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"... reimagined for le modern price and vendor-lock-in totale"

Agreed. My knowledge/experience with synths is limited but between DSPs that're as available as ketchup and Kleenex for the past few decades and an LLM there's not much to rolling one's one. A watch on the other hand is higher LOE

setting aside my disappointment over DC's absence (I know the heading says "state" strictly but still ... ) Wyoming's is really a purpose-fitting one

> I'm of the opinion that, if your solution requires perpetual majority control of legislative, executive, and judicial branches, your solution is in fact a campaign slogan

So you'll never vote GOP again. And you tacitly agree with Trump's repeated claim that conservatives will stay in the minority unless they _reform_ election rules -- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republ.... Vote suppression and the "perpetual majority control of legislative, executive, and judicial branches," is Republican stated aim since the late 60s/early 70s when their party began its creep into permanent minority status

> It has to be different enough that those who would oppose it right after the inevitable pendulum swing do not want to

What does this even mean? ACA was based on a GOP-governor-in-a-blue-state's successful implementation of HCR. Everyone loved it until Obama loved it, then the highly organized GOP minority hated it, fight it, wasted ~20 years claiming insanely to have a better solution they knew they never had nor will have

Back when Nancy's daughter Alexandra Pelosi used to make mini-doc shorts for the intolerable Bill Maher she made one about southern white Americans' opposition to ACA. She interviewed one fellow -- perpetually unemployed, alcohol/drug/legal problems etc -- who came well out of his chest against Democrats, socialism, The Gubmint and all the other typical lefty stuff that Fox News mentors him and so many others on. Then we find out he's on welfare. Then we find out he's on Medicare/medicaid. Pelosi's like "What?? Wait a minute ... I thought you didn't like this government stuff. Why're you all over it" and mans goes "WELL I DESERVE IT!!!"

Let's just call anti-UHC arguments what they are: wet bullshit from private healthcare industry stakeholders and the uninformed partisans who repeat Trumpist mantras

reddit > ( troof soshul | troll industrial complex media )

> I mean it's right there in the price? Not doing rocket science analysis here.

That's been answered in at least one other reply

> I do wonder on the point of making it complicated on purpose though. Like is there actual evidence of that?

- https://apnews.com/article/irs-free-file-tax-returns-391ded1... - https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...

> Government naturally makes all sorts of stuff overly complicated all on its own.

By all means let me put a couple of things aside so I can debate this corny gospel for hours n' hours ...

da troof soshul bot?

the billion dollar tax prep industrial complex as a group spends the most lobbying dollars on tax policy -- in particular, suppressing any effort eliminate or even reduce filing complexity -- and lobbying ops like theirs don't happen because their service's value to tax payers speaks for itself

Finally a post about agentic-coding that's aligned with my thinking.

I treat the experience like I'm managing adolescent Kal-El in a junior dev role. The kid's strong, fast and smart and does best when I do best by providing clear instructions and guidance in prompts and reference docs.

I also say hello, please/thank you and ttys

Perspective shift: whether positive or negative, have there ever really been any unapproved, rogue media portrayals of law enforcement?

in other words there's no winning because circular arguments about how things "really" work, plus insisting on and worst-possible-case-outcomes-as-inevitabilities.

right ...

Opposite story here in the US with very recent news about Trump breaking offshore wind farm agreements and using billions of US taxpayer dollars to pay repercussive fees to those operators. Our decline/regression in terms of clean energy and how easily the current administration's pulled it off and continues to is an ugly fucking mystery ...

Since my first pi I've always been blown away by sonic pi's capacity and it's price. Surely worth the cost of the Pi itself and then some.

It's so good I feel the rare guilt of not using it enough especially as I see myself as lifelong musically-inclined (skill level is another topic tho ...)

Genuinely grateful to Aaron and everyone who helps keep this project going. Damn near a public good IMHO

Brilliant

First rule of attentioneering - If it bleeds, it ledes

Second rule - Got edge case? Got headline!

