Mastodawn

@ellyxir @janl Good call out (I love when projects make this explicit). I do like some aspects of Zig but for now I'm settling in more with languages that have many implementations. C is an easy pick as there are so many alternative compilers and it's a tiny language. I am sad that Fil-C is full of generative AI code and LLVM already merged a few things.

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Cara 2d ago

@ellyxir I really miss this. Berlin really doesn’t have good NYC style pizza. There spots which claim to but it’s all been dissatisfying so far. I fear I will have to just make it myself.

Cara 2d ago

I shot over 7000 photos yesterday at Rad Race (a friend of mine podiumed 3rd in the W field 💖🔥). Burst mode goes hard but worked out for the event.

Now I’m realizing last time I processed this volume of photos I relied on proprietary software. What do people recommend these days? (RAW, shot on Fuji X-H2s w/ some primes)

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Cara 5d ago

@janl I feel like everything written in Rust has suddenly become a problem at least through dependency because those trees are so big. It’s tragic but now I feel like stepping completely away from Rust. llvm is also a problem now as is wasmtime (unsure of cranelift has changes yet but it’s now more likely).

“AI is ok because the types make it safer and easier to review” from the wider community is one of the bigger 🤦🏼‍♀️ moments for me.

Cara 6d ago

Every AI article is basically this kind of excuse:

“I’m going to ignore the moral, ethical and privacy implementation of AI and just focus on the practical. Morally and ethically, AI is a train wreck. But I’m not going to focus on that.”

(I think this particular article meant implications but I’ll stick with an unedited quote.)

I doubt it’s just me but practically speaking, social issues are not just practical but include the excluded categories. This is extremely impractical discourse.

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Cara Mar 17

@janl spent the evening running OpenBSD

Cara Mar 17

Neil Brown Mar 17

An appropriate T-shirt for today.

Cara Mar 17

I’m finally feeling closer to settled after a move and an upcoming appointment to make my status more official (it’s been so unnecessarily stressful). Looking forward to spectating while my friends race this weekend at Rad Race. Maybe next week will finally feel a bit less chaotic.

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Cara Mar 17

I’ve been quietly trying to find what corner of computing can be carved out which asserts our ownership and control of computers. The personal must remain personal.

Cara Mar 17

It’s depressing to see the effects of slop on tools on a daily basis. It’s making be double down on rejecting lots of ecosystems I’ve been a proponent of. This includes Rust and beam languages like Elixir, Gleam.

It’s painfully obvious that there is are motivated groups that want to pull out all stops to make vibe coding the new normal. Them being burnt out on coding isn’t a failure of human coding. It’s incentives that reward selfish behavior and it’ll kill personal computing.