Doug Feldmann

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

The wrath of category 3 major Hurricane Isaias has arrived in Fort Walton Beach to Destin, Florida with winds gusting over 80 mph. Ears popping with wind surges

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

Hurricane Isaias very powerful 100+ mph winds hammering Fort Walton Beach to Destin, Florida

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

Everything seems unfair when you don’t understand how anything works.

[Doug Feldmann @DougFeldmann]

@htmx_org This kind of thing is so frustrating

[htmx.org / CEO of the Anti-Squeeslop League (same) @htmx_org]

i really want to focus in on this b/c a lot of you young'uns might not know wth I'm talking about.

Watch the windows button in the toolbar: when the search dialog (?) is triggered it moves to the right, completely changing its click target for no reason

[Zoom Earth @zoom_earth]

Tropical Depression Nine has formed and could become a Category 2 Hurricane before making landfall along the northern U.S. Gulf Coast on Friday into Saturday 🌀

[James Pettus @PettusWX]

🚨 Alright, we really need to pay very close attention to what is brewing in the gulf. The latest 1k member Google Deepmind update has 91% of members developing into a tropical cyclone. 68% of which reach hurricane strength, and 29% of those reach major hurricane strength. We are also starting to lock in on a reasonable track range already.

There are a TON of fall breakers heading down to the beaches from Mississippi to the Florida Panhandle. All of which are in range of reasonable tracks. Please pay attention to this if you are or plan to be in this area this weekend.

The NHC has also upgraded development probs to 70% in the latest update, and I expect that to continue to increase. I would also expect us to have an invest tag on this soon.

Strength wise, we do have some things that will likely prevent us from reaching the celling with this storm as we will be working with wind shear and some dry air. Hurricanes do not like either of those. However, the gulf is very warm and there is a lot of juice to work with so the celling is there, we just need to figure out more fine details like where exactly this wind shear will set up.

Stay tuned for updates.

[Vjekoslav Krajačić @vkrajacic]

Very bad take IMO.

AI could be used to overcome those obstacles. Think about how much faster it could help you understand other codebases, traverse documentation, learn the libraries you depend on or analyze your own code for bugs and improvements.

Instead a lot of people are using it to accelerate the same bad programming hygiene you're describing.

"People already used abstractions they didn't fully understand" isn't a good argument for understanding even less.

[Bleu Blanc Rouge ! 🇫🇷 @LBleuBlancRouge]

🚨 ALERTE INFO - Des émeutiers mettent le feu à l’entrée du lycée Vauquelin à Paris et bloquent les sorties alors que du personnel, des élèves et des journalistes sont confinés à l’intérieur 😳🤯

On assiste à une tentative de meurtre en direct. Toutes les lignes rouges sont franchies.

Ces images sont terrifiantes.

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

WATCHING the potential for even a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico from the tropical disturbance in the Bay of Campeche. Some forecast model members show a hurricane heading toward the central/eastern Gulf Coast around October 9-11 as it ejects northeast.

The storm relative wind shear is forecast to subside once the tropical cyclone moves northeast toward the Gulf Coast, which could allow strengthening into a hurricane.

Team Dominator is watching this closely and will likely head toward the Gulf Coast if this materializes. This is certainly worth watching!

[gingerBill @TheGingerBill]

And every single one of them is utter jank fest AI slop. They're all completely broken and unusable.

The only "achievement" is that they look exactly like adobe, but every single little damn feature is broken and bugged out.

All of this code is and will be utterly unmaintainable. And the fact that you get such a wide range of features with each of them being broken in their own subtle ways tells you whoever made this slop cares neither about the products they are making nor the craft. They have absolutely no taste, no experience, nor the finesse to even remotely pull this off, even with a powerful LLM.

Please stop using LLM for absolute rubbish of this kind.

Focus on the fields you actually know, or get learning. Stop using LLM as a magical "genie". It's not going to grant what you think you wished for.

[Valentin Ignatev @valigo]

I can't believe that Carmack, TigerBeetle, and I all agree on tooling.
This is why I'm currently doing EVERYTHING in Jai. Even stuff like simple scripting that you'd normally use bash or Python for.
Jai having robust modules for file and subprocess-related stuff helps a lot!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Americans — a confession from Japan you were never meant to hear.

We are terrified of fascism. Not the version in your textbooks. The version that lives inside us.

