I’ve gone back to Hand of Fate 2 for like… the 15th time. Just such a cool concept. In a world full of card-based roguelikes, I’ve still never seen anything else quite like it.

Your deck isn’t just the equipment and buffs you might gain. It’s also the threats you might face, and the clues that might lead to new quests.

You’re playing against the deck, in many ways. Such a simple inversion, but it opens up the door to so many interesting modifiers.

Not fired though, like the MSNBC host that said hateful words lead to hateful actions.

Free speech is when you’re allowed to openly coordinate the extermination of people you don’t like but then when someone says that’s bad they get deported or fired

Not exactly an answer, but I’ll take the opportunity to point out that Bun has a shell feature which makes it easy to mix and match JS and Bash in the same script, and it provides a compatibility layer for Windows users so that you don’t have to worry about platform differences in shell capabilities. https://bun.sh/guides/runtime/shell

Except Python’s growth is from data science, not web dev (the subject of OP’s post, and the context in which JS is “dominating”)

Edit:

More relevant chart:

I loved my Eee PC so much.

I’ve been watching and hoping for a modern ARM equivalent, but haven’t seen anything quite right so far.

And drains our freshwater reserves in order to do it.

The dumbest timeline.

It’s been ages since I did Rails, but I remember that back then memory leaks were just a fact of life and you had to have a system that monitors the server processes and restarts them when the memory usage gets too high.

I truly hope that’s not still the case.

Idk, it’s a tough call. Ancaps support a governance system which will, by design, oppress marginalized people.

Whether that’s worse than personally hating marginalized people is kinda open to interpretation.

“I want there to be a perpetual oppression machine” vs “I want to do some oppressing”

Depends on the use case, and what you mean by “external dependencies”.

Black box remote services you’re invoking over HTTP, or source files that are available for inspection and locked by their hash so their contents don’t change without explicit approval?

Cuz I’ll almost entirely agree on the former, but almost entirely disagree on the latter.

In my career:

I’ve seen multiple vulns introduced by devs hand-writing code that doesn’t follow best practices while there were packages available that did.

I have not yet seen a supply chain attack make it to prod.

The nice thing about supply chain attacks though: they get publicly disclosed. Your intern’s custom OAuth endpoint that leaks the secret? Nobody’s gonna tell you about that.

What’s the original quote?

Licensing is the least of my objections to the gen AI plague.

Indeed. I want AI companies to get regulated into smithereens, but not through expansion of copyright law. There would be too much collateral damage, and it wouldn’t even work.

Absolutely. There’s not a good guy on either side here.

If AI vendors win, it’s basically this:

Yall have the ability to change your avatars?!

I bought $15 of DOGE in 2013 and then the hard drive I had it on died. I didn’t ask for the drive back after getting it replaced. I sometimes wonder at what point I would’ve paid to have the data recovered so I could sell. I’m kinda glad I don’t have the option. Seems like such a silly waste of resources.

People with no clue about AI are exactly why a dumb-as-a-brick LLM could very well end up destroying the world.

I set up a PiHole for my Hisense TV.

Thought maybe I didn’t do it right or their ad-delivery was too sneaky, cuz the home screen still defaults to full-screen promos for shows I’ve never watched. Oh well, leave it how it is.

Disabled the PiHole for a couple days to test something else.

Holy shit, banner ads everywhere on the TV.

Eh, every distro is trade-offs. There’s not a straightforward “better or worse”.

The worst mistake you could make? Making it hard for you to change your mind later.

So take notes on what you modify, try to keep your data/configs consolidated so you could easily migrate to a new distro, etc.

And ideally have your hardware set up so that you can try booting a new distro without losing your existing setup.

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