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speedster217··on Haunted by the ghosts of materialism
My degree required taking an Ethics in Computer Science course and I thought it was very interesting.
speedster217··on Emacs Bedrock 2.0
Doesn't lazy.nvim have some support for that?

I use the LazyVim distribution but I remember something in the docs about per-repo plugin settings

speedster217··on I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens
Agreed. AI has been "just trust me bro" for so long. People need to show receipts instead of spreading vague hype
speedster217··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
There's a direct quote in the article from Jaredd talking about poor work/life balance
speedster217··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
They are saying that someone who will summarize an article with AI is already implicitly biased. It's not about the AI, it's about the user.
speedster217··on Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers
Yeah I thought it was very obvious that the author was more careless and complicit than she was admitting.
speedster217··on Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines
I've really been enjoying modern Python both at work and on personal projects.
speedster217··on Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?
Yeah it doesn't even remotely qualify as a warning about it using your tokens to improve itself.
speedster217··on Are We Idiocracy Yet?
Americans are so used to school shootings they complain about the Onion's reaction to it rather than the failure of politics that led them here.
speedster217··on Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
I have a touchscreen laptop and I love it.

Mainly for stuff like quickly moving windows or highlighting.

But also I'm shocked Slay the Spire 2 on KDE is just working perfectly with the touch screen. Card games feel pretty natural with touch screens.

speedster217··on Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026
I've made that decision before without the help of LLMs so I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. It feels vaguely insulting to our intelligence.
speedster217··on Games Workshop bans staff from using AI
> not specific characters.

That's funny because they have been releasing a ton of named hero characters lately.

A (I'm unsure how large) portion of the community hates this style of game design and call it "Herohammer"

I play the space bugs because I like huge swarms of things, so thematically I agree with them.

speedster217··on The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf]
Can you share an example of Fennel with AwesomeWM?
speedster217··on Godot 4.1
Anyone have any tutorials on Godot that they recommend?

I've got a small RPG prototype that runs in the console but would love to give it an actual GUI/sprite graphics.

speedster217··on Google Cloud Storage FUSE
https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse is one option
speedster217··on It feels lonelier at the top with everyone working from home
Yep that happened to me when I moved to be closer to family
speedster217··on America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste
Malcolm Gladwell has a great set of Revisionist History podcasts on this subject.

Here's the first one:

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/04-carlos-doesnt-reme...

speedster217··on New York Beats Out San Francisco to Be World’s Best Tech City
Have you lived in Silicon Valley? The amount that people from other companies talk to each other is incredible. You're using a technology? Oh just hop in the car and talk to the developers about your use case and help guide the development.

You _can_ do that remotely, but having it happen in person is way more reliable

speedster217··on DigitalOcean launches its container service
Just want to add on to this. Whenever I'm looking up a piece of software and I find a Digital Ocean tutorial on it, I know I'm in good hands.

Have yet to find a tutorial that wasn't great!

speedster217··on Haruki Murakami Introduces the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
My coworker who likes Murakami recommended Kawabata and Ishiguro, but I haven't had a chance to read either yet.
speedster217··on Show HN: Cannoli – A compiler for a subset of Python written in Rust
I just tested it in Python3:

    def foo():
        exec("a=1")
        return a

    print(foo())
Fails with a NameError:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "test.py", line 5, in <module>
        print(foo())
      File "test.py", line 3, in foo
        return a
    NameError: name 'a' is not defined
speedster217··on It’s Discounted, but Is It a Deal? How List Prices Lost Their Meaning
At a place I worked, our CEO said that most businesses only paid about 60% of list price. The list price was inflated so that the people who were buying would get rewarded by their companies for knocking the price down so much