I find it amusing that your last comment is preaching to someone about what politics is and isn't.
Your politics are clear. You have no problem with the modern Republican party embracing authoritarianism and fascism. In fact, you see it as an opportunity to erode trust in or otherwise destroy the institution responsible for regulating signals in the US. The very thing that makes it so that planes can safely fly or that things in space must respect terrestrial networks without disruption.
That is your politics, just an embarrassing set of politics. Not even a green account. Shame on you.
So... to be clear... you dont want to get rid of the FCC? You can have that position but you are kinda missing the point here.
I was responding to someone who is claiming that the org is some infringement on free speech. This is an ignorant position, in that the FCC has had the power to regulate airwaves for quite some time. So if it is some free speech infringment now, then it was infringement a long time ago, especially with things like the fairness doctrine.
But you can have either position. Either you think it is all some huge infringement of free speech or you don't and you cant really complain about the stuff happening now. Your choice.
> The very thing that makes it so that planes can safely fly
So... Imagine for the sake of argument that you were capable of steel manning my position.
When someone brought speech related stuff regarding the FCC and I responded to it, did you actually believe I was talking about laws related to airplane communications?
Or.... was it possible that I was only referring to other speech related stuff that the FCC does? Just steelman it for a second if you are capable of doing so.
I've been building https://lan.events. It's been built entirely with an LLM as I've been learning more concepts behind agentic engineering for reliable development with an LLM. The primary reason I built it is because LANs are disappearing and they were a formative part of my childhood. They were a way to connect with people that I knew from all over the world. I still have some lasting friendships from the big and small LANs I went to as a kid. LANs are free for 50 and under so please sign up and if you have feedback, send it through the support system!
I love the idea and am working on something similar around getting more IRL events out in the world with https://onthe.town
I do wonder if the problem is not so much having a place to find LAN events but actually just having enough people put on LAN events in the first place. It feels like a thing of the past with how much less people interact in person these days. It's a shame because LANs are awesome!
Have you thought about ways to make it easier for people to host LAN events? Or does this solve that as well? I guess a solution would require matching random people together. Happy to discuss more - nick at onthe.town
Hello! I'll shoot you an email. Maybe we can mob on this problemscape together.
> I do wonder if the problem is not so much having a place to find LAN events but actually just having enough people put on LAN events in the first place.
Sort of! I did a lot of research on this before I built lan.events. There are more gamers than ever, but LANs dropped off during COVID lockdowns despite surveys showing an increasing interest in in-person events. More or less, it's actually a venue problem. Running events has incredibly thin and risky margins for something that by its very nature needs to be planned out months in advance. Everything around the events are becoming prohibitively expensive: venues, vendors, equipment rentals, etc are all eating away at the ceiling gamers will pay and the floor that organizations can charge from.
LAN.events helps tackle this by decreasing the cost per ticket and shifting that cost to the customer rather than the event manager. We don't introduce minimum event costs or percentage based pricing which lets event managers keep or give back more profits. There is more I can do in this space, but that's the biggest way I can contribute right now.
Looks cool, but the phrase 'build applications with the flexibility and power of go' made me chuckle. Least damn flexible language in this whole space.
It's entirely on us as citizens to leaving them as pet peeves instead of crafting them into strategic law that makes them not only illegal but shunned. A little bit of structure goes a long way here.
Oh my goodness, most of the people with that title don't know what it is. I hate to say it because I spent like 10 years of my life in reliability, but it's largely an industry of cargo culting around two books and a bunch of memetic blog posts postured as learned architecture. The best performing teams end up ditching much of this and crafting their own strategy based on their own problems and their own engineers and leaders perspectives of them.
I'd reply to the rest of this piece in much the same strategy. The things the author is clinging to are only gone if you, as the reader, accept that there is only one true way to do them. That doesn't mean there aren't new problems or old-problems-made-new, it simply means we need to put our thinking caps on and adapt. It is increasingly apparent that a playbook, memes, and copying other people/companies strategies will not get you far in our new future.
You know who else mourned the loss of craft? People that don't like PHP and Wordpress because they lower the barrier to entry to creating useful stuff while also leaving around a fair amount of cruft and problems that the people that use them don't understand how to manage.
Like iambateman said: for me it was never about code. Code was a means to an ends and it didn't stop at code. I'm the kind of software engineer that learned frontends, systems, databases, ETLs, etc -- whatever it was that was that was demanded of me to produce something useful I learned and did it. We're now calling that a "product engineer". The "craft" for me was in creating useful things that were reliable and efficient, not particularly how I styled lines, braces, and brackets. I still do that in the age of AI.
All of this emotional spillage feels for not. The industry is changing as it always has. The only constant I've ever experienced in this industry is change. I realized long ago that when the day comes that I am no longer comfortable with change then that is my best signal that this industry is no longer for me.
I think it's a bit different when you can opt out. If you didn't want to use PHP you didn't have to. But it's getting increasingly hard to opt out of AI.
A lot of these kinds of discussions tend to wipe away all the nuance around why you would or wouldn't care about consistency. Most of the answer has to do with software architecture and some of it has to do with use cases.
I read that MoltBook website and now I can't help but see the similarities in responses on posts like this to just general chatter in MoltBook. I'm not really sure what to make of that yet.
There is a difference between not liking someone for substantive and non-substantive reasons. I have military training that is adjacent to policing because that was one of the objectives of the theater I was in.
Informed by that training I would never:
- shoot someone when they are being detained
- shoot someone simply because they have a gun
- stand next to a vehicle so as to postulate the vehicle as a weapon
When I don't like Kristi Noem it isn't because she's Kristi Noem, because she's a woman, or because she shot a puppy she didn't like. It's because her actions and policy that she defends and writes don't agree with the ethics of the training I received.
You can do this thought exercise across this administration and arrive at the same conclusions of most of the key-holding individuals.
Your politics are clear. You have no problem with the modern Republican party embracing authoritarianism and fascism. In fact, you see it as an opportunity to erode trust in or otherwise destroy the institution responsible for regulating signals in the US. The very thing that makes it so that planes can safely fly or that things in space must respect terrestrial networks without disruption.
That is your politics, just an embarrassing set of politics. Not even a green account. Shame on you.
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