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Odin has been a masterpiece so far! Ginger Bill has a massive update coming in for it Jan 2027 as well. :) I think it's definitely going to take off in the next few years.

I think having production-grade implementations makes a huge difference also. Go’s net/http in the std lib feels like a good example of that, though I’m fairly new to go still. But it seems net/http still gets pretty big updates despite something like Chi being available as an external lib. Odin is doing this as well, even including raylib in the std lib. Odin is even more primed to keep you on the std lib as it doesn’t include a package manager at all.

Because even the fucking cable needs to support DRM. I hate this tech era with a passion

Even keeping vinyl is rough. I used to have a good collection that I had to drop because of moving. Still, some of my vinyls were ruined because I stored them poorly and they warped. It’s almost as bad as physical books, though they store more easily unless it’s mass paperback which will quickly stain to a weird yellow and develop a smell. Records are so fun though. The art, the physicality, the sound of the needle moving across the grooves, so good.

Sure so there’s a command in telegram you do /study and you can either tell it a subject or it’ll randomly generate one. I did /study ring buffers last time. So then opencode / GLM 5.1 or whatever write an entire site for me explaining the concepts, tradeoffs between things like infinite read write pointers, memory mirroring, how to tell if the writer looped the reader when the pointers are not monotonically increasing and instead get modulo’d, and bit masking with powers of 2 etc etc. then it wrote a ring buffer with various features in pseudo code so I can’t cheat. I also got papers to read from ACM and such. So I pickled it all over a week and came back with an Odin implementation, submitted to the site running on docker, and the ai reviewed it for me, telling me mistakes I made or areas where code isn’t really professional or I missed something. It’s genuinely super helpful. And the idea is whatever the AI tells me isn’t my only source of info so for example if the ai says infinitely increasing pointers will overflow but for example if I’m using Python, Python integers are basically bounded by memory and practically on most systems “infinite” so shut up AI I can do that or if it gives wrong info about something I’m getting published journals or websites as reading material that (hopefully lol) isn’t hallucinated. But really it’s the classic college style learn it then do a lab type of loop. Except it’s topics I’m genuinely interested in in the moment so the energy flows perfectly into it. My only wish would be to have it be cooperative working actively with others for the more accurate college experience bouncing ideas off other people seeing where we’re all confused or just me etc

I made myself a silly ai-chungus it works as a series of containers that communicate over mqtt. I have an ollama shim for other services to talk to a model on my other machine, telegram shim that acts as a ui, a study component that will give me a random subject for me to study over the course of a week and I give a proper implementation (let’s say a ring buffer) and it reviews the code I wrote. It has some minor gen things using comfyui like a card pull system with cards, card text, rarity system, and special card effects like holo. And my favorite bit has been tying my todo system into it so I have a thermal receipt printer which will print a task I have to do for the day, prints a barcode, and when I finish the task I scan it with an iOS shortcut. It’s beautiful. What’s been the most fun was designing the mqtt topics in a way that makes everything else flow perfectly. Oh and there’s a tts system that uses kitten-tts which will produce audio for certain messages and an esp32 that gets those sound files and plays them on a speaker, or I can play the messages on telegram. Like if I do an /overview command on telegram i get an overview of my incomplete tasks and the ollama model helps prioritize. It’s my favorite use of ai junk at the moment

Ain’t that one of those North Korea “scam” things where they need an intermediary due to sanctions lol I could be very wrong though

And yet kids take Java server components and mod components and assemble them into Minecraft servers for their friends, and there’s a whole industry around providing pre-configured servers for games like Minecraft, project zomboid, rust, etc. and those services have been around for decades. So I don’t know what the issue is.

Should’ve thought of that before accepting significant amounts of money in exchange for a game they plan to kill when it’s no longer financially advantageous for the publisher. They’re so happy to rake in what, $60, now $70, soon $100 for a product they can disable access to for any reason at all or no reason at all, with no notice? How’s that fair? Why’s it only unfair when the hardship goes the other way around?

I'm trying Hermes right now. I can't really find a good use for it. I tried to use it for research type stuff but Google Scholar literally by itself is faster, better, doesn't get rate-limited. Idk. I am pondering connecting it to my other bot I built that has more useful things like access to my thermal receipt printer and task management stuff but even that is kinda dumb because it already does everything I need, so I don't really know where I'm going with it. Honestly, I don't get the idea behind openclaw and hermes.

This was so unbelievably obnoxious when I first started trying to use Cursor last year at some point. Also because if you tried to not use tailwind the AI would eventually try to force it in anyway. I don’t know how it is nowadays but that was so frustrating and funny at the same time. And! When I setup Tailwind v4 ahead of time, got it working, and told the AI about the v4 changes, it would “correct” it to v3 anyway. Another fun “metric” was to ask an AI how to setup react because it was still recommending create-react-app though nowadays I’m sure it’ll be harder to find any model that still has that in its training set.

On the platform at my work they scrape the same page multiple times, over and over. They do not care to cache anything. And it’s ridiculous to account for because for example for our properties, everything is news-based so warming the cache was as simple as loading the first X articles to get them into cache. But with AI that is not viable because they scrape as much as possible, articles from 2018, 2017. Management doesn’t want to block them though. It’s just suffering through the endless barrage. I was able to do a lot for this like heavier caching even with pgpool but it’s so crazy that this small subset of bots effectively accounts for like 60%+ of our spend.

The 8-ball joker is even more BS. I think I’ve only seen it trigger once ever.

No it was someone playing a street car drifting game idk which. They were doing car reviews of people’s designs

really fun! already found an MLB stream, someone streaming Age of Empires 1 no talking and chat in emote mode, someone going absolutely crazy on a racing game I think multi-streaming with their audience primarily on YT. and now I'm on a BG3 playthrough I'm pretty sure.