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What purpose would that serve? You have the source code. In the old days we’d just share tarballs. No provenance. It’s fine. You have the unit of legible modifiability.

In the early days of AI coding someone did publish the prompts and it was utterly useless to me https://github.com/i365dev/LetterDrop

The source code itself is a sufficient prompt.

The company is quite old! They have some old YouTube videos depicting how their stuff is used[0].

Some of their videos allude to kickstarter which made check! Kickstarter is 17 years old. Man, I remember the early days of it. Boy!

0: https://youtu.be/rAGSStsMuy4?is=fK-qhiPT4ITcbTld

You're kidding. That's a miniature setting? I know that a photo can elide details that give us scale but I would never have noticed. I thought the coat hanger was a bit oddly gaudy and blobby for a full size but if it were miniature that makes sense. Hard to get that detail. Nicely done! Also, the website itself is pretty neat and old school. I'm quite the fan.

This has always been a problem with the Internet. When the iPad was released, anti-Apple subreddits talked about what a garbage device it was. Wishful thinking dominates a lot of human content generators. Extracting information from humanslop is harder than avoiding it entirely.

Yeah, but these false-relationships exist a lot. Tamil onnu and English one are not related but Sanskrit’s eka is related to English one.

Yeah, that’s the only difference. The gates. Otherwise it’s primarily a retirement and retiree support community of aged people. Everything follows from there.

It’s because I read it that I said this.

This seems like one of those Florida retirement communities that are gated. Except it’s in Italy. Similar dynamic.

These drugs are a godsend for so many (me included, on retatrutide) but especially for those of us here in America - legal environment broad enough to get them, relatively wealthy enough to afford them, and notably fat enough to benefit from them. The diffusion of this technology through the US might well increase American lifespan in a notable way.

Now all we need is an easy pill that makes you hate opioids.

I don’t see why it’s scary. Most cars on the road have a driver and no LIDAR. The cybercab is no different.

People always have said this from when I was in ad tech over a decade ago and to be honest, I think it's much more mundane: a delay in the ad tech data pipeline. If you have delayed intent signal, or you have delayed suppression, or even if some conversion gets dropped in the pipeline, you're going to get this effect. People talked about this a lot but almost all the focus on recent purchaser lists was on suppression. So I'm just going to go with the boring explanation: data pipeline error.

There are many for this: Exa, Parallel, Brave Search

I went looking for old Linux forum posts where I used to call people “Microserfs” (there was some page that came up with this and I adopted it wholeheartedly) any time they dual-booted. Sucks for everyone else. On the Internet no one knows you’re a (12 year old) dork.

It was Hammer. I made a map purporting to be school and the hostages were in the principal’s room. No intention to shoot real people or anything. Just play. Same map but with bomb there and in the library for no real reason. We had a “clan” and put our clan tag up when we played on LAN or at the gamer cafe but we only ever played with ourselves and a few others there so that wasn’t that useful (only dial-up everywhere).

Naming ourselves what we did would probably have us outcast today considering we did so because we liked to play on the Terrorist side. Fortunately, we moved on to AoS/DotA a few years after and all was well.

I just use these lists as plagiarism. I have never selected software from them. Either in the before times or after. But now I sometimes point the agent at it to tell me things and steal ideas.

This is awesome. How far we have come in the last century. How much farther we have to go. We will conquer the skies, and then the stars.

I remember thinking when I was a child how exciting the future was going to be. I had a bunch of these books talking about space and ships and stuff. Well, the future lived up to billing. We got there.

> It's not strange at all, without zoning you get shops (and buildings) which extract all the shared value of a community and give nothing back.

I don't see that in Japan, which is very liberal in zoning. Taiwan is less liberal but doesn't pick which shops. Both are wonderful countries with vibrant, dynamic cities. We have friends in both places, and family in the latter, and life is quite pleasant.

Oh, I don't need that. I've always been fully aware they exist. I'm just pointing out that they're not in my circle. My friends are quite literally highly selected.

Nothing smart. I photograph the closet occasionally like “do you see the X?” when I put something away, or a Costco purchase receipt. And it obviously has Amazon. It has cameras through the house but never uses them for this.

