What? Like… in any language they’re still all bristles on a handle.

They’re all brushes my dude.

A device that can do all of the things a phone can do without needing to find and install apps, that can learn from your usage patterns in effective and practical ways, and is unobtrusive to wear all the time sounds pretty fucking cool to me.

That is the promised future that AI devices are selling; I thought I was pretty clear that this device was never going to deliver on it.

I think it would be really cool if it worked like they wanted us to believe it would. Like, it could be a one of those “change the way we live our day to day lives” events to the like of of smartphones becoming mainstream.

This device was never going to live up to that or get anywhere close to it, but I can’t blame people for really wanting to believe.

It makes me so angry because children are vulnerable and trusting; exploiting that to get them to believe in nonsense is evil.

Or just “request desktop website”.

I follow the Bluesky devs, I feel pretty confident that they are excited and taking their role in building a protocol and platform seriously.

I’ve yet to see a board of directors that wasn’t a joke anywhere though, so I guess I just assumed that this would happen everywhere.

I’m currently learning Japanese, and one of my favorite things right now is that the “normal” phone keyboard for Japanese is basically a t9 on steroids. It gives you this grid with huge buttons, you tap a letter or swipe in a cardinal direction to get a variant. E.g., the button will show か (ka) and swiping will get you く、け、こ、き (ku, ke, ko, ki).

It is super intuitive and with like a few minutes of training I was typing faster on it than my English keyboard (albeit with my very very limited vocabulary). The buttons are so large it’s hard to miss.

I thought my mom was so mean for not letting me play with any of the cool doctor office toys. Now my kids get to think I’m so mean for the same thing.

What were the challenges they faced? The article outlines that they faced insurmountable issues but didn’t state what those issues were or what they did to try and mitigate them.

He missed so many opportunities to loony tunes his way across the floor though. 5/10, needs work.

Seriously though his traction is impressive. My big girl would have slid across and into everything along the way.

Gonna be hard to play that trumpet without lips.

I’d like to go to the Philippines someday, and I really dislike the stereotypes presented that there could only possibly be one reason.

I’ve spent about a quarter of my life training in the martial art arnis; I’m knowledgeable enough that I have taught or helped to teach classes myself. I would love to go to the land where it was born and train with masters there… which just happens to be the Philippines.

I’m also a software developer by trade and have worked with a few people who my company outsourced from the Philippines. A couple of them have really been a delight to work with and I would really like to travel and hang out with them.

It’s irritating that I need to include a wall of text to justify that I may have a non creep reason to want to travel. Thanks a lot, actual creeps ruining things for the rest of us.

Thanks!

I’m amused that your comment got downvotes. Like, why?

A childhood filled with being made fun of with literally every variation of that word leads me to caution you against that lol.

That’s a very nice thought that I can safely file away as “does not apply to me”.

I remember. It is a very annoying and negative trait that the dev community can’t seem to shake, the insistence on making hating certain tech (or even just like coding styles in general) part of their whole identity.

I remember thinking Clojure was stupid and people who used it were stupid because all of my peers told me so and made fun of the parenthesis relentlessly. Then I grew up a little, read a Clojure book, and fell in love with it. Plus learning to code in a brand new way made me a better dev overall.

Eh, maybe my client just didn’t refresh it; I saw it from my inbox.

Yep. The job market isn’t as strong for rust, which is what that chart is showing you. Corporate acceptance != popularity.

Rust is #6 on the Stack Overflow developer survey in popularity. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023

Again, I don’t know why the community is insisting on making this a dick measuring contest for languages. People love rust. People love Java. I know people who still love Perl. I know one guy who really seems to look fondly on his Fortran days. they’re all fine.

Just be happy that someone is excited enough to write some code to make the fediverse a little more diverse and maybe cool.

Didn’t realize I didn’t write both of those, eh?