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I found a good cat-sitter through Rover and would do crime if she made it a condition of her next visit.

Warning: I was in two different project experimenting with similar forms of db access at the same time. don't do that.

find the reflections in the rushing river

yeah, I don't think the jenga tower is changing but the levels of abstraction will.

the abstractions around this stuff are still a jenga stack with round pieces... I think it will tighten up over the next year or so for real world use cases. Right now it's great if one is a "build your own tools" kinda person.

"fundamental tenet"? There's not an engineering pope speaking ex cathedra.

I thought they were making fun of my new jersey accent.

compilers can only produce machine code. so unorginal.

> Which poor people exactly do you consider privileged, and why?

those with insulation from genocide and displacement despite poverty.

their point is that, say, a german peasant in 17th century couldn't avoid the Thirty Years War.

The big players (Gemini, Claude Code, Codex) and then aider and opencode for open source.

I keep my setup modular/composable so I can swap pieces and keep it usable by anyone (agent, human, time traveler) depending on what the task needs. In the aughts I standardized on "keep worklogs and notes on tools and refine them into runbooks" so that has translated pretty well to agentic skills/tools. (a man page is a perfectly cromulent skill, btw.)

tbf, OpenCode's development cycle seems pretty fast. If someone announced AGI in the morning, I'd bet they have it integrated by EOD.

I also use OpenCode extensively, but bounce around to test out the other ones.

That is how scholarship works. It’s like a math proof: they’re interested in proving the base case. If someone else wants to do more speculative work to theorize what a well-painted version would look like, that would be super cool, but it wouldn’t be scholarship.

I paid for my internet and used it all day long.

> what problems are they solving

programmatic text manipulation

the eternal september 2: it's eternaler this time

same things as drugs and alcohol, I imagine the side effects are different but still negative!

ok, but what if my friends have terrible taste.

Eventually, some of these companies will realize that a well-managed customer service org is a profit center and they will get an enormous amount of business. Unfortunately, they'll all keep fucking over customers until they realize that accepting life in the crab bucket is a negative-sum game.

I'm considering going back to school to write a "Google Fi 2016-2023: A Case Study in Enshittification" thesis but I'm not sure what academic discipline it fits under.

(I'll say it again for those in the back, if you're looking for ideas, there's arbitrage in service.)

I do not know the future, every line of code is a plausible-looking liability.

"Advertising is a cancer" is the moderate position, in that it assumes the patient can be saved. My personal view is that art that has been infected by advertising should be taken out back and shot.

I'm glad you enjoyed the show! Again, my personal opinion is that we gather more enjoyment out of these things if we spend a modicum of effort to curate our experiences rather than being spoon-fed the slop with the largest marketing budget.

As for "we're smart adults": The research on cognitive biases wrt advertising is settled. No, we're really really really not smrt.

Edit: I realized I am criticizing without offering a solution to my 2nd para. Think about the art (music / games / movies / comics) you like. Find those artists on the internet and see what art they recommend, and then consume that.

I've been using these for about... 20 years or so.. https://www.reisnerscorekeeping.com/

Modell's was the go-to if your team won last night.

Posted elsewhere in this thread, it appears that ladybird does not have a great record in this dept.

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity...

For certain values of 'someone else'

Equating these things with a "Belief in god" belies a narrow view of spirituality.

except...

You're missing emacs insane observability and tight feedback loops.

Unicode is absolutely cheating. ;) :P

Somewhere around 2022, someone flipped a switch that changed Google Fi support from best-in-class to 'we're trying to get people to cancel.'

What should I be doing with my x220? Where are the good thinkpad resources these days.