Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I find it really fascinating how an ever-increasing proportion of "folks I have stayed in touch with after meeting them in various completely unrelated communities over the past 15 years" are turning out to be trans in some way (even if I have a pretty good idea about why this happens)

Like, I get it, LLMs are terrible and all, and you won't find me disagreeing there, but "our sacred homework standards!" is extremely *not* the hill to be dying on there

"Why would you use LLMs to do your homework instead of learning things??"

...because students are coerced into doing homework they never asked for and they have been taught for a decade+ that grades are the only thing that matters, and so they have no real choice but to optimize their participation in this bizarre social dance of pretending to learn things to participate in society?

If only people had been warning for decades that common schooling methods are inefficient and encouraging the wrong things. If only.

Looks like my own implementation works, at least: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/a7235920e314f37a992c6ed078970ddc?ts=4

Imprisonment is a form of torture, no matter how 'humane' it is on paper, and should be treated as such from an ethical perspective.

And when you argue for imprisoning people as a form of 'justice', you are arguing for torture as a form of 'justice', with all of the implications that that has.

It's just a form of torture that's easy to rationalize if you don't want to confront those implications.

(I've figured out my own but want to see if there are any better options out there)

Are there any established algorithms for merging multiple overlapping but gappy sequences of items into a single sequence?

And I should note that I am saying this with an acute awareness of React having problems of its own, and being unamused by its internal complexity, and not *really* liking it.

But I've also learned not to trust promises of solutions that don't come with a clear understanding of the problem domain attached, because it usually means that someone is trying to sell you something, for money or otherwise.

I would take criticisms of the React model a lot more seriously if those criticisms actually critized, y'know, the React model, and weren't just picking on a bunch of badly designed libraries that happen to be built on top of it, or complaining about websites that happen to use it.

The same applies to supposedly 'better alternatives' for React. I'll take those seriously once they demonstrate an actual understanding of the problem space that React tries to inhabit - because very often they are 'better' by simply jettisoning some of the design goals that inform React's design, and so they can't actually replace it.

(Inspired by, but not a subtoot of, another toot about React)