Jen SorensenThis week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
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Every CLI tool has the same validation code hidden somewhere:
- βoption A requires option Bβ
- βcan't use X and Y togetherβ
- βthis only works in production modeβ
I got tired of writing it. So I built something that makes it unnecessary.
https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/stop-writing-cli-validation-parse-it-right-the-first-time
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π΄ββ οΈfixing a project after the code has been thoroughly fucked by ai is called sloppy seconds send toot
mhoyeTo spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".
Charlie StrossBecause the Calibre ebook library software just acquired AI garbage (as of 8.16.2, this week), it has *already* been forked. For AI-free Calibre, seek out clbre:
mcc@AlgoCompSynth One time my [sibling] was like "All you do is work with computers, so how come your phones and computers are all so old?" and I sincerely looked her in the eye and said "have you seen 'Ratatouille'"?
horrowfideCongrats to Charlie Kirk on going 50 days without saying anything racist. π
Emil Jacobs - CollectifissionNow this is ridiculously catchy.
And yes, I bow to my socialist vampire overlords πββοΈ
Cassandra is only carbon nowIn the Framework case, "you can't call people Nazis" is a terrible moderation policy that serves to tell Nazis that they're completely at home in that community. They are completely shielded from any critique that accurately describes their views, actions, and political allegiance.
That fits perfectly with the fascist methodology of destroying truth. No matter your intentions, that policy might as well be a "Nazis Welcome" sign on the front door.
Re: Framework, but also extrapolating more generally? If your moderation policy, your community stewardship approach, your whole way of interacting with people isn't robust to literal Nazis trying to fuck with your shit, then it just does not work in 2025.
I don't care if you call it a CoC, the paradox of tolerance, or what, but you *need* a strategy for how to tell Nazis to fuck off.