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Awesome! I hope you'll post some write up or something on how you did it!

I really wish they'd repurpose public libraries for this.

It only takes one student to lose an arm, face, life and their parents will sue the school into oblivion and start PAPT (parents against power tools) or something "for the kids!"

I'm on your side that I'd rather see the tools at the school. At the same time, I took an auto-shop class in high school and the majority of students in the class were dipshits and were lucky not to get more hurt. The teacher managed to stop them just in time from trying to turn over an engine on a rack that would have crushed them if the teach had been 5 second later.

I have, it's called Visual Studio Code and I ditched my old native editor(s) for it.

I'd even suggest that the fact that it's JS based has significantly changed the tech world because the editor itself will run in a browser so it's here https://godbolt.org/ , and here https://codesandbox.io, and here https://www.postman.com/, and here https://aws.amazon.com/pm/cloud9/ and 100s or 1000s of other sites.

Google Maps allows you declare your allegiance. You can mark a business as LGBTQ+ friendly (why should I have to declare that and it not just be assumed?).

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/small-business/addi...

You can also declare a business as "woman owned/led"

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/small-business/empo...

and "black owned"

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21348990/google-black-own...

MUJI used to have lots of that (20-25yrs ago). Shelves made from cardboard tubes, etc... You could tell, one bump and it would be destroyed. I think they got rid of most of them.

> #1 Understand the system: Read the manual, read everything in depth, know the fundamentals, know the road map, understand your tools, and look up the details.

Maybe I'm mis-understand but "Read the manual, read everything in depth" sounds like. Oh, I have bug in my code, first read the entire manual of the library I'm using, all 700 pages, then read 7 books on the library details, now that a month or two has passed, go look at the bug.

I'd be curious if there's a single programmer that follows this advice.

Mario has "slot machines" in, even today

I've been on the internet as long as you and from my POV it changed a ton. The biggest changes to me are

(1) social media via smartphones - letting everyone trivially post to everyone else on the planet.

This use to be nerd activity (blogs) and the audience was other nerds. First social media sites, then the smart phone completely changed this.

(2) follows from 1, influencer culture, by which I mean, Instagram, TikTok, X, Youtube all incentivize people performing to try to get as many viewers/followers as possible. Thinking back to the 70s/80s, even the top movie stars just got some fan mail. They didn't have 400-600 MILLION FOLLOWERS to whom they could say anything they wanted. A celebrity had a most a TV show with a crew and editors and a strong chance of getting fired/banned if they got to crazy. Now, any high school kid can have 100+ million followers

It's not just people with followers, 20% of my youtube feed is people trying desperately to have something to talk about. Some news happens, thousands of people "report it" on their "channel". The scale of it is insane to me.

exceptions in C++ are a foot gun. Even the top C++ gurus/leaders know this and are trying to find some new solution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os7cqJ5qlzo

> Easy way to use libraries

This is both a blessing and a curse. Seeing the rust docs require 561 crates makes it clear that rust/cargo is headed down the same path as node/npm

     Downloaded 561 crates (50.7 MB) in 5.21s (largest was `libsqlite3-sys` at 5.1 MB)

I agree there hasn't been a super strong reason to upgrade in the last 10 years. I just disagree with "I will never need to buy a new computer again".

I suspect at some point the new "Youtube" (3d volumetric video, holodeck, or something) will come out, it will be as popular as youtube and as "must have feature" such that 95% of the population will want a computer that can do this new thing and todays computers won't be able to do that new thing.

"640k is all you need!"

There is always new tech. Local LLMs and other high processing intensive things might be a thing people want. Not directly, but it may enable things they want. More viral TikTok videos. Maybe some kind of health monitoring. Maybe AR will finally get a compelling use case if it can identify everything in your field of view but it requires serious computing power. Maybe AR 3D movies where the characters show up in your house and adapt to your living room. Siri might suck, but lots of people want a "Star Trek" computer that actually understands them.

The point is not any specific example. Rather, it's that there's always something around the corner that needs more computing power. I have no idea what it will be, but I'm confident something will appear.

The top end of OutRut type tech was Power Drift and Rail Chase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ngUCwEVtlI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQd3FFT7pnc

Sounds like COM/DCOM from ~1995. Every API had a public interface including a description. You could open the DCOM Inspector, browse all the APIs, and see the type signature of every function and its docs.

What's giving me burnout is work from home. I got much of my social needs met by working at work with people I liked. We'd talk. We'd go to lunch. We'd meet up after work and on weekends. We also collaborated at work. Designed things together.

Now, 40% of my time is alone in isolation, working at home. Collaboration and design work happen in documents at best and not in social conversation like it used it.

All of this is making work a chore, "for me". Instead of work being an opportunity to hang out with people I like it's just a list of things to do alone.

