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// results in index 1 or 2 as js has precedence for */% over +-
So something like the following, for your desired visual succinctness? ...
env.QUEUES[hour % 2 ^ 1]
// results in desired js index 0 or 1
I wonder if any of you using AI code assistance regularly might tell an old hack like me if your code review tools would have caught such a bug?
https://aboard.com/introducing-tinylittleoffice-com/
It seems they had the idea originally 6 years ago and did versions of it, but
> We moved on, and sadly, those sites fell off the web, and the old links all broke.
Given that they have gotten spiked by automated requests lately, aka agents, wouldn't this at least be respected by the big players?
Also, as they are using Cloudflare, wouldn't a discussion (or a note from IANA or CF) about how they configured CF request rejection and how one should love CF's flat rate static serving be appropriate?
Am I missing something?
BTW, it took me more than 11 minutes fighting HN's mysterious rejection criteria, in order to be able to say anything here.
Also someone recently posted this thread with lots of HN comments, in case you haven't seen it : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971921
Lastly, when I posted 6 days ago re example . com the new html and js were over verbose garbage (machine made) and are now merely soso (disturbing to see churn even if I prefer the clean up). Pity I didn't archive the yucky one.
a session prompting Claude to quickly write all of:
a forth style assembler for wasm
targeting a forth written in 6502 machine code (not assembly)
targeting a 6502 emulator/debugger written in Rust
that Rust being compiled into a wasm browser project with
a typescript ui for display api support for all the nested contexts
Reflexively, I think it should be more like ...
javascript: `This should be "You're thinking".` ;
// to preserve the original character use and to avoid '...'...' parse foos
// however `"...".` also possibly deserves a [sic] to critique the original
// i.e. ~grammar police say the period belongs within the quote marks, no?
From the AI Apocalypse Is Here essay:
... the truth that widespread interaction with machines endowed with
conversational language abilities and superhuman cognitive power is
the greatest social-psychological experiment the species has ever run.
As a boy I had conversations with my grandfather who was born in 1888. If my parents were still alive they would be 104 years old. My older sister (deceased) did Duck & Cover drills in school (but I did not, as I am only 64).
I have lived my whole life with always a small number of men able to (roughly) push a button and end our whole world. Like most of you, I don't think about that much.
But the other day I parked outside a small town USA Post Office and noticed the faded yellow & black triangles icon on a sign reading: Bomb Shelter.
The MAD reason this doom has not happened, despite apparently a number of close calls, is not that our past and present leaders are always wise good people, but that everyone in the high tech multi-trillion dollar nuclear weapons universe has, so far, plausibly believed that if they nuke, everyone else will nuke, inevitably being a Mutually Assured Destruction.
The societies and voters and economies of the world's post WWII "great powers" had to be convinced and corralled (for way more than my whole 64 year lifetime) that this MAD experiment was going to work.
And nuclear weapons pose a verifiable Apocalypse, not a maybe~AGI + maybe~Apocalypse.
Have we been lucky? Or is MAD, genius? Both?
I do see we are not in the mood/mode to be very MAD at exploding AI.
So it will launch, whatever IT turns out to be.
Importantly, the group avoids blaming people for errors.
The process assumes blame - and it's the process that is
analyzed to discover why and how an error got through.
At the same time, accountability is a team concept:
no one person is ever solely responsible for writing or
inspecting code. "You don't get punished for making errors,"
says Marjorie Seiter, a senior member of the technical staff.
"If I make a mistake, and others reviewed my work, then I'm
not alone. I'm not being blamed for this."I admire your breakdown, and I felt your pain.
My frustration was with opening a new tab for each sample because I was too lazy to transcribe rolls (for review) -- so once I'd opened and revisited about 16 tabs I got rather annoyed and just started rapid rolling looking for high values ...
After about 30 seconds of this pique I rolled a Yahtzee 55555 value 20 and went: Doh!
My takeaway is that using "induction" to illuminate Human ~vs LLM may be wrong framing when Eureka moments are possible.
Matrix Reloaded (2003) ...
Neo: Hiya fellas.
Agent 1: It’s him.
Agent 2: The Anomaly.
Agent 3: Do we proceed?
Agent 2: Yes.
Agent 3: He is still...
Agent 1: ...only human.
Neo: Hmm--*upgrades* [beats all three nonetheless] The shareholders won't be happy.
It's not our job to make them happy.
It's our job to make them money,
but once we launch this little baby, they're gonna flip!
We call this Pure O2.
This is the first of our planned upgrades.
Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions,
we estimate we can sell up to
80% of an individual's visual field
before inducing seizures.The dimensionality of color vision in carriers of anomalous trichromacy (2010)
https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2191517
So I suppose we could look forward to genetic enhancement in order to perceive better display technologies
or perhaps we are far enough along this timeline that the AI editor preferred the distinction for the story title?
^ = from your linked Toyota Production System philosophy
Thanks for that link! I find those two early sentences to be an insightful and relatively complete loop of process.
When considering using automation or ~A.I. we can easily ask: which part of this loop is our addition improving (or messing up)? Where is the balance that works?
As you point out, answering these what-works/quality questions are not solved problems and expertise is needful, but careful consideration does not seem to be a popular mode in our age of fountaining funny money and magic genies.
I grew up in the '60s where the science fiction/future was always: march of progress and you'll have so much time and choices! Now I am in the future and the reality is close to: who has the time?
More insidiously/invisibly: you have plenty of time for endless momentary thrills, but no one has time to make things better.
Once upon a time there were customer complaint departments and the Production System would get fixed. Then it became suggestion boxes and returns. Then pleading for a Return Merchandise Authorization. Then it's your call is valuable to us recordings before click call hangups. Oops, unhappy customer?--give 'em a coupon to keep up the addiction, it's cheaper than Quality Control.
The latest devolution seems like fire the workers but use AI to mesmerize customers, or just mind control ~investors and ~regulators, since who needs cover-our-costs-paying-customers anyway?
Will the pendulum swing back?
I find that when someone's taking time to do something right in the present,
they're a perfectionist with no ability to prioritize,
whereas when someone took time to do something right in the past,
they're a master artisan of great foresight.
In OP's terminology, I would add that the left-path ascenders are playing king-of-the-hill as they know that (in our current business environment) they can be the one to roll down rocks from the top to both crush those latecomers attempting to overtake them, as well as cheaply flatten paths up for the consumer masses.
Those masses will pay this King for an easy ascent because, above all, the Hormuz spice must flow.
Who has time to make their own donuts?!
From this kind of P.O.V. the OP's middle and right paths are often just losing strategies whose appeal lies in their comfort & morality (i.e. a luxury of personal preference).
To be clear, I am not personally advocating for Capitalist Utilitarianism here, but I find it worthwhile to see our current turmoil from this higher viewpoint and perhaps relevant to some personal software development decisions.
The Moon is a harsh Mistress.
It seems to me that copyright doesn't exist anymore as a reasonable notion and effective right for an individual creator--A.I. being the final stake through the heart
> The signal you want to send isn’t “I spent effort on this,” because that signal is now cheap to fake. The signal you want to send is “a human actually wrote/made this.” That one currently costs almost nothing to send, because so few people are sending it.
or, in other words ... "when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" -- From Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson
P.S. so, was this, elegantly composed, brilliantly thought provoking, comment sufficiently Weird enough?
or am i ai ?
Re-reading this short essay (after many years) got me to wondering if those of you using AI coding assistance tools are using them to both analyze and document existing code (i.e. non AI gen'd code but AI gen'd coments/doc for humans to read) or only transiently (e.g. for your own quick understanding or to help the AI whip up an API etc)
I also (humorously?) wonder if any of you have automated AI using the git ~blame/history to email the humans who wrote some code asking for their rationales (or perhaps complaining?)
There were those used to try hard, carefully yet hopefully, to learn how robots, computers and "artificial intelligence" might benefit or harm people, especially for those with special needs.
But now I think we're in a harms race.
[FYI, Proto was a magazine published by Harvard Medical School's teaching hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, from 2005-2022.]
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
> You can easily extract a design system from any URL
[1] https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/go...
In fact I took your topmost entry with no helpful site/update tags and dove in a little to try to understand why a RSS friendly blogger might not be passing along ~ tags for better reader discovery.
Turns out my scarce info test case blogger has a mastodon that immediately lists all these tags about himself [I've stripped it down] ...
#FrontEnd Developer #CSS #Halifax #London #Singapore Technical writer and rabbit-hole deep-diver Former Organiser for https://londonwebstandards.org & https://stateofthebrowser.com Interests: #Bushcraft #Outdoors #DnD #Fantasy #SciFi #HipHop #CSS #Eleventy #IndieWeb #OpenSource #OpenWeb
I conclude if he knew such site and post tags getting to RSS would be of use, he'd probably make the tiny effort to wire the descriptions.
Nonetheless I merely crawled links for a minute to found this info, so I imagine something like the free tier of the Cloudflare crawling api might suffice over time for a simplistic automated fix to hint decorate blog sites.
