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"Bonelli said that the Ojai is not affected by the U.S. government's regulations that aim to prevent Chinese cars from being sold to customers in the U.S."

How does this get around the regulations? That's a massive loophole that will absolutely get abused by both China and domestic companies. Trucking, delivery vehicles, etc. will all get slammed by this.

I'm not a fan of protectionist regulations like the ones keeping Chinese automobiles out of the US, but if you're going to have them, at least make them effective.

Has someone collected all of these classic Silicon Valley nepotism stories anywhere?

Pydantic was the first thing I thought of when I saw this. The possibilities are very intriguing.

Do you have any thoughts/recommendations for someone if they were to try making a pydantic interface layer for lite3?

Thanks for the commentary! I love hearing stories about the team members behind the scenes, and the clever innovations that make things work. Cool stuff!

Having been on the customer side of your scenario (in the manufacturing sector), this hits deep. It's that feeling of being on a phone tree, and needing to jump through hoops to find the person who can actually help you. But you're in person. And they probably fired the person who has the experience you're looking for, because experience isn't able to be quantified in a column on a spreadsheet.

That looks like a cool project - do you have any experience using it? Anything to watch out for?

Cool! I've been playing with the same code -> graph concept for LLM work. Why did you decide to go for a pseudo-compiler with a ton of custom rules rather than try to interact with the AST itself?

It looks cool, and I'm 100% behind the idea, but I'm more curious about what could be done on hardware that we all have broader access to, without requiring a standalone custom purpose device.

What are the options for midlevel (or older flagship) smartphones? Used PCs? Macbooks with broken screens?

Do you have any examples of your Devenv workflow you can share? I took a look at Dagger and really like the concept, but I'm trying to figure out the limitations/why there's so much negativity in this thread.

I currently manage my development environments via NixOS and Devenv, so if I could just keep that and achieve the same functionality, that sounds good to me.

Can you explain/link to why you can't really use this without their cloud product? I'm not seeing anything at a glance, and this looks useful for a project of mine, but I don't want to be trapped by limitations that I only find out about after putting in weeks of work

Super cool! Well done. Now take it down and never let Microsoft get their hands on the code, or the entire economic system will go down in flames.

Is there a 3D equivalent (technical or spiritual) of SVG? I've been working on a CAD visualizer, and I'm looking for something lightweight that I can use to build up representative changes to cad models without having to do a full loop through the CAD application, pull a full .step export, and visualize that.

SVGs will work nicely for showing 2d sketches, but I'm hoping for something similar for the models themselves, without the slowdown of having to use the underlying CAD software for visualization.

It's not. And any effort to do this at scale would be quickly shut down by physics and economics, not the government. Modern computing technology is a wildly complex supply chain, with extremely specialized manufacturing equipment and facilities. Billion dollar fabs are worth billions of dollars for a reason, and it's not for the real estate or the views.

Trying to determine the best "diy chip" sounds like a fun project and an admirable goal, but if you actually wanted something useful I'd wager you'd be better off buying esp32's in bulk so you'd have all the spares you might need.

They have a much better and more ahem active contract/corporate law department than your average start up, that's for sure. Become the sole keeper of all the data a small - midsize business has, and that's a nice little extortion scheme you can keep up for quite a long while...

Take a look at the debug adapter protocol (https://github.com/Microsoft/debug-adapter-protocol), if you could just add the plug and play ability, then someone else might be able to get the debugger itself working.

Code Husbandry is a good term for what I've been thinking about how to implement. I hope you don't mind if I steal it. Think automated "mini agents", each with a defined set of tools and tasks, responding to specific triggers.

Imagine one agent just does docstrings - on commit, build an AST, branch, write/update comments accordingly, push and create a merge request with a standard report template.

Each of these mini-agents has a defined scope and operates in its own environment, and can be customized/trained as such. They just run continuously on the codebase based on their rules and triggers.

The idea is that all these changes bubble up to the developer for approval, just maybe after a few rounds of LLM iteration. The hope is that small models can be leveraged to a higher quality of output and operate in an asynchronous manner.

I'm intrigued by this thought, and I'm not sure it's the right way to look at the current situation.

Think about it via a manufacturing analogy. I think we can all agree that modern cnc machining is much better for mass manufacturing than needing to hire an equivalent number of skilled craftspeople to match that throughput.

Imagine we had a massive runup of innovation in the cnc manufacturing industry all in one go. We went from cnc lathes to 2d routing tables to 3, then 4, then 5 axis machining all in the span of three years. Investment was so sloshy that companies were just releasing their designs as open source, with the hope that they'd attract the best designers and engineers in the global race to create the ultimate manufacturing platform. They were imagining being able to design and manufacture the next generations of super advanced fighter jets all in one universal machine.

Now these things are great at manufacturing fully custom one-off products, and the technicians who can manipulate them to their fullest are awestruck by the power they now have at their fingertips. They can design absolutely anything they could imagine.

But you know what people really want? Not fighter jets, but cheap furniture. Do you know what it takes to make cheap furniture? Slightly customized variants of the early iterations that were released as open source. Variants that can't be monitized by the companies that spent millions on designing and releasing them.

The tech might work great, but that doesn't mean the investment pays off with the desired returns.

Is this just DBOS under the hood?

Does anyone have a good resource for a quickstart/high-level overview of just the terminology required to understand Nix? Flakes/overlays/nixpkgs/etc. I start wading in to try and understand it, and instead run into arguments and disagreements.

Unfortunately, without a base level understanding of the entire ecosystem, I stay lost.

Why have Americans lost faith in institutions? Because other institutions convinced them to.

Fox News, Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, etc. This has been an organized effort for decades. It's embarrassing how "out in the open" the endeavour has been the whole time, that it can hardly be called a conspiracy.

Is a standalone Unison Code instance something that could be deployed in a docker container for personal use?

Ozempic has nothing to do with LLMs, so I'm a bit confused about the point you're making here?

On the other hand, I have seen drones chase down F1 cars at 100+ MPH...

Realistically though, I agree with your sentiment. Solving this would drones would require a constant flock of something more akin to Predator drones.

The better question is - why do we allow high speed pursuit chases in the first place?

Alternate viewpoint - The value of modern AI seems very high. That nobody knows how high, that they still haven't figured out applications, and that the technology and its tools are still far from refined, might be a sign that the technology shouldn't be valued this highly at all

Just a point of context - you're looking back at Bach from a historical vantage point where he's been gobbled up and lumped together with the entirety of "western culture".

To his contemporaries, he was a member of a specific national "culture", and influenced by the greats of other European (and non-European) cultures of the time.

... This is a joke... Right?

If someone wanted to learn about how the modern infrastructure stack works, and why things like this occur, where would be some good resources to start?

I've been wanting to do this on historical court records - building upon the existing cases, one by one, using llms as the "Judge". It'd be interesting to see which cases branch off from the established precedent, and how that cascades into the present.

Any thoughts how one could get started with this?

Awesome. Does it have any sort of CI/CD capabilities? And do you have any recommendations for learning resources for someone to get started?

I honestly have no opinion in this discussion, but I will 100% upvote the first Fossil repository I've seen shared on here! How do you find developing on the Fossil platform?