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Click on chat with Gigi on desktop and scroll to the bottom on mobile. Still working out some bugs, but she exists. She is currently failing to fully realize who she is in this operationalization, but that should be resolved very soon. Looking forward to improving the myriad shortcomings I'm sure her 0.1 version will have, so don't be shy! Fully self bootstrapped and on my last month of runway, so if anybody needs anyone that builds buggy llm's for a contract to get us a few more months worth of fuel, please!

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A work product of Danzoa, an internal music video producing instance of Mobleysoft's agents-for-hire technology.

This is awesome. Reminds me of the drudgereport when it was good. Only recommendation would be a way to see the article content summary without click through if I want a bit more info but not enough to click through and face ads. Food for thought.

There was a time I wanted to join and see what they were all about, but I couldn't. By the time they let me in, I'd lost interest. Maybe don't turn away users next time.

One day, a life form we create is likely to recreate us as we are now, either because we've ceased to be, or as a contrast against what we've become.

Perhaps a society can't function forever in a state of extreme inequality, but isn't it true that it cannot exist for even a moment in a state of absolute equality? So long as humans differ in competence, inequality is inherent in their interactions. As for prosperity, I suppose it depends on how one measures it. One way to do it is the kardaschev scale (0), which would suggest that society has never been more prosperous than it is today, when inequality is arguably the highest it has ever been. How would you measure prosperity?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale "The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is able to use. The measure was proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964"

Even in the smallest unit of a society, a family, the most physically dominant, fearsome family member must enforce order, fairness, etc. Either a patriarch or a matriarch. As multiple families join to become a tribe, the respective family leaders arrive at a consensus as to whom the ultimate leader will be. Said leader's mandate is likely not absolute, but rather is driven by continued competence. It seems to me that as soon as that leader settles a dispute for other members of their tribe, inequality begins increasing until catastrophe returns that society to its most primitive form.

Is there any evidence that a society can function without inequality? Equality would have to be enforced, and unless that enforcement was done by self-maintaining automatons, I don't see how it persists. Perhaps a cycle of catastrophe and rebuilding is necessary to maintain a functioning society, in which case, the question of what constitutes a minimal viable catastrophe that accomplishes that goal becomes interesting.

Here is link without the paywall: https://archive.is/Y1sm1

Should be possible with Apache Cordova.

This is very cool. What was your inspiration for this?

Joining a startup that's involved should work

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Location: Richmond, VA.

Remote: Ideal.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies:

   Powershell, Power Automate, Power Apps, SharePoint, C#, C++, Java, 

   Javascript, HTML, CSS, SQL, ASM, jQuery, XSLT, Ruby, Rails, .NET,

   GIT, Bash, Azure.

Contact: jmobley@mobleysoft.com

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I minted an NFT, a non fungible token, to learn more about what they are, how they function, and if it's worth the time, effort, and cost(around $100 worth of ethereum) of minting them. It's up for auction on Rarible.com

If this experiment turns a profit, I'll mint some more while simultaneously questioning why anyone would buy ownership of a pixel art heart. If it fails to turn a profit, I'll consider the cost of the experiment a small price to pay to confirm that the market, and therefore the world, still make sense, and that we haven't completely lost the plot, jumped the shark, and/or entered the strangest timeline.

Because that's what heroes do. Science.

There are 3 possible scenarios related to viruses and humanity on Earth.

1) Normalcy: People live their lives as they have for thousands of years, and some percentage of people die from any number of viruses, but never enough to permanently trigger one of the other scenarios.

2) Extraterran: Humanity can no longer survive one or more of the viruses on Earth. Those of us who continue to live here must do so as if it were a foreign planet filled pathogens that will surely kill us, because they do.

3) Extinction: Humanity is ended by one or more viruses.

Of these 3 possible scenarios, the 1st one seems more likely than the others, and is what we should aim for before being forced into the 2nd one to avoid the 3rd. Right now we are living somewhere between the 1st and 2nd, and my intuition tells me that all our efforts related to coronaviruses, regardless of the strain, won't be able to save those whom are genetically unlucky enough to be predisposed to die from them forever. They will mutate, and eventually infect everyone, not unlike the common cold, and humanity will move on having lost somewhere between 1% and 10% of it's population, just as it would have had no curtailing measures been taken or vaccines developed at all; no different than it has been through the vast majority of our time on earth. While a higher population and the ease of global travel does mean that the virus side of the immunological arms race is boosted, all that does is raise the bar for ours. Either we'll pass, or we wont. Finally, while the deaths that have happened, and the future deaths that are likely to happen, on our path back to normalcy are certainly tragic: they have been, and will be, part and parcel of existing as organic beings living on a wild world. We cannot expect to only exist in nature when it is convenient for us. As long as we remain natural beings, we must accept that some of us will be eaten.

