Is this really the best takeaway from the game? I love Celeste and I’m pretty solid with my gender identity. The music and game mechanics are the best parts. You reference the story, which ain’t bad, but definitely not where the game shines.

But if a language makes a particular thing easy, it also forces you to adopt a certain premise and accept the way the language solves that particular problem. This also limits you.

Every new language wants you to accept a new premise.

I’ve got a friend who rewrote parts of the C++ standard lib to optimize it for his purposes. I guess an STL isn’t the same as a language, but my friend’s efforts is maybe a small version of people recreating a new language to solve a problem.

Good thing then Americans voted for an incorruptible billionaire for president.

Sorry for the snark. It’s of course accurate that it’s easier to bribe people when they make little money through honest means.

Are you kidding? He himself said it’s akin to terrorism.

I gotta say, I’m a bit concerned how much my parents like these bots. It’s not yet that they become dependent on them, but the fact that these bots often validate your own biases isn’t helping.

My dad was surprised I didn’t embrace the new tech as much as we’re both generally tech enthusiastic. I mostly see a lot of problems with it and not the singularity he wanted to talk about.

My mom has issues with her family and the bot helps her validate her opinions in the fight… which I generally like, but I’m concerned who she lets to get to her: idiots in the family and a chatbot, rather than the rest of her caring environment.

So it’s not red alert, yet, but come on…

I just don’t understand how the systemic thinking of these people work. The environment holds up both people and the economy. And while people always need some kind of economy to specialize and form a modern society, economic goals should always be subject to people’s priorities. We can disagree on common good or individual rights, but ultimately the dominant dependencies seem pretty clear to me: you cannot live a modern life with a functioning economy if your environment is in shambles.

These other applications are relatively successful, cheap and profitable. So adding chat bots to that group helps you to sell your product as something important.

Sure, but he’s also talking (to ChatGPT) while others are talking. That weirds me out. Quickly pausing and looking up a fact is fine.

Yes. A friend’s brother developed the habit to look up stuff during conversation when something is unclear. He uses voice for that, so you see him whisper to his phone all the time when you or others are speaking. Weirded me out.

Solarpunk is an utopia. If every step we continue making needs to be perfect, we’ll never get there. Instead we have to improve each step we make to get there.

Solarpunk is also about salvaging technology and post-capitalism. It’s supposed to be reached through a transition period. We just gotta make the first steps and introduce more circular economies. This will phase out most harmful mining practices eventually.

Oh, the power company owning the dam.

It has shown that there’s enough money around we could just tax it and solve our problems collectively. Not sure which height of tax rate would be as devastating for the economy as a bursting AI bubble.

or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution

Mamdani has not been a citizen when the constitution was adopted.

He held it in front of recently naturalized immigrants. One line I’ll paraphrase I found interesting when he referred to them: they didn’t see themselves not just as New Yorkers, but American too, just like he did some 10 years ago.

This tells immigrants in New York that they may not be American (yet), but they are New Yorkers. Very beautiful notion.

Good headline. Didn’t call them “owners”. Because this doesn’t happen to something you own.

Article’s first sentence already fails though.

Yeah, my comment shouldn’t read as a criticism of the less fortunate or more principled among us, but rather of who is successful in our current system.

… or anything really.

If he had less money he’d probably be one of the local homeless crazies or a resident at a mental institution. Not heard a single sane take from this guy yet.

Hasn’t hurt Linus either.

If there’s something I learned in the industry is how to test (and I don’t just mean some unit tests) and how to write APIs with back compatibility in mind.

Not saying proprietary software is necessarily better, but working in a big organization that guarantees functionality to its customers, does teach you to coordinate releases better than most solo projects probably will.