Sean

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[tobyfox @tobyfox]

10 years ago I made a song that sounded like this.
It's called "The Sunset of 7 Suns."
This is the hope for Chapter 5 from 10 years ago.

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@ManishEarth At Aldi you can shop with their reusable bag and some cashiers will refill it directly so you don't need to refill it yourself after checkout

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@nucknyan for me the unpleasantness is the snapping to add/remove the boundaries. that seems fixable so it's seamless

[Sean @seanlinsley]

Humans are great at seeing patterns that aren't there, but I'd bet that having so many coherent yet diverging paths was Toby's intentional design. It at least helps explain why each release takes so long

[Sean @seanlinsley]

Deltarune theory videos are so fun. Love to hear people's unhinged theories about the next chapters, start out skeptical, and end up finding most of the theories plausible

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@_wilfredh Especially like that it preserves your preference for argument formatting. For example it can preserve this:

fn(
short1, short2, short3,
reallylongvariablename
)

But most other formatters force each argument to be on its own line, wasting valuable space

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@_wilfredh This is one of the things that Ruby's Rubocop formatter is great at, supporting multiple diverging code styles and letting you choose between them

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@deanpcmad @FrameworkPuter not sure what product you're looking at; just checked the 13 Pro and pre-built is more expensive

which was always surprising to me. in an interview years ago they admitted they fully assemble every computer to test it, then disassemble it for DIY edition. maybe that's changed?

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@nucknyan Ooh looks like Summer Wars has a dub now, gonna rewatch it. I watched with subs and it was hard to keep up with the dialogue

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@kneath everyone's anti-social now because they'll be poor and miserable for their entire lives no matter what they do, so why bother trying to be nice? that's caused by capitalism diverting every possible dollar to pay investors, not because of personal failings

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@kneath the same capitalism that did this to society also built AI. you can't separate the two as if they're from different systems

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@nucknyan What I'm saying is that they severely overestimated the market for education, so they shut down large parts of that business and pivoted back to their bread and butter: entertainment

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@nucknyan The plan now seems to be: make capital expenses recoverable whenever possible (buying things that can be realistically resold). Always have Linus involved, but make space for others in the video and to do behind the scenes work

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@nucknyan Sure, but they didn't realize just how unprofitable it is. Hence why the extra YouTube channels shut down, and we still rarely see main channel videos without Linus hosting. They never figured out how to reliably scale past Linus in terms of videos

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@nucknyan In the past they've tried to do pure education, which justified large equipment expenses, expanding the office space (LTT Labs), and new YouTube channels. It looks like that's all slowly going away because it doesn't produce enough videos that people will actually watch

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@nucknyan Maybe his logic is: all the previous million-dollar risks are money that's permanently gone, but at least the house and jet can be resold for something near its current value. So may as well focus on what's entertaining for viewers

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@nucknyan It's a totally valid path to take, but is at odds with the millions previously spent on device testing equipment and the like. Spreading out focus and funds like this is really risky

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@ManishEarth but they do have to solve problems once a decade or so. instead of just doing it, why not spend as much public money as possible first? that's the role mckinsey filled here: graft, corruption, waste, deniability, delay

[Sean @seanlinsley]

@ManishEarth to make most any choice, a politician must ignore the demands of one party in favor of another party. most people in NYC don't drive. they choose to favor driver privilege because they themselves benefit