SimianLogic

A lot of anxious words to say “AI is disruptive,” which is hardly a novel thought.

A more interesting piece would be built around: “AI is disruptive. Here’s what I’m personally doing about it.”

I've been on it for about a year and it has not helped with my new impulse to buy home gym equipment.

(Lost ~35 lbs before tirzepatide, ~50 more lbs on it)

I think the point was that 80% would have insurance coverage, not that everyone would take it.

I suspect a lot of new works by famous artists are going to turn up in the age of generative AI

My favorite DIY hot sauce is manzanos and dragonfruit. The little black seeds make it look awesome and manzanos are a nice slow burn.

I was so frustrated by this that I quit Apple altogether. Bought a Windows laptop and an android phone.

WSL was good enough to keep me on Windows, but I am back on iPhone one generation later (android was not my jam).

If I had unlimited time, I’d be tinkering on PWAs (super glad to see rails pushing in that direction).

Is there a reason something like a water rower wouldn’t work on the moon? Possibly with a weighted vest or a weighted seat.

Rowing is pretty full body and doesn’t seem that reliant on gravity.

I'm pretty deep down the specialty coffee rabbit hole... but if I'm traveling or camping and don't want to bother with grinding, Dunkin' pre-ground is my go-to. Available pretty much everywhere and tastes good however you prep it.

I couldn't find any containers for paper filters for the AeroPress XL that didn't look like cheap 3d-printed garbage, so I've been going down a rabbit hole of how to build bronze articulated joints.

I'm building a paperweight inspired by vintage brass table lamps to hold the papers in place on a wooden platform.

We used to use a tool called flump to rasterize flash animations for iOS games (I ended up writing our runtime and renderer in Unity and later SpriteKit to consume that data). I bet it wouldn’t be too hard to build an exporter from Flash (the program, now Animate) to this runtime if the features are fairly compatible.

The headline is bad. No idea who that is and it sounds like they work there.

Maybe:

The lead singer of Weezer has an active Github account.

I suspect “AI-generated slime” is on average higher quality than what most content mills have been pumping out without AI for the last 10 years (plus).

Can you explain your thoughts on pricing on the hosted version? $40/connection seems much higher than your competitors and a total non-starter. Most open source projects seem to aim for “healthy margin over self hosting” but with even modest usage (1k connections) this becomes prohibitively expensive.

i want a small scale version of this to scrub CO2 out of my office (not too different than what they do on submarines).

i already dump out a dehumidifier every day, could imagine swapping the "carbon brick" along with it

(yes yes -- fresh air exchanger on the HVAC system would also do this, but i want gadgets)

I started with a handpresso.

I’ve had a ROK manual for 10 years and have given several as gifts. Upgraded/replaced most of the parts outside the frame.

I had a part break earlier this year and they sent me new ones for free.

I agree with this. We’ve already gotten pretty good at json coercion, but this seems like it goes one step further by bundling decision making in to the model instead of junking up your prompt or requiring some kind of eval on a single json response.

It should also be much easier to cache these functions. If you send the same set of functions on every API hit, OpenAI should be able to cache that more intelligently than if everything was one big text prompt.

Wow, much bigger than I would've thought!

I wonder if they could've just cut off Giphy in the UK (likely much smaller), which would theoretically keep the UK wide open for gif-sharing competition.

Is FB’s UK business worth $347M? I would call their bluff out of spite and just cut off service with a nice page that has the phone number and email of the bureaucrat that made the decision.

Ghost in the Shell, Sunshine, Children of Men, 12 Monkeys, Edge of Tomorrow, Moon

The Expanse show/books are great

I’m waiting til 13 for Akira

Mine is 11 and matrix, terminator, back to the future, arrival were all too slow. He liked the Jurassic Park books but the movie was “too hokey.”

I released a game in rubymagic back in the day and have kicked the tires on DragonRuby a few times. I love the concept but hate the license.

They give it away for free all the time for game jams, but I think the fact that it’s paid is too big of a barrier for wide adoption. I hope your book does well anyway! It’s a fun piece of tech and it would be a good teaching tool if the engine was free (I’ve been using pixi.js with my kids).

I second getting some bloodwork done. I was feeling similar and found I had crazy low testosterone. Getting healthy is kind of trendy right now, but my quality of life has gone way up after a few months of TRT (now stopped), regular exercise, and going to bed earlier. (Huberman lab early podcast episodes are a good place to start).

