I've noticed that people who can fill in this sentence are much happier than those who can't

For anyone struggling career or purpose-wise, I have a diagnostic for you. Fill this sentence

I believe one of the biggest problems in the world is ___, which is why I'm building/creating/doing ____.

In order to solve the lack of meaning to life, "find a way to write this sentence for yourself."

I think it is a great summary and direct action 😃

Le sous-ensemble latin étendu a 395 caractères et pèse 395ko.

Pour le chinois ou le japonais, il peut y avoir de 3 000 à 80 000 caractères.

L'optimisation habituelle consiste à créer un sous-ensemble, mais il faut néanmoins au moins plus de 5 000 caractères pour certaines langues.

L'idée est donc de créer une police qui peut être segmentée, "contenant uniquement le sous-ensemble de ce qui est critique, puis de lui adjoindre des additions qui complètent la police en cours de route."

Un streaming de caractères de police en somme. Cette idée est actuellement un draft au W3C: Incremental Font Transfer

Optimization is not always a progress in every field

Using other languages to build javascript tools add a barrier to the language.

!Instead of catching up, my feed reader behaves more like opening a book."

Here is Jeremy's feedback on RSS feed reader.

From Lucy Bellwood:

I have a richer picture of the group of people in my feed reader than I did of the people I regularly interacted with on social media platforms like Instagram.

You can single-handedly disenshittify your experience of virtually the entire web, just by switching to RSS, traveling back in time to the days when Facebook and Twitter were more interested in showing you the things you asked to see, rather than the ads and boosted content someone else would pay to cram into your eyeballs.

Because blogs are much quieter than social media, there’s also the ability to switch off that awareness that Someone Is Always Watching.

In the end, social media (Mastodon) best's algorithm is when the only algorithm at work in my feed reader— or on Mastodon—is good old-fashioned serendipity, when posts just happened to rhyme or resonate.

Adactio or Alex Chan in using static websites for tiny archives both are

going low-scale, low-tech. There’s no web server, no build system, no dependencies, and no JavaScript frameworks.

Because this system has no moving parts, and it’s just files on a disk, I hope it will last a long time.

#idea #project archive everything as static website.

How should a website change with the seasons? Could a website be different as time passes? Could a website adapt to night time so that readers have an easier experience perusing information?

• Different category leads to different themes
• Emojis change with the seasons
• How can I make my website evoke feelings associated with a season?

All the most-impactful projects in the data engineering world are now written in Rust. More than the classics fast, safe and high-level language and C interop. The author provides highlight on:

The TL;DR is that most organizations don't even have that much [big] data, a few hundreds GB to single-digit TB for the 98%

One server is enough. [The industry] is instead focusing on simpler solutions.

Rust provides reusability! "For example, Arroyo, Ballista, delta-rs, InfluxDB and many more all use the Apache DataFusion query engine."

This is a massive piece of engineering that they don't have to re-invent themselves and can instead benefit from a software package built and continuously improved by many organizations that have a vested and shared interest in making it great.

OpenAI promises return on investment in 2029...

A company "that has no path to profitability,"

As I've said before, I believe there's also a subprime AI crisis brewing because OpenAI's API services — which lets people integrate its various models into external products — is currently priced at a loss, and increasing prices will likely make this product unsustainable for many businesses currently relying on these discounted rates.

As I've said before, OpenAI is unprofitable, unsustainable and untenable in its current form.

The author explains it in few points. See their breakdown on the revenue estimates.

POV

And, if we're honest, it still isn't obvious why anyone should use ChatGPT in the first place, other than the fact everybody is talking about it.

This heavily-suggests that generative AI, as a technology, doesn’t necessarily have a product-market fit.

« Et si nous en avions assez ? » Est-ce que matériellement, nous serions pas en situation de satiété ?

Red/Blue functions allegory of async and sync functions.

The author that if one function is red, all functions using it should be red too.

This is where the “red functions can only be called by red functions” rule comes from. You have to closurify the entire callstack all the way back to main() or the event handler.

One solution could be more generators.
Another is the use of green threads.

[...] Go has eliminated the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous code.

Ce gouffre économique. On pourrait tellement faire d'autres choses avec ces 10.4 milliards de dollars. L'IA pourrait bien être la prochaine bulle qui causera la crise financière, car l'attente de résultat est toujours en attente.

major.minor.patch works well but not for applications.

I go often for the state based version, based on component states.

Nearly all the state is handled in the view component.

Pour moi, le point commun est surtout une volonté de changer les choses. Or, par définition, si on veut changer les choses, c’est qu’on n’est pas satisfait avec la situation actuelle. On est donc « perdant ».
Être progressiste implique donc d’être perçu comme perdant selon le filtre d’Andy.

Comment encourager le mouvement?

Lorsque l’énergie me manque, lorsque je ne suis pas un révolutionnaire, je me concentre sur un objectif minimal : ne pas être un obstacle à celleux qui mènent la lutte.

Mais lorsque le « Non » frontal n’est pas possible, il reste la rébellion passive en jouant au plus con. C’est une technique qui fonctionne vraiment bien.

Elle consiste à poses des questions.

Lorsqu'un restaurant propose un plat végétarien ou quelqu'un fait un effort, "je le félicite". C'est un signal.
Avoir un compte un compte sur les réseaux libres est un moyen d'éviter d'être un obstacle.

Are we web yet? Well yes but with extra work. A lot of work.

The author provides its experience.

All the things I love about Django, could we have those for a Rust web framework so that we can reap the benefits of Rust without having to go needlessly slowly?

An attempt: https://git.sr.ht/~ntietz/newt

A future vision of the work.

1. Leaders who determine Policy
2. AI that gathers State from everywhere
3. Everything is done according to SOPs
4. SOPs are regularly updated
5. GOTO