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I wonder if anyone wants my old red LED HP calculator... it's got some nice chunky buttons. HP-35 or something, ehhh. Looks like maybe $100.

Right? When I saw the list of Server 2008 things it's like... (a) please no I don't want to see that again and (b) you do know that Server 2025 is basically the same, right?

They can be predicted from a small device you can buy at a smoke shop

And don't worry, each type of cloud is already owned and trademarked years ago, you're not missing out on altocumulus.co.uk or whatever

I'm something of a cloud enjoyer myself. See also https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

Great, more dead boys for nothing. As a Canadian, I think we've sacrificed enough generations for European brother wars. Given retrospect, wouldn't a land deal have been better than half a million dead? Wouldn't walking away from your house, maybe with a reparations package, be better than it being blown up by drones and your family killed?

I don't think we need to go to war. We need to find a way to deal with Russia with humanity instead of treating them like some boomer-era cold war bogeyman.

The Salish Mesh over here on the west coast also gets some pretty good range, though there are lots of holes in the network

Not having great luck with my solar node. Nothing ever seems to get out, even with a pretty nice antenna...

I agree with you, as a longtime free speech believe.

but... I would also like to keep my kids from seeing the very worst of the internet before they're ready to handle it. I tried using a PiHole but Firefox DNS-over-HTTPS nullifies that now. It's not realistic for me to be watching over their shoulders 24/7; what can I do to keep them away from stuff 99% of people agree isn't for children to see, without something like this?

I'd double your guess on this one

Well, selling shovels has always been a good way to deal with that problem

> You must understand what your AI generated code does

Absolutely yes.

> You must be able to do your job if your AI tooling disappears

Absolutely not.

Look, I'm an alright programmer. Not good, far from great. Interpreted languages work for me; add all that strong typing and compilation and it starts to go beyond what I'm interested in. Nonetheless, pre-AI, I have shipped many very functional, production-grade applications for many companies.

Now, I can write stuff in Go, and Rust, and it's fantastic. So much faster. The AI likes the strong typing, the test-ability, predictability, it all makes total sense. I'm using this stuff all the time, but I have not learned any Go; I'm too busy focusing on the parts the AI cannot do for me, like real requirements gathering, architecture, fit and finish, engaging stakeholders, etc. that still require the human touch. Maybe I could have learned some Go using that time, but at the end of the day my employer is paying me for results, not for my edification!

There are now huge parts of my job I cannot do without AI. Sure, it's like 800-1200 bucks a month of extra cost; ok; but with that extra low-5-figs a year of cost I am a much better employee in terms of my capabilities. It's easily delivering ROI for me, and therefore for my employer. Instead of sitting around wishing I had a Go developer to ask for help implementing a simple feature in a Terraform provider, I can just fork it and add what I need, try to submit it upstream for inclusion, etc. and the lack of language specific skills is no longer holding me back.

Take away the tool and I can't do that part of the job anymore, sorry. I can still do a lot, but slower, and honestly it would feel like going from a car back to walking, now; walking's fun, I do it recreationally for the sheer joy, but when there's hundreds of kilometres to cover in a short amount of time, the car is clearly the correct choice. So too is it with AI: we've invented the car for computers and only a fool would pretend he can do everything the same without it now.

To be honest I've had a lot of difficulty telling the two sides apart

Turns out you actually don't even need shoes

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winamp 2.77 for lyfe

Read your most recent piece and I like it. Beat generation sort of feel, extemporaneous, haunting in a good way. Keep writing even if only a handful of people read it.

Beautiful piece of kit. I have no idea how it works from looking at it, fantastic. Please do post a full writeup on it.

Have you seen that meme template, where the midwit wants to use a thousand complicated things to optimize their experience, but the grug and the genius both keep it simple?

I think this is a perfect example... somewhere out there a genius and a grug are happily exercising together for the simple joy of doing so and feeling good in their bodies, and nearby is a midwit with the GDP of a small village worth of wearable electronics wondering where the joy has gone as he laments the 0.1% of VO2MAX he's dropped since his last gadget-run.

Static analysis and other tools can find this, but they're expensive; wonder what the kernel team has access to?

Imagine how much work that all took... carefully colourizing your CLI.... and now it just gets spat out

Insert the grug IQ curve meme here. Some folks really like to hyper-optimize on tooling side quests.

I've seen some of this as well. It's OK to send me an agentic screed if it's just going to be consumed by my agent, but I want a nicely written summary up top that was made by you... I'm starting to value poor grammar, typos, and other signs of legitimacy

The MCP can be hosted on the server side, e.g. Atlassian does this now, and with Dynamic Client Registration you can OAuth to the MCP nicely. This is the way forward for MCPs; you can use oauth2-proxy and nginx to e.g. wrap an open source MCP with a layer of SSO and present it to your company if there's a need to host one that isn't run on the provider's infra.

Citation.... not _needed_, but just morbid curiousity

Fair enough. How much more would it cost / how much more would one have to pay for humanely slaughtered tuna and salmon, I wonder? Would there be a market? After all, we have certified-organic, fair trade, halal and kosher....

Ending console development? So what even is Xbox after that? An also-ran Steam clone? The point was buying physical hardware, I thought, that ran the games perfectly without f'ing around.

Microsoft continues to prove they have no taste

I was quoted $18K for a 3.7 TB Dell NVMe disk the other day. I'm gonna guess these drives are literally a quarter million each

Are we actually much more cruel to fish than to other animals that we slaughter?