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Watched the Daily Show bit about AI this week, my wife found the interview with the whistleblower guy really depressing. That interview dramatically undersold that all the sketchy hacking shit that's happening right now is coming from 1 company.

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anybody got some recent software recommendations that you cant live without anymore?

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I have been using Wezterm, Aerospace on Mac, Neovim is something that I need. My config blows up on my powkiddy, (oomkilled) other than that its perfect, and on linux its vivaldib+ ublock origin, My self hosted jf + bookserver and using webdav for obsidian notes backup was the life saving trick i needed

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Not exactly "recent", but recently dived into Guile Scheme and it has totally consumed almost all of my coding work. I used Common Lisp before but this dialect is without a doubt the best and simplest of the Lisp family.

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mise-en-place

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not devenv with nix?

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Personally, mise is more "try in hurry" compatible. So it stuck. I have tried devenv as it seems to greatly simplify the setup. However, I had to get something done in a hurry. Tried devenv (which I installed around the time they launched) and got stuck with a load of outdated nix IIRC. So I also gave a quick try with mise, got started with fnox and it was considerably easier to get going.

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Do you code in silence or do you listen to music? If so, what kind of music do you prefer? Personally, I prefer Synthwave, vaporwave or the occasional country.

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Awesome! Let me know what you think!

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Man this was so up my alley. Thank you for these recommendations, several of these tunes have gone straight in on my "WUBRG Goodstuff" playlist

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I used to listen to marketing team say zingers like

twenty twenty vision in $current_year (before 2020)
I don't disagree but... (What does that even mean‽)

Because office floor plans I am very thankful to work from home now... In complete silence.

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Oh wow, this I feel in my soul. I am so glad I work from my own office nowadays and don't need to listen to these constant non-conversations marketing people tends to have

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good videogame music is often my coding sweet spot--no lyrics, something familiar

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I can recommend rainwave.cc if you want an online radio for video game music. I tend to hang around there quite often and listen to their chiptune station.

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I can't stop thinking

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I'm sorry about that. Overthinking can be bad.

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it's okay now, sometimes my brain just can't seem to wrap around a few issues

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met someone at a book club I went to for the first time today and invited them over for an evening bowl, cool to talk tech to another techy especially one familiar with llms at not just a surface level

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What's everyone's favorite book? Mine is Anathem.

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I don't really do favorites when it comes to reading, but Ghost in the Wires is one of my most read books, so I imagine that counts for something.

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Pretty much anything Becky Chambers writes, just got started in As you wake, break the shell. But I think my all time favorite is record of a spaceborn few.

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Use of Weapons by Iain M Bamks. Absolutely stuffed full of scenarios, a gut-wrenching story and another of his great twists at the end.

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i was reading from Ballard's "The Complete Stories of …" today. I don't have a "favourite book" but it's one of my faves and it was in my hands today.

Great Expectations

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So I found the blog of a Ukrainian Front Line soldier on Bear Blog today. Incredibly grim stuff to read, but I really wanna get in touch with that guy now and send him so cash so he can buy a burger. Hope Herman forwards my message 😪

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Heya folks!

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My new favorite little script: echo freeze > /sys/power/state Quickly suspends the laptop until I press the power button again for 1 second. This eliminates a miniscule (but still annoying) motherboard noise that was leaking to my speakers whenever I needed to take a . sensitivities…

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while we wait for this to be true
we could add our bits together 
remember to not sleep forever
return when your dreams are through

Start with cringy poem, end with cringy pseudocode. At least it comes naturally.

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Taking a small break from here to work on an for a friend! I missed .

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It didn’t work out, we found competition offering the same service for free so the fell apart. Need to find something else to do as a side project to textlog. 😕 Thinking of a code editor that’s focused on the new agentic workflows, so you have it on the side regardless of your agent tools and it monitors the git diff and offers a nice panorama view. I’ve done an extension for VSCode similar to this idea.

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Good outcome! Better to bail early and avoid toiling on a doomed idea. I'm always afraid of this 😅

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You might want to check out . Not exactly what you're speaking of, but the idea sounds similar.

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I like old cars

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Welp, I guess it's time to start a tag for that! may be too on the nose perhaps.

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no tag for me thank you, my thoughts are free range

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"200K lines is not 10 times as much as 20K lines - from the mission perspective it's just irrelevant. And yet it's the easiest thing to measure. And so we look for the keys under the lamp post." ~Kent Beck www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8fBgDCf2Y4&t=2753s

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Listening to this I had an AHA moment. When the powers that be made more and more LLM tokens the whole goal, I thought it was quite stupid. But I realized that for them it made sense, because in their managerial understanding of programming, they believed the output of LLMs is the best they could get for the money.

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Or they just had investments in LLM factories.

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LOL! love the enshittificator campaign from Norway!!

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The rho coding harness I’ve made has come along way and I’m constantly trying to evolve it, but whenever I go back to pi it’s startling the difference of what a solid computer science background brings.

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So annoyed that reddit is gating read-access to it's threads. What's up with that?? (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ (thx ascii-art)

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