Notices by dr2chase (dr2chase@ohai.social)

From this weekend, a cargo bike demo

@whitequark it’s really not that, and that’s sort of an insulting way to talk about it. It takes time to change, people are busy, people have constraints you might not know about.

@whitequark @julesh @typeswitch there's no lack of interesting designs, the problem is that there's so much to know, and the installed base is a giant pool of tar where people will happily stay until the pain of change is lower than the pain of staying. This gives a certain bonus to languages that change "not too much" (30 years out of date) since they can make for an easier step.

@dalias @seachanger someone's got to write that app and run the databases. Part of me has no idea why this never happened, but I also know that Uber does a spectacular amount of IT work, they make decently large contributions to Golang (just, they're large enough that this makes sense for them), so maybe there's something about the problem I don't understand.

There's also places like remote-ish FL suburbs, that have no taxi service. There's limos, that's about it.

@kolya @dalias @spzb @robpike I loathe any MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY format because for many dates (including my birthday, spouse, and 1 kid) there is a little ambiguity. I don't care if it is "standard", it sucks, I write all my US-normie dates DD-Month-YYYY and all my sensible person dates YYYY-MM-DD.

@vaurora accidentally ran an experiment over the weekend, between 3C and 2C socks become necessary.

@vaurora I assume/hope you are making notes on how-to.

@inthehands multiple keyed-alike Abus locks. Runs to some dollars. Also security nuts on wheels and seatpost.

@quinn registration and access is vote-suppressing bullshit, and your reaction is part of the plan. And, sadly, there's a whole lot of stupid people who have no doubts about their opinions or reservations about their ignorance, they are going to vote.

@cstross @isaackuo @graydon and also, image recognition is nothing like the LLM stuff, it trains fast and cheap and runs on tiny hardware (source: niece's friend's boyfriend who worked in that industry, also looking for a job; and TinyGo-powered flying drone demos, that recognize human faces, now).

I sure do wish these dipshit billionaires would get obsessed with something practical, like indoor air quality or malaria or mitigating climate change, instead of bullshit like plagiarism and Mars.

@yuvipanda what does it do that iTerm2 doesn't?

@carnage4life Are we required to be rooting FOR someone? Altman's recent history is problematic (eyeball scanning for cryptocurrency sounds like a colossal grift, especially since crypto is crime all the way down), and "fair use for we but not for thee", nope, nope, nope. That's just intellectual looting at scale.

@aral It's got a Nazi bartender, more or less.