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Re:The End of Creativity on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @06:20PM (#48927879)
The vows were also AI generated.
Meh - these icons were bad, but I don't see the disaster
Re:FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:07PM (#45688611)
Any way to get something similar working on Safari?
Re:Do People Hate the Tech Industry Now? on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @11:08PM (#35177679)
It's pretty obvious why people hate the tech industry - perhaps not recognizing this is symptomatic of the problem. (As a partial participant in this industry, I'm personally ambivalent.)
Obligatory: Does it work with org-mode?
Not to mention the Siren songs one endures to reach the homeland of Canceled
Re:Programming and Writing on Friday May 14, 2021 @10:23AM (#27154650)
As someone who has done both extensively, I humbly disagree. Writing involves thinking in a much less instrumental way, in my experience. In programming, there is often a clear pre-defined task, and the only question concerns the proper means of achieving that task. Writing, on the other hand, necessarily compels something much more dynamic & non-linear at the level of composition.

I'd toss this one under the category of 'wouldn't it be nice'. It would be nice if writing and programming were similar. It would be nice to have a bridge from the sciences to arts and letters. But if such a bridge could be merely posited, well, this positing would already be common parlance.