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gtoast··on The Dilbert Afterlife
I don't understand this white washing (no pun intended) of "Its okay to be white" a well known white supremacist troll slogan (see wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_okay_to_be_white). How does one write an article this obnoxiously long and negelect key context of that whole ordeal?
gtoast··on Jensen Huang on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]
Jensen does a uninterrupted PR presentation while Joe nods and agrees with him.
gtoast··on Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence
I'm hearing this sentiment EVERYWHERE. This latest version of the OS on desktop and mobile, is aesthetically a disaster. Users requested none of this glass stupidity, they hate it, and there is no way to turn it off. Between that and the CEO gifting a participation trophy to our authoritarian felon "adjudicated s-assaulter" president, most people I know with a conscience are pretty much done with the platform and looking forward to the next opportunity to bail.
gtoast··on Show HN: Powerful Visual Programming Language (Book)
This 100% feels like a scam. Can't view a snippet of code on the website. Not even a "Hello World" not even a screenshot. There's no documentation available to look at. The website is entirely focused on getting you to download the Amazon "book". Which, if the "blog" is any indications, is filled with AI generated slop. There's incomplete sentencesin there, nonsense phrasing... I dare any human to read this horrendous post: https://medium.com/techtrends-digest/new-language-pipe-makes... I makes zero sense.

I think the only way to prove that the responses here aren't AI would be for the developers add the sum of the first 30 even integers, then the next 30 odd integers, and the next 30 even integers after that...17 times.

gtoast··on Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle
Man, if only there were some extremely wealthy companies, like the wealthiest companies in the world, that had a vested interest in "freeing" Javascript that could donate a measley $200k...
gtoast··on US AI Action Plan
LOL Its awesome its the Trump administration guiding us through this delicate and important issue. Should turn out great.
gtoast··on Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web
I'm in actually in Chrome. I get the following error when running 90s.dev on that getting started page:

process.ts:159 SecurityError: Failed to execute 'showDirectoryPicker' on 'Window': Cross origin sub frames aren't allowed to show a file picker. at askdir (process.ts:154:37) at port.onmessage (rpc.ts:103:10) askdir @ process.ts:159 await in askdir port.onmessage @ rpc.ts:103 filer.app.js:129 Failed to get folder: error, cancelled, or using Firefox.

gtoast··on Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web
I'm stuck on the first step of the "Getting Started" guide.

1. I've downloaded helloworld.zip to my local computer, I think. 2. I open the filer.app.js by clicking the link on the webpage. This open a 90s.dev instance right on the page. 3. Then i'm supposed to mount helloworld/app as app and click it, so i click the mount button, it asks for the drive name, hi put in helloworld/app and click mount but nothing happens.

I must be missing how you're supposed to get helloworld.zip into the 90s.dev instance... how do you upload it into the instance?

gtoast··on A bestiary of exotic hadrons
I really read this title wrong
gtoast··on StoryDiffusion: Long-range image and video generation
Its really challenging to think of the positive, constructive uses for this technology without thiking of the myriad, life and societal effecting uses for this. Just interpersonally the use of this technology is heavily weighted towards destruction and deception. I don't know where this ends or where researchers who release this technology think this will go, but I can't imagine its going anywhere good for all of us.
gtoast··on Clojure Turns 15 panel discussion video
Boot died, sadly. There was some talk of a Boot 3.0 but it never materialized. I think deps.edn took all the steam out of it. Duplicated a lot of functionality and none of the esoteric-ness.
gtoast··on Tell HN: Discord is permanently locking out users with multiple accounts
Been trying to verify my phone number on my personal account for literally years. Every few months I give it a shot and it’s always the same. The fact that I used my phone number on my work account prevents me from verifying my personal account.

If Discord thinks I’m going to purchase a second phone line to verify my Discord account they’re insane.

gtoast··on Clojure isn’t for me (2020)
Janet vs Babashka vs Fennel - anyone have thoughts?
gtoast··on Have San Francisco policies done more harm to children than Covid?
Do these children's family members, their teachers and school administrators get any consideration? They can still die from the covid infections they catch while interacting with students, correct? Is this news to people?

Searching for Laura Fagan brings up all kinds of other silliness. Her links are misleading when you go to the source if they're not straight up opinion pieces from other kooks. This lady seems like a pro-covid Karen in all the worst ways.

gtoast··on FreeYourMusic lets users move their playlists between music apps
If you're transfering to/from spotify then yes. You have to have a Spotify account but yes, I have a free one.
gtoast··on FreeYourMusic lets users move their playlists between music apps
Been using https://www.tunemymusic.com/ for this exact purpose for the last couple of years. Somone releases a playlist on Spotify, I copy the url and transfer it over to YouTube Music or Apple Music.

Does anyone know if FreeYourMusic has any advantage over TuneMyMusic?

gtoast··on The Bulky Bears of Fat Bear Week 2021
Went to my local Fat Bear Week in Guerneville, CA... was not what I expected but made a ton of new friends!
gtoast··on Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech
"The lawsuit contends that Apple and SIS exhibited reckless disregard for the truth by misidentifying Bah as the perpetrator of multiple shoplifting crimes at iStores..."

What the heck are "iStores"?

gtoast··on AI-Powered Drone Learns Extreme Acrobatics
Slaughterbots - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
gtoast··on New System76 Laptop: Lemur Pro
USBC 3.1. Slim design. Integrated gpu. I'm all in. Can't wait.
gtoast··on Voat: What Went Wrong?
Voat: What Went Wrong, The Summary:

Reddit didn't let racists run rampant. Reddit didn't let racists run rampant. Reddit didn't let racists run rampant. Today, Voat is overrun with Racists and is a terrible place. Why didn't Reddit let racists run rampant?

If its any consolation you really don't have to look too hard to find a bunch of hardcore racists and bigots of all kinds on Reddit spouting violent hate rhetoric so I guess it all worked out?

gtoast··on The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism
Lol. “I heard some progressives support preemptive self defense so I should be allowed to fire into any crowd of people I think may be progressives”. I hope that is their defense.
gtoast··on The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism
This is a fine opinion piece but for learning anything substantive on this subject it’s absolutely devoid of any facts or sourcing for any of its claims. Also seems woefully, out of touch given recent profiles on Milo Yiannopoulos and the arrest of three white supremacists on attempted murder charges for firing guns on student protesters following a campus speech.

It’s possible the situation is slightly more nuanced then “college students hate facts/white people”.

gtoast··on Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
Thanks!
gtoast··on Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
This is perfect! Thank you!
gtoast··on Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads
Can anyone point me in the direction some call with continuation and stack and heap explainer? It would be great if it was brief and visual but I'm willing to read up. I just want to make sure that an explanation of call/cc is forthcoming.