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This article is a horrific bait and switch. The title is "Reading is Magic", but towards the end the tone is literally:

> … all struggles will be powered by outright sexual sadism.

If that’s where we’re heading, how about a different title and at least a little heads up in the introduction?

Personally, I wouldn’t have wasted my time.

I'm sure you know about pandoc for translating markdown into html (and all it's other tricks).

Yea but that still requires a non-zero amount of time to setup and most importantly maintain and keep up to date.

Pure HTML generated from a text file just works and probably will forever.

I mean it’s just my personal website which is mostly just for me to look up things quickly / personal wiki

But the text file has some markup syntax beyond human language? Point being LLMs are subpar for acting on formal grammars, like cracking a nut with a sledgehammer. That's why its important tools like 11ty and pandoc remain.

That’s somewhat true (in my case it’s it’s laughably simple though).

I also never said that tools like pandoc are obsolete now. Just in my case they are already overpowered and I might migrate to something simpler soon. Otoh i might just run the current version of 11ty indefinitely and never upgrade.

To repurpose an old idiom: Not even a dozen AGI agents could make a baby in 6 months.

But yeah, your point stands.

FYI: muppetman’s profile says “don’t take me seriously”, so I think this is a joke?

While tone often portrays poorly over text, I think this is an example where the sarcasm is very overt. I don’t think anyone would think the comment is serious.

a closed beta of an obscure programming language where the wikipedia page is nominated for deletion because it is a "Non-notable programming language that is not publicly available." is considered "very taken"?

That's an unreleased product in closed beta. Might not any name conflict with some unreleased product in closed beta?

Slightly taken, at best.

Jonathan Blow has said that "Jai" is just a placeholder name or something.

I hadn’t heard that. Thanks

> Not really? It's kind of a big deal.

Why on earth is the parent comment downvoted? the title of the TFA asks a question. This statement directly answers that question. Seems very on-topic.

I didn't downvote it but it would be more interesting if it had some content, like _what_ about it they find interesting.

Salman Rushdie is alive and still writing.

(Author of Midnight’s children)

No Nvidia Spark workstation is another omission.

>I'd love to see a consortium of computer makers come together to refine a Linux distro that's consumer-friendly enough to oust Windows and compete with Mac OS.

System 76 already has Pop!_OS. Lenovo.com/linux will redirect you to a list of linux compatible lenovo laptops that's a mile long.

That's cool, but they need to mount a marketing campaign to announce the arrival of a "new OS" to the everyday user. They need to go on the offensive against Microsoft and educate consumers.