lo_fye

Joined 18 years ago

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311
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145
Member since
Jan 24
web developer, process guy, esotericism, paranormalist https://derekmartin.ca
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Comment · 1 month ago
Because it’s theft even if you don’t get caught.
Comment · 1 month ago
Do not let that kid (or his dad) anywhere near an OpenClaw instance.
Comment · 1 month ago
Competitors may have copied most of the form factor, but as usual, it’s Apple’s Special sauce that makes this thing amazing. In this case it’s how well integrated all of the screens are into the OS and its default apps and actions. SO slick and smooth. Great camera tricks, and the Pencil is a welcome addition, too.
Comment · 2 months ago
Please don’t tell me we are willing to make it easier for AI to read our content than we are to make it easier for humans to read our content.

Better idea: make your UI always prioritize the content.

Comment · 2 months ago
I've been using the free version of TailScale to use macOS's built-in screen sharing app to use my home Mac mini from my work MacBook Pro. Works great! That combined with ChatGPT/Codex's "remote" feature is an amazing combination. I think you'd be totally fine with a Mac Studio + Neo.
Comment · 2 months ago
I remember when it was considered ridiculous to have a page take more than 250ms to complete its loading. Now nobody bats an eye at a 25MB page that takes over 30 seconds to load. I'm sticking with the old ways, thank you very much.
Comment · 2 months ago
The price they should have to pay for destroying a rare book (just to scan it) is making a pristine high resolution digital copy of it available to the public at no cost whatsoever.
Comment · 2 months ago
Nailed it.
Comment · 2 months ago
$20 of tools, and a lifetime of skills. In this case, cheap has quite a few prerequisites.
Comment · 4 months ago
So we're willing to put our greatest national asset (the environment) at risk in the name of "moar power". Well that's just great.

I hope Jimmy Carter's ghost will be just as willing to help us out the next time a reactor goes into meltdown as his physical self was the first time that happened. RIP Jimmy Carter.

Comment · 4 months ago
Great work. I love it. We need more developers like you.
Comment · 4 months ago
I have 25 years of experience with a single programming language that’s still in broad modern use. My employer recently moved me to a project that doesn’t use that language. The new language is completely foreign and hard for me to read. BUT we are supposed to maximize our AI usage. I made a few agents and skills to automate workflows, and now I can just say “$do-ticket ABC-1234”, and it gets done using TDD and hands me a report on what changes it made and why, along with an open Pull Request that automatically gets reviewed (again) by Codex. And the code works the first time 98% of the time. I don’t know the language, and it seems like people would prefer that I not know it, because then my AI use is necessarily maximal, but what am I even doing? Just telling AI to do a ticket? I see developer salaries trending toward minimum wage in the near future, and it’s scary, so I’m learning and leveraging LLM stuff, but even that will only help for so long. It’s a crazy time in our industry.
Comment · 5 months ago
"Trust us, we're not tracking you for the next 30 mins. Do whatever you want on your screen in that time. We won't peek."
Comment · 5 months ago
UPDATE!

At around 12:20pm, after hours of trying anything I could, the Desktop version of Facebook Web's Meta AI Support asked me to upload a video selfie. Then it asked me when the issue began, and as soon as I said around 7am this morning, their AI was like "Ah ha!" -- It asked me for my alternate email address, which I provided, and as soon as I clicked a link in that email, I started getting email about Pages being republished, access to Marketplace being restored, etc.

Now: Can I even prevent this from happening in future? How can I make sure everyone has my blog url (or phone number) so they can contact me even if I lose contact with them?

Thank you for your support and concern, despite however dumb my comments in 2009 were. LOL.

Comment · 5 months ago
I'm in Canada where we can't even see or share news on Facebook

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