Ouch that’s a lot of flex. Worried it won’t hold up to long term use by heavy handed typists.

I need video of this in action!

Good on ya.

The Internet Archive would be the usual place.

On a superficial level it’s a lot nicer than Ada for people who didn’t learn to program on Pascal. Rust’s real flaws don’t show up until you need to do large refractors and change your application’s memory model.

By litigate I mean, if a person is creating something and says they don’t plan to distribute it, do we take their word for it?

If it ends up getting distributed anyway, should we take their word that it was an accident?

We consider people’s private data important enough that if you leak it even by mistake you are on the hook for that. You have a responsibility.

I think that rather than framing this as something harmless unless distributed and therefore intent to distribute matters, we should treat it as something you have a responsibility not to create because it will be harmful when it is inevitably distributed.

How do you litigate ‘intention’ in this way?

Good read. I’d add one more reason: write a post to document something. Might help someone else in the future, might not, but if you ever need to refer back to it, it’s going to help you!

Well it sets an upper bound on compute requirements at ‘simulate 10^27 atoms for thirty years’ remains to be seen if what we can optimize away ever converges with what’s feasible to build.

It would become Twitter.

I’m so hype for typed dictionaries

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I don’t think the vast majority of users use browser plugins at all. Vodoo or not, the barrier is high enough that it’s not a common practice. Certainly not trivial. See the next section; I do think there’s a genuine blind spot among tech literate people.

It’s kinda like if cars shocked you every time you touched the steering wheel. Car enthusiasts of course know how to pop the hood and remove the shock module, but most drivers aren’t car enthusiasts. So when people have a conversation about cars, it needs to start with ‘yeah shock wheels kinda suck’ because that’s what cars are to drivers, even if you have a workaround. If leaving the shock module in as a reminder is what it takes, so be it.

Are we not even going to talk about how many of their sites/wikis are filled with fake/misinformation and go to great lengths to document completely non-existent things in a way that isn’t always obvious to outsiders?

I don’t know how specific that is to Fandom but I am aware of at least one Fandom Wiki for an obscure old console game that’s like 50% inexplicable unmarked fanfiction.

I agree strongly with your gut reaction. I personally use it as the archive of record whenever I digitize some media that would otherwise be lost. I use it when trying to establish how something looked in the past. I don’t need IA to go out and pick losing fights with publishers at the expense of the excellent services they already provide.

It should be noted that if you want digital book loans Libby is fine.

N64 runs ok on pi? Since when? Which PI?

When I search for stuff I don’t seem to get anything.

The nice thing about Samba is that you can find clients for everything.

I’m trying to picture how the other room music is supposed to work. Are you cranking the volume on your TV speakers loud enough to hear in the other toom, or using the PC to control an extra set or far away speakers, or did people used to wire their houses with everywhere speakers controlled from a single receiver?