Shafer Brown
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Smart, disabled, trying my damnedest to be kind. Part-time wolverine, full-time nerd.
@glyph When writing in a general-purpose programming language, your execution environment is "everything a computer can do" (or maybe "everything Posix can do"). That puts most people at an instant abstraction disadvantage. And as others in this discussion have pointed out, there's a non-linear relationship between effort and results with most programming: a small effort gets a small result in a drawing program, but it takes at least a middling effort to get any result when coding. (2/2)
@glyph I think the missing piece here is in the "execution environment". Most "application" software defines a constrained context in which your manipulations apply -- a document, or a score, or an image, or a grid of cells that interrelate in specific ways. These constrained contexts yield to layered, progressive abstractions and mental models, and in many (most?) cases even correspond to physical objects that new users might have a history of experience with. (1/2)
jonny (good kind)RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115832534415373032
keeping up to date with "AI" skills is extremely easy actually, the most sophisticated setup i've seen is just a bunch of markdown files begging the necrotic grooves left in the statistical skin of language to pretend like they are different character archetypes wrapped by a (n assemblage of) IDE and CLI tools.
the "skill issue" FOMO trap is just a trap and the question was never "whether they work or not" but rather "how they reconfigure the dynamics of informational power by dramatically consolidating it in the owners of informational capital."
a libi rosei wake up. the year is 2---. the country i happened to be born in is at war. again. i had no say in the matter, and i will have no say in the next one. i give money to the guy on the street corner. i make some art. i try not to think about the supply chain for each of the material goods that surround me. i manage to not cry. i try not to yell too much in traffic. i wonder how it ends.
Ramsey Nasseron a zoom call Chuck Moore the author of Forth announced that Windows updates have rendered his otherwise working colorForth system inoperable and unfixable. moving to another operating system would amount to a rewrite. as a result he said it's "time to move on" from Forth.
several people on the call thanked him for changing their lives with his language, for giving them a lifetime of joyful work and a powerful simple way of thinking about computing, to which he responded "I can only hope it was worthwhile"
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".
ToastieI've never published anything so close to my heart. Hope ya love it.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-11/heavy-metal-is-healing-teens-on-the-blackfeet-nation/
Glyph@nick I think you might be interpreting what I said metaphorically. I do not mean we must stand fast to our principles and purity and not debase ourselves to make arguments to bad people, I mean quite literally that a pretty significant chunk of the opposing coalition sincerely believe that we are corporeal demons, sent from hell to test them. The first case you have to make is that we are human beings, which is unfortunately exactly what a demon would say https://wordandway.org/2023/02/13/democrats-devils-and-democracy/
Democrats, Devils, and Democracy - Word&Way
Contributing writer Rodney Kennedy writes that we will never understand conservative evangelicals until we understand the theological construction of the dominant trope that "Democrats are devils." This has become the most successful propaganda campaign in American politics.