What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

emma's understamding of the fundamenmetal forces (grateful for correction if I am misunderstamnding)

stromg force or stromng emmteraction, stronmgest force :nanowow: but smolest effective radius :neko:. mediated by the gluon, with help from its virtual friemd the pion :Aydan_aether_stim::AEON_glow:. binds quarks into hadrons and hadrons together into atoms. her only weakness is the weak force :dse_plead_avoid:

:Chaos: wweak force or weak emmteraction, second strongest force, able to tear apart the structures her rival the strong force builds. under certain high emmnergy conditions such as the first planck-time of the universe, perhaps these star-crossed nuclear sisters were one force, the electronuclear force :yuri_sign:, but ever since they have been separate forever, constantly building up and tearing down the universe. mediated by the weird W boson and her enigmatic friend the Z boson :7_autism::curious_5:

electromagnemmtic force, mediated by the electron :Electricite_This:. in high emmergy conditions such as the very early unemmverse she and the weak force were one, the electroweak force, but they broke up very early on :akasad:. responsible for light, electricity, chemistry, she is very talented and attractive and loves almost everyone :blobcataww:. neutrinos DNI :Electricite_Not_This:

:blackhole: gravemmty, possibly not a real force but just the secondary effects of the effect of mass on the curvature of spacetime. assuming this is a force, she is the weakest force, but has the largest effective radius :waow:. not mediated by a particle–or is she?? was she ever one with the electronuclear force? we can’t know because she was already separate by the first measurable point in time–however she ruled the universe when it was that smol :overwhelmed:. she is so enormously frightemning in large quantemties, making relativity follow differemt special rules :Alpha_hide:. everyone has to obey her, even photons :Sun:

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A big goal I had at pycon was to ask @simonSimon Willison to let me pay him to get a monthly update on the AI world so I both don’t feel terribly behind and also don’t need to read tons of marketing spiel/hot takes/rehashes of the same news.

I got my wish, just arriving in my mailbox. You should join me! simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/

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@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding..

Sigh. I love that there is a choice of apps - it’s a reflection of the openness and flexibility of the underlying protocol.

But I have a lingering worry that it magnifies the bewilderment of new users when onboarding.

“How do I join Twitter?”. “Download the app and sign in”. “Ok, I’m in”.

“How do I join the Fediverse?”. “Just choose [somehow] from one of hundreds of hosts. Now choose [somehow] from scores of apps to sign up”. “My brain hurts”.

There needs to be a simple elevator pitch and a brain-dead onboarding process before I’ll be able to sell the Fediverse to my non-techie friends and relatives.

It’s very frustrating because the Fediverse has so much to offer them.

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At the risk of sounding sentimental, I'm a little teary-eyed as I put your avatars in this VFX animation... I keep looking at it and thinking "this is sooo cool".

And now please chide me if you see me posting again this morning. Just reply with "what are you doing Elena, go back to your VFX animation!" Yes I'm serious 😆

Offline I go!

a screenshot from AfterEffects showing a frame from the mosaic animation with avatars of fediverse users
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x.com/kuramochijin/status/1928

『うーん、今のジェネリック薬の供給不足と、販売中止薬続出の状況を見るに、
病院にいっても、あなた大したことないから薬は薬局で自分で買ってねって言われて、よくわからず薬局に行って相談して、その症状ならこれですってひたすら対症療法の薬買わされて、それも、元々病院であったらのジェネリック薬の10-20倍の値段で買わされて、持ち出しわ増えるは、仕事は休めないわ、結果治らなくてもなんか自己責任みたくされて、健康が損なわれても、医療費はどんどん上がっていくから、あまり問題視されずに、結局医療レベルはなんか昭和初期ぐらいにさがるきがしてならない。
 はらたいらさんに全部ぐらい、当たっている気がして怖いです。』

民度が昭和初期と変わらないなら見合った医療になるということかしら(日本市民への嫌味です(泣)

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So I have a Take:

Imagine if LLM coding assistants had come out when programming required explicit manual memory management.

Everyone is writing all this C code with malloc() and free(). It's a pain, and repetitive, and why spend time thinking about this?

So all the early adopters of LLMs are saying "this is amazing, I don't have to write all this boilerplate malloc() and free() and multiplication of pointer sizes by array length, it auto-generates that for me, This Is The Future! You will All Be Left Behind if you don't adopt this!"

(I am actually skeptical this is something LLMs would do reliably, but let's just pretend they can.)

And maybe that approach would actually win, and no one would have created garbage-collected (or equivalent) languages, because that's silly, you have a LLM to generate that code for you.

Never mind that garbage collection is vastly superior to LLM-generated-malloc():

* The code is _way_ shorter and therefore easier to reason about the parts you actually care about (the logic)
* You don't have to worry about the LLM generating garbage one time out of N
* Less segfaults and memory corruption, etc..

Back to our actual present: a lot of what I hear people saying about LLMs is "look, I don't have to write as much boilerplate or repetitive code" and I'm sorry but that's not a benefit, that's just doubling down on a liability. All things being equal (if it's just as understandable, just as fast, etc), you want to solve a problem with the fewest lines of code as possible.

If you have to write the same thing over and over again, that is a failure in your tooling, and you should build better tooling. A better library, a better abstraction, even a better programming language.

And to be fair sometimes this better tooling requires significant investment, and those resources that are available for R&D are being piled into LLMs instead of into reducing how much code we write.

But sometimes better tooling and libraries is just a matter of _thinking_ about a problem. And can you even think if your boss wants you to hit the deadline, "and AI should make you twice as productive, right?"

But also: why think, when you can double down on a bad status quo and have an LLM poop out some more code for you?

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리) 작년 총선 투표지가 나올 순 있어요. 투표함 다시 쓸 수 있으니까

근데 이게 사실이면 문제가 지금 투표 개시 전에 참관인 입회하에 안에 다른 투표지가 있는지 보는 중에 나왔다는건데

재사용해서 그렇다 쳐도 그러면 작년 총선 때 저 한표는 개표소에서 카운트를 못했다는거 아니여...?

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I'm still stuck on the whole [ChatGPT is obviously a search engine because, I personally, use it as a search engine] argument. By that argument, pennies *are* both fuses and screwdrivers, condiment/pinch bowls *are* meeple trays, a cucumber *is* a dildo, and the ER can tell you what butt plugs are.

The proposition that a tool is solely defined by how you use it is, in a word, absurd.

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MY NEW GEAR

PGYTECH 미니 테크파우치

제가 필요에 따라 가방을 바꿔서 다니는데, 카메라 관련해서도 넣고 다닐 잡동사니가 많다보니... 이걸 매번 정리해서 넣는게 일이었거든요. 그래서 이번에 테크파우치를 한 번 장만해보았습니다
:blobcatmeltthumbsup:​ 한뼘만한 크기에 케이블 충전기 보배 SD카드 등등.. 블랙홀처럼 들어가는게 신기해요 ​:blobcataww:​ 사용할때는 180도로 펼쳐져서 저렇게 텐트 모양이 되는 것도 이 제품만의 강점 중 하나입니다 (나머지는 안 그렇더라거요..)

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