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We need better alternatives

We'd need a quantum leap in storage and bandwidth first - orders of magnitude better, if we want competing to be financially sane 😮‍💨

Maybe when Google is (hopefully eventually) shattered into a million pieces by some US judge, YouTube could be splintered into several smaller companies, each with some portion of the infrastructure and channels/videos - thus forcing competition. Vaguely similar to the Bell divestiture.

Oof. Looks like this affected some other languages as well - somebody at Microsoft needs to up their documentation game, methinks.

I'm not well versed in the machinations of the Chinese government, but if a relatively "normie" VPN like Nord works in China... it's probably controlled opposition (i.e. they're logging everything to a government server.)

I understand the sentiment, but... HTML and some light CSS is just as fast and much more accessible. It just strikes me as something that defines itself in opposition to "thing everyone uses" for no good reason.

set timers

This broke for me a few months ago. It just randomly... won't start, despite saying otherwise.

That sounds like more effort than just... writing the code.

A large language model has no concept of good or bad, and it has no logic.

Tragically, this seems to be the minority viewpoint - at least among CS students. A lot of my peers seem to have convinced themselves that the hallucination machines are intelligent... even when it vomits unsound garbage into their lap.

This is made worse by the fact that most of our work is simple and/or derivative enough for $MODEL to usually give the right answer, which reinforces the majority "thinking machine" viewpoint - while in reality, generating an implementation of & using only ~ and | is hardly an Earth-shattering accomplishment.

And yes, it screws them academically. It doesn't take a genius to connect the dots when the professor who encourages Copilot use has a sub-50% test average.

My guy, see a doctor. Temporary blindness/blacking out is not a normal reaction to nicotine, even in excess. "Nic sick" should just mean nausea/vomiting, dizziness and headaches.

I liked GalaxQL.

Can't beat Iosevka in my opinion. I use the Term variant for my shell as well.

A few posters I bought from the campus poster sale at the start of the year. (Specifically, a woodblock print, a solar system map and a Cowboy Bebop poster.)

I have a huge window with a nice view (in a university owned apartment no less!) so I can afford to skimp on the other walls.