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Amiga floppy disk sounds are the deepest of sense memories.

I think Dario didn't get a Gmail invitation back in the day, and now he's taking it out on everyone.

this grug not smart enough to make robot into grugbot. grug just say "Speak to grug with an undercurrent of resentment" and all sicko fancy go way.

Haha, my version of that is accidentally closing a split when I meant to drop a buffet, or vice versa, losing either my work or my layout.

Brilliant. When is the next International Obfuscated Vim Exit contest?

Depending on someone else's servers isn't that different from depending on someone else's software, which unfortunately we all must do. Unfathomable reams of it, with a growth curve that recently went vertical. I guess the crucial difference is that someone else's servers can be taken away in a flash, while someone else's (FOSSl software can't.

Is it a mad dream to wish that was never gets DOM access, and instead there is invented a less memory-hungry dynamic representation of web pages that's usable only by wasm? Yeah, it's a mad dream. But it's also maddening that I can effortlessly open a 100 MB PDF but browser can barely handle a 10 MB html document.

If I read it correctly, the comment suggesting the intermediate variable was from CodeQL itself.

Good call, he'll have to name it Shitty COdingagent, or "SCO". No one will sue over that name.

In general I think the answer could be pretty simple: dedicated marketplaces for products and services, where we go to search for the things we need and want. A humble newspaper contains great examples of good and bad advertising.

Newspapers have whole pages of bad ads, and random bad ads wedged between actual content. Ads have a perverse incentive to mimic the look of actual content, just like on the web. I'd never pick up a newspaper with a goal of "I want to find a tax service" and yet ads for such services are there, unwanted, wedged into other content.

But newspapers also have classified sections, a better kind of ad. They're in a predictable place, where you can go if you need a job.

Imagine if the actual content weren't perforated by a scattershot of ads. Ad revenue would go down, but readership would likely go up. Besides profit motives, it's also a case of the good of the many outweighing the good of the few.

An environment like that is where SOLID, or something like it, could thrive.

Fully understood and appreciated. I'm just replying to a comment stating that orcs were forces of destruction and not exploited intelligent beings with evidence to the contrary from the Silmarillion. Tolkien's dilemma is even more concrete evidence.

The M4 fan edit was quite good.

I've not seen Rings of Power and I don't plan to, but I'd just point out that the Silmarillion describes the origin of orcs as being an exploited race of intelligent beings, elves who were captured and tortured until their forms became what we know as orcs.

"... all those of the Quendi [elves] who came into the hands of Melkor, ere Utumno was broken, were put there in prison, and by slow arts of cruelty were corrupted and enslaved; and thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orcs in envy and mockery of the Elves, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes."

That's both a very good description of Tolkien's struggles with orcs, and a writing style that feels out of place in an encyclopedia. The Halls of Mandos are described as a halfway house.

Martin Shaw's recording of the Silmarillion is similarly wonderful.

What they're certainly trying to do is get good annual reviews which increasingly revolve around saying "Look, I did AI."

Rust was a personal project of Graydon's for years before it was sponsored by Mozilla. It's perfectly apt to be included in the parent poster's list.

The best part of try blocks is the ability to use the ? operator within them. Any block can return a result, but only function blocks (and try blocks) can propagate an Err with the ? operator.

One small boon of AI is that making small interactive web components for demonstrations is now a few-minutes diversion instead of an hour or more. I have no idea if that's what OP did, but I've been happy with generating low-stakes code for blog posts.

They're for sale, $80, see the readme.

Wonderful, thank you!

Thank you, those are some awesome ideas. We've tried about half of them, but the rest are going straight on the list. Much appreciated.

Never sway, always Sway.

He must not use any gnome extensions.

The timing of this share is crazy, since I was just looking around a few days ago to see if there were any guides or even kits for doing photolithography at home. It's part of my mission to demystify modern technology for my kids. I couldn't find anything, so this is excellent to see. Far too complex for my kids ages, but it might be cool to replicate at least part of this amazing project when they're older.

I'm one of the git users you describe who are resistant to jj. jj sounds great, Steve Klabnik's endorsement is very convincing, and I would probably love it, but here's the issue: I've used git for 17 years and have internalized its idiosyncracies sufficiently to practically never run into problems, and help anyone on my team who does.

jj is harder to adopt for people with a thorough mental model of git, because it's harder to accept jj commands at face value. I know it's modifying my git tree, so I feel compelled to grok exactly what it's doing, but that's distracting and time consuming.

People like me should probably trial jj exclusively for two weeks, to shed that antijjotic resistance and form a more clear-headed opinion.

Thank you, great episode!

Yes, I wasn't clear, that is the paper I was reading, not the heretic readme.

I'm sure there's a proper name for what you described, but I call it Rip van Winkle syndrome. He helps everyone in the town with their needs, while allowing his own property to fall to ruin.