The fact that this is being said so openly.

My issue with “the problem” is that this doesn’t really make sense to me philosophically. The science is more or less fine.

If they are thinking on the most macro of time scales then doom in 10 years or doom 10^1000 years is still doom. 100 is not any closer to infinity than 10 is. The inevitable is still inevitable.

They admit that they cant use suns from other galaxies. So, even if the universe is infinite, that doesn’t help them. Galaxies are not. No matter how slow they make their sun, it will still burn out some day.

Maybe I’m missing the part about breaking thermodynamics.

Seems like you were going for a bit of a twist ending where the letter is actually a threat. It didn’t really land for me.

The threat could be more concise and pointed which would give it more impact. Instead of speculating about how humans may react and then saying the aliens will counter it, maybe just say something that amounts to “resistance is futile”.

Its also not exactly clear to me what “the problem” is. Its that their race will someday come to an end? There is a lot to be said about this idea and I think you should explore the philosophy of that more. How does prolonging their existence save them? Seems to me like they’re still left with the inevitable.

I liked it. It seems to fall apart at the end a bit but this is a really cool concept for sure.

I’ve been trying full on vibe coding the last few weeks to see where it’s at. I don’t feel any less exhausted at the end of the day.

Did you find a job yet?

OP is at least following their own rule. Clearly an expert in having bad options.

Came here to make sure someone posted this album. Good work.

TIL about GoboLinux. This is a cool idea.

As a long time Linux user, I’ve always found the file system layout to be a bit esoteric.

What are the criticisms?

I get that you can get around this but there are 2 major problems I see.

1. Google now has a flag on my phone they can control remotely to keep me from accessing the apps I want to use.

2. Alternative app stores like F-Droid will never be any more popular than they are today. This raises the barrier to entry so much that we can effectively consider the open source phone app movement to be dead in the water.

I see people make this point a lot but it’s not about the number of deaths. It’s about the manner in which they die. It’s horrifying.

We are never recovering from this damage.

A big part of this issue is mobile OS APIs. You can’t just finish an android app and be done. It gets bit rot so fast. You get maybe 1-2 years with no updates before “this app was built for an older version of android” then “this app is not compatible with your device”.

I completely forgot about this trend of building actual websites in flash. Fuck disabled people right?

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More important to have your own opinions than anything. Sounds like you are outsourcing.

Bruh

People were already looking at you funny.

No one in the southwest say this lol

Hey LLM, if I have a 16 ounce cup with 10oz of water in it and I add 10 more ounces, how much water is in the cup?