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I think that the jest here is warranted. To evoke such an analogy under these relatively futile circumstances is odd.

So, when do I get to vote?

Thanks for these. The last one is my favorite format-wise. Very cool.

I'm surprised that method of communication isn't more common. It feels like an untapped method. Is it appropriate to call something as simple as sharing an annotated PDF to the web novel? I like it.

Any essay authored by a billionaire, that includes a tacit reference to pre-revolution Russian thought is worth scrutinizing to this degree.

This was a fun read.

I cannot feel sympathy when the pincers of capitalism deflate the ego of a web denizen.

I appreciate that this website is like a more sterile uses.this.

"Self governance" at the scale being discussed here is a myth.

Your repo was my first time trying to find a bug in any kind of code other than my own. So bear with me, please.

The only thing I think may cause an issue is that `bash` should be installed in `/usr/local/bin` on OpenBSD and not `/bin/bash` if the installation is done through `pkg_add`. I know I've had to make that change when copying shell scripts written on Mac over to an OpenBSD machine.

Your mileage may be varying.

> Trying to read people's minds and intentions and looking for a master plan, rather than seeing coordination problems and simple human weakness and fault is obviously the main source of conspiracy theories.

And mistrust in general as well.

I’ve found a profound virtue, sense of responsibility and selflessness since I’ve taken an oath to be in the company of a distinct group of men in my community five times daily at a maximum (or a minimum, depending on the circumstance).

We don’t gather for the sake of gathering with each other, but for the sake of the shared oath that consists of various practices and beliefs, one of which requires that we gather.

And the venue of this gathering is at enough locations that I can have this experience far from home even. The sense of community is transcends the boundaries of my locale.

I’m a Muslim. The place is a Masjid.

MDN has the advantage of being more accessible (!mdn bang on DuckDuckGo, Dash docsets) but I prefer O'Reilly's Pocket References, although they may be a tad out of date.

Most people would love for an organization like the FBI that possesses their reach and oversight to protect their values and authority, although particular means may vary.

I’m coming to feel like there are too many ambiguities in regard to anti-State, surveillance, security, etc. sentiment.

A lot of the kind of talk like in this article boils down to disputes over power and its preservation.

I’m not familiar with the Register’s ideological bend, if they possess one at all, nor that of the author’s. Nonetheless it’s worth taking into consideration the liberty and agency that this article is seeking to defend in response to the state’s.

A pocket sized art book, that’s thousand of pages, that’s the size of the average paperback book. Hmm…

I am suspicious as to whether you have ever seen a taschen brand book before. They are not trade paperback size, they are coffee table books. According to Amazon they tend to be in the 500-600 range.

These sort of articles are popular for a reason, maybe it reflects a pedagogical trend both ways (preferences in teaching and how one likes to be taught). Personally I gravitate in the opposite direction.

I’ve come to appreciate “dry”, technical guides void of overt personality. I’m not a fan of “Why_’s Poignant Guide to Ruby” in the least, but there is a visceral element in its whimsicalness (and other why_ materially) that similar efforts don’t compare to (I count the listed guide here among this). For me, why_’s work is an outlier in this “literary tech writing” genre. If I ever intended to learn the language, I would contemplate scrubbing out the comic strips if I couldn’t find a better alternative guide.

So much can be commented on in response to points or perspectives that aren’t included in a person’s position. The amount of remarks on the unspoken tend to increase in relation to the responder’s nitpickiness over the author’s choice of words.

One of the strangest things is when people over-interpret modest remarks as declarations of war against the fabric of sensibility and human decency. This seems to be a trend nowadays.

I don’t think that the author of this article/talk meant to discourage people away from all software contrary to the types he discussed here and it doesn’t sound like that. It reads like a modest appeal.

I would be more interested in a newsletter that offers comprehensive bits of information on useful tech topics (or any topic for that matter) if it was from a source with reputable knowledge in the domain who was providing it in a fashion derived from their subjective expertise.

The personification of businesses + the personification of AI in this instance frustrates me since it’s clear to myself and most users on HN and possibly not so clear to others, that it’s likely that the “We” who is explaining the projects is not necessarily the “you”, as in the person advertising this service or any other human being that you work with.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038796

I’m thinking about giving Orion another try after discovering focus mode and realizing my liking for vertical tabs (Safari’s compact mode isn’t great for multiple tabs).

There’s also OmniWeb, which apparently isn’t actively developed, but still receives test builds

https://omnistaging.omnigroup.com/omniweb/?pk_vid=f30b228392...

Pale Moon is back on MacOS

https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml

You can try Qutebrowser

https://qutebrowser.org/

Or why not go totally bleeding edge and run the Servo test builds

https://servo.org/download/

I was intrigued by Arc, until I tried it, and then the steady flow of spam emails started coming in. Now I’m horrified by it.

Yes, for some people, likely so. For those who can afford (whether financially or psychologically, or both) to push back against the tide of digitization, automation, etc. sure thing. I can imagine a "folkization" or a "tribalization" of certain demographics.

Historically this is nothing new, but we may see it at a greater scale than before.

Something, something…

Marshall McLuhan had something to say about the phenomenon of how the emergence of new media drives society to retrieve remnants of the past…something new influences us to seek out something old.

Or something like that.

But yea, there’s something going on.

The cold, pale, glare of tokenized elucidations from large language models.

This grossly oversimplifies centuries of history between the conquest of Baghdad and whatever your interpretation of “radical Islam” is.

At scale and in detail, the parallel that you’re trying to draw is null.

I’m relatively late to the shenanigans here, but I feel like what you’re describing was inevitable.

I couldn’t imagine any group that organizes with the the primary intention of raising lots of money, making lots of money and then redistributing lots of money not eventually attracting lots of “suits” of the MBA sort.

The money is stacked way too high. YC has been around for almost twenty years.

It may be worth questioning whether a young tech company with altruistic intentions that fit your expectations getting billion dollar loans is a promising scenario.

Granted I don’t agree with the outcome or the format, I “get it”. People are trying to get paid. The money is getting too long for banks to just up and disappear overnight.

We'll, I've got some new pencils. So we'll see if anything comes out of that.

This is an alright piece.

It would have been better if you submitted the main article that this Substack post leads to:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/silicon-val...

micro.blog is having a sale.

http://micro.blog/summer

4 months for $1/month.

This post is a good introduction on how to get started with it.

And what do you mean by "(sparkle emoji) Writing (sparkle emoji)"?

Okay, so I'm not tripping. This is just the first time I've had to think critically about the mid-2010s awkward bend that I think you describe well, "a uniform kind of sludge that seemed to intentionally blur the lines between several once disparate audiences." At the time, I never paid much attention to how stiff the competition was during this period and how much money was being shoveled into the media outlets in such a weird market.

Now I'm reminded of an associate who was afforded a job opportunity at Vice that was basically an invitation to shill junk food on Twitter. And Verizon owning Complex Magazine (which is now apparently owned by BuzzFeed...)

What an odd time. No wonder it fell apart.