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by sameerds | 2025-05-30 03:43:00+00:00
I have tried explaining magit to my fellow developers. And they kept showing me how they do similar things in their favourite IDE. Turns out that Magit in itself is not compelling. You have to first appreciate Emacs, and then you notice how perfectly well Magit "raises" git to the Emacs abstractions. I love Magit and rarely use the git commandline. But that's because Emacs fits my brain perfectly; the way Emacs deals with "things" (pun intended) is exactly how my brain works. And then Magit just makes version control feel like Emacs front and center.
by rchaud | 2025-05-30 03:43:34+00:00
> is this a concern for many men? It's never crossed my mind or been a problem for anyone I've known.

Not for me, I have been to plenty of meetups in my city. If you're not liked or don't get along with the others, the worst that can happen is that you'll be politely ostracized. The paranoia about being publicly "cancelled" seems very overblown.
by abletonlive | 2025-05-30 03:43:35+00:00
you sound mad you could be spending this time upskilling instead.

but i'll say it again, when the meta changes the people that were at the top will quickly find themselves at the top again.

listen, the reason why they were in the top in the first place and you aren't is a mindset thing. the top are the curious that are experimenting and refining, sharing with each other techniques developed over time.

the complacent just sit around and lets the world happen to them. they, like you are expressing now, think that when the meta switches the bottom will suddenly find themselves at the top and the top will have nothing.

look around you, that's obviously not how the world works.

but yes, laughing
by somenameforme | 2025-05-30 03:43:48+00:00
No, it's the perfect example because we can't help but rationalize a way to justify pushing it. If you now gave every single person that button, humanity would be extinct within minutes - many of them rationalizing that they're saving humanity.

This is the heart of where the saying that power corrupts comes from. It's not that power corrupts but that these sort of decisions are ones that will never be available to anybody without power. Yet for those with power it's not that far away from many practical scenarios. In other words, we start corrupt, but our impotence mitigates the relevance of that. Power just reveals our character.

And no, religious people are obviously not immune from this, but with a fixed set of values rationalization becomes far more farcical than without. The Bible's position on homicide, let alone for personal gain, is unambiguous. A person without any set of fixed values, by contrast, will have no problem justifying and rationalizing even the most egregious acts, so long as the reward is seen as desirable enough.

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To respond to your edit, consider that you're basically doing a version of the trolley problem where you have the choice to redirect the track from killing one person, to killing two, but you get a million bucks for doing so. And you're now arguing that this is the utilitarian choice. It's plainly a false rationalization, but we can so easily convince ourselves that it's reasonable. Our extreme strength at rationalization is humanity's biggest moral and ethical failing. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h242eDB84zY
by chii | 2025-05-30 03:44:53+00:00
hedging the possibility that they get displaced economically before it happens is always prudent.

If the future didnt turn out to be revolutionary, you now have done some "unnecessary" work at worst, but might've acquired some skills or value at least. In the case of most well off programmers, i suspect buying assets/investments which can afford them at least a reasonable lifestyle is likely too.

So the default position of being stationary, and assuming the world continues the way it has been, is not such a good idea. One should always assume the worst possible outcome, and plan for that.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-30 03:45:22+00:00
Yep, I remember way back when in grade school messing around with the gorillas.bas file with nearly zero understanding. You could change stuff in one place and it would change the gravity in the game. Changing something else and the game might not run. Change some other lines and it totally freaks out.

I didn't have any programming books or even the internet back then. It was a poke and prod at the magical incantations type of thing.
by Veserv | 2025-05-30 03:46:22+00:00
The "warning message" claim is a lie. The message that appeared on screen was "Supercharging unavailable - Add Payment method" as can be seen in this video [1], "Paid charging unavailable - Check unpaid balance" [2], or similar. That is the warning message avowed Tesla promoters claim indicates the accelerator was pressed.

They made that claim because the videos are usually linked and viewed at low resolutions where it is hard to make out the specific warning message being displayed. As such, the Tesla promoters believed they could make up false claims that suit their narrative with no way for anybody to disprove them. Unfortunately for them, the raw footage is frequently made available in 4k resolution allowing video evidence to disprove their claims of a "warning message".

In no situation where they make claims that there is a "accelerator pressed" message is the imagined message adequately visible to clearly demonstrate their claim to be true. In contrast, every situation where there is a high resolution video the message is in the category I stated and they still make demonstrably false claims that the message is "accelerator pressed". Even in situations where the video is only low resolution, there is still frequently adequate display and color resolution to see that the shape of the message is more similar to a two-word "Supercharging unavailable" than a 5-word "Cruise control will not brake" or a center screen "Autopilot will not brake".