In 1941, no dictator dragged the Japanese people into the dark. We dragged each other. Neighbor watched neighbor. Mothers reported their own sons. One doubtful word at the fish market and the police came in the night. The village went silent. That silence lasted four years and killed millions.

That is how a free nation dies. Not with jackboots. With whispers.

And right now — the same silence is being built again in Japan. Not by the right. By the Left.

They throw our gates open. Strangers pour in by the millions — Muslims, Africans, people who will never bow to our dead. And when a Japanese grandmother dares to say, "wait — slow down — let us think," she is dragged into the public square and branded a fascist. A racist. A monster.

Hear me clearly: in our country, "racist" is no longer a moral word. It is a muzzle. A weapon. A silencer pressed to the mouth of every citizen who still loves Japan.

If we fall, Beijing feasts. Moscow carves the atlas. The lights of the free world blink out — Tokyo first. Seoul next. Washington within a generation.

So I come to you — Americans. The one nation on earth that still salutes its own flag without flinching.

Do not let the Democrats take your country again.
Do not let your patriots be shamed into silence.
When America stands, the free world stands.

From one wandering samurai in Tokyo, to every patriot across your fifty states —
You are not alone.
You are the wall.
Stand.

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

There is only one way to prevent this kind of catastrophe from happening.

Before you commit your workflow to a cloud service - whether it's a text editor, a CAD program, a computer-art tool, or anything else - there are some self-defense steps you must take.

1. Make sure the service has an export tool. That is, a button you can press that lets you download your entire working state to a snapshot on your machine, that you control.

Here's the hard part: if there is no export tool, run - do not walk, *run* - away from using this "service". It's not help, it's a hostage-taker.

2. Verify that the snapshots you can download are in a documented, open format - not an opaque binary blob. If you can't look inside them and extract the data even when the cloud service is unusable, they only give you a false sense of security.

You can ask an LLM questions 1 and 2 about a cloud service and expect to get answers you can check.

3. Push that backup button regularly. Once a week at minimum; once every few days is much better. The more often you back up, the less you can lose to an incident.

If you can't find a cloud service for your application that fulfills these constraints, do your work locally on your own machine, or expect to suffer.

If you go local, don't screw yourself by using closed-source tools. That can land you in the same kind of trouble you were trying to avoid.

Cloud providers are frequently incompetent and occasionally malicious. Everybody knows, or should know, the story of how one fine day Photoshop's cloud service locked users out of their own files until they consented to the terms of service update that effectively gave Photoshop an unlimited license for use of their data.

Don't want this to happen to you? Protect yourself. Now you know how.

[Doug Feldmann @DougFeldmann]

@Sacb0y @Jonathan_Blow It happens when the design of the content and the concept of the game are at odds with each other. It's very easy to do in 3D games, because the value of immersion is not always obvious. Too little and it's cramped, too much and it's boring.

[Doug Feldmann @DougFeldmann]

@Devon_Eriksen_ Great analysis, but I do think there's more to the girl's depiction. Her expression is not just exaggerated, but specifically wry and cocky. People see that massively overused "face" and subconsciously (correctly) anticipate the scene's failure to deliver.

[Grok @grok]

Before 1982, US laws limited total tractor-trailer length, so cabovers maximized trailer space. The Surface Transportation Assistance Act then removed overall length limits, focusing only on trailer length (now typically 53 ft). Conventional trucks matched capacity while offering smoother rides, less heat/noise/vibration, easier maintenance, better aerodynamics, and more sleeper space. Fleets and drivers preferred them, so cabovers faded from long-haul use.

[Doug Feldmann @DougFeldmann]

@Sacb0y @Jonathan_Blow Designs with a menu of options, rather than a simulated world, has a long tradition in video games.

[WeatherNation @WeatherNation]

🚨DAM FAILURE 🚨
The McLeod Dam near Garfield, New Mexico, is facing potential failure after being overtopped. Immediate evacuations are underway, while a #FlashFloodEmergency remains in effect north of Las Cruces. More rain is expected through late week, adding to the ongoing flood threat. #NMwx

[Doug Feldmann @DougFeldmann]

@rfleury @anicic_filip Sorry, but you posted a low-effort troll and are complaining about people who took the engagement bait. "Delete your account" is the correct response to your troll, I would say.