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Imagine gatekeeping learning. I suppose the blind are incapable of it, then? Or is taking in information via the fingers somehow more valid than via the ears?

It's quite literally a second order effect. The first order effect is light generation, and a consequence of that effect is heat generation via light absorption.

Explain the attack that gets mitigated by reading the diff of a lockfile?

Every major npm attack I can think of essentially follows the pattern of "version X.Y.Z is secretly evil". How does seeing package@X.Y.Z in your lockfile alert you to that?

This really seems like the exception that proves the rule, given how few Facebooks came out of that era. We had a social contract, but it turned out that being sociopathic is a winning strategy when everyone else is playing by the implicit rules. See also: modern politics.

Everything about that readme quote screams LLM. All it's missing is the user responding, "that doesn't make any sense, this won't work at all", and Claude responding back, "you're absolutely right".

More like they will climb even higher on the lighting-dollars-on-fire leaderboard.

Everyone loves to say this... because it's everyone's experience. I stopped using SO as a resource years ago (well before the advent of LLMs) because it got to the point where almost invariably, when I found a post that managed to perfectly articulate my question, it was closed as a duplicate of some other, distinctly unhelpful question. But it wasn't always that way. There's a fine line between strict moderation and draconian moderation, and at some point they crossed from the former to the latter.

The 4 packing takes up 100% of its square; it's trivially optimal. The 6 packing only takes up 2/3 of it, so it's not necessarily obvious that you can't do better.

"Just"

Spoken like someone who's never had to work on a date picker.

This may come as a shock to capitalists, but some artists don't want to charge their fans more. Fugazi famously capped their ticket prices at $5 because they wanted their shows to be affordable.

People didn't leap from jQuery to React. It's a lot easier to imagine an AI looking at jQuery and [insert any server side MVC framework] and inventing Backbone.

Posing OpenSCAD as an alternative to the likes of Fusion is like posing MS Paint as an alternative to Photoshop. It's not even the same class of tool.

"We made merging to main silently drop some commits from main" was another good one recently. If GH had only one job, not doing that would be it.

This is more or less my take, but at least for me it's not about the level of difficulty exactly. It just feels very transparently like exploring a state space, where the "a-ha" moments just boil down to breaking into a different neighborhood of that space. To be clear, the puzzles are very well designed, and also very hard; but I don't find solving them satisfying at ALL. Compare with Baba Is You, where the "a-ha"s feel to me more like having a grand insight than finding the right very specific sequence of moves.

Put another way, it's been years since I played Baba and I can still remember the key insights to some of the sneakier puzzles. I couldn't even begin to do that for SSR.

Swipe through the "Major Events Timeline". It would be funny if it wasn't so sad how petty it is.

I believe the intended turn order is:

1: P1 selects 2: P2 selects 3: P1 reveals 4: P1 selects 5: P2 reveals 6: GOTO 2

I.e. each player always selects immediately before their opponent reveals.

I doubt he would have much to say on the subject these days.

The most NixOS comment I've seen yet was when I was trying to find out about `mkOutOfStoreSymlink`, which lead me to this thread:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-manage-dotfiles-with-ho...

Hi, I just wanted to know, where can I find the documentation to know more about this contrib.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink option ?

Well, since is a very simple function, no documentation is really needed.

I've been gradually transitioning everything to NixOS, starting with my homelab mini PC, then my Framework laptop, and now my daily driver desktop. It's hard to imagine going back because the pros are so strong compared to the cons, but the docs situation is truly dire.

You might wish to do some cursory research before arguing further. For example, as a starting point, the Wikipedia page on civil disobedience has an entire section labeled "Action" listing counterexamples.

Why is this approach better than the author's?

Alright, I'll bite. What about imperative programming fixes the scaling issues you're describing?

Typically programming scale is regarded as a benefit of FP over imperative programming, as the lack of mutable state results in less moving parts to reason about.

How often do you suppose they will be re-checking your ID? Once every... never?

"My Toyota Corolla struggles to drive up icy hills." "It doesn't struggle, you struggle." ???

It's fine to critique your own tools and their strengths and weaknesses. Claiming that any and all failures of AI are an operator skill issue is counterproductive.

Vue and Svelte both introduce too much mystery-symbol syntax for my taste, and two way data binding has felt bad since Angular 1.

"Clean" is the biggest lie in software development. It's an aesthetic opinion dressed up as objective fact. You think components are clean, someone else thinks classes are clean, and neither of you are wrong, except for believing that "clean" is a property of the code and not something entirely in your own mind.

Give your user NOPASSWD if it's really that bothersome. You can also potentially set it up to use a fingerprint reader if you have that hardware.

I mean, you get what you signed up for. If you wanted total stability and infrequent updates then why would you use Arch? (If the answer is "I didn't know what I signed up for" then that's fair. Simply understanding the practical differences between distros is a huge hurdle.)

I love how the opening paragraph makes a good canonical explanation for what are otherwise continuity errors!

As long as you don't work in the shipping industry. I hear it's next to impossible to get hold of any sailors over Shenmue

Audiotree has turned me on to several of my favorite bands as of late. Low hit rate (I probably only care for 5% of the music they feature at most) but those couple bands have been worth sifting through the rest.