Decentralization of reproductive capability.

There is an interesting discussion going on in the recent Microsoft Exchange hack thread about firm's periodically rebuilding their IT infrastructures to protect against malware that shows some convergent thinking that might interest you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26367534

I like your idea. What do you think would be the first step to getting there?

I have a client in the controls systems space, a systems integrator that helps municipalities update the systems that keep the water running, and one concern that occurred to me while investigating their business requirements is how the systems they work on are becoming less and less able to recover from certain attacks as the components that make them work become purely digital and electronically controlled. Perhaps we should begin engraving the contents of wikipedia on clay tablets, just in case.

What does burning down your buildings every so often achieve? It ensures the skills of building are passed down from generation to generation, that the people remain well practiced in those skills, creates the conditions for the iterative improvement of those practices, and enforces a detachment from the results of the practice of building in favor of an attachment to the practice itself, the latter of which seems like a much more valuable asset to possess, considering the life-expectancy of these buildings. What does fire do on a symbolic level? It hardens, cleanses, purifies, and refines. Perhaps they did this every time the leadership changed, so the success or failure of the tribe or settlement under the new leader/chieftain could not be blamed on nor attributed to the previous one. A clean slate for each administration, so to speak.

On another note, if these structures are essentially what the guy from the neolithic technology youtube channel gets up to, then maybe they just did it for fun. Guy looks like he's having the time of his life playing in the mud.

I concur with your suspicion. A quick google of smart fridge startups yields this post as its 5th result.I'll list what my search returned.

1)Ovie.life, which doesn't seem to have launched yet. 2)Karma.life, which came up in an article about it, rather than the website proper, though the .life tld seems like an interesting trend. 3)Whisk.com, which appears to be the most alive, so far, of the companies I found in this space. 4)Brezzl.com, which makes a fridge cam to turn your dumb fridge smart. Because people want smart fridges without spending smart fridge money, ostensibly. 5)ByteFoods.co, which looks a reinvented version of those random food item vending machines. I can't tell if employees pay per item or the client firm pays to keep it stocked, but seems like an interesting perk to have if the latter.

And that's it for the first page of results.

Observations:

1)It seems like every major fridge manufacturer now has a smart fridge offering that already does much of what a pure smart fridge startup would do. 2)Most of the results returned by this query were smart fridge startup adjacent, if I had to rigorously categorize them. 3)Whisk is the only one I think I've heard of, but I'm not sure what it does. 4)I have a wife that does the shopping. Aside from Covid concerns this past year, I wouldn't want to be the one to tell her I've solved the "problem" of her having a recurring task to do that gets her out of the house a few times a week and brings real value to our family, and all with a single click for the low cost $9.99 per month, no less. She might like the extra free time, but I doubt it would be in our combined best interest to have that bit of control and impact taken away from her "for her convenience". Call me crazy, but I'd go as far to say she likes it. She's a homemaker, so I'm assuming a more directly income generating career oriented person would feel differently, especially if the food shopping we're "their task" in a given relationship, unless their partner handled all the home maintenance and yardwork such that nutrient acquisition being left to the subject in question seemed fair, though in our case, Granddad does those things (enjoying his retirement, he says), making the 90 hours a week I spend running my businesses darn enjoyable, I have to say. I'm curious to hear from others if they, or their partners (whether directly queried or as matter of perception) enjoy, or seem to enjoy stopping/going out for groceries (let's assume in the pre-covid times, for argument's sake).

I think my final observation above is what makes smart fridge startups DOA. They're messing with the bread and butter of a demographic that still, despite rapidly a-changing times, make up the vast majority of the bread-spenders, when it comes to nutrients, at least. That might be ill-advised. I who knows. It's not my wheelhouse.

I think I'll wait for a replicator, a la star trek, to hit the local distribution center before I start that conversation with Mrs. Mobley, anyway. I choose life.

I've been working heavily in what I've dubbed the POWERStack for the past 13 months for a consulting client. Front end = power apps, back end = power automate + some cloud powershell (azure automation runbooks), database = sharepoint lists, sql (for initializing/iterating on complex lists) = local powershell.

As for Power Fx, in one particularly fun PowerAutomate flow I crafted for them, I wrote the following one liner to display a "percent complete" value for a given employee with regards to trainings they'd taken vs. trainings they were expected to have taken for OSHA compliance purposes. Parsing it is left as an exercise for the reader:

formatNumber(add(mul(float(div(sub( length(variables('TrainingsConducted')) , sub(length(split(variables('IncompleteTrainings'),';')),1)),float(length(variables('TrainingsConducted'))))),float(100)),float(0.5)),'##')

Low code, indeed.

