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Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job on Sunday March 15, 2026 @10:56AM (#47387993)
I found a good cat-sitter through Rover and would do crime if she made it a condition of her next visit.
Re:Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding on Sunday February 08, 2026 @09:34AM (#46934522)
Warning: I was in two different project experimenting with similar forms of db access at the same time. don't do that.
Re:Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding on Sunday February 08, 2026 @09:30AM (#46934487)
find the reflections in the rushing river
Re:AI Zealotry on Saturday January 10, 2026 @11:35AM (#46567126)
yeah, I don't think the jenga tower is changing but the levels of abstraction will.
Re:Claude Code CLI Broken on Thursday January 08, 2026 @11:57AM (#46543350)
the abstractions around this stuff are still a jenga stack with round pieces... I think it will tighten up over the next year or so for real world use cases. Right now it's great if one is a "build your own tools" kinda person.
Re:Claude Code CLI Broken on Thursday January 08, 2026 @09:58AM (#46541786)
"fundamental tenet"? There's not an engineering pope speaking ex cathedra.
I thought they were making fun of my new jersey accent.
Re:2025: The Year in LLMs on Thursday January 01, 2026 @01:32PM (#46456663)
compilers can only produce machine code. so unorginal.
> Which poor people exactly do you consider privileged, and why?

those with insulation from genocide and displacement despite poverty.

their point is that, say, a german peasant in 17th century couldn't avoid the Thirty Years War.

Re:Claude Code gets native LSP support on Monday December 22, 2025 @03:28PM (#46358645)
The big players (Gemini, Claude Code, Codex) and then aider and opencode for open source.

I keep my setup modular/composable so I can swap pieces depending on who’s using it (agent, human, time traveler) and what the task needs. In the aughts I standardized on "keep worklogs and notes on tools and refine them into runbooks" so that has translated pretty well to agentic skills/tools. (a man page is a perfectly cromulent skill, btw.)

Re:Claude Code gets native LSP support on Monday December 22, 2025 @02:40PM (#46357989)
tbf, OpenCode's development cycle seems pretty fast. If someone announced AGI in the morning, I'd bet they have it integrated by EOD.

I also use OpenCode extensively, but bounce around to test out the other ones.

Re:Classical statues were not painted horribly on Thursday December 18, 2025 @10:49AM (#46314172)
That is how scholarship works. It’s like a math proof: they’re interested in proving the base case. If someone else wants to do more speculative work to theorize what a well-painted version would look like, that would be super cool, but it wouldn’t be scholarship.
I paid for my internet and used it all day long.
Re:The Terminal of the Future on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @10:29AM (#45901385)
> what problems are they solving

programmatic text manipulation

Re:How I Use Every Claude Code Feature on Sunday November 02, 2025 @10:11AM (#45790858)
the eternal september 2: it's eternaler this time
same things as drugs and alcohol, I imagine the side effects are different but still negative!
Re:Why the open social web matters now on Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:58AM (#45632291)
ok, but what if my friends have terrible taste.
Re:I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:56PM (#45596919)
Eventually, some of these companies will realize that a well-managed customer service org is a profit center and they will get an enormous amount of business. Unfortunately, they'll all keep fucking over customers until they realize that accepting life in the crab bucket is a negative-sum game.

I'm considering going back to school to write a "Google Fi 2016-2023: A Case Study in Enshittification" thesis but I'm not sure what academic discipline it fits under.

(I'll say it again for those in the back, if you're looking for ideas, there's arbitrage in service.)

Re:AI and Home-Cooked Software on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @06:21PM (#45585738)
I do not know the future, every line of code is a plausible-looking liability.
Re:Baseball durations after the pitch clock on Saturday October 04, 2025 @02:06PM (#45475320)
"Advertising is a cancer" is the moderate position, in that it assumes the patient can be saved. My personal view is that art that has been infected by advertising should be taken out back and shot.

I'm glad you enjoyed the show! Again, my personal opinion is that we gather more enjoyment out of these things if we spend a modicum of effort to curate our experiences rather than being spoon-fed the slop with the largest marketing budget.

As for "we're smart adults": The research on cognitive biases wrt advertising is settled. No, we're really really really not smrt.

Edit: I realized I am criticizing without offering a solution to my 2nd para. Think about the art (music / games / movies / comics) you like. Find those artists on the internet and see what art they recommend, and then consume that.

Re:Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal on Thursday October 02, 2025 @05:21PM (#45455712)
I've been using these for about... 20 years or so.. https://www.reisnerscorekeeping.com/
Modell's was the go-to if your team won last night.
Re:Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy on Monday September 22, 2025 @03:50PM (#45338576)
Posted elsewhere in this thread, it appears that ladybird does not have a great record in this dept.

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity...

Re:These days, systemd can be a cause of restrictions on daemons on Saturday September 20, 2025 @10:25PM (#45319474)
For certain values of 'someone else'
Re:Fuck, you're still sad? on Thursday September 18, 2025 @12:00PM (#45291287)
Equating these things with a "Belief in god" belies a narrow view of spirituality.
Re:"Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @05:42PM (#45268511)
except...
Re:I used standard Emacs extension-points to extend org-mode on Saturday September 13, 2025 @10:42AM (#45232458)
You're missing emacs insane observability and tight feedback loops.
Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @12:43PM (#45200323)
Unicode is absolutely cheating. ;) :P
Somewhere around 2022, someone flipped a switch that changed Google Fi support from best-in-class to 'we're trying to get people to cancel.'
What should I be doing with my x220? Where are the good thinkpad resources these days.

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