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I'd consider such a thing if it ran from a box in my closet, I don't even have Alexa right now as I don't want to send every detail of my life to whatever Mothership controlled by people without my best interests at heart.

Trouble is, these factory games are fairly deterministic and are nowhere near as opaque as the real world.

Kind of like how the Travelling Salesman Problem is near impossible in a static network, it's truly impossible in real life as changing conditions constantly make the solution different, so even an instant answer isn't good enough.

I realize as I'm typing this that your thoughts are almost exactly what the more optimistic Communists thought in the Soviet Union (very laudatory towards you by the way), I really should get around to reading Red Plenty, I have a thing for bureaucratic tragedy.

This is what I'm doing right now to learn Electron, I essentially had Opus write me a tutorial to write the application I want to have, and I'm modifying bits and pieces as I go. It's been enlightening thus far, and the bot isn't always right so I still need to look up documentation on occasion.

If they're skimping on their posters, what else are they skimping on?

It's cheap, looks cheap, and signals laziness. This is the sentiment I'm getting even from non-technical people on Facebook these days.

Prebuilt machines have a terrible reputation, I could see people wanting this for a PC that you don't need hardware expertise to boot up. If you're reading this you could probably pick out your own parts and assemble them for cheaper, but for people who want a console-style plug-and-play type experience I could see the market for it.

Pricey, but so is any other sort of electronic entertainment hardware these days.

Trip report: FFXIV does great, but both Hades and Hollow Knight have atrocious lag. I don't know why different games are different for Bluetooth lag performance, when they're all great on my Windows machine.

I hope the Bluetooth audio latency issue I've been having is fixed. I have two Bluetooth pairs of headphones, one open-ear and one noise-cancelling, and they both have either a half-second or one-second latency between what happens on screen and the audio feedback.

Luckily wired headsets work perfectly fine.

Stalin's Russia didn't have a cult of machismo quite like Germany or Italy did, they measured themselves by industrial and intellectual might, rather than how manly they were. Yes there are quite a few similarities I'll grant you, but they didn't have that particular weakness.

For the longest time it was an economic axiom that regulations drive off businesses, and here stronger laws are directly attracting business!

This, I've been using SpecKit for a while for my side project and it's been working beautifully. I generally spend more than half my time working on the specs, until implementation is an afterthought, Claude already knows what to write and where. The /speckit.analyze and /speckit.clarify tools are extremely useful for me.

Glad to see Anthropic continuing to invest in the longevity and quality of their open-source dependencies!

If you missed it, they bought Bun a while back, which is what Claude Code is built in: https://bun.sh/blog/bun-joins-anthropic

Same, it feels like Bootstrap but much, much more customizable. When I'm not using ShadCN that's what I reach for by default, it's been much nicer to work with, personally.

I've been having a very good time with Zed. Great vim motion support, and fast to the point where using VSCode feels like driving a semi truck by comparison.

https://zed.dev

Before I clicked the article, I said to myself "The victim's gotta be Black", and lo and behold. AI has inherited police's (shitty, racist, and dangerous) idea that any Black person is a dangerous monster for whom anything is a weapon.

It's extremely refreshing to see the editor's memory and processor usage be smaller than the webapp tab I'm working on.

I'm really liking it thus far!

People keep comparing LLMs to automated looms, but I find them more comparable to cruise control than autopilot.

I've been working on a character sheet application for a while, and decided to vibe-code it with Spec-kit to help me write up a specification, and for things I know it's been great. I tried using Claude to make it into a PWA (something I don't know very well) as an experiment, and I've found the nanosecond the model strays out of my experience and knowledge everything goes straight to Hell. It wraps my codebase around a tree as if I'm not paying attention while driving.

It's a tool you'll have to learn to use, but I can say with absolute confidence it's no replacement for actual skills, if anything it highlights the gulf between people who know what they're doing and people who don't, for better and worse. It sacrifices some of the 'code under your fingers' feeling for management tasks, which I personally really like, as I've always wanted to document/test/code review/spec things out better, and I now understand the pain of people who'd rather not do that sort of thing.

https://github.com/github/spec-kit

I 90% agree with you, though Apple did stand up to the FBI some years ago. The US gov't at least is much more restricted on what data it can collect and act on due to the 4th Amendment among other laws, and as another commenter said Apple can't blackbag me to El Salvador.

Apple/FBI story in question: https://apnews.com/general-news-c8469b05ac1b4092b7690d36f340...

I've fallen in love with using Vimium when browsing, and the real thing elements are much easier to use than JS substitutes.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vimium/dbepggeogbai...

Probably the same thing I'm trying to do as a side gig now, building software to help solo/small company artisans keep track of customers/payments/taxes.

Essentially, make tools for others in my position that are going to try selling pottery or soap until they can hopefully turn it into a full time thing.

Hardest possible concur with everything OP said.

Knitting and other fiber arts are the grandmother of computer programming, and I'd go so far as to say your CS education is incomplete without at least passing knowledge of fabric weaving and especially weaving machine history.

Ignorance is not your fault, unfortunately they can't teach you everything in college, and people tend to downplay the importance and history of "women's work", much to all our detriment.

https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stor...

When I first saw this, I thought it was a joke to make fun of vim fanatics, but once I installed and started using it, it fit my hands really well almost immediately. Amazing, good work!

You owe it to yourself to give this a shot if you have the time. I find it less of a Civilization game, more a sci-fi horror novel presented with Civilization mechanics rather than paper, if that makes any sense at all.

Play on Civilian and comp-stomp the AI, that way you get to see all the Special Project videos which are really excellent. I really wish they let you see them if someone else gets there first.

It's one of the best science fiction stories I've experienced, along with The Last Question (very short) and Outer Wilds (which is some of the most profound 20 hours of solitude I've had).

POTUS fired two Dem members of the FTC, and the remainder voted to delay enforcement.

Some people like this, where companies get to effectively scam people by deliberately not enforcing rules preventing it. I don't know why people like this. I speculated that it was due to some dumb new bigotry of some sort, as a wild guess as to why people like it when the gov't harms people for no reason.

Why do regular people like this? For real, is it all "Those People Have it Worse", or do they just like the government making things worse for it's own sake?

There's people who like this who will never benefit at all, does anyone know why?

I don't get it. Then again I don't get the appeal of tearing the wings off of flies either.

I find that Copilot's suggestions are not quite what I want in most cases, so I have to edit what they give me anyway.

I know Primagen had a similar experience that you had, he found it useful to keep the AI chat out of his direct editor, and that's how I've been using it too.

Would that it were possible, it's been sold out for years and it's $485 on Amazon for a used copy as of this writing.

If you know a cheaper way to get a hold if it please let me know!

I got those and I love them, but that same thing happens to me if my sideburns get in the way of the speakers. It's a good signal to me to get my hair cut.

Mostly, I use them to listen to stuff in the house and still be able to carry on a conversation without having to doff my headphones, just pause whatever I'm listening to! A friend also uses them in a wood shop that doesn't allow headphones, but he listens to podcasts to help get through the day.

I'm sorry they don't fit your use case, and I'll have to keep that in mind as I get back on a bike next year.

I really think you'd like these two project pages, they were posted to HN some time ago but the original links have been slain by bitrot.

https://austinhenley.com/blog/challengingprojects.html https://austinhenley.com/blog/morechallengingprojects.html

You just described Numenera, if you've never read/played it I'd highly recommend giving it a shot!

It takes place billions of years in the future in what it calls the "9th World", when some mysterious beings just went away.

Have you looked at DataSpell? I haven't used it myself but it looks like it fits at least some of what you need.

https://www.jetbrains.com/dataspell/