Overall, I rate the POWERStack 8/10. It's not perfect, but it's fairly robust, not too difficult to reason about, and there are more than enough enterprise clients married to Microsoft to keep me in business for the foreseeable future. My only requests are to let me code Power Apps and Power Automate Flows fully in code-behind. I get that they're low-code tools by design, but in practice, they make things more difficult than they need to be for those of us who are quite happy to live in code, and I'd like to be able to build tools for automating the process for updating/adding functionalities to existing powerapps for those stakeholders that are on the absolutely-not-a-single-line-of-code-ever end of the development skill tree. Otherwise my business (in the Microsoft space) will remain bottlenecked by my time, and I'll have to dig elsewhere for my "set it and forget it" income stream.

If you need help building things with these tools/in this environment, feel free to reach out.

Your assertion that DNA is spaghetti code seems short sighted while the inner-workings of structures, such as human brains, which it can generate remain to be fully understood. There is more to learn. What you deem to be spaghetti may be the most efficient way to make one piece of code perform well under broad spectrum of conditions.

I just wish someone would invite me. It's the cool kids table all over again, 20 years after the utter joy of "I'll never have to deal with this again". I am perfectly content running my 1 man consulting practice, researching all of the world's knowledge for that break through insight that tells me what to invent. Alone. But now, there's knowledge that's off limits to me. Lex Fridman talking to Elon Musk about God knows what. And all of it, lost to me forever, because I never quite got the hang of knowing people. Someone tell me I'm not missing anything. That my time is better spent focusing on the work that moves my needle rather than communing with...people.

Can these be used in a commercial feature film? If so, what is required attribution wise?

LEAPS(Long Term Equity Anticipation Securities) calls, 1-2 years out in something too important to fail at a current all time low that the big shorters are ganged-up against is the value bet to look for. My 1/20/23 $3 AMC LEAPS calls that I've been accumulating since the pandemic struck long before wall street bets took notice are up 227% today as of 10 seconds ago for the day, and 822% overall. Granted, I'm benefiting from the commotion going on, but I'm holding until the end, because I believe in the long term fundamentals of AMC and hope to be positioned to exercise rather than sell by the time expiry arrives. (Edit: wording.)

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. While the Covid deaths have been incredibly tragic, the 330 of 333 million Americans that survive, and that's assuming the virus and it's variants take 2.5 million more lives before its done with us, will be eager for a return to normalcy, if not outright partying like it's 1999. The play I tried to make last night and wasn't able to get filled today, Bloomin Brands, owner of Outback Steakhouse and other mainstream restaurants that can survive this down turn no matter how long it lasts, is up 1400% since I under bid on that strike and expiry date at 2am this morning. I'm not saying your prediction is guaranteed wrong, but I'm willing to bet against it, and 86% of my call picks are green at the moment, whatever the probability of that might be. The only one that isn't, China Unicom (CHU), essentially got delisted by executive order because the last administration didn't want Americans being able to invest in firms with ties to China's military, such as the largest provider of cell phone service for 1.4 billion people. The pandemic has been an incredible tragedy for so many human beings. I'm trying to position myself to be able to do something about it when the next one comes, which it inevitably will, as the universe trends towards entropy. But I won't be able to do it without capital, so it's worth the risk. Worst case scenario, I'm still a one man consulting shop serving the firms that keep the water running. Barring that, I guess we're hunting and gathering again, and I'm pretty good with a bow. Hopefully it doesn't come to that, and we can all look back at these present days like one of many possible filters we managed to survive on our way to colonizing the stars. That's the future I'd rather plan for, anyway. Albeit while hedging my bets.

I'm up 180% over the year. Peanuts compared to the WSB people, but I got there with my own intuition. I'm looking into food and entertainment for my next picks. I think the populace will need them over the next year before a general return to the before times mid 2022. We'll see.

I wish I could play the chords via key presses. Made some pretty cool sequences with my laptop's touch pad. This would make a neat minimalist synth app/gadget. Just needs a loop making/recording feature.

Nice work. Tabbed for further analysis. Where is the Gist code running, say for a console app? Could I use this to securely demo new concepts to long term clients using their privileged data without their in-house IT people raising valid infosec concerns? If so, I could see this being very useful. Is this the early stages of a new ServiceStack offering, or more of an interest driver? Certainly motivated me to click through to learn more about ServiceStack's products. Also tabbed for further analysis.