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Economist Lant Pritchett describes shifts in ideas as silly, controversial, progressive, then obvious. Also: "Radio has no future. X-rays are clearly a hoax. The aeroplane is scientifically impossible." - Lord Kelvin ". No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco

I need a new microblogging platform

Anyone like James Michener? #booksnotesfollow

hello folks

I actually like the new gitHub PR layout that they A/B'd on me this morning. Good job GitHub!

This is a very silly thing to be doing in 2026, but I finally tried some Quake 1 recently. Pretty cool, it's amazing how much it really does just end up feeling like Doom in 3D.

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Anyone on here fed up with their investment advisor? Interested to hear your frustrations. #personalfinancenotesfollow

Most of programs use key chords, like Cmd-Shift-G, Ctrl-Alt-N and so on, you need to remember and press awkwardly several keys at once. #Emacsnotesfollow uses key sequences, C-c then k then p then l. If I forget after C-c k p then press C-h and help appears.

What if AI will never reach full autonomy and humans are still needed to give direction and purpose and take responsibility - probably... not all humans like to be masters of AIs all day long and not all (who want to) can do that equally well.

Writing down in my planner when I get distracted. This doesn’t count.

Some thoughts deserve a smaller audience

Certain modes of work are exhausting to the point of not being able to sleep, the mind is so wired.

I think I may be use this for now to spill out my guts a bit. Set out boundaries guys. I was basically ignoring how important that is, whatever is at work, family, relations. Be loved being you, you don't have to meet any expectations beyond yours.

Are tokens an equivalent of work? Like a currency and therefor a tool to steer and prioritize work in large orgs. Hypothesis: In the end all workpackages will consist of 1 accountable human and 99% tokens burnt by an ai.

'wade in the water.' isn't this the challenge of being 'ahead'? so many of us are waist deep in the same sea, it's hard to see what's in front of us vs. what's behind us. then we see the yacht boys sail by with their new masters, splashing us in their wake. then we grumble amongs

An interesting thought: historically, a major consideration for companies choosing what #programmingnotesfollow #languagenotesfollow to use is how many engineers use it (because that will make hiring much easier/harder). Going forward, this becomes "how big of a corpus of this code is out there", because it impacts how proficient #codingagentsnotesfollow are likely to be at using it.

#morningnotesfollow y'all! #coffeenotesfollow

I’m at the point where I understand half of what the AI tries to explain to me, but anyway, the feeds pages should load 10 times faster now.