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"Well, if there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from."

The elves are leaving Middle Earth..

This would be a different game but I'd enjoy just sailing around semi-realistic maps with realistic wind. I pixellated Hundred Rabbits simulator would be pretty cool.

Love The Daemon and FreedomTM! They are very different from most of the AI singularity novels. I wish the Daemon was real and I could move to a holon...

When I thought about Project Gutenberg I remembered that original brutalist non-design. The current site has been very tastefully updated but looks like it's still very accessible if you turn styles off. Great job!

What i will say though is that (for me anyways) working with an llm like Claude can be mentally taxing because of how fast we can move together.

"we". Not creepy at all. AI is not a person.

I hate how it's being pushed in my face so much. Any time you see such heavy marketing it's a red flag.

Let's ignore the potential job loss implications, and consuming AI-generated content/slop...

LOL!

See Permacomputing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044638

Sorry to break it to you, but computing is totally related to colonialism. Where do you think the materials that go into a modern computer come from? It'd be nice if all that was mined in the good ol' U.S. of A but it's not, and that's where we get connected to colonialism. Not to mention labor.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050540

Jeez he never suggested that all ambient music was released or was popular for this reason, he just said that's what happened in that particular case. Give it a rest!

When will I be able to get an affordable restomod for my early-2000s Jetta?

I don't feel that this piece explains its title very well (to me) though the idea expressed by the title is spot-on

I've gone through hand-coding HTML, CGI, CMSes, web frameworks, and CMSes built with web frameworks. Each is (roughly) a layer of abstraction on top of lower layers.

People talk about LLMs as an extension of this layering but they're not. With the layers of abstraction I've listed you can go down to the layers underneath and understand them if you take the time.

LLMs are something different. They're a replacement for or a simulation of the thinking process involved in programming at various layers.

This is an admission that fossil fuels are losing to renewables.

Title: "WFP projects food insecurity could reach record levels as a result of Middle East escalation". WFP = World Food Program.

with AI integrated from the ground up

Nope

Looks cool but it's another one of those exclusive invite-only communities.

Go do something ueful.

I would love to have a TUI for Home Assistant!

Interesting project! I notice the second step under the "First Run" header is "Launch the guided VM creation wizard". Can vm-curator be used to manage an existing QEMU/KVM setup?

His 2008 talk at the LongNow was even more timely: https://longnow.org/talks/02008-suarez/. He wasn't worried so much about a strong-AI singularity but about weak AI that is used by the rich and powerful to take away human agency.

I've heard Postgres described as a "database framework".

Which do you like better? Use that one.

I use `git rebase` all the time, along with `git add -p`, `git diff` and other tools. It helps me to maintain logical commit history.

- Reshuffle commits into a more logical order. - Edit commit subjects if I notice a mistake. - Squash (merge) commits. Often, for whatever reason pieces of a fix end up in separate commits and it's useful to collect and merge them.

I'd like to make every commit perfect the first time but I haven't managed to do that yet. git-rebase really helps me clean things up before pushing or merging a branch.

Well yeah, he fired the head of the agency that produces the stats when he didn't like the numbers.

My old Sony Ericsson T616 was inferior to my smartphone in so many ways, but I could tap out SMS messages on that keypad without having to look at it. It was handy to be able to take notes on long drives.

You can use ZFS to replicate your VMs. IIRC each VM has its own ZFS dataset. There's probably a config file somewhere that you also need to replicate.

You can extend this analogy to pretty much every aspect of society. I see it every day working in financial services, in the stubborn resistance to new payments, lending, and compliance technology.

Translation: Why doesn't every person change to fit my way of seeing the world?

This is the other big thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/AlaskaAirlines/comments/1oehxxv/who...

Nope, no snow in Seattle yesterday.