idealboy

Most responses are about how not to be alone. Your question reminded me of an old YouTube video I found helpful called how to be alone: https://youtu.be/k7X7sZzSXYs

I’m impressed. I’ll probably cancel ChatGPT Pro subscription and switch to this. It actually does what I want.

I’ve been putting it through its paces and it’s handling some complicated requests correctly the first time. For example:

“There is an art festival in my city this weekend. They have a jazz stage my wife and I would like to check out. Find the schedule for each day and create one event every day it’s happening. In the event description put the schedule for each day, and invite my wife.”

It got it right the first time. Pretty amazing.

I see some folks saying it’s just a “wrapper for an LLM” like that’s easy to do. LLMs are not faerie powder that just work for every use case. The personal assistant use case is extremely difficult, which is why the big players haven’t done it yet.

So bravo for the bravado and actually making it work. Privacy is a concern, but honestly I’m not that worried that you can find out which art festival I’ll be at this weekend. But an oncology appointment? I might.

You should create a system where you cannot access user data, and it can never be shared with third parties. Make that system open source to prove it. Give up the potential upside of using this data for revenue so that Martin becomes what it can be. Otherwise, I’ll never feel confident telling Martin anything I don’t want advertisers to know.

I’d never heard of KVM before. I had to Google it before I figured out what KVM over IP meant, but once I got it I want to get it.

Maybe add something on the homepage for folks that’ve never heard of KVM?

I had an interesting interaction:

Me: Are you using Gemini?

Bard: LOL. Got that wrong earlier today. Bard is on Gemini Pro in English across most of the world as of Dec 6, 2023.

When I asked it about the statement it said:

Bard: I apologize for the confusion. The "lol I made this mistake earlier" statement was not intended for you, but rather a reflection on a previous mistake I made during my training process. It was an error in my model that I have since corrected.

Oh man I love the header more than is normal.

Totally agree. Why not use this as an opportunity to explore the problem their users are presumably facing?

Same. Removed for being too wild?

error: could not find `run-wild` in registry `crates-io` with version `*`

From the article, I think this is the important distinction with spirituality versus your other examples:

“And because spiritual matters are generally ‘elusive to external objective standards,’ that makes them a ‘suitable domain for illusory beliefs about one’s superiority.’”

In bodybuilding or science, there are objective standards that you can be measured against. In spirituality, it’s oftentimes too easy to claim superiority without any method of objective measurement. I think that’s what makes it so appealing to some people.

Yes, I and about 90% of the crowd wore masks. Yes, we did our best to keep 6 feet but not always, hence the masks. People were walking around with hand sanitizer to share.

A global pandemic is awful, but it does not alleviate us of our civic responsibility.

Was it uncomfortable and difficult? Yes. Am I glad I went? Hell yes. Black lives matter.

Insightful reply. I marched yesterday and police fired rubber bullets into a peaceful crowd because we were blocking a non-essential intersection. On a Sunday.

We refused to leave and fortunately they left and let us have a peaceful march.

There doesn’t seem to be an interest in separating out the extreme minority that protest violently. There had been zero violence or destruction that day. A very well-behaved crowd exercising peaceful civil disobedience met by violence from police. In 2020.

I agree, I’m seeing selection bias in some replies. NVC, like any framework, can be applied poorly. When it is applied effectively, it just comes across as clear and direct communication.

It is not intended for casual conversation, but to provide a framework for difficult conversations to increase the chances of a positive and productive result.

No, but that's a good idea!

Umm, our Github account just got flagged... Related to this?

Hah or maybe I’m just a fan of the framework? There are quite a few of us out there, and growing (https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=sails&from=2015-04-...)

I find your comments suspicious. Perhaps you’re part of a Russian campaign to sow discord in the open-source community? My sincere apologies if I'm wrong about this, but from your comment history it sure seems like it.

Either way, I prefer to encourage the fine people that contribute to our ecosystem instead of degrading their contributions. But to each their own I guess.

Nope, none of the Sails core team are affiliated with that.

I've been using Sails 1.0 in production for the past year and haven't had any problems. Excited to see this fully released!