Setting aside everything except the stated intention behind the author's post -- ie. to make right something that he could only conclude was wrong after a little education -- what if agentic dev was removed from the equation and he made a similar app anyway?

I understand that using agentic led to specific glitchy things like the recreation of an exact same bug arising from the exact same code which may -- very likely, actually, in cases where one of a narrow set of best practices (or dogma) are (blindly) followed -- or may not happen if you're building similar apps. A lot of people have a lot of the same ideas and the few from that set who actually pursue their goal will likely end up with similar products built with and operate using fairly similar patterns. What then?

What if it's an improvement on the original? Like a vast improvement?

Does a Pepsi or Burger King tell Coca Cola or McDonalds "You got it dawg ...", disrobe, hand over all their assets and find some place to die alone?

"Not pretty to look at it."

Au contraire ... Javier ... mon frere ...

I believe Rosslyn is similarly stacked. My 8 year old self assumed was named after The First Lady

I started riding the Metro in the mid 80s and always loved the THX1138/Logan's Run vibe of the station interiors as well as the plaza's led to them. In areas like L'Enfant Plaza and the suburbs they gave the surroundings a muted techno-oasis vibe. Before downtown DC's mid-90s gentrification-storm stops like Metro Center -- literally named at the time -- with the mix of concrete and pooped-coffee brown metal and very directional, hard shadow-casting lighting you got Eau de Blade Runner with less rain and claustrophobia. The old Third Church of Christ, Scientist delivered similar joy for staring at and photographing. Very hard to forget the shots I took of those venues with my Minolta XJ-7 and Nikon FM-2 as it felt like I was on to something

The pains for me were around all the penalties I got for not following formalities, or at least that's what it felt like to me.

The responses to agent-aided dev seem a little over the top to me.

The derisive "vibe-coded" label is one thing, but the least compelling argument or complaint of them all is the truly worn out one about barriers to entry that you and I and so many others worked soooo hard to climb over are now being obliterated, allowing any casual Moe to stroll into your domain. How many professionals -- djs, photographers ... hell, SEO experts -- pretty much anyone technical and possibly creative have watched technology make work and the accumulation of competitors almost too easy.

If you just remember that no one in this time-space or anyother AFAICT is forcing you to consume or even read about projects like this, you'll find life goes on and you're actually still an expert who people who need experts will value materially (which should be your thing, otherwise wth are you complaining about?)

In fact, if you keep your mind open you might -- not definitely but _just_ _might_ -- find a piece of something useful amidst the slop. One fellow's trash ...

This is pretty cool plus I love anything that references classics like 980css and 2Advanced. I'm even OK with hearing the word "Flash" now in a way that some day I'll be with hearing "React" ...

TIL about tree ...

I stopped being surprised by new stuff I learn about an OS I've been using for 25+ and 10+ as my daily whip and just enjoy the discovery-buzz

these take-home interview nightmare stories are so common ... I'd hate to see a bad actor take advantage by offering a "service" to unsuspecting and underinformed folks like ... erm ... me

... possibly due to the lying bumblefucks who start them. George W Bush was a lying bumblefuck who talked himself into being a war criminal who can't travel to certain countries. Trump is the kind of lying bumblefuck who lets a dependent bumblefuck that Netanyahu is to talk him into the dumbest and most embarrassing military engagement in US history of my lifetime, possibly only next to Grenada

npr, btw, is in some sort of decline in news source legitimacy having to resort to these simple-minded click bait headlines ...

yeah OK ...

my kinda hackin' so much creative potential ...

useful, shmuseful. very cool project

... wherein it's made known the author can't lose. good for the author

when photography first dropped in the late 19th century it was also referred to as the enemy of creativity and it 50+ years for it to be recognized as a legit art form.

That said, some people like taking snapshots.

very cool and runs pretty nicely on my 2019 mac mini

SPMTE timecode is the first tech standard I was able to understand as a young adult (which was decades ago). Standards.