Seriously, I dare you to present a video clearly demonstrating the claimed "accelerator pressed" message rather than shaky-cam Bigfoot-level video used as "proof". I already presented clear video evidence of my claims.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA-U848qfNE

[2] https://vimeo.com/932562717/5fb3189771

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/comments/1dpzw2n/why_di...

[4] https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/2614/tesla-software-update...
by Zamaamiro | 2025-05-30 03:46:39+00:00
You probably didn’t write up a detailed prompt with perfect specifications in 10 seconds, either.

In my experience, it doesn’t matter how good or detailed the prompt is—after enough lines of code, the LLM starts making design decisions for you.

This is why I don’t accept LLM completions for anything that isn’t short enough to quickly verify that it is implemented exactly as I would have myself. Usually, that’s boilerplate code.
by coderenegade | 2025-05-30 03:46:54+00:00
This touches on some ideas I toyed with in the past around switching DEs to an integral representation and throwing optimization / energy minimization at them. Combining this with Monte Carlo integration is a nut I thought about, but never really cracked, but it's interesting to see that this type of thing is already done in in modern rendering approaches. Will definitely be spending some time this weekend looking at this.
by brudgers | 2025-05-30 03:46:57+00:00
I found the link because I was curious if player piano rolls could record live playing. Yes.

What sparked my curiosity is 21 Pianomation Floppy disks that arrived yesterday with a recently eBay’d Yamaha Midi Data Filer 3. Pianomation is a system QRS corporation fits on grand pianos to allow them to operate as player pianos.

QRS is still in business and started out making piano rolls around 1900 and quickly invented a machine to record pianists live performances. https://www.qrsmusic.com/

Anyway, the floppy disks are approximately album length collections of Midi files and quite a few of the Midi files say who played the piano. Given when some of the players died, the Midi is almost certainly converted from piano rolls.

I’ve been playing them back through a Yamaha General Midi era piano voice…and $10,000 hands on a two dollar guitar surely does sound better than two dollar hands on a $10,000 guitar.

But Liberace might be spinning in his grave…I ran his data into the Honky Tonk Piano.
by lurking_swe | 2025-05-30 03:48:38+00:00
Me personally, i’m using paperless-ngx to manage documents.

i use ollama to generate a document title, with 8 words or less. I then go through and make any manual edits at my leisure. Saves me time which i appreciate!

Paperless-ngx already does a pretty good job auto-tagging, i think it uses some built in classifiers? not 100% sure.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-30 03:49:05+00:00
It may have been 5 years ago or so, yes late 2020, when I had a ridiculous idea to visit Hollywood to see a concert. And I considered staying in a hostel in the area.

"Hostel" may mean different things in different parts of the world. When I was growing up, I heard about "youth hostels" that were mostly in Europe and mostly providing inexpensive accommodations to college-age people who were backpacking through the continent or had a Eurail Pass for traveling, etc. But I have never stayed in one.

When I surveyed a few hostels in Hollywood, it seemed that they were indeed targeting college-age people. Furthermore, they were cultivating a "package deal" atmosphere where there were day trips and coffee hours and programmed activities, for residents to do while they were there. And with limited privacy and shared facilities, there could be bustling activity and interruptions of sleep all night long. They did not seem like places to check in, crash overnight and leave in the morning. And that is probably calculated to appeal to the clientele who are not homeless and did not simply save up $40 by panhandling during the past week.
by chii | 2025-05-30 03:50:03+00:00
> Bad code leads to bad business

Bad business leads to bad business.

Bad code might be bad, or might be sufficient. It's situational. And by looking at what exists today, majority of code is pretty bad already - and not all businesses with bad code lead to bad businesses.

In fact, some bad code are very profitable for some businesses (ask any SAP integrator).
by 1123581321 | 2025-05-30 03:50:56+00:00
Neat. There may be an issue in the sign-up flow. I said I was in Other city, wasn’t asked where specifically. After I made an account, I RSVPed for an event which details will be revealed a couple days before. Is it just mixing all the other city people together or is that going to be in one of the cities where you’re established?

Male friendships are valuable. I either walk and get coffee, or we make breakfast every week. It started as three guys and averages 6-8 now, and some of our kids have become best friends. We also do a book club and some less frequent full family events.
by garrettgarcia | 2025-05-30 03:51:10+00:00
> But couldn’t this be said about any source of funding? All funders, public or private, make decisions about the projects and people they choose to fund. This selection process is not an infringement on academic freedom.

The authors of the article are not claiming that this infringes on academic freedom, but intellectual freedom. They explain here:

"Intellectual freedom is the principle that all individuals have the right to think for themselves, to express their convictions on any subject, and to give their support, financial or otherwise, only to the ideas they choose. When government coercively seizes your money and uses it to subsidize some research program or viewpoint for any reason, it is violating your intellectual freedom. This is the injustice inherent in all government research grants. It is this that private universities like Harvard should now name and challenge.

