sixdimensional

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i like chocolate chip cookies, code and databases.

E-mail: sixdimensional ATAT [dimensionsix DOT com] minus the ATAT and brackets.

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Comment · 3 days ago
Yes, thank you, I agree exactly with your comment. Track changes doesn't seem to have the right user experience for non-technical users.
Comment · 3 days ago
Yes, it is, but the issue is ease of use for non-technical users.

I was trying to avoid naming any products on purpose, but, for example, there is a commercial product that is easy enough for most people and affordable that would work for this- and there are a few open source clones that come close.

The open source clones are not quite polished enough for non-technical users, but they are the closest thing I can think of, basically crossing over a wiki + Markdown for knowledgebase creation with Git-like versioning.

Comment · 4 days ago
Same. What I would like to see is Git for non-technical users, built as a public platform that is open source, hosting this.

I do think there are some Markdown-based open source projects that might fit the bill.

Comment · 6 days ago
I appreciate your sentiment but I have personally observed and been part of a quiet group that is somewhat abandoned now, and was "middle class", and I can say cultural anarchy is not a given.

In fact, if we were to look at the abandoned as an economy of its own, minus the upper income levels, it actually still has a lot of members, and money is a part but does not have to be all of it.

The quiet group to which I refer is a group of people who believe in working together to support each other, and not making a big noise about it. We are finding ways to live working around the current system, and I do think it is gaining support. It takes a mix of support, room/space to experiment and a spirit of partnership first over domination.

FWIW, I'm not anti-capitalist. But I am pro-good life for everyone, and I think the extremes, market failures and inequalities of our current system - well - we can do better.

Comment · 15 days ago
Comment · 18 days ago
I use OpenAI/ChatGPT + FAL.AI MCP to do this regularly and I have minimal issues, often spending around $3-5 with narration and a newer but inexpensive video model.
Comment · 22 days ago
So the developer tooling consolidation/acquisitions continue... hmm!

- Cursor -> SpaceX

- Astral/uv -> OpenAI

- Stainless -> Anthropic

- Bun -> Anthropic

- Astro.js -> Cloudflare

- Deno -> Cloudflare

- VoidZero (Vite, etc.) -> Cloudflare

- NuxtLabs -> Vercel

- Hugging Face -> NVIDIA

- ... what else?

Comment · 22 days ago
Comment · 24 days ago
Does anyone know if subdomains on these gTLDs are required to be offered/sold publicly once acquired?

I don't understand how some of them can be granted to just one company when they are a "global" namespace, and then not allowed by the public to purchase or use.

I'm not talking about ones that are the name of a well known huge company that is unlikely to disappear.

Comment · 1 month ago
Price escalation and reduction in features just leaves a horrible taste in my mouth as a consumer, and moreso, a human.

I want them to succeed as a business so I can use their products, but trust does erode over time. I wish they would realize this and value their customer more.

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
I did some testing with the experimental SIMD on a project I was doing to make speech-to-text and text-to-speech models run natively in Go (with CGO_ENABLED=0, so no C depenencies), and testing non-SIMD w/ SIMD.

I don't have formal benchmarks for that, but I can anecdotally say the SIMD work made a measurable improvement in the performance of the calculations vs. just plain Go. I'm very optimistic about how these improvements will help make the Go runtime an even better target for more of these types of work going forward, especially since it is cross-platform.

Comment · 1 month ago
This is common when naming data centers. I know many have not worked in hardware infra these days if you were born into the cloud world, but in the old days it was not uncommon to name a data center after the nearest airport code, much like we now use cloud regions.
Comment · 2 months ago
Boy, there sure is a lot of money flying around...

First they came for all the dev tooling - uv, Cursor, etc. Now the routers and providers - Open Router, Hugging Face...

Who or what is next? And what is the endgame I wonder??

Comment · 2 months ago
Maybe it might also have to do with AI agent wallets and getting deeper in to the agent-based transactional business?

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