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by titzer 8mo ago
As I posted in a sibling, I thought the whole point of markdown was that it was simplified to the point that rendering it was easy to do from scratch. But we fumbled that because we (collectively) have no idea what we are doing.
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by titzer 8mo ago
I might be dumb, but I thought the whole point of markdown was to get rid of all the bells and whistles of styling, having a really simplified and dumb format that only outlines structure. The follow-on being that many tools could parse, tr
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by titzer 8mo ago
It'd be more hilarious if it weren't so sad. In just 10 years a disturbingly large number of huge development teams decided that making a GUI application using the old ways [1] was too hard and decided to ship an entire web engine
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by titzer 8mo ago
The media has a big hand in steering the vast majority of people away from critical thinking and proper outrage to useless, powerless disaffection that leads to impulse buying and binge-watching.
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by titzer 8mo ago
> That is a transfer of money from bond investors to the government. No new money is made. All forms of debt are money creation. All loans are money creation. Fractional reserve banking is money creation. It doesn't have to be &quo
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by titzer 8mo ago
The only thing that changes behavior is consequences. If there is no justice system enforcing the law and its requisite consequences, then there is no justice . I don't think those in power understand the anarchy that their intentiona
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by titzer 8mo ago
I think I may end up coming full circle on Virgil. Circa 2005 Virgil I compiled to C and then with avr-gcc to AVR. I did that because who the heck wants to write an AVR backend? Circa 2009 I wrote a whole new compiler for Virgil III and sin
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by titzer 8mo ago
It just sucks to put in a ton of work into something and then show it off to people but the first reaction is someone comes out of the woodwork to loudly crow that it "misses the mark" and is somehow crap. It's a completely a
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by titzer 8mo ago
> but misses the mark It doesn't match the pictures in your head, but it nevertheless does present a mental representation the author (and presumably some readers) find useful. Instead of nitpicking, perhaps pointing to a better v
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by titzer 9mo ago
> There are many good places for advertising. A conversation with Claude is not one of them. > ...but including ads in conversations with Claude would be incompatible with what we want Claude to be: a genuinely helpful assistant for w
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by titzer 9mo ago
In the US one can retire comfortably on $3 million without relying on Social Security. From the downvotes, it's crazy to me that people think a limit of 300 "ordinary people's" retirements is unreasonable. I really don&#
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by titzer 9mo ago
It will rewire the hard sacrifice of limiting individual wealth to less than a billion dollars per person. Trajectory of present indicates we won't be doing that soon.
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by titzer 9mo ago
I can't tell what you're actually saying. Is "Musk says Moon is made of blue cheese" as a title, without pointing out the fact that the moon is not made of blue cheese a kind of "rigorous" reporting? Dealing
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by titzer 9mo ago
There is no accountability anymore. Literal crypto pump and dump schemes mint millionaires and funnel money to billionaires and not a single investigation, indictment, court case, sentence, or even fine! It's a casino and the mirage of
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by titzer 9mo ago
> 357,191 words That's like, five novels. What I have been doing here, damn...
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by titzer 9mo ago
Wild that you're being downvoted. America was explicitly founded in rejection of the power of a monarch.
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by titzer 9mo ago
Ancient Romans used lead as a sweetener. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sugar-of-lead-a-...
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by titzer 9mo ago
It's just one pump and dump scheme after another. The difference now is every one of them is too big to fail. In a way, it's perfect. If what you're promising is sufficiently vacuous and you're a true believer, you can g
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by titzer 9mo ago
This mofo threw a Nazi salute and danced around on stage like an idiot with a chainsaw. Then he illegally downloaded the entire US treasury payment database and ran it through his AI and faced zero consequences. After promising to find a tr
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by titzer 9mo ago
I can't, I don't want it in my head :/
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by titzer 9mo ago
Oh, ffs.
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by titzer 9mo ago
Thaz my name, don't wear it out.
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by titzer 9mo ago
Can you provide a link for that quote, because that quote is absolute stupidity.
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by titzer 9mo ago
> This is in reference to a vision the (distant?) future where the satellites are manufactured in factories on the Moon and sent into space with mass drivers. In the meantime, how about affordable insulin for everybody?
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by titzer 9mo ago
I couldn't believe that was an actual quote from the article. It is. These people are legit insane.
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by titzer 9mo ago
I think the use case is: I paid $200 bucks for professional a program 10 years ago that still works as intended. Why take it away from me?
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by titzer 9mo ago
Emulation has been a thing for a long time. It's not pretty and takes work to make it fast, but can be surprisingly stable. It's wild to me that after many many decades with computers people are always surprised that the current h
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by titzer 9mo ago
It's so frustrating when software knows that something is wrong and won't tell you what it is. "An error occurred". Oh, did it now? "There's nothing you can do about it except hit this X. We couldn't be bo
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by titzer 9mo ago
If only those trillions of dollars of market cap and hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue could support...a couple dozen small teams maintaining legacy support. For the old hardware, pretty decent open source emulators exist that can
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by titzer 9mo ago
Flash was cool, but the plugin was full of bugs and a constant source of pretty serious vulnerabilities. I too miss the flash games era of the web at times, but it wasn't some utopian thing.

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