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beastman82··on Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
No UI like their competitors Claude CoWork or Codex. This is vaporware
beastman82··on Fox to buy Roku
what are the shield issues? I've had 2 of them for 10 years and I haven't noticed anything.
beastman82··on How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for those who are missing basic writing standards.
beastman82··on Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump
Unless he's the only rich person on earth who can't figure out how to bribe, this will happen.
beastman82··on Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union
Well yeah they're presenting an irrational argument to benefit the few.
beastman82··on Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time
*and their employees, who depend on the company to be healthy as a central economic tenet of their employment. This really isn't debatable
beastman82··on Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time
Read "Not everyone will approve of this" section. You are not free to make any of these decisions on behalf of your employer.
beastman82··on Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time
This is an ethical disgrace and everyone involved should be ashamed.
beastman82··on The Rise of the Bullshittery
I simply cannot click such a domain name
beastman82··on If AI writes your code, why use Python?
"sbt --client" is really fast for me, and I'm using derivation and implicit scope etc. super warm JVM, incremental compiles.
beastman82··on Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)
he and I share the same favorite programming book and until now I didn't know anyone else in this boat:

Functional Programming in Scala

beastman82··on "People who don't use AI will be left behind"
I love python and go, not sure what you're inferring. I'm not excited that people wrote their widget with it.
beastman82··on "People who don't use AI will be left behind"
True. I think I'm ready to accept it. I guess I should have given up when everyone was bragging about writing rust and go.
beastman82··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
They've been crawling the web since inception
beastman82··on Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
I'm guessing the population of Lewiston would welcome an employer of 30 jobs
beastman82··on AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers
gotta love a site that hijacks your back button and makes you hit it 3 times.
beastman82··on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
Buy an Nvidia shield and never look back
beastman82··on A Eulogy for Vim
Perhaps an argument against LLMs should acknowledge its awesome power could be harnessed for good, if only nominally
beastman82··on You are not your job
I want to thank everyone who hates work, is mentally checked out of their jobs and quiet quitting etc.

It makes it much easier for me to distinguish myself as a hard worker who cares about the business being successful. It also helps me keep my job during layoffs because I can assure you the managers have noticed.

When you are old and have lots of formative experiences that are not work-based, we can shake hands and mutually appreciate each other's motives and respective outcomes.

beastman82··on John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
The assumption here is that the people who maintain something in a painstaking manner did not intend people to take it and do whatever they want with it in accordance with its license?
beastman82··on PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon
Agree 100%. the compute was always bottlenecked by insanely high i/o latency. SSDs opened up fast computers like no processor ever did.
beastman82··on Global warming has accelerated significantly
the good news is that nuclear power is coming soon
beastman82··on Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
I think that's a very good plan FWIW. I'm going to consider cabinetry which I predict will be a semi-retirement in terms of income
beastman82··on Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
Ugly is subjective. I'd happily accept these terms
beastman82··on Why isn't LA repaving streets?
Unions too
beastman82··on Parse, Don't Validate (2019)
> staunch static typing proponents are often middle or junior engineeers

While we're sharing anecdotal data, I've experienced the opposite.

The older, more experienced fellows love static types and the new ones barely understand what they're missing in javascript and python.

beastman82··on Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped
Reminder that correlation!= causation
beastman82··on Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device
I have had two for 10 years and have no complaints whatsoever
beastman82··on The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala
Probably because it's an amazing language for people who know what they're doing
beastman82··on Thirty Years of the Square Kilometre Array
> The image (above) shows long radio-emitting filaments up to 150 light–years long unspooling from the heart of the galaxy. These structures, whose origin remains unknown, were first observed in 1984, but the new image revealed 10 times more than had ever been seen before.

I don't understand how this isn't the biggest news in astronomy. Gigantic filaments of energy passing through the milky way

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