My favorite recent take on the "why" if you want to dive down a rabbit hole:

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/the-future-of-games-is-an-in...

I think the development community would absolutely buy into a proprietary system again. We haven't seen a good 2d vector engine for games to replace Flash, but screens keep getting bigger and denser.

I mostly prototype in typescript/Pixi these days when I tinker on small games, but the workflow is nowhere near as nice as "author assets in Flash -> import directly in AS3." Flash was also a game engine and asset pipeline. I'd be super pleased if someone built a typescript version of Flash's display tree + vector rendering + authoring tools.

There's some good stuff on Amazon. My kids loved Tumble Leaf and we bought all the seasons of Mythbusters as they got older.

Nope (own my home + 8 rental units).

If you actually want to do something about it, advocate for zoning reform. People buy SFH because the lack of MFH in some areas makes them a pretty sure bet appreciation-wise. If developers were more free to build duplexes/quads/ADUs or larger, the increased supply would theoretically lower rents in the area and make SFH less attractive as an investment vehicle.

I purchased and returned a Lumina in January. I was hoping it was "good enough" to replace my current setup (Fujifilm X100f with a battery blank and Elgato camlink) and free up my family camera to do family camera stuff again.

It was better than the built-in camera on my gaming laptop, but nowhere close to what I was expecting (even moreso because I was on Windows). More "okay-to-good webcam" than just "good" quality without pairing that word with "webcam." I'm on the waitlist for the Opal C1 and will give that a shot, but honestly might spring for the next-gen Fuji and turn mine into a permanent webcam (too bad my first generation X100 isn't supported by their webcam software update).

I used to start with IRATE/CLOUD to knock out all the vowels, but after wordle bot I usually start with CRANE now.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.h...

I struggle with nausea, so I stick mainly to stationary games. I've found that I can handle rail/linear movement as long as I have a fan blowing at my face.

I just did one full round (intro, hr, tech screen, virtual on-site). Even though I opened with "I don't know your stack, but I can pick it up," the onsite "strongly recommended" I build something in 4 hrs on their stack. The people were all super nice, but the whole process was a giant waste of time and energy.

The guides I've read say I should expect to repeat that funnel 5-10 times to get a few offers to compare, but I'm thinking about saying "fuck it" and starting my own thing.

I've published (and abandoned) games written in:

java, flash, xna (C#), adobe air, javascript, objective c, rubymotion (now dragonruby), swift + uikit, swift + spritekit, unity, haxe

my current favorite is pixi.js with typescript bindings

for what I do (mostly simple 2d games), they're all pretty interchangeable. if you've got a decent scene graph, good text rendering, and a way to play audio -- you're most of the way to a game engine.

i agree with the original author, but i don't agree with the reasons. people abandon games because making fun games is hard. you can execute your idea perfectly, only to find after a few hundred hours of code later that your idea isn't very fun (or, alternatively, creating content is a slog)

most prototyping is gameplay programming, but I'd say most of actual game dev is UI and content. the amount of polish needed to finish something and put it out into the world is significantly more work than just making something that kinda works as a prototype, and if you're doing it as a hobby it's way more fun to just make more prototypes

I'm 38 w/wife and 2 kids. I like to think that I don't have any time for myself any more. Looking back over the last few years, I've dipped a toe into the following hobbies:

paddleboarding, biking, fixing up a rental property, sewing, electronics, bought an internet business to run as a side hustle, minecraft (family realm), weightlifting/fitness + fixing my sleep (down 30 lbs in 15 mo), sauna (not really a hobby, but ~30 min/day), crypto, knitting, breadmaking, pottery, ukulele, piano, rock climbing, disc golf, pickleball

Find activities that make you happy and double down on those. Pay for classes/coaches. Travel has been pretty much nonexistent the last few years (thanks covid), so we've had to spend a lot of time/money on figuring out how we can stay put and not kill each other.

On the job side, remote work means way more opportunities to find interesting work. Or buy something neat on MicroAcquire and learn how to grow it if you feel like you don't have what it takes to start something. (I don't say that negatively -- I started a lot of things that never went anywhere, but I find that I enjoy the operations/optimization side a lot more and have enjoyed tinkering on a business I bought in 2018).

(edit: forgot lists don't work)