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If you find use for this tool, chances are good that you're in an place where all the participants would be audio only

Line must go up. Part of me wonders if the economic ideology might be what causes more than just a gradual decline.

Wouldn't a decline be good? Or is the theory that we can only do collapse, not decline?

Thanks, that was the part I didn't get.

I'm working on something similar for a PyCon talk.

While I agree that there is a problem of recognition and appreciation, I also feel like the spirit of making a small contribution without expecting a return is what enables the open whole source ecosystem that many of us benefit from.

Is it just me, or did they make the examples in the video comically unintuitive? Painting swatches without color, a guide pamphlet without a map, assembly instructions without diagrams?

Is this supposed to be humor that I'm not getting, or are they really saying, "look at this solution to a problem you would have if you did normal things in the worst possible way"? It almost feels like the video is trolling us.

The thing I don't understand about things like smart light switches is why the default failure mode isn't just a normal dumb switch?

I've been saved by the commit hash in the dependency when reviving an old Python project. I could locate a fork of the repo and use the same version to get the code going again. I ended up vendoring the dep.

> It's always possible to break a perfect system

A perfect system is either extremely limited in scope or flawed in it's assumptions.

> Quiet is not proof that nobody is recording, and a detection is not proof that anyone is

So, you might sometimes know that someone might be recording?

I don't want to dismiss that as useless, but that is a difficult signal to incorporate into behavior.

> “There are two types of people: those who have suffered a catastrophic loss of data, and those who will.”

When I was a teenager, I was the reason for data loss for my dad, twice. Both times it was because I was re-partitioning a hard drive to install linux.

You would think that taught me a lesson about backups, instead it reminds me every now and again to be grateful for an awesome dad and aspire to handle situations with my kid similarly :)

I love an e-ink display project!

The one thing that always trips me up in projects like this is power delivery in a way that I'm happy with. I always end up having a USB cable looking awkward somewhere or being limited in where I put my project

LFS prepared me for Gentoo :)

Sorry, I wasn't implying your advice doesn't carry weight. Was more just thinking about the things that (used to) happen when you introduce more parties to process of creating software.

But why stop at rewriting in another language. Get another sub agent to invent a new language, create a database, query language and maybe another few DSLs. Then you've got an ecosystem!

You can now re-position your initial solution and sell the client access to some agents that will implement & configure the ecosystem to suit their initial needs!

And don't forget the agents that you'll need to train the customer to use the whole thing!

And then another sub agent that argues for the whole system to be re-written in another language

Would you be able to taper by stretching out dosages, take a pill every 25 hours instead of 24?

Just don't put it in charge of a company making paper clips

> circular economy

I get what you mean, but in general circular economy means something different, positive in my opinion. Here is what wikipedia has to say:

> a model of resource production and consumption that involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling materials and products, to extend product life cycle for as long as possible

In the EU it is a hot topic for a lot of non-profit and social innovation work

Many times I wonder if it's possible to collapse abstractions? The idea of making the whole stack simpler. I'm not overly optimistic of LLMs achieving this, but it they do, I will be paying more attention.

This immediately made me think of nand2tetris.org, but as a game. Is that what NANDGame is?

I'm curious about ways to entice agents to perform weird and wacky things when working on a codebase.

Isn't the problem with formal methods that it isn't clear whether or not most of the useful code we use are actually formally verifiable?

The article mentions NP-complete, but is it actually a solvable problem in general?

> For extremely restricted cases, like propositional logic or HM type-checking, it’s “only” NP-complete.

Earlier today I found this - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11755

I've been thinking lately about different ways to get agents to do interesting things when let loose on a code base. Think mischief, not malice. Something like sneaking in a prompt/context so that all variable names are characters from a certain work of fiction. Or all debug messages must use pirate English.

Thanks, clearly my caffeine intake is at issue

I see a reference to Khan Academy, but not Go?

For small applications having an observability stack like ELK or Prometheus + Grafana tends to outweigh the application itself ito cost and complexity.

I haven't found something I'm 100% happy with to self host and tend to just go with a hosted solution. I'll give statlite a look!

I get a cloudflare 502 error for standard.site

Isn't that just saying CapEx is a bigger part of their costs as if that is a positive thing?

I did something similar, for similar reasons. In the end I just did whatever to get it published. If you show up at my door, I'll pour you your choice of beer/coffee. But I agree, it feels very invasive!

On the web side of things DNS only recently started being more private - 10+ years ago it was common to have your phone + postal address on whois.

Two take aways from my experience 1. I'm happy that I invested more in the web 2. The app store gives you distribution - I have a few websites with almost 0 traffic, but the app I wrote gets a handful of downloads a week almost 2 years later?