It would depend on the reliability of the model to produce deterministic results. So far that’s been pretty tough.

Yes. 4chan had this unfortunate effect of turning “ironic” use of Nazi memes into full blown embrace of the Nazi movement.

I’ve seen the same thing happen in my own life by listening to Vaporwave. Vaporwave’s ironic use of 90s smooth jazz has given way to me seeking out the depths of Kenny G’s discography. I actually love Pat Metheny Group now.

Be careful out there. You become the memes you consume.

I think it also depends on _what_ the domain is, and also to a certain degree the tools / stack you use. LLMs aren’t coherent or correct when working on novel problems, novel domains or using novel tools.

They’re great for doing something that has been done before, but their hallucinations are wildly incorrect when novelty is at play - and I’ll add they’re always very authoritative! I’m glad my languages of choice have a compiler!

They mention at the end that it makes it heavier and harder to deploy, as well as how rare it is that they get damaged.

But I think this is the point of the article - that we start thinking with “a wartime mindset”. Which is a shame, but maybe necessary given the state of the world.

I agree completely.

Just out of curiosity, what is uncomfortable about writing shaders, in your opinion?

Author of Renderling here. Thanks for the shout out Animats!

Bindless is a game changer - pun intended. It can’t happen soon enough.

Just curious, what are the three major projects that were cancelled?

I also want to mention that folks are shipping high performance games in Rust - the first title that comes to mind is “Tiny Glade” which is breathtakingly gorgeous, though it is a casual game. It does not run on wgpu though, to my knowledge. I may have a different definition of high performance, with lower expectations.