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adambbon I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

As you delve further into the article, and (ironically, based on the topic) consider the ideas presented, it becomes more clear. Or skip to near the end to see.

TLDR: AI and generic pop culture artifacts have something in common - a lack of a certain type of depth that makes art great.

adambbon Show HN: I left Figma to build a diffusion-based UI design tool

Agree with both points, at least for folks who already have that infra (which I do). Made it much simpler than trying to "extract" things out of a tool that wanted to do everything.

adambbon Show HN: I left Figma to build a diffusion-based UI design tool

Liking this concept - definitely seems to have more design freedom and ability to iterate than say Claude Design and at a lower price (well it doesn't blow through it's entire "token budget" after 3 prompts anyhow!)

The "copy agent prompt" feature has what looks like a thorough prompt for the implementation, that can call back to DiffUI to grab assets and make SVGs and other things a FE dev would bug a designer for - nice touch!

adambbon One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot

To be fair to them, the architecture description said that each datasource had a unique agent, so the orchestrator AI didn't have direct data access, and that they specifically only allow access to data the user has permissions for.

Unclear if each datasource agent is ALSO AI based though, in which case it has just pushed the same concern down the line one hop.

adambbon Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-y...

They do seem to word this at a more professional level in this context (the terms linked are for individuals using Copilot in Windows, probably?)

adambbon Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver

(unintentional) satire? almost a meditation on the seemingly inevitable bloat of software

adambbon Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring

The great promise and the great disaster of LLMs is that for any topic on which we are "below average", the bland, average output seems to be a great improvement.

adambbon Company says it has produced the Holy Grail of batteries

https://archive.is/cfFe7

adambbon Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

LG (UT8000 at least) TVs have an option to default to last used input, that works reliably.

adambbon Show HN: I built a wizard to turn ideas into AI coding agent-ready specs

I think the "messy ideas" was a reference to the homepage copy "Turn your messy ideas into crystal clear specs.", not continuing the previous thought about the placeholder. I'd agree that "messy" might have more negative connotations than you intended.

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Learned a few things I didn't know about exception handling, like Vectored Exception Handling. If it's possible to somehow have enough permissions to install a generic vectored exception handler that has enough complexity to emulate generic instructions, not sure why the shellcode couldn't just be included there instead.

Maybe someone else will have a follow on regarding some product that does some more complicated processing in a VEH that could be used to implement something that has the same shape as this.

adambbon PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data

The disk controller may decide to write out blocks in a different order than the logical layout in the log file itself, and be interrupted before completing this work.

adambbon The Internet Archive is back online

Other way around! Cloudflare can optionally load your site from IA if it's down.

adambbon Nissan accused of dumping its electric car pioneers

In the US they had a module replacement that upgraded the cellular modem to 3G, I believe. Wonder why they aren't doing that in the UK as well?

adambbon Postfix 25 years old today

Always thought QMail was the best option back when Postfix came out, but it certainly has won the top spot over time.

adambbon Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples

The samples are super small and not homogeneous, so its tough to get any kind of accurate reading with probes, is my understanding.

adambbon Cloudflare R2 Pricing

The blog post seems to indicate that there will be an automatic way to move assets to R2 from a S3 compatible service. I haven't gotten access to R2 yet so no idea what settings they have.

"To make this easy for you, without requiring you to change any of your tooling, Cloudflare R2 will include automatic migration from other S3-compatible cloud storage services. Migrations are designed to be dead simple. After specifying an existing storage bucket, R2 will serve requests for objects from the existing bucket, egressing the object only once before copying and serving from R2."

adambbon Examining the covidtests.gov architecture

Because people visit him at his house, and he'd like to ensure that he isn't spreading it between visitors?

adambbon The Print Shop Club: Create Apple II Print Shop Printouts in the Browser

Looks like they mention it in the blog post

https://paleotronic.com/2021/07/13/introducing-the-print-sho...

adambbon Basic Electron Framework Exploitation

The Contextis site was overloaded at submission time (and is currently as well)

Here is the Google Cache link https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xeIOGz...

adambbon Basic Electron Framework Exploitation

This appears to be the issue that is referenced in the article about why they don't sign currently:

https://github.com/electron/electron-packager/issues/656#iss...

adambbon Route Leak Impacting Cloudflare

Thanks for the extra detail here