@clacke Interesting, although I'm not sure an RSS feed reader is the best example for a 100 year program considering the underlying infrastructure it needs to be useful may not last that long. But maybe, and I suppose that's a different discussion. 😆

@vidak That project seems ripe for having multiple implementations in everybody's favorite languages. 😆

@clacke I could be wrong, but I think the political conservatives hitting the news don't believe anything like that. They're just finding Disney to be a useful target to help promote their "culture war" to their base (and perhaps keep the corps in line). There is so much heat, noise, and harm coming from US conservatives leading up to our midterms. :(

@clacke Oh, and the park in question is Disney World over in Florida where DeSantis is governor and has been very active in attempting to keep his name in the news. Disney World has some sort of special district carved out of a piece of Florida.

@theruran That's the first time I've seen people discussing the use of AI in semiconductor design that left me feeling okay about things. They're describing tools that help humans iterate faster, not tools that cut humans completely out of the loop such that nobody understands how the end product works. Very interesting.

(That hackernews headline is incorrect as the fourth example was about porting standard cells and not entire chip designs. Oh well.)

@clacke We're using 3.7, and I have a patch against it so that threading.Timers work even if the system time changes while the Timer is running. That was a fun one to track down. 😆

One thing I've noticed poking around is that newer clients seem to not have much support (if any) for local email storage. The assumption is that you'll always have IMAP connection or similar and that you won't ever need to archive items (and have access to items) that are no longer stored on a server. In this world, import/export is totally a server to server thing and storage space on a server is not a problem, and you never need to access your email without an internet connection. :/

I can't believe I'm considering managing my email with Emacs. (Plus a bunch of other fiddly moving parts.)

#ThereMustBeABetterWay

I'm reading an account about the development of a microprocessor told from the perspective of the microprocessor architect who compares himself to top gun pilots with "victory or death" attitudes about their work and life... (Next moment he is stuck in Austin traffic late to pick his children up from school.) Sure... Just keep telling yourself that...

(I should probably just put this book down now.)

Maybe the real tragedy of the commons was all the jerks who privatized the commons along the way?

@clacke No matter what, we're all sinners. 😆

@ieure That's what I should've done. But it was a weird time for me. I had been between jobs, major move, about to get married and become a step-dad, working a job for a company that liked to do contract phase before hiring. Contract job was not hinting they were going to hire me after the contract period. Anyway, I accepted... for three days, realized it was a mistake, and went back to the first place (who did hire). It was not a great time. I did learn some things. Not all good things. 😆

@ieure I once had a job offer from a place that I had interviewed with 6 months prior. There had been no communication between the interviewing and the job offer. I'm not very good at expressing myself through emojis, but I think this might be the right one: 🙃

@clacke And apparently she was the candidate the majority of the people in her district wanted. :(

Watching my mom* use her first smartphone yesterday reinforces how nothing about the things are intuitive nor necessarily easy, how difficult it is to to attempt to describe how to navigate ("push the rounded square thing"), how finicky the touch input can be, and how difficult to simultaneously hold and operate it can be for somebody with mild arthritis in their hands.

* A person whose been comfortably using and troubleshooting computers for years, from DOS through Windows 10.

@carnage Something like this?

https://www.crowdsupply.com/rcc-productions/galaksija

@clacke Thanks for bringing up May First again. I had recently listened to a podcast about it, and meant to make some notes, but completely dropped the ball for some reason:

https://realcoopstories.org/alfredo-lopez-may-first-movement-technology/

@trc If you watch the Bill & Ted series, let us know if the last one is worth watching?

@sam has been working to get one started that is US based. (I have been very little help with that. :/ )

@clacke

@clacke I do remember seeing that one. I agree with your assessment. I really *want* to like it more than I do. 😆