This makes me think of Ted Chiang's interview w/ Ezra Klein: "I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism. [...] Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best understood as fears or anxiety about how capitalism will use technology against us."

I find Carol’s focus understandable, given that she personally witnessed her partner’s death and attributes it to the collective being. She is grieving!

Why I follow Zach Weinersmith, in one picture:

A big part of my surprise with LLMs is that they could get this far *without* a world model.

In turn, I’d highly recommend Animal Well if you haven’t played it. Similar to Tunic, don’t look anything up first!

Pragmatically, I’m trying to find more games that can knock out a good idea or experience in finite time. I sunk so much time into things like Civilization, Stardew, Elden Ring, and Zelda, but want to explore more.

Hi! I thoroughly enjoyed your April Cools post. What games would you most enthusiastically recommend to folks who do have some gaming fluency?

Ugh. Reminds me of how "gonna" isn't just a drop in for "going to". You can't say "I'm gonna the store."

At this point, I'm disappointed that nobody has fine-tuned for this task to get you to post about their model.

Conda/pixi do solve real problems for some users, for instance because there is currently no way for a wheel to express its non-python dependencies. There is a lot of good information on complexities of non-python dependencies here: pypackaging-native.github.io/key-issues/n...

Triple click Sickos got me playing so much Balatro.

As with all things LLM: it’s the training data. How much of Python code in the wild is fully typed?

However, this isn't as common anymore, as this kind of problem has incentivized package authors to compile and publish precompiled wheels for every platform under the sun so that folks can just use pip.

Conda remains a good way to go *if you have complex dependencies on non-Python complied dependencies*. With pip/uv and such, you may need to self-compile or install stuff with your system package manager if a python package doesn't ship precompiled wheels, whereas conda packages can be polyglot.

Yep, since it helps avoid adding things that were already added. It took me a little while to trust them, but it helped me to realize that “universal variables” are just a generated text file at .config/fish/fish_variables

Fish also has a “fish_add_path” command that can persistently add it to your path via universal variables.

This is how I feel about Reggie Watts. The man has incredible musical facility with the styles he weaves into his comedy.

While it doesn't take into account which specific posts you like more than others, but Drew Devault uses this on his blog: git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/op...