Instead, they fight for “academic freedom,” which is actually the opposite of intellectual freedom. It asserts the right of universities and professors to teach, write and research whatever they see fit — and to do it at the taxpayer’s expense."
by cebert | 2025-05-30 03:51:20+00:00
> Over 70% of Business Insider employees are already using its enterprise ChatGPT product regularly, according to the memo. The productivity gains being unlocked by the technology have spurred the publisher to reevaluate its labor needs, allowing it to operate more efficiently with fewer resources.

AI is becoming a common justification for layoffs. These next few years are going to be wild.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-30 03:51:33+00:00
Eh, I'd say part of the problem with modern life is there is so many choices. Just go to a restaurant with 50 choices and one with 5, the experience with 5 choices is generally much easier and you're less likely to feel that you've made a bad choice.

I feel this is what trends are for a lot of people. Narrowing down the almost unlimited number of choices you have to something simple. But eventually the novelty wears off and people move on.
by nofunsir | 2025-05-30 03:52:10+00:00
Fun trivia about piano rolls and copyright which us software nerds might find interesting:

"White-Smith Music Publishing Company v. Apollo Company, 209 U.S. 1 (1908), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that manufacturers of music rolls for player pianos did not have to pay royalties to the composers."

"The main issue was whether or not something had to be directly perceptible (meaning intelligible to an ordinary human being) for it to be a "copy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-Smith_Music_Publishing_C...
by nprateem | 2025-05-30 03:52:16+00:00
No, you need regular events, same place twice a month. That's the killer for social clubs like this. Just have a regular date in the diary and if people are free they can drop in.

Then do the more unique events on a different day (and let members suggest/ organise events too).

Friendship is repetition with the same group. Make it easy on people by meeting at the same time, maybe changing venue within a small area.

A group chat can be the clubhouse these days provided everyone meets regularly. I'd revoke membership from frequent no-shows. You want to limit groups to around 70 people too. Some research says above that cliques form.
by throwworhtthrow | 2025-05-30 03:52:33+00:00
For most of the essay, the author pretends to care about Harvard's loss of funding. But at the end they awkwardly transition into their real argument, which is that every tax dollar spent on something they potentially don't 100% agree with is morally wrong.

Colleges' problem is that they weren't taking enough federal funding. If they had achieved TBTF status then Trump wouldn't be harassing them now.
by rayiner | 2025-05-30 03:52:34+00:00
It’s not “constraining freedom of speech.” It’s declining to subsidize speech with grants.

Recall that these are grants issued to specific universities for specific reasons, not generally available services it funds provided to everyone. Why are taxpayers required to allocate his money to organizations that (in the view of elected officials) don’t serve the public interest?

On top of that, it’s well accepted that the government can use the threat of revoking federal funds force universities to regulate speech: https://cei.org/blog/obama-administration-undermines-free-sp.... Under Title VI and Title IX, the government can force schools to regulate speech in ways that the government couldn’t regulate directly among private citizens.
by sandspar | 2025-05-30 03:52:44+00:00
This comment inadvertently reveals why clubs like this can't exist: there's always someone counting races and genders in photos. High functioning male social clubs generally have implicit rules, like "straight-acting gay guys are fine but don't make it weird" or "no weird lefties". But you can't have those rules anymore. So "male social clubs" get overrun with board game types who are OK with accepting everyone. Which means high status guys, the kind of guys who are trend setters, tend to stay away.
by BrenBarn | 2025-05-30 03:52:44+00:00
The article is saying that Trump's actions have illustrated how dependency on federal funds makes colleges vulnerable. The proposed solution is to eliminate that funding. But what I'm saying is that what is better is to remove the loopholes in our system that allow Trump to threaten it.

Rereading the article, it does seem to have a bit more generic right-wing-flavored "government shouldn't do stuff" than stuck with me on the first read, which may be why my logic was a bit unclear. Basically my point is that the government cannot use funding to control universities unless some individuals have discretion over how and whether to award that funding. I'm saying what should be reduced is not funding but discretion.

(I'm open to rethinking the system to make it less discretion-dependent; the article does have some ideas that could be relevant there that I wouldn't dismiss out of hand. But that an issue of how schools get funded, not whether.)
by hakunin | 2025-05-30 03:53:57+00:00
I'm not far from you, and also trying to find a solution to a similar problem, albeit long time from college. Started a local meetup here, but it hasn't quite taken off. My area has very few people doing what I do, and I work remotely. School friends are all over the country at this point, and connections have been fading. Maybe it's something about upstate NY. Either way, added you on LinkedIn.
by insaneirish | 2025-05-30 03:54:39+00:00
> Importantly, it also plays Weather Channel-esque background music.

Which has its own sort of funny subculture. One is Phish fans unexpectedly hearing what was decidedly not publicly common music being aired on the Weather Channel: https://jambands.com/features/2002/07/24/guyute-and-your-loc...

