I wasn't really thinking of forums when I made that comment. TV, movies, short form video, journalism. Youtube has merit but compared to books the level of quality isn't even close.
Finding the right forum is exactly how you find good books.
There's nothing liberal about Slavoj, for most eastern Europeans. Nevertheless, European conservatives treat him like some sort of intelligentsia final boss when in reality he's just a kinda pissed-off dad with a Marxism fetish. I think Yarvin has become a similarly pointless flashpoint discussion topic, a sort of liberal boogeyman to wheel out when people demand more democracy or social benefits.
I don't really take issue with people who write this sort of literature, but I also don't take it very seriously myself.
Claude Sonnet 4 is pretty good for programming stuff, albeit pretty expensive. It's also good for other things as well. I like using it as a conversational partner when developing the systems architecture whenever I'm working on something new.
Gemini 2.5 is pretty cheap and has a huge context window, although not as good as Claude for programming. For that reason I would suggest to use is through the API if you're building a product that has an LLM step.
I've got a lot of Lisp experience, and love Emacs' values and ecosystem. I still use neovim regularly because of a tangle security, a sound sure-footedness of action, derived from consistency and latency. It takes a combination of confident action on the users part and confident response from the machine to perpetuate the user's experience of both speed and intrusive confidence. (IMO) Emacs fails to deliver this experience plainly in latency due to the main thread blocking (even with more the 8MB of RAM). It fails partly due to the greater variety of modes and (as an evil user) lack of "core" support for Vim bindings, creating a higher sense of care and vigilance, but I really that could be over-come if one's config is kept small and the ecosystem tuned more towards robustness and optimization in visible UI, tactile UI, and multi-threading.
In favor of what, I don't know. Something that explicitly aspires to feature-parity with a modern-emacs stack (vertico/corfu/marginalia/transient/tramp), but which sacrifices some aspect of the platform's flexibility (eg. make plugins use transient and allow consistent global user prefs) to prioritize consistency, latency, and robustness for the sake of UX.
Not trying to be controversial, but do you also think forums such as this one are trash?
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