I would love stagnation, the keyboard has always been a dumpster fire but these days it is an actively regressing dumpster fire

Yes in places kids go

It's a capability with which having children will make you intimately familiar

I initially thought this was just a function of reading the same thing multiple times, but I’ve since had it happen many times when reading something completely new. Somehow my mind wanders and when I tune back in, not only am I reading clearly, I’m still doing the voicing for different characters. It’s so weird.

I haven't had it happen while reading aloud (since I almost never read aloud), but I've definitely had it happen while reading something new that I hated. I'd end up having to read the same page (or more!) three or four times because I kept zoning out.

By the 3rd week of Goodnight Moon at bedtime, are you still reading the printed words?

No, because the kid has learned to anticipate what's to come, and reading it becomes a game or performance art.

Throw in an occasional Goodnight Opus and learn to depart from the text

That's different from a dictatorship, though, especially if the CIA is not answerable to a supposed dictator.

> That's different from a dictatorship,

Its exactly equivalent to a dictatorship by the head of the CIA, unless the CIA is effectively answerable to some other authority despite not being answerable to the law, and then it is equivalent to a dictatorship by that higher authority.

The CIA can’t rule by edict.

Being above the law is necessary but not sufficient to be a dictator.

We also don’t know enough about the internal politics of the CIA to assert much about the head of the CIA.

From what I gather, it's so tight that when a clandestine company has served its purpose and winds down, anybody who managed to become a shareholder gets to cash out.

Anything else could blow the cover for next time.

> Its exactly equivalent to a dictatorship by the head of the CIA

No it's not. I can commit all manner of illegal acts in my home unnoticed, that doesn't make me a dictator.

Yes, and if the hypothetical were that the CIA was effectively outside of control of the law for actions committed in private by CIA personnel in their homes, then the conclusion would be different (even though an agency the scale of the CIA would still have different implications than an individual even then), but that wasn't the hypothetical under discussion, which had much fewer—as in zero—qualifications on the CIA’s lack of accountability.

Analogies don't work when they aren't analogous.

> if the hypothetical were that the CIA was effectively outside of control of the law for actions committed in private by CIA personnel in their homes

My point is their actions are committed outside the law. They've just been able to avoid punishment by covering it up. What they are not is above the law, at least not in the long run. (There are absolutely short bouts where the CIA acts above the law overseas, and rare cases where it has done so domestically. But the fact that they're covering it up betrays that they're crafty bastards, not invincible ones.)

The CIA ran torture prisons, got caught, then there was a congressional inquiry, and they hacked into the computers of the congresspeople to delete the evidence of torture.

Then they got caught hacking congressional computers to delete evidence.

Nothing happened to them.

They are above the law. You are not.

> CIA ran torture prisons, got caught, then there was a congressional inquiry, and they hacked into the computers of the congresspeople to delete the evidence of torture

One, source?

Two, this above reproach. Not above the law. They deleted the evidence, they didn't just blow the scandal off. (Historically, our IC was popular. Right now, it's the deep state. You're seeing political appointees at the FBI and CIA exert control.)

As a parent I very much agree about the streamers tbh.

Firmly in old-guy “this content should not exist” camp

Same shit, but Microsoft and Visual Studio.

Like, the AI can't jump to definition! What are we fucking doing!?

Exactly!

This is why LSP support should be huge, and I'm surprised it's just a line-item in a changelog.

Well, until Real Visual Studio offers a LSP server it means nothing to me.

Days fucking around with clangd for jump to definition to sometimes work. Sigh

This user I think got it from Tumblr (firmly millennial).

Gen Z I would think default to title case because that’s what smart phones produce when not wrangled.

No they disable auto capitalization explicitly in their keyboards.

Emacs gptel just produces md or org files.

Of course the agentic capabilities are very much on a roll-your-own-in-elisp basis.

> agentic capabilities are very much on a roll-your-own-in-elisp basis

I use gptel-agent[1] when I want agentic capabilities. It includes tools and supports sub-agents, but I haven't added support for Claude skills folders yet. Rolling back the chat is trivial (just move up or modify the chat buffer), rolling back changes to files needs some work.

[1] https://github.com/karthink/gptel-agent

Oh, sick. Wasn't aware.

Don't think it's in Spacemacs yet but I'll have to try it out.

IME it is a common affectation in the queer / feminist internet. A sort of Tumblr Shibboleth.

I guess, these days, also a "not typing this on a phone" Shibboleth.

I take typos as "poster was using a standard physical keyboard unit" sometimes.

I work on a CAD package for Architects. In C++. It is a native Windows / macOS application.

It's a giant pile of legacy code so a lot of what I do is just C++ generalist stuff, but I have a strong math background so if that's ever called for it's me doing that work (especially because I have English-language skills that don't often come with the strong math background at this pay scale). In particular, I'm the guy wrangling Parasolid (geometry kernel used by SolidWorks, for those familiar) to produce geometry for walls and floors.