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Isn't he within legal rights in fact to take away certain public services whenever he does want? Assuming that's the case (and that is an assumption), the fact that WPEngine went all in on a half billion dollar business model dependent on Matt is a big risk they took; I would think it would be absolutely top priority on their part to understand the nuts and bolts of the ecosystem they depend on.

GPT tells me (take it or leave it) that books published before 1963 only had a copyright of 28 years generally, and it wasn't until 1978 that the "author life + 70 years" started

this is a ridiculous graph which mistakes temporary behaviors for entire human beings. I worked about 10 years doing handyman work, and now 10 years doing web development, often both in the same day.

I and another registered democrat neighbor had this exact discussion and conclusion outside of the voting center we live next to on election day. Assuming we're not the only ones.

Suggesting tariffs was his way of saying "stuffs so messed up I will make radical change" to the angry working class. It also harks back to the early 20th century which he loves.

The Dems didn't really have an inroad to that demographic. Suggesting federally granted home buying credits just sounded like another financial scheme from on high and missed the mark entirely imho; there was no bigger economic discussion happening there.

it does seem like a purely escalatory move. wounding but not killing 1000+ of your deepest adversaries, slow clap... I'm sure Hezbollah will give up now that their pagers are destroyed.

From a security standpoint it's no different than a password form except you're sharing one company credential with another. The issue is not html forms though, it's that you might trust Anthropic more than you do the hot new website built yesterday.

This hit me 2 days ago as I was shuffling dual boot systems around trying to recover some old data for a client. Kind of hilarious timing tbh, right after I was done laughing arrogantly about CrowdStrike

this was my first reaction too

yes I was not expecting to read the whole thing. But it was so pleasant. He uses paragraphs as the Spirit in the Sky intended: each one opens an idea and then closes it. Compare his opening sentences to his closing sentences; they almost always relate directly to each other. I'm guessing this guy double knots his shoelaces.

except I think most XKCD readers are probably C&H readers too. Not sure what the 10 year olds are reading these days

if interested, I have a twist on this going where you can make many different custom prompts and save them as 'bots', which remember your chats with them, and are also available for other people to then chat with.

https://hilberts.xyz

I would have become a small sanctioned country years ago if it weren't for this

there is an unfortunate reality that in neighborhoods like mine, there is a culture of imitating gun shots. It's tangential to this tragic incident, but it's also an issue that I assume will only explode as it becomes "cool" to trigger shot spotters with your fireworks, cars, motorcycles. It's daily here in Brooklyn as soon as the temperature is above freezing

can attest; I bounced off Xcode several times when trying to bootstrap my way into a dev career in 2010 or so, despite being a lifelong Mac user.

this is you though, as opposed to the new paradigm of coding that is threatening to be ushered in. "Generate code, test, fail, regenerate, test...". Without ever breaking down constituent parts.

I already worked with a team of 20 something's who were generating mountains of full stack spaghetti on top of the basic CRUD framework I built them.

There's lessening incentive to build your TODO app from scratch when you can generate an "MMO framework" in 60 seconds.

The same way I first used firebase 12 years ago before trying to learn the basics of relational, and it was years before I finally arrived at the basics.

autoGPT thanks you for this lucid writeup

I think one level of abstraction up, this is about whether to use externally meaningful (emails, etc) or internally meaningful ones (INT id's, etc).

The specter of having a "permanent ID" (contextless), is something which has never really existed nor ever will. Identity only exists in context to some environment, even in blockchain.

I've always heard if it doesn't exist in 3 places it doesn't exist at all

now the rocks are more rational rocks

"most profitable tiktok trend" more accurate. Fame has to be measured along specific indeces of space and time.

yes art critiques, specifically giving them, was probably the most formative part of my school days. I arrived at the same formula - you need to 'steelman' the artists intentions first - then your critique becomes directed at the steelman, not at them personally.

Watch your doses !

I thought I loved seaweed, then one day ate a large amount on an empty stomach, and it was some of the worst nausea of my life.

Maybe I'm being selfish, but I'd love an ELI5 section. I've actually installed my own web apps as PWA's, as well as reddit and others, but I still have a shaky understanding of the best way to do it. Would be nice if the best practices were laid out in no uncertain terms.

"software is speech" .. if speech is taken to be solely a means of communication between humans, this statement has been untrue ever since Turing

sometimes I wonder if the edges of articulated desire may always be essentially binary / quantitative, meaning that slow yes / nos are in fact the best way for us to grapple with them, and systems that allow us a set of these yes/no buttons are in fact a reflection of ourselves and not a requirement of the machine. So long as we are builders, I think we'll have buttons. even in transhumanist cyberspace perhaps. Still waiting on peer review for that one though

all depends on the alarm. I took the time to find a gentle one and it's probably why I nap a lot more often now. There's still the danger of it putting my day to a dead stop but quite often it feels like a net good. Also sleep on the floor to help prevent a deep sleep

this might be a way to improve the default nix toolset in a way worth globalizing, it seems like it has the same philosophy. Discovering missing tools... it's like discovering new primes :)

same concern. I will probably use atuin local because it seems so cool. but the beauty of the shell is that it is by default so universal and portable and small, so I don't like the idea of dependencies for my use of it on remote machines. mentally I've gotten used to the idea that my local shell env is a very different beast than "normal " shell.

very little attempt to steel man actual concerns, centered around one untenable solution to a smaller problem (data dignity). But, I did enjoy it.

I think this is actually a valid time to sit around brainstorming disaster scenarios because in doing that I try to come to grips with what the real pillars of this new ecosystem are - what will the uncensored LLM market look like, what will state of the art chaosGPT capable of, etc.