Was pretty tempted to pick up the m3 pro MacBook (18gb ram) when Amazon was discounting it, but the m4 model (now with 24gb) seems like it will be even more enticing once the sales hit.
Somewhere in time and space, things are happening.
Haha, all the Germans have joined the jaywalking thread on HN.
Last week tried and failed to read The Terraformers. Among other things, it's supposed to be an allegory about a hypercapitalist society that owns everyone and an unjust classification system, on a world being terraformed to resemble a pristine earth. I thought the premise had potential, but alas, it reads like something that won honorable mention in the local young marxist club's fiction contest. The eager author enthusiastically applied their insightful teacher's wise advice to reliably insert descriptive adjectives and exciting adverbs. By coincidence, the next book I read was Solar Lottery, which turns out to have many of the same themes, but set in a very different plot. My complaints here would be that there's a lot of smoking (every scene is punctuated with the lighting or puffing of a cigarette, which feels anachronistic, both from a story and story telling perspective) and the usual Dick weirdness and ambiguity. There's a B plot which isn't really resolved. I did like the original terraforming premise, I think there's potential here, so I might use it for a writing exercise. Going to write my very own very bad short story about the corpoverlords.
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honked back 24 Oct 2024 19:31 -0400
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@petersanchez oh, so there is a posix Lua rock or whatever they're called, but I found it best to wrap everything myself. Used luajit, builtin ffi, started building up my own library of interfaces.
This is fantastic.
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honked back 24 Oct 2024 16:39 -0400
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@lain the best part of getting off the plane yesterday was the "this area causes cancer" sign which is the first thing you see leaving the jetway.
Remember the out of control bird flu outbreak spreading in Missouri?
Watched Aniara. If you liked High-Rise but wished it could be in space and Swedish, this is your movie. Cruise ship to Mars goes off course into deep space, never to return. (I do think the rationale for no rescue is very weak, but the plot requires it.) And then we work our way through the usual stages of hope, despair, lord of the flies. The story was originally an epic poem. There's also English translations.
Found a plastic straw in California. Reporting this travesty directly to big turtle.