arrakeen

despite how cringe everything about this is, i'll support anything that gets young people using linux

great name following the NESticle lineage

i feel like using GNU stow to manage your dotfiles has always been a hack.. has it ever been a supported usecase?

stow is an indispensable tool for me to manage /usr/local for manually installed software. my workflow goes:

  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/myapp
  make && make install
  stow myapp

  stow -D myapp

heidecker has been honing this persona for years now in the On Cinema universe. looking forward to this quite a bit

so even with a new tokenizer that can map to more tokens than before, their answer is still just "you're not managing your context well enough"

"Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer that [...] can map to more tokens—roughly 1.0–1.35× depending on the content type.

[...]

Users can control token usage in various ways: by using the effort parameter, adjusting their task budgets, or prompting the model to be more concise."

so just like how every chat app has to look like slack, every ide has to look like vscode, now every agent workspace has to look like the codex app? codex app, antigravity, and now this all have the exact same UI design...

i randomly stumbled upon the connection as well while reading about the St. Bride's School. such a random connection between two completely different interests of mine that i joked the universe is a simulation with limited RAM and reuses assets

Cure Dolly has _some_ connection to this group which, to me, just adds even more mystique to an already fascinating story[1]

[1] https://if50.substack.com/p/1992-silverwolf

the flimsy, breakable part is on the cable rather than the expensive device

since nothing will happen to them except a slap on the wrist, and all our employers will continue to force this crapware on our machines, i think we should make a point to start using their name as a pejorative (similar to the 'santorum' neologism). any when they inevitably try to rebrand, use that term too

poptimism was a movement to end the critical dismissal of "pop" music in and of itself. that is, music CRITICS and writers not fans. its goal wasn't to kill or devalue rock, it was to recognize and appreciate so-called "low art" of pop music. it won and that's a good thing.

what we have now is not poptimism, because that already won and pop music has been re-evaluated critically. with the internet having more or less killed real music criticism, all that's left is clickbait reviews/articles that attract the most eyeballs. unsurprisingly, the stuff that attracts the most eyeballs is the most popular music and the stuff with the most money behind it.

i don't have a problem with pop music, i quite like pop music. i have a problem with the uncritical acceptance of all pop music being necessarily "good". i like to say i'm not a rockist, i'm a popessimist

so... apache?

yeah... i thought the article was revealing itself to be satire when it showed which applications were chosen.

it's unbelievable how the X just isn't there on the android version, probably the most user hostile/disrespectful dark pattern i've ever personally encountered.

that said, i'm surprised that it's available on the desktop version. i wonder if it's some sort of malicious compliance?

i don't know, miro and figma seem to be pretty popular applications using a ZUI

my post was mostly facetious, but it is as you say: possible but probably not something anyone would want to use

java:

    Optional<String> result = returnsAnOptional();
    if (result.isPresent()) {
        log.info("result is {}", result.get());
    }

    // and

    returnsAnOptional().map(r -> log.info("result is {}", r);

i saw that and thought that it was probably a top contender for "worst commit message of all time"

on a mac when i'm in mouse and keyboard mode my left thumb is resting on CMD with my index finger on W (CMD+W, close window), middle on 1 (it'll reach down to do CMD+Q), and ` (CMD+`, cycle through windows)

when i'm in programming mode, i'm in emacs on the homerow

ei wada is immensely talented, see also his open reel ensemble[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-6WfT8RAh4

Killer “Apps” ... What would you add to this list?

use-package, hands down. my decades old rat's nest of a config actually became organized and emacs starts instantly now

similarly, being able to configure emacs with a real programming language was a game changer compared to vim with vimscript. this is not so much an issue now with neovim, but i still prefer elisp :P

My working theory is one of culture...

my theory is that because most of the bands are writing lyrics in english and it's not their native language, they don't quite grasp just HOW ridiculous their lyrics tend to be.

please don't take this as a negative, because to me it's a positive. they sing those ridiculous lyrics with full passion without a hint of irony-- and that's why i love them. american power metal is a bit too wink-wink-nudge-nudge-amirite-guys?

i know real mexican people in cdmx that use latinx. but i guess they must've been brainwashed by the white wokes

same. i even reported the video but it appears to be perennial

you get what you pay for, right folks? surely with a youtube premium account you get the premium search experience.

the AI designs and controls the effects chain and mastering too

    AS incomprehensible && \
       as nix can be && \
       i would take it && \
       any day over && \
       configuring a desktop OS && \
       with the horrible && \
       Dockerfile syntax

iPhone 15, 15 Pro, 15 max, iPhone 15 Pro Max.

it's actually 15 Plus rather than 15 Max, which i'm sure you now see is a bit confusing

Use symbols and emoji where it makes things clearer.

for the love of god please don't. the yubikey-agent example provided exemplifies everything i dislike about github READMEs and whimsical user interfaces.

on the technical side, symbols and emojis can render inconsistently among terminals, leading to potentially confusing messaging. on the artistic side, personal tolerances towards whimsy and playfulness vary wildly and should only be used very sparingly and ONLY if you know what you're doing (if you have to ask, you probably don't)

what kind of psychopath has a two line prompt?

if you're writing "await" before every function call maybe that should be the default.