At least they're doing severance, health insurance, etc. Nowadays if I got laid off at a company I'd expect to just find that my key didn't work and a "check's in the mail" letter to the wrong address.

Until 1/3 of your hard drive space is taken up by weird cache stuff that MacOS doesn’t explain nor offer a straightforward way to clean up.

If it's cache it gets automatically deleted. If it doesn't get automatically deleted it's not a cache and is a bug.

I’m freaking out the equivalent of mutt and irc require more than 8GB of RAM to run simultaneously.

What are modern operating systems and applications doing?

You can post images in Slack and use text formatting. Those are things that use memory.

Sloppy memory management is what uses memory. But those apps are in a class of their own, along with Electron apps.

Slack is an Electron app.

Gifs. I'm only half joking.

I first really started to learn how to use computers playing Leisure Suit Larry on a friend's dad's computer. Started with copying save-games to/from floppy disks, to using MS-DOS in general, to BASIC, etc. and so forth.

It's interesting how much of the humor in those games flew way over my head yet I still had a blast playing them. And looking back as an adult, the "risque" stuff was tame as hell but still fun. Sigh, good times.

Governance by democracy isn't about qualification, it's about legitimacy.

If the government ends up filled with incompetents that's a failure of the people that elected them.

how exactly ?

it's sarcasm. a lot of arguments against social services like universal health care boil down to "well taxation is theft and therefore they're not actually free because they pay higher taxes"

See /s flag ?

Sorry not good with the recognizing these.

I assume decelerating forever means asymptotically approaching not collapsing.

The emulator runs way too fast - probably because I'm on a MacBook Pro with some bizarre refresh rate.

Very impressive demo nonetheless.

Yep, totally unplayable on M3 MBP. I don't think the issue is the screen refresh rate - I lowered that to the lowest it goes in System Preferences (47.95 Hz) and it's still essentially just as bad as the "ProMotion" setting (presumably 120Hz).

Same here with AMD 9800X3D processor and a 300Hz monitor.

seems to work better with https://fabiensanglard.net/rss.xml than most readers although it still gets 403s fetching images but I'll still give it a run to see how it works for me.

I think the image urls provided in the RSS feed are just broken, eg this one is linked in the latest article:

https://fabiensanglard.net/2168/french.webp

The problem is all the easy problems have been solved, and even all the hard problems have been solved in science. We're down to the really hard problems, and since our otherwise astoundingly accurate observations of how the universe acts are thrown off by them, everything looks weird and fringe at the very hard edges.

Sure, we have to think outside the box to solve some of those problems. Or we need more data (and tech to gather it with). Or both. Thinking outside the box means differing from the standard consensus. Differing from the standard consensus causes controversy. Some wildly outside the box thinking will be not even wrong.