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I was just thinking catapult taken pieces off the board with a reversed strong magnetic jolt, so they just shoot off like a rocket.

Aw, I thought it was for managing a bar. Supplies, shifts, etc..

Isn't this really what netcat is for? I've used telnet like this before I was really aware of netcat.. I even knew how to login to and use an irc server with telnet, PING/PONG included

Maybe re-formulate the problem from different perspectives, find the intention behind the problem, go "one step up". Find the space where "the problem" is only one of many ways to solve the intention. Doesn't always work, but sometimes.

feels like 2003 again

scrolling is wonky

I've really been having fun with go compiled to wasm for the browser. Ebiten is a nice engine for pixel graphics/game stuff, but there are also more traditional canvas libraries.

One thing I've noticed that is sometimes forgotten, especially at earlier stages is monitoring. You want to know how much self healing is actually happening. Let's say you have your self-healing system in place, say some k8s pods combined in a service with a little redundancy and very little state. Pods happily crash, another one takes over while a new one spins up. All is wonderful and you don't worry about your availability anymore because everything just always works. One day you decide to look into whats happening in your containers and are shocked because one pod crashes every 0.3 seconds. It just spins up, answers 1 request but then dies and a new one spins up...continuously. From the outside everything looks kind of ok but in reality you are wasting massive resources and have a nasty bug that might be losing you even data, consistency, creating load, etc... Some sort of monitoring is a good idea is what I'm saying.

and so it begins...

hey

One of the very few things giving me joy lately: People being afraid of AI, feeling threatened and insecure in their capabilities, because maybe those aren't so great after all...

Have you ever had a seemingly brilliant idea to only later found out somebody else had it too and that actually analyzing the idea turns out it was a combination of existing ideas?

I would say, that a part of our human intelligence is not much more than doing exactly that, learning patterns in different languages. English, emotions, experiences are all interfaces between the world and the self (whatever that is).

When you learn to speak, at first you reproduce simple sounds, you add more sounds to this, more patterns. These patterns and "meta-patterns" are what intelligence is, in my opinion. The creepy part is just that they usually don't appear as patterns and pattern manipulation to us, but rather in a form that is useful to "us" in a way to interact with "the world". "The world", what that means to the individual is also just a useful representation that is accumulated in a similar manner. But what is this "self"? Does it exist at all? Is it the mere accumulating of meta-patterns? With a pair of eyes connected to it and some other useful appendages?

I think they point here is, they make it obvious that they don't want to support JS,CSS, etc... The support for other protocols is the same thing - neither a finger page, nor a gophermap need css or JS.. So if you want to use it with the part of the web that requires those, this is not for you. It's a tool for those who use a different part of the web. Those who only need a TV and not a circus. One might see a commentary about the state of the web in the project, but not necessarily - it's just a tool for those who have a need for it, e.g to browse the intranet for a research institute.. if this browser is all you need for that you greatly reduce the attack vectors on your institute among other benefits.

Maybe they have become in-fashion again. Back then when I had the problems with bad sealed teeth, the dentist told me you don't do these anymore. But that was 20 years ago.

They did not break or stop working. The teeth basically rotted (cavities) underneath the sealings, which went unnoticed. Later dentists told me those sealings (how they were done on me) were criminal.

They're "selling" a TV as a TV when the world has switched to using full-blown mind-control shopping malls as TVs.

I lost multiple teeth and spent some time in an ER due to infections of bad root canals. The root canals were the result of teeth rotting due to them being badly "sealed" (covered with some sort of plastic, something they apparently did in the 80s). They were being sealed because I as a kid with no idea what was going on was taken along to some other family's dentist and that dentist just did the sealing. Oh yeah, somewhere in between all this, all my lead fillings were replaced with something better, which was probably a good decision. 80s Germany, yay!

I always liked that "yeah" is point-symmetric if you pick the font right.

I always loved the crows in the city and tried to be friendly to them, even sometimes feeding them - one time I had up to 30 crows patiently sitting around me, each one waiting for me to throw them their little piece of cheese which they would catch from the air. So I always was under the impression that my neighborhood crows tolerated or maybe even liked me.

This changed when I got a dog and moved to a different part of the city. The dog loves scaring away birds by running up to them, which the crows weren't happy about obviously. I tried to prevent the dog scaring crows (pigeons were O.K.) but she managed to scare them a few times anyways.

The crows didn't like this. Up to a point where whenever the dog and me encountered crows, the birds would warn and call others, swarming around us in a threatening, scary way.

But after months of me carefully keeping the dog from scaring the crows, pulling her back on the leash and letting her know the crows are our friends, the crows are friendly again. Even when we walk closely by crows, they don't mind. I'm 100% convinced the crows have learned that the dog is under my control and I keep her from charging at them.

No more warning caws and ganging up on us. Such amazing birds.

co-evolution?

ok, sorry, I'm not having a great day,i apologize.

you might want to try to realize that my post was not directed at you but at people who think differently, or if not, at least try to respond to the points I'm making.

if you don't know who Ian Brown is - who I'm talking about here - how can you have a qualified response to what i said?

you're familiar with tech debt, right? what if a board of engineers and not your supervillain says a rewrite is one of the things we can try to breathe some life into this

i dunno.. as an engineer, with every project i've jumped into, among of the first ideas to tackle code rot was usually a total rewrite of some key parts, agreed upon by all the other external engineers.. is it usually a good/practical idea? probably not, but if you have a huge piece of organically grown garbage, taking few steps back and entertaining the thought "how would we do it now, knowing what we know now (and what all these people have learned the hard way)", does not sound like the worst of ideas.

To be fair the way Brown tried to call out Musk, was horrible and a direct attack. You don't talk to anybody like that, no friend, partner, intern or whoever unless you want to provoke them into a reaction. (Referring to his questions about the stack, ending in "buddy") It's really low and Musk was 100% right identifying that as acting like a jackass. Should he have taken it more calmly? Probably. But there is really no point in even talking to bullies like Brown.

Apparently there had been an architecture diagram by Holz that people are aware of and I can only imagine it to be a mammoth.

The laughing heard when Musk mentioned the diagram came from Holz's direction mostly I think at a) the aggressive provocative tone of Brown and b) his hilarious "questions" directly trying to put Musk on the spot about this mammoth tech stack. Everybody knows that just naming things in this 1000+ items diagram won't help anybody but Brown's ego.

To generate some stats for insight on a legacy project: Grepping logs with ag/rg, piping into sed/awk/cut, and then into wc

A bulldozer destroys the park and other people's ability to enjoy it -- active, destructive. Passively training a model on an artwork does not change the art in the slightest -- passive, non-destructive

Mind you, this is not talking about the usage rights of images generated from such a model, that's a completely different story and a legal one.

I would argue if people are allowed to see your art for free, so should AI models.

You don't need AI to create these, you just have to be a d*ck.

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Wonderful!