When we first moved to our rural area here the high speed wireless situation was atrocious and we found that because of that the local gas station & convenience stores still had a pretty active business renting DVD/BluRay movies. Until we could finally get decent high speed Internet without caps, we did that (and bought BluRay discs as well) which was only about 5, 6 years ago.
There was something quite nice and nostalgic about it.
just to be clear – this is a conspiracy theory (negative connotation not intended).
every four years (at the federal level), we vote to increase the scope and power of gov't, and then crash into power abuse situations on the next cycle.
> I recommend anyone presume the best of actual people and the worst of our corporations and governments. The data seems clear.
i switched from alacritty -> ghostty, and occasionally use zed.
i can't recall why i made the transition (maybe just to try it out, and it became default?). i can't think of any practical consequences of this transition.
why do you care about whether zed uses alacritty or ghostty under the hood?
Kitty Graphics Protocol support and subtle font rendering differences between Ghostty and Alacritty that drive me nuts.
I have reported font rendering issues to Alacritty in the past and let's just say the developer was not exactly receptive to fixing them since they occur on macOS and not his preferred OS of Linux.
> That trend is a consequence. A consequence of people being too lazy to think for themselves. Critical thinking is more difficult than simply thinking for yourself, so if someone is too lazy to make an effort and reaches for an LLM at once, they're by definition ill-equipped to be critical towards the cultural/moral "side-channel" of the LLM's output.
I like this - and I think it’s a natural reality. When trust is low (for many reasons, including joining a new team), it may reduce risk to start with a design doc.
There are a lot of reasons anyway I like to have the design doc around. A few:
* I think the designs are often better when people write down their goals, non-goals, assumptions, and alternatives rather than just writing code.
* Reading previous designs helps new people (or even LLMs I guess) understand the system and team design philosophy.
* It helps everyone evaluate if the design still makes sense after goals change.
* It helps explain to upper management (or promotion committee in a large company) the work the author is doing. They're not gonna dig into the code!
...so it's usually worth writing up even if not as a stage before implementation starts. It can be a quick thing. If people start using a LLM for the writing, your format is too heavy-weight or focused on style over substance.
There's definitely a negative side to approval stages before shipping, as this article points out, but when quality (reliability, privacy/security, ...) is the system's most important attribute, I can't justify having zero. And while getting the design approved before starting implementation isn't necessary, it should avoid the bad experience tombert had of having to redo everything.
> There are plenty of people who work in government that actually care about human rights
Hopefully most do! All should.
However, most employees don’t pick what they work on. So it’s always at the discretion of the boss to determine what’s practically considered, regardless of ideals or desires.
- blu ray rentals were 99¢ / wk
- a vast trove of content
- no lock-in or monthly fees
sure, you actually have to make it to the store... but, 2007 never looked better.
now, Netflix was distributing by mail, and i think the promise was for them to stream all their content into homes. but, then it got messy.
but yeah, for 99¢ / movie, I'm happy to pay. i'll even occasionally pay to rent through AppleTV.
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