cameroncooper

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Co-founder and CTO of Hoss (YC W20 acquired by Niantic Labs). Before that Co-founder and CTO of Socialware (acquired by Proofpoint).

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Comment · 1 year ago

Agreed, but Zed is open source so I think that does offer some long term protection to users who like the editor and don't want AI.

Comment · 1 year ago

Seems like a reasonable trade-off to me. I'm happy for them to have a sustainable business model and people seem quite willing to pay monthly for AI. As long as they keep the free version and the ability to disable AI features then I think everyone wins.

Comment · 1 year ago

Looks like modified placeholder addresses because the author didn't want to use real addresses. I don't think it could be used for internal routing since each octet is represented with a single byte (0-255) so having larger numbers for some internal routing would likely break the entire IP stack.

Comment · 1 year ago

If the model is open source, I'm hoping for an option to be able to run this feature locally for free. They seem to have support for running other models locally (e.g. deepseek-r1 through Ollama), so I'm hoping they will keep that up with edit prediction.

Comment · 2 years ago

"flesh automaton" reminds me of this great short story by Terry Bisson I came across in an issue of MIT's Twelve Tomorrows

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...

Comment · 2 years ago

I'm interested to hear what you would propose.

Comment · 2 years ago

Terminology (part of Enlightenment) is a fantastic terminal and has image support.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology.md

Comment · 2 years ago

Agreed that there is plenty of weird internet out there left to enjoy, but I think its a bit of a stretch to call YC a corporate mega-site.

Comment · 3 years ago

The 6501 was pin compatible with the 6800, but had its own instruction set. After the lawsuit, the pins changed and we got the 6502. This meant that if you enabled 6800 support on the Apple 1 you could drop in a 6501 and use it with software made for the 6502. If you were really ambitious you could use a 6800 but then you'd have to write a new monitor ROM. There's no evidence that this was done at the time, but about 10 years ago someone did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag6pWUhps7U

Comment · 3 years ago

Fun fact, the Apple 1 could also use a Motorola 6800 CPU

Comment · 3 years ago

Well the poster does work there... https://twitter.com/plibither8

Comment · 3 years ago

Yes, I think YC is almost always worth it. Even as a founder who has raised VC and exited previously I found it to be worthwhile.

Comment · 3 years ago

This might be the craziest sounding thing I'll say on HN, but it's not impossible to think counter-intuitive moves like this are actually in service of Roko's basilisk. What better than centralizing power in this way.

Comment · 3 years ago

I too subscribe to the Tim "The Toolman" Taylor ideology of more power. My only point was that most developers don't "need" a Mac Pro, even if they neeeeed it.