timcobb

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One reading is that it was more productive. Another is that most of those commits were busywork (thrash, contention, churn).

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It leads to an awful experience for a large fraction of users.

can you give an example of why/how? I thought it was well done and enjoyable. Regular fast scroll was still as expected, and then the slower interactions felt like slide changes.

And this is why we need title insurance :(

The worst stack overflow in this regard was meta. Most pathological corner of the internet I've ever encountered, up there with 4chan if you ask me.

Humans aren't sheep but in the broad average it seems like we have a strong tendency to fall inline.

Fwiw I was mostly joking. I agree that the techno overlords have no reason to keep us, unlike in Roman times.

I can't stop wondering myself.... I'm writing some software with AI and wondering, why am I doing this? Will anyone need this? Will anyone have money to buy this?

Best I've come up with is we'll need to be adopted by technofeudlaist overlords to be our patrons like in the roman days

What do you like about AGPL in this context? Building a similar product and curious! Thanks

Drones are only part of the equation you need to be able to forge things

When there's a war and you need sovereignty how would open mining be unthinkable

I meant working around the big tech hegemony, working around code just takes patience and is nice.

Well, no. If the project is being shut down because its target(s) went away, then that seems unavoidable.

It would be good, IMO, if people could come together and build out an open mobile platform not subject to SV hegemony, so I think what you're saying is the way to go, actually. Because building out AOSP and or just something forked/from scratch is... actually... accessible now in my opinion. I think it doesn't make sense _not_ to be oriented in this direction anymore. There's no reason to remain cautious because, well, right now we have _nothing_ :(. We are subject to the fancies of the behemoths that exist to self perpetuate. Working around them and depending on them is demoralizing and not fun.

From the minimal context I got, it seems like there are underlying platform access problems in the way. In my experience, attempting to work around these issues is demoralizing.

Thank you! So in your mind, it would be a big investment of human time/tokens and the big obstacle, ultimately, is Big Tech?

So what's the point of spending months and months and months of your time just to shut down your project when it could possibly be worked out for several $100? Is the situation that the authors have a lot of time and no money? Could we get the project some money if that's the case? Apps like this are so important. Every year they become more critical.

And I would like if someone could please confirm is this related to literal code problems or systemic problems with Apple and Google?

To me I seems like it was an attempt at a privacy focused application for communication, but it's now in maintenance mode.

I would imagine pretty good if it's actually just a code issue

Who spent the time to make this? If those people spent countless hours doing it by hand, maybe they would be willing to spend an analogous resource? It seems reasonable to me if you've already invested so much and paid in time.

But yeah that's why I was asking if this was a non-code issue? Because they're presenting it as hey, we couldn't figure out the battery life in this post.

Last year, we decided that we wouldn’t realistically be able to solve these issues and so we reluctantly decided to shut down the project.

If these are actually the problems, then why not throw 200 dollars of GPT 5.6 at these instead of shutting it down? Were these systematic problems (Apple/Google hegemony, for example) that couldn't be beat with code?

The first week I encountered this "substrate" I asked it to justify the usage and IIRC it claimed the word is used in some infra/systems lexicons... I wonder...

Does anyone have a theory for what causes Claude to speak this way? A few months ago OpenAI came out with a bit on "gremlins". It's strange IMO that Anthropic hasn't addressed how irritating, dare I say oppressive, Claude can be. Codex is a breath of fresh air. I hope they fix it soon. If product folks at Anthropic think it's charming, it's not, it's terrible.

Woah thanks for sharing will have to check this out.

Gosh, this is all pretty nauseating.

We should be insulted by this tbh, I'm shifting some of my plans to open AI while this continues, it's just pretty absurd to be jerked around like this. Not to mention the "safeguards" :/. Thank goodness for competition.

Why are you insulting the people you're seemingly trying to convince of something? What's going on there? What are you doing here?

I didn't wish for anything, I stated my calculus, and I'm pretty comfortable with it.

Not sure what's unfair about my comment, let alone completely.

most people can't really get a worthwhile quality of life like that. maybe life is worthwhile to you walking around in an N95 respirator, but not to me, at least not... indefinitely. I'd rather be dead TBH. IMO it makes sense to wait to die to be dead. Why be dead while you're still technically alive? What are you trying to optimize for? Days you woke up?

And for transparency, I am triple vaccinated (maybe more, I lost count), have had 0 covid infections as far as I know, masked for a long time while it seemed to make sense.

It says, in the document:

Exclusion Statement: Molecular orbital theory is recommended as a way to provide deeper insight into bonding. However, the AP Exam will neither explicitly assess molecular orbital diagrams, filling of molecular orbitals, nor the distinction between bonding, nonbonding, and antibonding orbitals.

Orbital theory is usually taught in organic chemistry and then inorganic for those who take that in college. AP chem targets "gen chem" which does not, as the above statement says, does not get into orbitals on that level at all. I'm familiar with gen chem as taught at least in 3 universities, none touched molecular orbitals.

If someone were to teach orbital theory in general chemistry, it would be a lot of hand waving and not much actual mathematics which was the point of the original comment. To cover molecular orbital theory is satisfactorily. You need to know quite a bit of the mathematics behind differential equations and statistical mechanics etc. AP chem isn't going to cover this. But maybe your 9th grade differential geometry class covered all this ;))

andersmurphy and jwr have it exactly right about the REPL. Common Lisp and Smalltalk systems compile one function at a time, to native code, inside the running program, in milliseconds. Avi's headline brag, fixing a bug before the customer hangs up, was routine practice in Lisp shops in the 1980s. NASA once did it to a Lisp system running on a spacecraft a hundred million miles away: the Remote Agent on Deep Space 1 deadlocked in flight, and they diagnosed and fixed it through a REPL running on the spacecraft itself.

WOW.

Yes I was being hyperbolic.