It’s kinda vibes based. “You’re at Costco. You last bought X”.

We buy our household stuff through our household agent. Very simple. It does the research, matches inventory, and browses to Amazon and buys things. Other sites it volunteers information. Overall, I’m a fan.

It’s not for everyone clearly but it’s pretty good. Wife also downloaded Muse the other day (really, how dare she betray me like this) to do a Facebook marketplace thing. Worked great. Other guy didn’t speak a lick of English and she didn’t speak the least Spanish. Another sale that went perfectly.

Actually, just the other day I thought of restoring my blog and found that I hadn't backed it up completely but because I had stored the backups as just `dd` images of drives, Claude looked in the free space on the drive image and got me back my backup! https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2026-11-01/Embarrassmen...

You never know when you might want it. I store this stuff religiously now haha! Backup to R2!

Obviously because roses are red but the grass is greener on the other side.

It is strange, agreed. I just manually mitigated it using Claude and also blocked ipoptions at the router and in every node iptables.

There's no way for me to tell you that I am well aware of this without it sounding like some braggadocious detailing of events of my life, so perhaps it will suffice to say that my parents are surgeons and we lived in rural and urban India at various points in our lives.

I still think their monetary compensation should be provided by market valuation of the utility of the work they do.

This is certainly true. With modern AI agents, it is entirely possible that the duty cycle of a software engineering enterprise is not actually the 8h/24h we have today but closer to a 24h/24h system. Certainly my ideal is to proceed software engineering organizations closer to the latter system.

Proposing solutions that you cannot put into place because others do not agree with you is also fiction. One might as well propose an algorithm for finding an item in a singly-linked-list that is O(1): just select the right node. Finding the right node is the entire cost; just as coordinating people for one's solution is the entire difficulty.

"Make everyone happy" is even better than your solution if we're ignoring coordination. And it is many characters shorter.

There's no concept of "deserving higher wages". It's a popular online meme but what on Earth does it even capture? If you value the work higher, then pay them more and you'll win the market for that labour.

There's a good argument to say that sufficiently aggregated marketplaces can launder price collusion, and if we were in such an aggregated marketplace then you could make that argument. But we're not in that situation right now.

The 'Edit:' is even more confusing. If I talk to someone in a profession and I wouldn't take twice the pay they receive to do half the work they do then they deserve higher wages? But that list is huge. Congressmen, Senators, many CEOs, Wagner-group mercenaries, ICE officers, drone pilots. In fact, almost every profession has this 4x effective slippage you're talking about.

Bit of a pet-peeve of mine with people confusing fiction with reality. Reality has constraints that fiction doesn't. Every group of people greater than one encounters a misalignment issue at some point. Fiction is useful. Narratives guide our understanding and help bring ideas to people.

But real life has friction. CA HSR would fund PEPFAR for 40 years. So...PEPFAR or CA HSR? Is the guy who chooses the former the good man with power or the latter? Or is it a third guy who pays for both through increased taxes so that the United States middle class pays the higher proportion of total taxes that Norway does? Groups of people have priorities and they have their own objectives.

Labor unions are generally fairly xenophobic. They were at the forefront of restricting Indians and Chinese from being citizens and the mob Hoffas held power there even till just a few years ago. A Georgian union got a bunch of Koreans deported. Who's the villain here? The Koreans? The union? The Indians? The Chinese? The people who want to employ them? Who's the good man?

Constraint-free optimization is trivial. I can do it with no problem. In fact, I shall do so here with a single line: "Make everyone happy".

That's just selection bias. The majority of people I know are pro data center. In fact, I'd struggle to find anyone who isn't.

I write blog posts like this

https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2026-06-24/The_Amenity_...

and my friends wear T-shirts like this

https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/File:Photo_-_Ben%27s_T-shirt...

As was I. Ran it on a Via pentium-compatible!

Like almost everyone here I only recall this DE/WM with nostalgia. It’s interesting to see how minimal it is now. It felt like the height of maximalism back then. And on very weak hardware had compositing.