Post #3757718
2026-07-11 17:44 UTC
i mean i get the appeal of that frisson, and nostalgia's appeal—who doesn't want to sit down in front of an altair or a tandy or a 386DX or a playstation or a windows ce netbook in footie pajamas and relive the world before it got so dang gosh complicated. and i get that there's clout and vpn sponsorship money to be had (for the youtubers). but the bar for contributing something to the world with this hobby—or at least not actively making it worse—is so so low
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@rumblesan@post.lurk.org 2026-07-11 18:16
@aparrish@friend.camp dad a comment earlier where somebody said "converting something C++ into an archaic, low-level language feels like The Kind Of Shit that LLMs *should* be used for" and I'm just a bit gobsmacked. That's a compiler! You want a compiler