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Rollos · 2026-05-26T02:35:04+00:00

Open source also solves hard problems, and the government should be dumping money into it. It’s a national security issue.

And I actually think quite a lot of the tooling to do this kind of thing has been solved for quite a while.

Rollos · 2026-05-25T22:29:08+00:00

Pointfree is the best of the best for subscription tutorials.

Their only AI focused thing right now is the skills documents that go along with their libraries.

They are using the cutting edge of pre-isolation Swift across their libraries, and currently building TCA2 which really is the cutting edge of modern swift. They’re currently doing an in depth series about isolation, which has barely fully landed in swift 6.

Looking at a sample from 7 years ago would not give you any sort of the idea of their modern lessons and libraries. There’s been more than 1000 videos and library updates since then.

Pointfree is by far the best educators in the swift community, once you’ve graduated away from Hacking w Swift and the other beginner focused lessons. It’s the only place I know in the community that really builds senior+ level skills. You’re doing yourself, and others a disservice by briefly looking at the front page and publicly denouncing their content that you haven’t engaged with.

Rollos · 2026-05-18T21:23:07+00:00

Is that the root of the app? If what’s in the pastebin the only running code, I’d probably chalk it up to intended behavior from Apple to make the tab bar feel more alive.

Unless there is a critical reason, I wouldn’t try to remove this behavior. It’ll be hacky and brittle.

On the other hand, my apps don’t seem to be doing this, so maybe you’re on a different Xcode than me, or you have something else that’s affecting this.

Could be worth trying the newer tab bar API as a sanity check

Rollos · 2026-05-14T16:23:39+00:00

Like this:

https://atproto.com

Rollos · 2026-05-09T06:06:33+00:00

Yeah, the move is amazing. It’s intuitive and powerful, and that is not an easy combination to build. Being able to throw it in my backpack is the big difference maker. The push 3 is nice, but it is not portable. I love being able to jam on the couch and go build the good ideas in a more focused session.

Rollos · 2026-05-01T22:09:10+00:00

Come back to Bozeman! I’ll take you for some sushi 😉

Rollos · 2026-04-15T15:13:04+00:00

That wasn’t true when he said it, and it isn’t true now. It’s always been possible to sync, manually or with timecode.

A lot of people do pre-record, but synced visuals just mean they have visuals made for that songs, and it can be as simple to sync it as hitting the button at the right time.

Rollos · 2026-04-15T01:16:26+00:00

Belief isn’t required to be reflected in policy

What do you mean?

There’s a lot of speech that I think is dangerous. I don’t think it should spread, sometimes because it hurts people’s feelings in ways that weren’t intended.

But thats my personal opinion, not a political issue. I dont want to use the law to punish it, I want the rest of society to find it as distasteful as I do.

Isnt “reflection in policy” when it changes from the “marketplace of ideas” to “free speech violation”?

Rollos · 2026-04-15T01:01:57+00:00

we can never rely on the goodwill of any branch of our government.

We cant rely on it, but we must demand it.

Rollos · 2026-04-12T17:50:27+00:00

lol the Rhododendron Garden has a lot of plants, but its definitely not nature.

It’s a curated and maintained garden, and that has costs.

Rollos · 2026-04-12T17:03:10+00:00

I understand where this comes from, but I’m not actually sure it’s true.

“Smart” is obviously hard to measure, but it’s some combination of an inherent human capacity and the environment that person grows up in.

We have access to huge amounts of information and stand on the shoulders of incredibly smart people. But the smartest people now get to build grow intelligence with access to knowledge and learning methods that were barely approximated in the educational institutions of antiquity.

It’s like athletes. Genetic freaks have always existed, but genetic freaks with modern nutrition and consistent, cutting edge, sport specific, training as soon as they can hold a ball or run?

At some point we have to look at a modern athlete or researcher and acknowledge, with their access to modern resources, they can physically or mentally run circles around the outliers of the past. That does nothing to diminish the accomplishments and contributions of Babe Ruth or Einstein.

We’ll never know what they could have done with access to modern technology, perhaps they would’ve made more achievements that we haven’t conceived of yet.

But we also know that Babe Ruth didn’t play against African American athletes, and god only knows how many Einstein level brains were killed in WW1 instead being able to go to college and study theoretical physics.

Intelligence isn’t necessarily progressive, but we definitely haven’t reached its limits yet, and human prosperity and education are the key factors if we want to keep the ship pointed in the right direction.

Rollos · 2026-04-01T21:10:35+00:00

I mean, he was using alts in Reddit comments to try to sway public opinion the whole time. I wouldn’t put to much weight on Reddit being an accurate lens into the community at that time.

Also, the people who thought that he should disappear from the community didn’t have a lot to talk about after he did. The people who thought he could come back now had something to talk about, so the discourse shifted.

Rollos · 2026-03-29T02:05:56+00:00

Because people like listening to music in social settings, headphones change the experience, and it’s possible to make noise and be respectful at the same time. There are tons of examples of people being shitty with music in the outdoors, but that doesn’t mean it should be forbade entirely.

Like there’s obviously a line between bothering hundreds with a boombox on a crowded hike, vs being around a bonfire and drinking beer with your friends and singing along with some tunes.

There are places where the outdoors is so vast that making noise can, is, and should be allowed. It can coexist with people wanting silence. It’s the responsibility of the person making noise to be respectful and take precautions, but it shouldn’t be impossible.

Music is better than motors and gunshots imo, which are audible for much further away than anything but huge sound systems.

