it believes that to “categorically condemn the use of AI writing tools” is both “ableist and classist”. (The implication that working-class people and people with disabilities can only write fiction with the help of generative AI, however, is apparently A-OK.)

nothing about their initial statement implies that the poor and disabled need to or can only use AI. This sort of bad faith discourse irritates me. It’s a deliberate attempt to discredit those espousing an opposing opinion. It’s manipulative and intellectually dishonest.

Thats actually not a terrible idea.

If anything, their tech hours got reduced.

Damn, I wanted to mention sqlite.

I find it easier using my pinky to hit ctrl than taking my fingers off the home row to use the arrow keys.

ctrl-b: move cursor back one character

ctrl-f: move cursor foward one character

ctrl-d: delete character under cursor

what do you mean by the Fuck you pay me thing?

How do I trouble shoot a broken tray icon in swaybar?

Oof, that paywall. Right in the balls.

I may actually have a hope of remembering how to access elements of an array in bash now!

The benefit is you don’t have to use windows. Obviously, it’s not a trade off that’s going to satisfy everybody.

Its pretty cool he mentioned the work of doug engelbert. I recently finished a book called ‘what the dormouse said: how the 60s counterculture shaped the personal computer.’ Kay’s comment makes me feel that was not just a bit of trivia, but a glimpse into the potential of computing that is tsill yet to be realized.

Plus crypto is volatile and you’d have to manage it a lot more to keep it pegged at “expensive enough”

this is a solved problem. Just change the crypto cost according to its exchange value. I pay for my vpn and my vps with crypto.

I think it’s safe to say guns are an offensive weapon

That really pisses me off.

Can you elaborate because this is not obvious to me. Maybe we sre thinking different things when we talk about “openness” in this context.

IPv4 should be deprecated, but it’s not

Im biased here, ive been learning python for almost 16 months and only dabbled in Javascript and never did any Ruby, but for a first language, i think python is fantastic. Its “easy” enough to keep you feeling like your skill is actually improving, while still being able to do pretty much anything (where performance is not a high priority). I also just think javascript is ugly to look at.

What a great read! Thanks so much for sharing this.

Cross posting from [email protected] because there’s a lot of expertise here.