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Hey thank's Carl Jung's labtek. I'm 22% through Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Great read so far

It's kind of like an active way of reading, also like others said, you're forced to read ever word, painstakingly. I find it fun first and foremost

No email required, it's just to save progress across devices.

Gamified elements for some reason are an incentive for me. Combos when you get long streaks without errors. Can load epubs and plain text. Options for typing letters/punctuation/case. I actually got the idea from typ.ing, but there was stuff that I wanted to see that I couldn't find on other typing sites. Also I kept losing progress which I found to be really frustrating

this makes me long for the past. why does this feel so safe and cozy? gents?

they might as well stop using any software, if not now, within 1-2 years.

obligatory SICP

I thought LLMs had been good at this for a while? I vibed a language out and the LLM could write in it pretty well. I even got Qwen 3.8 to write it (though it was pretty slow, it managed to get it done)

Maybe it has to do with people losing their minds at the mention of it? Spend however long on a game, for some random to come out the woodwork and attempt to invalidate everything because you decided to disclose.

You know you can make your UI not look like AI wrote it, with AI, right?

Egypt hasn't gone beast mode since pre 1200 BC

Did I say programmers haven't done anything culturally significant? No, clearly not. I'm saying the vast majority of all programmers have not done anything culturally significant

I thought Rich Hickey's sand cookie analogy was more apt than this bed shitting one.

I worked with plumbers on a daily basis for a number of years. The masters were generally never actually plumbing for the most part. I would say 95% of them did not treat plumbing as an intellectual exercise. Of course, this is just an anecdote. I heard the "your shit is my bread and butter" hundreds of times from different plumbers thinking it was comedies final joke.