Finding high school kids with a similar "tech" background today seems really hard. Tech users, sure, chronic phone / game addicts are everywhere, but that tweaker spirit is rare

The craziest thing is, I don't actually know how many gigahertz either my PC or my macbook are. The megahertz race used to fierce!

It's essentially random at any given moment. If I peek, mine will say it's running anywhere between 700MHz and 3.4GHz. Sometimes I think it goes even faster, but only if it's weirdly cold at the time.

Judge orders the government. The government does not obey. Now what?

Country breaks down further since rule of law does not matter anymore.

Protests are next, mid term elections will be furious.

This is about eight years old. The python situation has mostly gotten worse since https://xkcd.com/1987/

python packaging / envs is solved now by uv. its not promising or used by people in the know like the last 2 trendy python package managers. i was a big time python hater since it was a pita to support as a devtools guy but now its trivial. uv just works, it won.

I'm not a python dev, but I see a bit of its ecosystem. How does uv compare with conda or venv? I thought JS had the monopoly on competing package managers.

What? It’s much much better now, you can just use uv. Yeah, it’s yet another package manager, but it does it well.

Or go up a rung or two on the abstraction ladder, and use mise to manage all the things (node, npm, python, etc).

Well, mostly because you can now task an LLM with writing the docs.

You also have to expose the API in the first place.

the LLM writes that too

”I had no issues with complex sentence structure, therefore the whole planet is fluent in english and college-level literate”

Simpler language is an accessibility issue

For the lolz.

Some people are just terrible like that

I guess, but the "for the lolz" crowd seems unlikely to target.. scientific computing. My conspiracy theory (I have no proof of this) is that this seems like it might be an (attempt) at an academic paper. It reminds me of the professor that tried to sneak security vulnerabilities into the Linux kernel.

Babylon 5 has never been easy to watch which is a large factor in the underappreciation. Hard to appreciate something you can’t watch legally

It's very easy to watch. When I wanted to watch it a few years ago it took only a few minutes to find a torrent of the full series and less than an hour to download.

It was easy to watch on Tubi (with ads), though apparently as of very recently it was pulled.

I find it hard to believe anyone on this site has a problem with piracy, nor technical nor moral.

You'd be surprised. "Hacker" doesn't mean what it once did, and the spirit of the old hacker culture is all but dead here.

The "hacker" here is a soulless techbro willing to sell more parts to make a buck. Of course, since he has no more parts of his own, he sells yours. Naturally, theres no permission.

Tubi stopped carrying all of B5 this month.

B5 has now appeared on Youtube.

Roku has all of B5 - with less commercials than the others

We are building tools and hoping an exit materializes. There’s so much funny money in AI right now, getting life-altering money seems easily attainable