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This essay by @baldur on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.

Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/

Last night my kids asked why I was so good at cooking. I really didn't have an answer beyond "I've done it for so long", so we decided to work out how many hours I'd actually cooked.

I did a rough, conservative, sum of 5 meals a week, 1.5hrs a meal, for 29 years (yeh, I moved out of home at 16) and I've got around 11 000 hours of cooking experience.

With the old 10 000 hours makes a mastery, it kind of became clear why I have so few struggles in the kitchen these days.

Honestly, it pays to suck for ages in the kitchen, just keep at it, and you will master cooking without even realising it

#Cooking

I believe that the phenomenon we currently witness at apple with their obviously flawed “liquid glass” ui is the problem an organisation that employs a significantly large number of well skilled people faces when they have optimised and finished a product. The product is completed and for the foreseeable future only minor tweaks are needed, yet the workforce needs tasks. For twitter this meant feature creep, for apple this means “ui work” and “further improvements” despite no need for them. Sad.

It is 2000. I'm 18 years old. They say my job won't survive quantum computing (IBM is really close).

It is 2005. I'm 23 years old. They say my job won't survive visual IDEs.

It is 2010. I'm 28 years old. They say my job won't survive smartphones.

It is 2015. I'm 33 years old. They say my job won't survive web3.

It is 2020. I'm 38 years old. They say my job won't survive AI.

It is 2025. I'm 43 years old. They say my job won't survive quantum computing.

@abnv infect is only documented for Hetzner cloud, not dedicated, but I admit I haven’t even tried. If it works it’s probably the easier route. But I wanted to explore nixos-anywhere to see a different setup angle anyway.

After a bit of tinkering I got nixos-anywhere to complete, but then… I couldn’t ping the IP any more. So either it didn’t even boot or the network config was broken.

I kept tinkering but it was a slog because each nixos-anywhere deploy ran about 45 minutes. Took me a day to question if that is normal. (Narrator: It is not.) (3/4)

First I tried wrapping the nix calls in Docker to avoid Mac specific parameters/workarounds but that lead nowhere. Or it did work but didn’t help runtime at all.

So, knowing that the server is half way around the world from me, I rented the cheapest VM in the same datacenter and ran nixos-anywhere from there.

Runtime: 2 min 13 seconds.

🎉

And an actual showerthought („Have I ever verified that the network interface is called eth0?“) helped me solve the broken flake.

Progress! (4/4)

I ran into a wall when I decided to make the switch to the dedicated Hetzner server. For DigitalOcean I used nixos-infect because it was easy, but now I wanted to go the nixos-anywhere route. And I needed to add my own network config and think about partitioning — I went with RAID1 because there are 2 disks in the server. (2/4)

Made it through my first #nixOS valley of frustration.

I developed my flake for a prod server on a DigitalOcean VM, which went smoothly. Even though I’m on a Mac, which requires a few extra steps due to architecture mismatch. (1/4)

seen an argument that goes: yes LLM agents take many minutes to produce a result, but you can do something else in the meantime. you could have a bunch of agents doing different things for you at the same time

Bloggy news
https://moritzglantz.de/blog/posts/accessibility-link-tester/daily-html-mastodon-bot/

At this point the guests started arriving so you’ll have to do without a final picture.

Imagine a table laden with juicy cut up white chicken, contrasted with a bright red chili sauce, green cucumbers, plates with rice, accompanied with small bowls of chicken broth.

Instead, here’s my after-the-storm flat white. ☕️

@SeaFury Yesss 😬

Be strong, little chopper…

…ok I’ll finish it in the mortar.

NOW we’re cooking.

(Sorry)

Feeding a small crowd today. Let’s get #cooking 😄

The existential comics are all good but this one nails it. 😁

The Beginning and End of Philosophy - Existential Comics

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/593

Das niedlichste was ihr heute im Internet zu sehen bekommt.
https://nabu.social/@NABU_BadSoden/114610233854887018

Ich bin ja grade auf Jobsuche. Und habe mir mal in meinem Blog etwas den Frust über meine Beobachtung zum Arbeitsmarkt, speziell (aber wahrscheinlich nicht nur) in "meiner" ach so hippen, innovativen, modernen und "jungen" Branche von der Seele geschrieben.

Ist ein längerer Text geworden, wie das so passiert beim therapeutischen Schreiben.

https://svenscholz.de/index.php/beobachtungen-zur-jobsuche-subjektiv-und-anekdotisch/

Ach ja, und ich such 'nen Job, s. Blog.

#fedijob #job

Anlass war ein kurzer Frust-Tröt von gestern -> https://mastodon.social/@svenscholz/114604450304718062