Fast forward 20ish years and a similar thing happened with Fox Sports interludes: https://www.si.com/nfl/2020/12/17/fox-producer-who-got-the-n...
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-30 03:54:46+00:00
1) Real friends certainly let you be real. And the scene I frequent deeply frowns on unconsensual photography. Most of the events I go to they sticker all the cameras. I love that. I go there for the people not for Instagram.

That's not to say nobody takes pics but they do it in a quiet corner so they don't catch anyone by mistake. It makes it very respectful. The stickers are just a reminder so you don't just start flicking away when you're drunk. It makes everyone feel safer and more genuine.

2) I guess but nothing some quick ice breaking games won't fix

3) In a small town there's much more familiarity yes. But also a much deeper sense of being watched and judged. I can't live with that. Even the small city I lived in was too small for me. Everyone knows everyone's business and constantly gossip behind your back.

The nice thing in a big city is meeting new people and finding new places. And the variety. In a small town there's a lot of pressure to conform, eg often you're an outcast if you're not religious. I don't think they're bad but there's little acceptance of people who are different. So what do you do? Pretend. That's not real connection.

In a big city you can really be yourself because there's always others that are like you and you can meet them in like-minded places or events. And you can make real ties there. And even find out about other communities you might fit in.

I really hate going to male-exclusive places by the way. There's very few men I have a deep connection with (I'm male) because the whole BS thing that it's frowned upon to talk about feelings. "Men's weekends" just end up with too much beer, macho talk, shooting the shit and hanging in front of the TV watching boring sports or crappy porn. Nothing serious, fun or enlightening. That's my experience with those anyway. I find that exhausting and I always excuse myself from them now. I used to try to fit in but the others would know I hated it anyway so it was awkward.

I have much deeper relationships with lady friends. They're more open and less judgemental in general. I feel safer around them. So mixed events are a must for me.
by naet | 2025-05-30 03:55:49+00:00
Cryptocurrency enables a big part of this. Not saying that there weren't any wire scams before crypto, but crypto has made it much easier for average people to make anonymous international money transfers that can't be reversed.

Not to start a big argument, but to my eyes the main usecases of cryptocurrency are to bet on them as a speculative asset or to use them for various forms of crime. Someone will probably tell me about some theoretical situation where it is a positive force, but I still think those are by far the two most common daily uses.
by DimmieMan | 2025-05-30 03:57:27+00:00
People are maybe a little hyper-fixated on performance.

I have a multi tenanted application dealing with time series data in different time zones and I use Postgres for that.

For a blog and most applications I go SQLite too but I think there’s a good argument that often gets left out that complexity might make Postgres a better choice sometimes even on low traffic.

Between the two I think it is all >90% of us need.
by fuhsnn | 2025-05-30 03:57:28+00:00
> still chockes on many common C extensions

I play with ImportC occasionally, a lot of those can actually be opt out by undef'ing __GNUC__ on the preprocessor invocation, idk why they don't do that. Oh, now it chokes on C23 features as well because system cpp defines __STDC_VERSION__=202311L now. Edit: that was solved: dlang/dmd/pull/21372
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-30 03:57:46+00:00
> High functioning male social clubs generally have implicit rules, like "straight acting gay guys are fine but don't make it weird" or "no weird lefties".

I think that whole conformation thing is why they don't work. Nobody wants to hang out with people pretending to be someone else so they fit in. Any social connection you make is then fake too.

> Which means high status guys, the kind of guys who are trend setters, tend to stay away.

The board games types can also be high status trend setters, just not in your circle. That's fine though. Nothing wrong with seeking out people that are like yourself.

But there's plenty of places where you can find what it sounds like you're looking for. Like sports bars. Won't find the board games types there and not many women either.
by trgn | 2025-05-30 03:58:02+00:00
I host a meetup for telecommuters for the same reasons you're starting this up.

Given it's Meetup, there's no "auditioning". The hardest part of that is that the demographic is so enormously wide wrt age, gender, cultural and educational background, profession... it's tough for real connections to grow for people just expecting to drop in just once. But come/host consistently, and eventually clumps of people do start to gel. So you're right, consistency is key.

Also - the more simple we keep it, happy hour, dinner, the more people seem to enjoy it. Honestly, it's just an excuse to leave the house and booze at this point.

I'm thinking "auditioning" may not be a bad thing if you want to avoid some of the dragnet effects of just being open like Meetup. Explicitly going for the yuppie crowd is just a hard thing to advertise on an open platform. ie. nobody's going to show up at the "26 to 38 creatives and dev adjacent telecommuters that live in the cool neighborhood, doctors allowed if they leave their attitudes at home"-Meetup, although that was I was originally hoping for. But on closed platform you'll be able to curate better.

Good luck dude!