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by rewgs 13d ago
He bought a car company and convinced everyone he founded it. But that's not the problem, really -- the problem is that everyone fawning over him and calling him the "real-life Tony Stark" wasn't enough for his blackhole
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by rewgs 22d ago
Good. Classrooms need very little: good teachers, books, chalkboards, and pencil/paper. That's it. IMO the _material_ being taught is secondary; what truly matters is teaching kids to think, to be bored, to engage with something t
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by rewgs 26d ago
Clearly vibe-coded. Hard pass.
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by rewgs 28d ago
You are indeed being a Debbie Downer.
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by rewgs 29d ago
If you can't see that AI is not merely "automation" but rather fundamentally aims to usurp human labor, you probably shouldn't be saying who should or shouldn't be speculating.
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by rewgs 29d ago
The explicit definition of "paycheck to paycheck" is in the name.
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by rewgs 29d ago
Correct. The ultra wealthy are effectively building "fully automated luxury communism" for themselves.
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by rewgs 29d ago
Found PG's alt account.
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by rewgs 1mo ago
Wanted to quickly try this but I couldn't get password authentication to work. No password field appears, and I can't save the server entry since it can't authenticate.
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by rewgs 1mo ago
Ha, I know. I just picked up strong Gibson vibes.
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by rewgs 1mo ago
Intentional or not, you nailed Gibson's writing style.
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by rewgs 1mo ago
Completely agree. Once again, the answer is protocols, not platforms.
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by rewgs 1mo ago
A website where one views and interacts with all of these things does not necessitate that all of these things run on the same system. Since this most recent GitHub outage, I'm looking into modularizing my git server, issues, and actio
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by rewgs 1mo ago
I've seen plenty of DIMMs fail ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by rewgs 1mo ago
I'm specifically calling out the wording "nobody needs to do it." That is patently false.
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by rewgs 1mo ago
> We have mechanical muscles, and the human strength that was needed before the industrial revolution is no longer important; weight lifters still strength train, but it's a hobby, and nobody needs to do it. The amount of strength r
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by rewgs 3mo ago
Immich is the best self-hosted app I use. Hats off to the developers!
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by rewgs 3mo ago
Do tell! Specifically the DAW latency problems. I love the idea of running a DAW in a VM on Proxmox.
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by rewgs 4mo ago
GP clearly isn’t talking about 60 year olds who were full stack devs and get on Hacker News.
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by rewgs 4mo ago
Yup. For a while I was switching between all three to see which I liked most, and I always end up coming back to Wezterm. The only issue I’ve encountered is that releases on various package managers are routinely broken, but building from s
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by rewgs 4mo ago
Considering we can't even get corporations and the ultra wealthy to pay even _close_ to their fair share of taxes, forgive me if I'm a little skeptical of the idea that a utopia, should it come to pass, will be evenly distributed.
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by rewgs 4mo ago
Right there with you. I regularly use Claude for all sorts of tasks, but I am extremely against letting it write loads of code _for_ me. And like you, I find prompting to be a pretty unenjoyable activity, regardless of the task at hand. AI
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by rewgs 4mo ago
> There's too much to memorize, and the standards are too varied. When I go to a project site for maintenance and it's a C++ project, I instantly lose energy — because it's just too difficult. I've been feeling this w
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by rewgs 4mo ago
Perhaps this will end up being the mythical MacBook-like hardware that I can install Linux on (Asahi notwithstanding).
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by rewgs 5mo ago
Err, nope, it is 100% Cross Desktop Group: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ That said, you are correct that it has nothing to do with Windows (and I never said that it did).
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by rewgs 5mo ago
> I have a Mac, not an XDG desktop. I would only expect and want X applications I run through Xquartz (all zero of them) to follow that. XDG has nothing to do with X11. XDG stands for "Cross-Desktop Group," and is designed spec
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by rewgs 5mo ago
"gen 2x2" is Microsoft level bad naming.
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by rewgs 6mo ago
Is there a right kind of anthill to sit on?
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by rewgs 6mo ago
I'm a lifelong musician, went to music school to study jazz and orchestration, was a professional film composer for 15 years prior to pivoting to programming. I've read quite a few books on the intersection of math and music. And
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by rewgs 6mo ago
Holy shit, a wild Everett Bogue sighting. I read your blog way back. Hope you’re doing well!

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