The point I got from the article was that AI is a cause for skill atrophy for any level of seniority, and tends to worsen over time. I can see this happening to myself in some areas, while in others I’m able to learn new skills I’m interested in.
Building a procedural open world at the scale of a flight sim in UE5, in a month wrote 5k prompts, spent 40B tokens and will likely take at least a trillion more over the next year of full time dev work.
Big solo projects exist, they're just not coming out as frequently because of, uh, how time works
Is there any other reason to use this distro other than signal political alignment? I looked into it a few months ago without even being aware of the political controversy surrounding it (I was curious about the whole "Agentic Linux" angle) and all I found was a poorly configured Arch Linux install with some rather crappy bash scripts on top.
Well, ok, I think there's another use case which is to LARP as a Un*x "pro user" without actually having any idea how to properly use a shell.
To be clear I'm accusing the distro to steer people in a certain direction, I'm arguing that it's something that people who already have a certain set of political beliefs will be drawn to.
>That you think it's all about UNIX guru LARP I have to question how many Omarchy users you actually engaged with because I've mostly met humble and friendly folks. YMMV.
I mostly base myself on the tweet wall posted on Omarchy's website, because it features (or featured, back when I looked at it) a bunch of former Mac users patting themselves on the back for being such 1337 h4x0rs for... mainly using a tiling WM, as far as I can tell.
As someone who has been using Linux and tiling WMs for over two decades it's a bit baffling to look at frankly. I guess I'm a bit salty that I missed out on millions of dollars by sharing my config files.
>I've been working a lot on customization and upstreamed some patches and I have no idea what would count as poorly configured.
I obviously haven't surveyed the entire ecosystem but the base scripts shipped with the distro (which I presume are mostly DHH's work) look more like a personal dotfile compendium than something a serious distro would ship. I'm talking about stuff like this: https://github.com/omacom/omarchy/blob/1e859d37cb7fef6ac6874...
That "format-drive" function is particularly entertaining, I think.
This may not be representative of the ecosystem at large, admittedly, but given the huge focus on vibecode/agentic stuff in the marketing, I think this is not an unexpected outcome.
Beyond that, using your own, worse package manager instead of leveraging Arch's existing capabilities (but also still using Arch's packages for some things) is just terrible design.
Is this sarcasm or are you really completely unaware of how ridiculous this statement is when it applies just as much to OBS' decision to restrict where their users can stream to?
I was specifically talking about OBS' decision to restrict where their users can stream to, so I'm not sure what you think it is I'm completely unaware of.
Yes, the guy I responded to is using "intolerance" to describe the users using/wanting rumble.
I responded with heavy sarcasm, because i don't think people who redefine words & describe things in outlandish terms are arguing in good faith, so I prefer to tell them I agree, and restate their outlandish claim.
You're now here to police me based on our other interaction, and your misunderstanding of my positions.
Does art lack meaning and purpose until it’s sold?
Your interpretation of retirement is probably more strict than most people’s, but even if it wasn’t, how can it be hard to imagine connecting with a community outside your coworkers and customers? That you don’t have to be employed and monetizing your labor to create anything worth sharing?
Even if you would be miserable without some form of external validation how can it be difficult to imagine that others are capable of simply enjoying the limited time they have to be alive, spending it on things that matter more to them than polishing a deck on SaaS sales metrics? How can it be unclear that the reality of work for the vast, vast majority of humans on earth is a brutally costly and undesirable experience? People die in low-paying jobs they took to survive roughly every other minute.
Good for you that you dig what you’re doing though, I hope you never have to see the alternative.
I was talking more about OP, and folks in his position, that seem to chase a bag of cash and then boast about retirement but keep relentlessly doing exactly what they did before.
What you're talking about feels very different to me, this idea of having to work to survive or the idea of an artist that wants to express themselves but ends up selling his art to pay the bills, I find those to be different societal constructs and it doesn't really feel like something I would call "work" either.
If my definition of retirement is different than most, than maybe so is my definition of "work".
I am definitely grateful, and I do value what I have! It wasn't always like this.
Are they really? Nothing of value is produced unless the exact artifact is transmuted into a professional good? There’s nothing to be gained from sketching preliminary drafts or notes because they’re never polished for publication?
Not what I meant. The point was work under a certain grain size of effort has very little (or negative) value to others.
We're in an environment awash in 'content' where every person has an infinite slop producing machine, and a lot of people are publishing nearly zero effort drafts, awed by the appearance of meaning.
A few decades later, Venice brilliantly exploited the Fourth Crusade’s debt (and the fact that they built all the Crusade’s ships) to proceed on a debt-collection/revenge tour along the Adriatic, sacking Zara, getting the entire Crusade excommunicated, and ultimately diverting the entire force to Constantinople where they sacked the city in 1204 and replaced the government with the Latin Empire.