My experience has been that Sails dramatically improves productivity and efficiency for me and my team. As for the ORM (Waterline), we primarily make CRUD apps and haven't had a single problem with it. But, in cases where you might want more fine-grained control of your query, you can always drop out of Waterline and write native queries.

Sails isn't perfect, but it provides native access to any of the components it uses, so if you ever want to drop out and work with Express and your datastore directly you can do that.

Sails is a convention-over-configuration framework, meaning if we all agree on certain conventions then we don't all have to reconfigure every time we make any app. I think that's very difficult for people that are new to the framework, because they haven't learned the conventions yet, and they are used to doing things a certain way. But if you're willing to embrace Sails' conventions there is a huge upside in productivity.

Thanks for your feedback!

It's only an experiment right now, so it's not built for anything specific at this point. There are some interesting ways to take it, but I wanted to see how it was used first. As you suggest, the ability to a further curate through the website would be great. One idea is some kind of stock photography site with users receiving a cut?

The frontend definitely needs polish and some architecture upgrades, as you pointed out. I wanted to see if anyone actually used it before putting more time in, but the feedback today has been encouraging.

As for anonymity, it's anonymous between users, but some basic Twilio data (phone number, city, state) is stored with your user account on my end.

As for attacks, Twilio provides some high level security, but beyond that I'm sure I could easily be hosed if someone were inclined. It's a hobby project, so the resources would fail pretty quickly under a sustained attack, and what fun is that?

Thanks for taking a look and the time to provide your thoughts.

Ha! Good point.

Correct. I am not scrubbing anything, but the carriers do.

Well, that's the worst way it could go and I'll do my best to filter it out. Although the system is anonymous to users, I have info on everyone (including the person you received a photo from), and I have no problem using that info if necessary.

I think the danger element more refers to just putting yourself out there and sending a photo to a stranger and not knowing when or what you will receive back. It could be beautiful artwork, nature, cute animals, or something more strange or challenging. That's the danger part.

Anything that crosses the line will be immediately removed and appropriate action taken.

Glad to hear it's working again. Sounds like maybe a bug with float ratings, I'll check it out. And thank you!

Thanks for your feedback. The name was inspired by a Goethe quote: "Live dangerously and you live right." It's less about being risque as it is about being willing to put yourself out there and try something new - even if you don't know what the result will be.

Sounds like it already recorded a rating for your last photo? Try sending another photo, then waiting for your response photo before rating. Also, it's only looking for INTs so your 3.5 may have confused it. I'll make note - thanks for the heads up!

Not yet, but great idea! I'll definitely add that to the feature list.

D'oh! Sorry about that and thanks for reporting it - that keeps it off the site. For what it's worth, you received the very first!

I'm using the Watson Visual Recognition API: http://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/visual-recognition....

You got it! The categorization algorithm can detect pornographic submissions. Users can also report images they receive. However, instead of simply blocking dick pics, I'll re-route them to other dick pic senders.

I feel great! For me, age doesn't really factor into it. I'll probably push my last code from my deathbed - hopefully in the form of committing my conciousness (kidding, not kidding).

My career just keeps getting better. It's not hard to stay up to date if you stay interested and engaged. And if you're interested and engaged, you find yourself not really aging in the way a lot of people do.

Another nice benefit of aging that's helped my career is wisdom earned from experience. I started at AOL in '98 when I was 16 (it was cool then) and have worked in the industry since. There's not much in the way of team dynamics or project mishaps I haven't seen, and that gives me clarity and calm during crisis, which tends to make people want to put me in charge.

I've also learned a lot about interpersonal relationships, confidence and finding mutual benefit. While those aren't typically skills most people associate with staying relevant as an engineer, they are skills that put you in positions to succeed in any walk of life.

I'd say the problem for some veteran developers isn't aging itself, it's getting into a mentality of aging. As long as you embrace the new in technology instead of clinging to old methodologies, you'll be fine. I know developers much younger than me that gripe about new frameworks and libraries like it's a chore to learn. It's still as exciting to me today as the 2400 baud modem I got from my parents in '92.

The first Seedling Harvest Videos:

Cats!: https://www.giveseedling.com/#/harvest?token=d57d195549f8858...

Birthday: https://www.giveseedling.com/#/harvest?token=0df51c5c0f76f25...