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hegelguy

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hegelguy··on The End of Creativity
The vows were also AI generated.
hegelguy··on Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items
Meh - these icons were bad, but I don't see the disaster
hegelguy··on FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts
Any way to get something similar working on Safari?
hegelguy··on Tech entrepreneurship and shifting sentiment
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.)
hegelguy··on GitJournal: Mobile first Markdown notes synchronized with Git
Obligatory: Does it work with org-mode?
hegelguy··on Amazon intentionally made it hard to cancel Prime subscription in secret project
Not to mention the Siren songs one endures to reach the homeland of Canceled
hegelguy··on Programming and Writing
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.