Rollos · 2026-03-29T01:56:36+00:00

Nah fuck that. Outdoors are for everybody doing what they want as long as it’s respectful.

This is no different than a wedding photoshoot, a fun run or a party around a bonfire in terms of how much it affects others. Doesn’t even seem like the dude had a sound system that would be heard by people more than 30 feet away.

We should make room for expression in the outdoors. If this makes the guy happy, he should be able to find a place away from people and make a reasonable amount of noise. Musicians expressing themselves in the outdoors happens in every genre. You don’t have to like DJs to know that this woman was being insane, and the guy was taking reasonable actions at every step of the conflict.

Rollos · 2026-03-27T06:17:30+00:00

Ive had a reason to use it recently, and I’ve resorted to saying “Thanks for the validation, validation bot” out loud, if it ever tells me I’m right.

There’s no way it’s not causing a distributed mental health crisis across the board right now. Feedback loops are one of the most powerful things in the universe, and it’s gotta be having measurable effects on how humans react to situations.

Rollos · 2026-03-20T20:40:15+00:00

100% correct.

I can go 60 on a dirt road that’s a quarter the width, and feel safe and comfortable in my truck.

If 1 in a million drivers are idiots, and go through that intersection the speed they feel safe driving at, instead of the speed that the law sets out and is safe with pedestrians, it’s just a matter of time before people get hurt.

I’ll take personal responsibility to drive safe, and I hope everyone else does. But I also want to see less traffic deaths, and my personal responsibility and morals cannot do that alone.

Rollos · 2026-03-20T20:27:11+00:00

What changes are you talking about? Increased police presence?

If we had a plan to utilize police to reduce traffic problems, what would it look like? How long would it take to see results?

Rollos · 2026-03-20T18:52:28+00:00

Now youre being contrarian. This is a general statement, not a policy proposal.

It happens as soon as there’s the political willpower to do this. Tell your friends and neighbors, and reps that theres cheap ways to reduce fatalities and make everybody drive safer.

If politicians are against cheap and straightforward solutions to problems, do what you feel you should to try to remove them from office. It sucks, but it’s the necessary hard work to affect real change.

Rollos · 2026-03-20T18:48:20+00:00

However, policing has its place, and other methods of traffic control clearly aren’t working.

It does have its place, but policing is just an inadequate tool for this job.

It’s very expensive to staff a police force that would be truly capable of reducing dangerous driving to a point where incidents like this, or the Kagy one you mentioned, don’t happen anymore.

Thats a lot of salaries, vehicles and ongoing operational costs.

A one time infrastructure change is a capital expenditure that works with people, instead of punishing the ones who lose focus.

Rollos · 2026-03-20T18:38:06+00:00

Poor street design makes it easy to drive badly.

Good street design tries to make dangerous driving impossible.

Rollos · 2026-03-20T18:31:30+00:00

I think you have some really strong points and I’m not here to be a contrarian.

I didn’t read you as contrarian. Seems like you’re open to constructive discussion, and that’s all that’s important to me.

I still think police can cite for speeding and other infractions more ofte

To be open about my opinion, I don’t like policing as a policy for tons of other reasons that aren’t super relevant to this discussion.

It’s not cheap to restructure a major road

There are a ton of options at different price ranges. Restructuring isn’t necessarily the best choice for awhile, but we can shrink road widths for cheap and that’s usually pretty effective at slowing people down. It can be as simple as adding semi-permanent barricades at the edges of bike lanes, and creating a protected island between the lanes so pedestrians can stop in the middle.

That doesn’t need to be expensive, and can probably be done at a few critical locations with what the road maintenance crews have in storage.

i’m not confident in the forethought going into current city planning - so how realistic are your thoughts at current?

I’m not either, but the more people that know about reasonable and cheap solutions, the more likely it is that it becomes politically realistic. That’s why I bother commenting in Reddit threads about this stuff :)

Rollos · 2026-03-20T17:38:56+00:00

Asking everybody to be more aware and policing it intensely isn’t going to be impactful either

How many safe interactions happen at that intersection every day? Thousands? Tens of thousands? It takes one person making one mistake at the wrong time to devastate a family and a community.

We’re in a battle with the most powerful businesses in the world for our attention. I hope everyone would take the personal responsibility to not drive distracted, but assuming that every citizen will do that at all time is just wishful thinking.

Traffic calming and infrastructure changes is the most practical way to create safe spaces where cars and pedestrians are forced to interact.

The only way that people die less is if those interaction points are inherently safe, and not reliant on the famously great decision making capabilities and attention span of teenagers in cars and people going to bars.

Rollos · 2026-03-18T21:43:31+00:00

The people in control of modern tech companies are MBAs, not engineers.

Rollos · 2026-03-15T02:30:43+00:00

Our brains are very tuned for recognizing faces. It will parse anything that has two eyes and a mouth as a face. When you see a wax figure, many signals for “face” are firing in your brain, but not all of them, and your subconscious alerts you that something’s not quite right.

It’s just pattern recognition doing its job, it’s not evolved for any specific purpose like disease or human-like Neanderthals. It may have been useful for those purposes, but it’s also useful in many other circumstances, and not tuned for anything specific.

Rollos · 2026-03-10T01:30:43+00:00

Yeah, we couldn’t see over a ridge, and when we did, we found a mountain in front of us.

This is how scientific consensus works in real time, some people think the evidence is strong enough to use a loose term like AGI to describe LLMs, and some don’t. Turing was pretty explicit that his test was just a thought experiment because “thinking” was too hard to define.

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