Very cool.

I know this is not a related solution but just want to remind people that Google maps has a 3D mode. I do wonder if they are planning to get rid of it because they are burying it deep. you have to turn on "Globe View" and "Satellite"

https://i.postimg.cc/kMRMKvjc/Screenshot-2025-01-11-at-10-59...

Types are not enough to solve this issue

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...

At the company I work at, IMO, their DEI initiatives are counter productive so they claim "we support DEI", but in actual practice they're making the problem worse not better. It might be true that removing DEI is performative, but at least at my job, removing DEI would be a net positive for actually diversity, equity, and inclusion.

There might be other things they could do proactively. But, the ones they actually chose are derisive, racist, and do nothing to actually make the world a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive place.

not looking at how bad the new LG remote is but my all time favorite remote is the Apple remote from like 2010ish.

This one : https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/949603040

White, plastic, 6 buttons (up, down, left, right, select, cancel). That's it. Worked great with Kodi on an Intel MacMini. Could easily do everything I needed to do.

Since then they first ruined it by changing it be a kind of metal that felt like chalk on my hands. It was horrible

https://cdsassets.apple.com/live/7WUAS350/images/apple-tv/ap...

Then they broken it completely by making it larger with a touch surface.

https://cdsassets.apple.com/live/7WUAS350/images/apple-tv/ap...

It was impossible to use because trying to select (clicking the touch surface) would always end up also adding left/right/up/down events so you'd always select something other than what you wanted to select. I have no idea how that POS ever made it out of user testing.

They made it slightly better but still broken by changing it back to a circle.

https://cdsassets.apple.com/live/7WUAS350/images/apple-tv/ap...

But the circle itself is still a touch surface and still always moves your selection as you try to select something. It's atrocious!

In any case, the 6 button remote back from the beginning was the best. I still use Kodi on an AppleTV now, but I use a separate remote and only use 6 buttons.

When something is playing, pressing the cetner button pauses, pressing again unpauses, pressing up/down adjusts the volume. Pressing back exits the movie, holding the center for 2 seconds brings up more detailed controls.

Kodi also has the best queing experience of any app. Pressing right skips forward 10 seconds, again within some threshhold, 30 second, then 1 min, 3 mins, then 10. I can get anywhere in a movie instantly.

Compare this to Netflix, or Apple TV+, or Crunchyroll, or Amazon, etc... They all suck. Generally left/right jumps +10 or +30 period. If you want to get to the end you're forced to hold right, wait for it to go into "fast forward mode", then press right for 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, Then wait forever as it slowly goes through the movie. So bad.

I've never heard any solar physicist refer to "Sun". I have heard "the Sun" and "Our Sun".

"The Boss said please take the day off"

"Our Boss is nice"

"Jill is the boss"

"The Sun is bigger than any planet in our solar system"

"Our Sun is 8 light minutes away"

"Sol is the name of our sun"

I've not once heard a solar physicist use "sun" as a name

"Sun is bright" - bad grammar

I went to them 25 years ago as well. I get the same thing from the organized promoted ones as I got from the old ones. I didn't need it to be "underground". I just needed the people, the music, the vibe.

Does anyone do this?

SoCal, NorCal, Seattle - Earthquakes

SoCal, NorCal - Fires

Midwestern States - Tornadoes

North Easy - Blizzards

South Easy - Hurricanes

Which part do you suggest everyone move to?

what is the definition of a rave at this point? Large crowds of people dancing in or outdoors to techno music is still a HUGE thing. There's video of tons of them on youtube. If often put them on while working. Is it only a rave if it's illegal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv33bb-C_bo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wy2WYqD2Rs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEacozH2uXs

There's also huge EDM and other types of events (so I guess not techno but the vibe seems related, at least to me)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7O-7rF0Hqk

I know lots of people that eat 1 pound of dried mango, usually sugared but often not.

I don't know about zig bit the power of lisp is that youre manipulating the s-expressions or to put it another way, you're manipulating the ast. To do that in C you'd need to write a full C parser for your C program that processes source files.

What part is zero-sum?

My issue with flexbox is that I can't seem to memorize all the settings I need to get boxes within boxes and content to either fill a box or the box to surround the content.

This is particular important on an SPA where I want the boxes to fill the screen but never overflow it. I manage eventually. I need to put the totally intuitive (sarcasm) min-width: 0, here and there, and a few other things here and there and eventually I get it.

I feel like I should be able to make a few css classes to cover all of this but I have yet to figure it out for every case.

ads aren't chewing though my mobile data. I generally don't go to any sites with ads. The few times I open a link and it's covered in ads I close the link.

it works in Safari on both Mac and iOS but you have to enable WebGPU in the settings as Safari has not yet shipped it.

Unfortunately, the demo itself is not responsive to the screen size.