This brings back memories. I enjoyed following the travels described in the She's a Flight Risk series. I never did quite buy that it was a hoax either, though perhaps I am too gullible. If Isabella V. was real, then I hope she's chilling on a tropical beach in Buenos Aires, or somewhere else.
Readit NewsCommunitivity commented on Conversations with a hit man magazine.atavist.com/conf... · Posted by u/gmays
Great idea, and I'm looking forward to trying this out!
Each person with ADHD is affected a little differently, based on anecdotal evidence from family and friends. What are the available customization options?
Communitivity commented on DARPA zaps popcorn with laser power beamed 5.3 miles through air theregister.com/2025/05/1... · Posted by u/rntn
Someone, somewhere in DARPA, watched Real Genius and said 'Hey, we can DO that!'.
MMW: This will be the death of Chrome.
I also do not see Google parting with something so critical to their advertising. With their own browser they control the full length of the wire between the ad-server and the user. Without it, they don't. Only way I could see this happening is if Google then released what they considered a better browser.
We've seen down that road. We know where it leads. Look at the imagined futures of games such as Shadowrun and Cyberpunk. This way lies an extreme dystopia for everyone except the ultra-rich.
I like this, but need more detail in my log and have too many things in a given day to have them all on a line. Had the following idea, and will try it out at some point. Call it calendar.md
Use calendar.txt format and method with the following changes:
1) Use markdown, with a top level heading of Calendar (so inclusion is easier) and the portion
2) Use :tag: instead of +tag. Tags can be run together (:tag:tag2:). This helps with Org mode compatibility
3) Third level heading for each event in day, following same format as calendar.txt
4) text under heading is for notes about the event
5) Searching and seeing info on event in day, or summary about day is no longer easy with grep. This is the biggest drawback from not using calendar.txt. Overcome by writing a tool mgrep that is specifically designed to search markdown files in a Markdown aware way (search headings or specific level of headings, show all headings under matching heading or just one level under, show all content under matching headings, search text and show either lines or section text is in optionally along with ancestry of headings).
6) Create CalendarMDMode, minor mode designed to facilitate calendar.md use and editing within Emacs, requires OrgMode, things like shortcuts for new date, new event, in-editor use of mgrep, etc.
7) Attempt to add CalendarMD support to Helix, which is my daily notes editor, using the as-yet unlanded Scheme based plugin system (see https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675 )
Communitivity commented on Why is so much modern software garbage? craftofcoding.wordpress.c... · Posted by u/rbanffy
> I actually wouldn’t blame software developers per se. I would somewhat blame the habits they develop along the way. Nobody is taught to write real software in university computer science programs. They are taught to code, and if they are lucky enough learn the fundamentals of software development/software engineering.
It's not the habits they develop; it's the pressure from management to "just deliver the darn thing so we can get paid, so we can pay YOU the employees!".
Those who know what I'm talking about, know!
A company can produce software that is two of fast to make, good, or cheap to make. A publicly traded company seems legally obligated to not choose good, because fiduciary responsibility is interpreted as what's good for short term gain.
Communitivity commented on US home sales in 2024 fell to lowest level since 1995 cnn.com/2025/01/24/econom... · Posted by u/mooreds
> The median price of an existing home, meanwhile, has climbed for 18 months straight, reaching a record high of $407,500 in 2024. In December, the median price was $404,400.
The Baumol effect predicts that as labor costs drop in some industries, labor cost in other industries comparatively goes up.
A.I. Can't print more land. And it doesn't seem to greatly affect how much labor goes into home construction. So the housing market is only going to get worse.
I suspect this is because of a continuing rise in the percentage of home sales representing home purchase as an investment by an investor instead of purchase for habitation, but I have no citable research to back that up at the moment.
In your opinion, how far out are we from an AI agent that is usable as a daily driver (i.e., does not have the flaws in Operator, or other common flaws)?
Communitivity commented on In the belly of the MrBeast kevinmunger.substack.com/... · Posted by u/stafford_beer
Baudrillard just gets more relevant every day. Honestly I find it hard to imagine how someone could have media literacy in the modern day without coming to an intuitive understanding of semiotics, whether they know it or not!
I called myself a Semiotics Engineer for 4 years, but the title didn't catch. I did domain analysis, logical model creation, concrete model creation in XML/OWL/KML, model review and improvement, semantic reasoning-based system design/implementation, and message system design/implementation. This was before the rise of ML.