I mean, given that we're not trying to recreate pagerank, but just trying to tip the balance in favor of desirable initial discovery.
> March 15 there were 1,251 updates [from feed of small websites ...] too active, to publish all the updates on a single page, even for just one day. Well, I could publish them, but nobody has time to read them all.
if the reader accumulates a small set of whitelist keywords, perhaps selected via optionally generating a tag cloud ui, then that est. 1,251 likely drops to ~ single page (most days)
if you wish to serve that as noscript it would suffice to partition in/visible content eg by <section class="keywords ..." and let the user apply css (or script by extension or bookmarklet/s) to reveal just their locally known interests
<p>
<style>
@scope { font-family: "Arial" ; }
</style>
Prospero: Where in the world is my teapot? Hello? I'm waiting!
</p>
To wit, it seems to me a style issue.
[1] Apple has long used XML plists for data ~ interchange or even archival storage such as .webarchive (ie just a plist flavor). Of course they soon added a simple binary version to compress out some redundancy and encoding waste.
They used an XML nested tag approach, not attributes. Maybe not well rounded pegs and holes but it has worked for them on a large scale over a long time.
"Send the Marines" -- satirical song lyrics by Tom Lehrer (1965) and in the public domain
https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/send-t...
> I am in no way arguing that the MacBook Neo is an iPad killer, but it’s a splendid iPad alternative for people like me, who don’t draw with a Pencil, do type with a keyboard, and just want a small, simple, highly portable and highly capable computer to use around the house.
My wife and I prefer iPads around the house as she is a pencil centric artist and loosely speaking I prefer touch to keyboards. But his framing points out Apple is expansively addressing broad market work/school/home computing needs/preferences and thus also brings up a question I think is under discussed...
What is Apple's user experience roadmap for Apple TV mass market home computing? And for home computing in general?
We are overdue for a leap up there, where Apple, as with the Neo, exploits their ability to profitably deliver higher end hardware which enables features at prices below any comparable competition.
I know folks are fond of pointing to Apple struggling to deliver Siri/AI advances but I view that like their Apple Maps fiasco: an ongoing priority roadmap that they will keep working at until it is better than good enough.
I believe Apple will soon accelerate the power ramp up in Apple TV both because they could now ~ Neo that device into very $/performance competitive vs game consoles but also because they likely predict an ever increasing demand for home compute by consumers.
Not just speech i/o and AI conversation but also active realtime cheap private application of compute, such as personalizing your sports game feed, for example:
a) continually show me where the ball is by [dynamic method] b) rewind to when player X had the ball c) freeze there and show me what might have happened if they had passed to Y d) dress all the players in tutus e) change to my cooking show but warp me back to this game if someone scores f) etc etc etc.
Their 5+ year planning and commitment to the Apple Watch and Vision Pro show that they are ardent bettors on personal computing continuing to evolve very rapidly if they can concoct a profitable multi-year course from niche to ubiquitous. [not just for a product but for their synergistic products]
Remember they build elaborate fake homes as test centers, and not just to film product promos. I would be very surprised to learn their current 5 year outlook ignores robotics. Look around the edges of their public activities and imagine how what you notice might also fit together with something new but hidden.
They are ambitious. Very Ambitious. What's next?
The same basic developments of mental science that had brought about the development of the Seldon Plan, thus made it also unnecessary for the First Speaker to use words in addressing the Student.
Every reaction to a stimulus, however slight, was completely indicative of all the trifling changes, of all the flickering currents that went on in another's mind. The First Speaker could not sense the emotional content of the Student's instinctively, as the Mule would have been able to do – since the Mule was a mutant with powers not ever likely to become completely comprehensible to any ordinary man, even a Second Foundationer – rather he deduced them, as the result of intensive training.
(A)phantasia and Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory: Scientific and Personal Perspectives.
Software is eating the World, so what are we doing to eat software?
Our Civilization d'Sapiens ecology will find balance, but can it, sans catastrophic collapse?
South Korea developed a widely popular "K-Drama" mini~series industry over decades of iteration, but wages for overworked writers were perpetually pitiful and upside for producers very limited (due to IP & value capture by broadcasters)
Netflix tested the waters licensing existing K-Drama content years prior to Covid then flooded production with much much higher $ to own original IP and make huge returns (NB Squid Games).
Writers & producers are only slightly better off, but their long honed winning formula for creating audience beloved content has been greatly skewed in new directions (i.e. subjectively artistically worse) due to economic dis/incentives.
Modern global tastes, such as for short form slop, are also enshittifying the content.