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Social media in its current form is being used to unravel whole societies.
"The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyrany, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust."
- verytrivialI have a colleague whom refers to the emails he sends as 'letters'. It was strange at first, but it also implies some effort being taken. I read the 'essays' terminology the same way. If it isn't some textual version of habitual food/travel/life logging, and has some cohesive topic, it's an essay.
- If you replace JSON with XML in this model it is exactly what the "document store" databases from the 90s and 00s were doing -- parsing at insert and update time, then touching only indexes at query time. It is indeed cool that sqlite does this out of the box.
- I can't comprehend how that's even an issue. Like it's the sort of thing you might read in an old bug report online and go "wow, that must have been an awkward few days for everyone" but to hear that it is "normal"? Wild. Utterly unacceptable.
- I agree. Park the handle with a polite "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy" note and a suggested list of other places for more fruitful discussion.
- I still tidy my house using the Settlers resource movement algorithm, moving things closer towards where they need to be even if they don't go all the way to their final destination.
- Another worthy mention in this space is Linus Åkesson's dialog language[1]. From its description:
Development seems dormant at the moment, but it feels more like Inform 7 'done right' to me. If my brain was a little bigger and calmer I'd be all over it. It has excellent documentation too. Very portable -- I compiled it locally under Termux on my phone with nothing but Clang.Dialog is a domain-specific language for creating works of interactive fiction. It is heavily inspired by Inform 7 (Graham Nelson et al. 2006) and Prolog (Alain Colmerauer et al. 1972). An optimizing compiler, dialogc, translates high-level Dialog code into Z-code, a platform-independent runtime format originally created by Infocom in 1979. - Full of security issues is similarly overly dramatic, Haha. Fil-c appears to already compile libxml2[1] so I wonder how far off libxslt would be?
[1] https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c/tree/deluge/projects/lib...
- Small meta observation: Gemini Flash 2.5 summarises this discussion as a problem with how ML was used and it's flaws, whereas Gemini Pro 2.5 emphasizes that it mainly a cultural communication problem. Both topics are here, but "fast Vs slow thought" sees different things.
- Wire wrap is/was an underrated prototyping technique prior to PCB automation. Nasa flew missions with wire wrap boards.
- Haha but seriously, Trump is just starting to ramp up full kleptocracy mode. Each tariff change is going to be associated with billions in trades made with foreknowledge of the move. His robber baron friends will fund him and his regime forever. They can do whatever they want now. We might as well tear down the White House and replace it with a Putin style gilded palace for Oligarchs. Oh wait.
- ID checks, driven by prudishness, are an absolute gift to the big social media companies. They're the only entities whom (a) already know the check's answers, and (b) have the resources to keep hackers largely at bay.
I am not surprised these laws are landing with such little resistence.
- "drone delivery and humanitarian aid". Right. Thousands of military FPV drone operators beg to differ.
- The problem for me is the fusing of the browser with a preferred 'platform' of services. I don't want a partisan browser.
- I stopped using Chrome when they started doing the "logged in to Chrome" thing for all Google services. It seemed likely a creepy step in a vaguely defined, unknown direction. The signal seems stronger now.
- They're hardware projections into your living space of a massive system run by Amazon. It's the massive system that open-source will have trouble replicating.
- I'm going to miss his waffle-free 'Hello' intro. It is/was like stepping on to an airport travelator that's moving 30% faster than you were expecting.
- I played this game long enough ago that I needed the LOD adjustment to hit 5fps. Nice write-up!
Aside: I would pay real currency for an official Brøderbund t-shirt. Probably not possible now. I always knew I would enjoy whatever game it was I was starting when I saw that ship logo and the 'funny O'.
- I had 2.5 Flash refuse to summarise a URL that had today's date encoded in it because "That web page is from the future so may not exist yet or may be missing" or something like that. Amusing.
2.5 Pro went ahead and summarized it (but completely ignored a # reference so summarised the wrong section of a multi-topic page, but that's a different problem.)
- Well, it is perhaps frequently suggested by those Ai firms raising capital that once one of the Ai companies reaches an AGI threshhold ... It as rallying call. "Place your bets, gentlemen!"
- I had to take a few runs at that domain name before I could parse it!