I found City of Fortune by Roger Crowley to be a very entertaining read, the full story of the Crusade is absurd. Venice completely dedicated its entire economy to producing the Crusade’s ships for years to make this happen.
The Fourth Crusade really does read like a chain of "well, since we're already here…" decisions escalating into one of history's biggest geopolitical disasters
If you look at most of Byzantine history, most of their misfortune they brought upon themselves. Yarmouk, Manzikert, the Fourth Crusade...
I don't know why neo-fascists tend to glorify the ERE/Byzantium as some last bastion of Roman culture against Islamic hordes, when in reality around that time they were practically being ruled by emperors who were previously counterfeiters, caulkers and moneylenders. Nepotism was so bad around the middle ages that emperors would make their drunk vagrant cousin twice removed admiral of the fleet just because he could.
I digress. The ultimate flex by the Venetians was Doge Enrico Dandolo pillaging Constantinople, taking a lot of artifacts including the Horses of St. Mark and the Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs, and then getting himself buried in the city he pillaged.
And this in contrast to an islamic culture that was, back then, extremely meritocratic. A lot of the best Ottoman civil servants, fighters, seamen, and pirates, were Europeans who, after ending up "on the other side" for various reasons, were promoted on merit to the highest positions in the empire - something that would have been unthinkable in most Christian states back then, where strict caste systems kept everyone in their place.
The brother of Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Stephen, was originally a caulker before he was made admiral of the fleet. His son succeeded Michael IV as Michael V (and as lover of the former's wife). Michael IV himself was a moneylender and counterfeiter, and he came into prominence in the court by virtue of his brother John, who was a courtier in charge of the women's quarters of the royal palace.
The sack of Constantinople might have been the worst and most stupid crime that the Medieval Christendom inflicted upon itself, with consequences visible until today.
There is an alternate reality in which the Eastern Roman Empire survived until today and the entire eastern Mediterranean region looks totally different.
Venice was not a good neighbor. A plutocratic psychopath polity, doing absolutely anything for anyone and to anyone for money. Even for the standards of their time and place, they were deeply immoral.
The sack was preceded by a literal genocide of all Latins/Italians living in Constantinople a few decades earlier. Coincidentally Venetians weren’t really affected since they were already exiled before that. However still it probably made it easier for the members of the fourth crusade to justify the atrocities they committed.
Prior to the massacre of the Latins the relationship between the east and west was pretty good, in fact the Byzantine ruling class was quite heavily westernized and the economy dominated by Italian merchants. The French princess ruling the empire on behalf of her underage son also wasn’t exactly popular amongst the masses. The subsequent coup and massacre pretty much permanently splintered a somewhat productive alliance that allowed Christians to retake much of Asia Minor ane the Levant in the preceding century.
>Prior to the massacre of the Latins the relationship between the east and west was pretty good, in fact the Byzantine ruling class was quite heavily westernized and the economy dominated by Italian merchants.
I don't know much about this subject, specifically, but I struggle to think of examples where, "Foreign merchants controlled the economy," turned out well, and plenty where, "They killed all the foreign merchants," was the outcome. So to see a characterization like, "Before they killed everyone, the relationship was great"... It feels like there's something missing; maybe a bit of awareness. Great for who?
>Prior to the LA riots the relationship between the stores and the customers was pretty good, in fact the property owners were quite heavily down with it and the economy dominated by Korean merchants.
>Prior to the American/Haitian/French Revolution the relationship between the landowners/monarchy and laborers/colonists was pretty good.
> Before they killed everyone, the relationship was great
Yeah, probably I didn’t express it that well. I mean the ruling class was quite Latinized and had decent relations with the Crusader Kingdoms and often intermarried.
This was not at all popular amongst the masses (and more so the economy and trade being dominated by Italians and high taxes used to fund to fund all the mostly failed military campaigns). Andronikos utilized that in addition to general hatred towards the aristocracy during his coup which lead to the massacres and a permanent political shift. The Empire also lost most of the economic and political control it had over the Crusader States as after that (the Kingdom of Jerusalem was in practice a vasal state of the empire at the time and was reliant on Byzantine funding).
Isn’t the value in being able to verify the design before implementing? It would be more ideal surely to prove correctness of the deployed code, but I still find it very useful.
I just started working on some similar stuff, it’s been a dream forever but I never had time for the payoff to feel worthwhile. Would love to hear more about your Claude workflow and experience with Bevy, did you consider Godot?
I did! I am more familiar with Godot but just ran into performance issues and then switched off their node scene straight to their rendering API, which made me feel like I abandoned Godot at that point. I am sure it could be optimized more but I want to worry less about chucking rendering and more scaling the economy simulation the further it went out, thus the more things to render, the harder it was for Godot.
Bevu/Rust just made it easier to brute force that scaling, since they have smaller footprints (overhead?)for each thread/process spawning.
