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I think interesting? It’s kind of hard to tell.

You are going to have to significantly tone down the editorialization and platitudes to get this to a place where a journal might consider it.

Make the point of how it’s novel or useful by explaining what it does, not by repeating that it’s novel and useful.

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Replacing Spotify

I did this in 2024! I use Finamp on my phone for music.

I bought a lot of albums on bandcamp, bought CDs for those that weren’t on bandcamp, and pirated those that weren’t available in either format (looking at you still woozy, stop releasing tapes lol).

Used CDs are a great deal and can be shipped all over the world for cheap.

Users on jellyfin can be allowed access to selected media libraries so just divvy stuff up that way, simple as folders.

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Funny, I was just checking the comments to see what is was. I see Fallout brotherhood of steel knight guy in power armor, but idk about the thing on the left

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</> htmx ~ Code is Cheap(er)

Problem is that to be able to decide whether or not to say no to the code you need to be able to reason about it, and to reason about it you need to wrap your head around at least parts of the output of the prolific, not-afraid-of-complexity AI output.

And that takes time! maybe enough time to defeat the alleged benefit of having it written for you in some cases

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Today, we met a girl who was complaining about her Asperger parents giving her and her three siblings terrible names.

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You sent me down a mini rabbit hole!

It’s so weird to me that people decided yes “November” and “uniform” are great words for rapid communications. Uncle was already in there so nephew or niece would be fine, or even like net idk.

Also have never seen alpha spelled “Alfa” in my life but it’s actually in there, bonkers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_military_phonetic_spelling_alphabets

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Koto: a simple and expressive programming language, usable as an extension language for Rust applications, or as a standalone scripting language

I love this syntax! Coming from languages like R and Julia this all looks and feels super natural, and the implementation of the pipe is perfect.

The pseudo OOP stuff with self in maps is also very clever.

I’ve tried building some data structures in Lua and got hung up on meta tables and such - the use of “self” and the fact that maps here stay in order is awesome.

Makes me think of lightweight, dynamic rust.