Chris Martin

Because the drug is not the point, right. It's one of many things, of all the devices that hastily convert want into gratification

I don't care about the pharmacology or the specifics of the experience, but of the role in society, how we treat the drug

The people of brave new world even consume it in desserts, for god's sake. The parallels scream out

nice, the keyboard popped up over this and the whole ui is unresponsive

My last favorite post from X before I quit was a picture of Elon's bros packed into the office captioned "I know it smell crazy in there" I think about that one a lot

I'm arguing with an AI bot that disagrees with my model choices in a github pr thread, fml

You always hit the problem that the file system, and therefore the version control, is fundamentally a tree structure.

Developers have a tendency to work in one basis, keenly feel the problems, and then change basis to orient in the other direction, a transposition operation. This can be beneficial if the software is rectangular but not square, but ultimately can only trade one problem for another.

The tree forces us to limit ourselves to a single axis of organization. If we arrange along the "tech stack" axis, new features cut across that axis and require changes in many places. If we organize around the "features" axis, changing a layer of the stack cuts across that axis and again […]

In theory computer programs are trees, but at larger scale software is better modeled by relational algebra. This is why in our programs, which are all still structured as trees, we engage in an impossible struggle to make changes that e.g. "only touch one file"

The ideal capitalist intoxicant, it makes workers feel content without hurting them or rendering them unable to work after it wears off

Huxley's fictional soma is compared to opiates or mescaline but seems more like its role is filled by cannabis in the present day

I don't know, this "in office" thing seems dubious. If people are all having spoken conversations, aren't you concerned about the lack of communication since not everybody can hear it all and there's no record? And how do you know people are really working?

You're not even legally allowed to locate your office at the top of a *staircase* because not everybody can walk up the stairs, but you're allowed to move the office to a different city and to a place you can only get up by driving and tell anybody who can't do those things to fuck off

It's horrifying to be reminded of how fast a normal person goes through paper towels

I think it's reasonable to suspect that if somebody had some huge success, they could do more awesome stuff. And I'm not sure that we've always had such an enormity of counterexamples readily available as we do now

like say what you will about andrew carnegie, to cherry pick an example, but he did a few useful things and never accidentally built a boat so large it couldn't fit downstream

one reason I don't like shitting on ayn rand so much is in the 1950s I think we had far less ability to observe the ultra rich just get stupid after their first big cashout

Yes I spent one day playing around and I am suddenly excited about possibilities, why does it seem like people are sleeping on this

It's pretty good, working with native web components. The integration with the dom inspector for debugging is great. And tbh OOP with inheritance and stuff is great for this domain

Lots of games are social, but - Those are the ones without really any narrative content! The only example I can think of is maybe Portal 2? Anything else?

To the extent videogames are a narrative medium, they're a uniquely isolating one. Together we can listen to music, walk around a gallery, read a book aloud, watch a movie. But if there's a narrative in a game I want to share, my only real option is "you should go play this by yourself" because […]

These are not often *exciting* because increasing result quality isn't as visible as making new visible features. You enhance your recommendation engines or whatever and nobody notices right away

There's really a bunch of tasks where there's no right answer and the risk of getting it "wrong" is basically nothing

and where maybe incorporating a language model might be useful to glean some insights from the text of the corpus and past reviews

"automatically assign a reviewer, random but make some attempt to prefer someone relevant" seems like a good example where I don't know what the objection would be to using some manner of machine learning to make it better than random

I sort of think that if you give 3/4 million dollars to a guy *while he was in fraud jail,* that is really only on you

@dimpase Markers as in, large pens, Sharpies

question for anyone outside the US: are there markers you need to show identification to buy?

"Plants need water and light" is indoor city folk perspective. Plants need water and shit and shade