elendee

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Currently working on https://alcoves.xyz; my idea of a better goodreads
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Comment · 23 days ago
I think you're onto something; I would definitely enjoy browsing that website
Comment · 23 days ago
Very cool... but... if education in the region is not affordable for many, and a minority of students begin to get subsidized, is it not in a way helping to support an unsustainable situation? The system now has less pressure to adapt to poorer students because it is getting paid into.

I think efforts like this are probably very rewarding and draw good attention, but ultimately the change needs to happen more systemically.

Comment · 3 months ago
a TUI using react seems like something they would be particularly bad at; visual feedback (esp the very specific feedback we rely on during dev, with Inspector) is kinda the Moravecs Paradox hurdle for these things. Idk much about virology tools but I would imagine it's a very text-friendly environment, and it can probably find plenty of documentation on how to use the tools. I recently had Claude write my entire particle system for a virtual world I'm working on, in 3d. It did fine without ever "seeing" anything. There's still a lot of intervening steps between a virus being synthesized in real life and programming one, but I would bet the programming part is within reach.
Comment · 5 months ago
my neigborhood is dense and -feels- like 50% immigrant, I could be wrong. The birthrate is high, the parents are working, and mobs of kids roam the street. Nature is healing.
Comment · 8 months ago
Make a GPT filter / constitution. "1-10 how much does this post introduce useful, technical information in a clear and concise way that is likely written by a human".

Something like that. Of course adjust as needed to prevent gaming it. And AI will not always be "fair". But since it is a computer, it should be equally unfair to all.

Comment · 8 months ago
But the noise.. this has been a huge factor in my quality of life, having lived in both buildings. That issue trumps any advantage drywall has, and I spent about 10 years working with it as well.

I think the market forces have simply dominated our natural, economically inefficient, home-dwelling instincts. I think this article means well, but it is written from the perspective of a landlord basically.

Comment · 8 months ago
you could sign into A and your friend could sign into B using the single sign in, but you wouldn't be able to message each other is the problem, there is no platform bridging the logic gap, so you would both need to have A and B open. (afaik. didn't read about Rocket yet)
Comment · 9 months ago
I think the workflow your OP here and I use treats the timestamps (numbers) as the only value that matters. The "converted to" format is always just a temporary client side rendering, so the meticulous attention to conversions seems overkill. But I do see that there is tons of stuff about Date that is best ignored
Comment · 9 months ago
the author asks one interesting question and then glides right by it. If the agents only need their own code, what should that code look like? If all their learning has come from old human code, how will that change in the future as the ecosystem fills up with agent code?
Comment · 10 months ago
crux: "the internet feels bad". But, most of the internet is still there, so how could that be. I think more specifically, the current mode of attention capture feels bad - what the majority of people are interacting with feels bad. But those are not "the internet".

A resurgence of people learning LAMP stack is not going to address the Big Problem. I think we should be asking why algo-driven social media roflstomps the indie web, not how to get more web hosters into the indie web.

Comment · 11 months ago
AI for decades has been the word to mean "frontier capability which is not fully developed yet". It is not a pitch for end users. Perhaps your product produces quality code. Perhaps it produces highly novel trip itineries. Say that, but don't say AI. The end user does not know the difference between a neural net and a for loop.
Comment · 1 year ago
because it affects other people; it's not just shame for shame's sake, it's learning what effect we have on the people around us and how to navigate that. Guy who has lived with a lot of people here.
Comment · 1 year ago
federally subsidized solo mountain hiking for the un-initiated. I will pay the tax

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