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TIL about tree ...
I stopped being surprised by new stuff I learn about an OS I've been using for 25+ and 10+ as my daily whip and just enjoy the discovery-buzz
these take-home interview nightmare stories are so common ... I'd hate to see a bad actor take advantage by offering a "service" to unsuspecting and underinformed folks like ... erm ... me
... possibly due to the lying bumblefucks who start them. George W Bush was a lying bumblefuck who talked himself into being a war criminal who can't travel to certain countries. Trump is the kind of lying bumblefuck who lets a dependent bumblefuck that Netanyahu is to talk him into the dumbest and most embarrassing military engagement in US history of my lifetime, possibly only next to Grenada
npr, btw, is in some sort of decline in news source legitimacy having to resort to these simple-minded click bait headlines ...
yeah OK ...
my kinda hackin' so much creative potential ...
useful, shmuseful. very cool project
... wherein it's made known the author can't lose. good for the author
when photography first dropped in the late 19th century it was also referred to as the enemy of creativity and it 50+ years for it to be recognized as a legit art form.
That said, some people like taking snapshots.
very cool and runs pretty nicely on my 2019 mac mini
SPMTE timecode is the first tech standard I was able to understand as a young adult (which was decades ago). Standards.
very cool and interesting after reading just the title I wrongly assumed this would be about svg
But an accurate headline would only reveal a meh-burger and narrow its reach. Can't have that, now ...
"joy" is the word
this f**ng rocks
Something about the way baseball itself is played seems to make recreations really satisfying -- like, more accurate? -- and fun compared to say, soccer hilights of matches on Youtube made with what looks like an EA soccer video game
I also really like the idea of recreating any type of event in this format. It's almost like photogrammetry but with as much creative intention as you have documentary. very awesome, very inspirational really
"You not only don't have to cheat to make this happen, it will happen automatically if you just keep making customers happy."
Call me cynical but ...
hoped this would happen for a long time but knew it takes a Google sized momentum to make it happen. Formalizing the goal is great and brings it closer to reality
pure rage bait.
awesome post. much appreciated, thanks
my comment was genuine it was a helpful post
the kind of post I internet for. A+. thank you
"It’s utterly desiccating to log onto spaces seeking a live mind to joust and think with, and find a relentless stream of slop"
Am I in the minority for going online to learn stuff, download stuff and having zero point zero zero zero interest in jousting and co-thinking?
As I'm scanning the rant (and tbh the last two paragraphs hoping for some TL;DR summarization-love) I'm thinking "mans will find universal basic income quite upsetting", then I text-search "universal" and wouldn't you know the assumption was proven correct with a straw-man shaped cherry on top ("They’ll paint. They’ll garden. They’ll finally write that novel.")
What's the value -- like the real-ass human satisfaction -- of debating and hand-wringing over inevitabilities to anyone outside of the set of all authors provoking debate and hand-wringing over inevitabilities?
Love this and love seeing people building their own hardware/software tools. I hope to carve out the time soon to be one. Calculators are a perfect project
are there videos available?
I wonder how viable this debate is outside of dev circles.
For example, if I'm new to programming today and I'm not part of any community that necessarily approves agentic coding or disapproves of vibe coding and I heard that C programs run fast as heck and I heard that I can automate jobs 1,2 and 3 with such a program, I generate said program and it works as expected per my limited experience then what's the issue?
Perhaps in a couple of weeks I notice I'm missing 1/4 of my HD space and I figure out probably via an agent that my cool C program is creating bloat through caching or creating hidden dot files, so I agentically/vibe-ally generate a patch. Maybe this encourages me to join a community of other amateurs or a pro-am community where I learn specifics - eg. the exact bug(s) in my code -- as well as metas -- eg. testing.
There will probably be millions and millions of people generating code for their own purposes thanks to LLMs, and the number grows as the technology develops and becomes more trivial. So I wonder how much value there is in the "how to think about this" discussion vs the "how to use this" discussion. It almost feels like religious encampments are forming over a false -- possibly manufactured -- lines of division
awesome project and cv.
speaking of which, I was pleased to see FORTH in there. not that I've ever used it but I was introduced to it in the early 90s and it's cool to see that it's still useful
really enjoying your site content
it's a top affordance of AI because pause development usually over complexity I can't manage or knowledge gap that I can't close in time to sustain momentum. Not only are those roadblocks a non-issue, my perspective shifts from in-the-weeds hacking to a perch with meta view to take the project to completion or maybe beyond previous goals. win-win to the power of win
looks like DC's PL has had one since 2024 https://www.dclibrary.org/using-the-library/digital-preserva...
This is AWESOME and I see from the comments that "Memory Lab" is a more or less standard thing. Ties in really neatly with the recent personal encyclopedia post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522173
Excellent post. Something I think about a lot in this exact context along the same lines as personal/community/local social nets.
The industrial-scale things (manufacturing, content generation, human/world history record keeping ...) eventually shrink down to human-scale things
I can thing of a couple of content creators I've encountered who make fast voice presentations almost impossible to follow. almost as if that's the point -- like that academic debating style where speakers just speed-recite as many arguments as they can -- like the content is actually meant to be slower and their goal is data compression or something ...
I'm probably not the only person who thought this was about ssh and possibly handrolling something
that said, I've been latently fascinated by this kind of project. I've seen a couple of how-things-work/maker/dare-me-to-do-it type shows from UK and US where folks single handedly do stuff like this, though they're all hairy dudes unlike Kala, whose channel looks pretty cool
This is a very cool frontier for a homeowner, to not just have dominion over your terranean space by growing edible veg and habitat for animals but also use your below ground asset for who knows -- domicile extension or DIY geothermal or ...?
Gemini tells me in the US, land ownership theoretically extends to the Earth's core
great point but I think that even people who create "difficult" art can derive some sort of income from it. in fact, the solopreneurs section points to an opportunity for AI to be a helpful co-pilot on each of those mundane and dreaded tasks listed there. In additional fact, I asked Gemini Pro a while a go to spell out the steps to a successful fine arts career and the output was very similar to this blog's so square-one/concept validation, decision making (eg. given this list of business-relevant events and attendees, which should I prioritize and prepare for) are actions it can take on your behalf or help with. That said, once a critical number of people start getting the same advice, take the same action then you have another issue to navigate but it would be the same with any tech advancement, eg. the first artists to get their own phone line or a fax machine or a computer ...