What's PHM

Project Hail Mary. It's a sci-fi novel by Andy Weir (author of The Martian) that was adapted into a movie that released in theaters a couple weeks ago. It's fantastic and you should totally read/watch it.

I’m there for the T’n’A too

I wish my MBP M3 Max was snappy like that

Is it still snappy when you're loading an 1Gb document though? And is it as secure as macOS when opening untrusted content?

Lots a bloat are caused by inefficient programming, but not all bloat is useless.

I doubt you’d wish for it if the price was the limitations and incompleteness of MenuetOS. While hobby operating systems are great for exploring possibilities, you quickly bump into an endless stream of tiny frustrating inconveniences.

    an endless stream of tiny frustrating inconveniences

That sounds suspiciously like OS X, especially the newer releases.

Try being frustrated by a really basic USB stack with no hot-plug USB support. Or by no unicode support, no vector fonts, or a multi-user security model. Is that frustrating enough for you? Okay, how about no process isolation or memory protection? Does that sound like macOS to you?

Pretty much it. An modern OS is more than just a window and file manager, 90% of the work is in all the edge cases that we take for granted.

Tbh, 15% faster than slow AF is still slow AF

Yup, but 5 to 15% faster year on year is real progress and that's ultimately what the big user base of Python are counting on at this point.. and they seem to be getting it! Full disclaimer: I'm not a heavy Python user exactly due to the performance and build/distribution situation - it's just sad from a user-end perspective (I'm not addressing centralised web deployment here but rather decentralised distribution which I ultimately find more "real" and rewarding).

At some point I could disassemble 8086 (16 bit x86/real mode) as a kid. Byte sequences like 31 C9 or 31 C0 were a sure way to know if a loop of some kind was being initialized. Even simple compilers at the time made the mov xx, 0 → xor xx, xx optimization.

Needs a section on Performance Stupidity. “The January 6 people where tourists taking a guided tour”

Performative stupidity is much more widespread than many people realize.

This article has many examples: https://afterdarkconfessions.com/acting-dumb-on-purpose/

And as the Jan 6 example suggests, it's been weaponized in the US lately. It encourages tribalism and discourages intellectual engagement.

Is that article AI generated, if you happen to know? It was pretty interesting in any case

I usually discard studies with sample sizes of 1

I would like to filter via Smells Like Ass vs Smells Like Balls. I have a different tolerance for each

Bacteria vs Cyanobacteria

vs mold, lol

I don’t know what everyone gets out of Twitter/X. I signed up recently to see what the fuss is about,

I think I selected science and music as starting interests. Within 10 minutes I was getting lots of right wing borderline Nazi bullshit.

Tries it all again in incognito mode. Roughly same thing. WTF

First rule of Twitter is avoid the algorithm at all costs. The trolls have long since figured it out and now if the algorithm is involved you are going to see white supremacist talking points nonstop.

Second rule of Twitter is why are you on Twitter, it's a full on Nazi bar now.

The "following" feed that mostly shows you content from people you have explicitly followed is better, although the site really likes to swap back to the algorithmic "for you" feed whenever you aren't paying attention. However, even the following feed will still have the troll responses on most posts. You really can't avoid them on Twitter.

Bro, you need to encounter someone barely surviving on SNAP out there. It will totally change your perspective.