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I suppose I am just happy that these things are being talked about more. I can't visualize anything, feel a memory, re-experience the past, or even remember much at all about my own life. A day after arriving home from a trip I can't even be sure I went anywhere unless I check my calendar and my inbox for details about flights and hotels. It is very distancing and alienating, and friends often seem to think you are just too caught up in your own world to remember they exist, when really it's just the opposite and you aren't even sure that you exist.

Much like the 'discovery' of aphantasia has dramatically changed the narrative of subjective experience, I hope that further inquiry into SDAM/HDAM will help others understand, in time, that some of us exist entirely outside of time and place but are doing our best. And for those who experience the world this way as well, the message should be that happiness is achievable, but certainly looks and feels differently for some, and even moreso for those who live their lives at the edges of the bell curve.

I enjoyed this read, the energy, and the detailed positive outlook. However, what am I supposed to take away from "5 weeks / 35 people / no new recurring friends"? Every time I go out I feel this personally, and I never understood why so many people have such thick shells to crack.

Similarly, I made an agent that lets Claude puppet OpenSCAD, generate screen shots, change the camera angle, etc. In general Claude seems to have a pretty good vision model that can create usable designs. It's also fun to let it make up new models of its own and then try to 3D print them.

I would think that building a environment which can be managed by a game engine is the first pass. In a few years when we are able to render more than 60 seconds it could very well replace the game engine entirely by just rendering everything in realtime based on user interactions. The final phase is just prompts which turn directly into interactive games, maybe even multiplayer. When I see the progress we've made on things like DOOM, where it can infer the proper rendering of actions like firing weapons and even updating scores on hits and such it doesn't feel like we're very far off, a few years at most. For a game studio that could mean cutting out almost everything between keyboard and display, but for now just replacing the asset pipeline is huge.

S3 also gives you multipart parallel uploads. Each part gets stored and then when you're done the concatenation is performed close to the storage layer.

Did you know that software specifications used to be almost entirely flow charts? There is something to be said for that and waterfall.

Golang is one of the only languages with a more or less working library. I built with it and using some hacks got it hooked up to AWS API Gateway with Lambda. Reading the room, the lack of language support does make it pretty suspect in 2026, even if the client support is still pretty good. Recently I have abandoned in favor of AWS Mountpoint (rust S3 mounting) and combined with Lambda object get and list functions have achieved most of the same functionality. The downside being that you lose the ability to talk to the many varied clients like an old HP printer which (obviously) can't use FUSE.

In a circuitous way, you can rather successfully have one agent write a specification and another one execute the code changes. Claude code has a planning mode that lets you work with the model to create a robust specification that can then be executed, asking the sort of leading questions for which it already seems to know it could make an incorrect assumption. I say 'agent' but I'm really just talking about separate model contexts, nothing fancy.

I wonder if it could still be usurped by another standard that is somehow more popular. If adoption of that leapfrogs over IPV6 then maybe it will have just been a waypoint along the way.

This kind of writing goes deeper than LLM's, and reflects a decline in both reading ability, patience, and attention. Without passing judgement, there are just more people now who benefit from repetition and summarization embedded directly in the article. The reader isn't 'stupid', just burdened.

Having been affected by this personally, I don't think Marriott cares about their brand at this point as they have achieved relative monopoly status. There are plenty of other horrible things they've accomplished in the last few years besides this. It makes me want to watch out for CitizenM similarly, because it's increasingly unclear what Marriott's actual role in your stay even is anymore.

This holiday season, consider giving the gift of a well-researched gift list, and then letting them decide if they want to buy it or not. Most people don't want more stuff, they just want to know you understand them and care about them.

There is a related set of experiences that articles like this tend to conflate.

* presence of internal monologue

* ability for visualization

* ability for audiation

* affective memory (remembering feelings)

* SDAM (weak autobiographical memory)

It speaks to the larger questions around the human experience, and that we are only now discovering the many ways it differs for each individual.

Azure goes down all the time. On Friday we had an entire regional service down all day. Two weeks ago same thing different region. You only hear about it when it's something everyone uses like the portal, because in general nobody uses Azure unless they're held hostage.

For those of us who have been using AWS for almost 20 years now, I can't imagine why anyone would willingly choose us-east-1 for anything. It is the oldest, highest traffic, most critical path region and is subject to turbulence.