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smithcoin··on What About Rails?
We both know what the 'answer' is because we are normal people who understand nuance - a skill many people have lost as they have come to have their ideals defined by their identity, not the other way around.

> Just because some people calling someone a nazi are wrong doesn't mean everyone calling someone a nazi is wrong.

Sometimes they aren't just wrong, they are the loudest.

smithcoin··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Theo has been "it's so over pilled" his videos are hard to watch.
smithcoin··on What About Rails?
In the absurd post-truth future we find ourselves in a situation where wrong think just means anything right of what Hasan Piker thinks on a given day.
smithcoin··on What About Rails?
because once you attempt to start to apply any label it becomes more and more vague. If I am a black man from South Africa who hates white people for perpetuating the Apartheid, am I welcome or am I a racist? If I am a man who's own father transitioned to being a woman and I no longer feel comfortable around trans-people because I lost my 'father figure', am I a transphobe or am I welcome? I understand these are deliberately obtuse examples. I bring them up because I never know where on the spectrum the line is drawn for these labels yet people will gladly declare somebody a 'nazi' because their dad watches Fox News. Even asking the question "when does somebody on the right go far enough to be considered a fascist?" often is met with the retort "defending nazis makes you a nazi".
smithcoin··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Did anybody watch the Primeagen's video on Google bag-fumbling? Interesting they released on the same day!
smithcoin··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
The sentiment goes both ways?
smithcoin··on When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work
Have you found a write up you’d recommend on how the threat actors actually exploited the vulnerabilities?
smithcoin··on When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work
I think what is the author is getting at is that if you are cavalier in your commit messages when the stakes are low, chances are you aren’t taking writing code that handles money seriously. Made me think of some merges I could have taken more seriously.
smithcoin··on Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
You’d have a better chance of getting your PR accepted into https://github.com/Vinovest/sqlx
smithcoin··on The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB
SalC1 made a great video about how this was accomplished: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDyze1YlOrI
smithcoin··on The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB
It was made on 2b2t, the seed is well known: -4172144997902289642. FitMC makes a video where he shows what the original spawn looked like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksS00MCQPog
smithcoin··on Ten Years of Franz
I used Franz and then went it went freemium I used ferdi for a while. I like using Zen browser and it’s based on Firefox
smithcoin··on 'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut
Another comment reminded me that there is a similar one called You Should Have Left.
smithcoin··on 'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut
The faster you read House of Leaves the better the meta-experience.
smithcoin··on 'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut
I swear I used to see shorts or reels with a Kevin Bacon version of the House of Leaves story
smithcoin··on You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)
Good luck! You might not find anything out tomorrow, but it still might work in the long run.
smithcoin··on Leave Me Behind
> how a tool that allows you to be 100 times more productive

Because we don’t agree on this premise

smithcoin··on Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm
Do you think we’ll get it before or after Tesla FSD?
smithcoin··on Boats crash/break and can kill their passengers when falling certain distances
Matt Parker from Stand-up Maths analyzed the "Minecraft boat-drop mystery," in this interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei58gGM9Z8k
smithcoin··on RubyGems Fracture Incident Report
I read the article but I’m out of the loop enough to not understand Shopify and 37signals piece in this can you clarify? Is there another place I can be pointed to with that background information?
smithcoin··on How A Spartan Revolutionized Baseball
When the Cubs signed Aroldis Chapman I went to the first game where he came out of the bullpen and I will never forget the entire crowd looking at the scoreboard and reacting every time he hit 100 miles an hour. Now every team has somebody that hits 100. It blows my mind people can throw a baseball faster than I drive on the interstate.
smithcoin··on Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem
When I was younger I remember a point of demarcation for me was learning the 4chan adage “trolls trolling trolls”, and approaching all internet interactions with skepticism. While I have been sure that Reddit for a while has succumbed to being “dead internet”. This thread is another moment for me- I can no longer recognize who is a bot, and who has honest intentions.
smithcoin··on I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]
VRAM goes vroom vroom.

I emailed him the video from OP and he mentioned they’ve done some collaboration. I’m assuming there’s a retro programming discord that I’m not worthy of.

smithcoin··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
I posted something similar the other day, but at this point it is too little too late. Using windows feels like actively submitting to a hostile user experience.

I look back fondly to the time I had using my Dell XPS when WSL first came out, they had me hooked. I've been using MacBook Pro for about a decade now and I can't even fathom going back to windows. Every time I open the start menu I feel personally attacked.

I used to obsess over reading xda developer forums and playing around with my android phone. I would laugh at the "sheeple" using apple products for not being customizable and giving away their freedom.

At this point in my life "it just works" is good enough and no longer a point of ironic derision.

smithcoin··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
I am convinced that nobody at Microslop uses any of their products.
smithcoin··on Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts
I just assume a lot of product managers have never used their products anymore, and it shows across the industry.

Have you ever tried to play Xbox live after not being signed in for a long time?

Have you ever tried to use smart search terms in the Amazon search box?

Have you ever tried to use these tv channel apps on a Roku?

Do Fridgeaire reps own their own appliances?

I’m just convinced people don’t use their own products where the people that use them and care are so few and far in between things are only getting enshrined.

smithcoin··on How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers
Nobody tells you how much it hurts, but it’s worth it (just in the increase in dental hygiene alone in my case).

For some reason now it’s assumed these were some kind of injection molding, but it makes perfect sense that it’s 3-D printed.

smithcoin··on Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age
I saw this posting from here the other day about how it’s meta wanting to pass the buck to OS and browser vendors a la Section 230: https://web.archive.org/web/20260313125244/https://old.reddi...
smithcoin··on 2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March
Cutting layers of bureaucracy not replacing with AI
smithcoin··on Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered
I grew up recommending windows to everybody I knew for most of my early life. I’ve had my boomer dad on Linux mint for almost a decade. Any time I am asked for a recommendation I cannot say to buy a Mac fast enough. Yes they are overpriced but the build quality to me is worth it. The windows 11 start menu is user hostile, I seriously can’t believe people use that day to day. I’m old enough to remember when they called it Micro$oft -unfortunately Microslop is going to stick (the author is right about the two settings apps). When was the last time you think an exec at MSFT played an Xbox or described using teams as “pleasant”?

“Adobe and Office run better on Mac, change my mind”

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