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I think often of the adage "it's harder to read code than write it". GPT gives you a lot to read. definitely a better consultant than coder imo. I've also had GPT write entirely false things, then I say "isn't that false?" and it says, "yes sorry about that" . very uncanny

why oh why

I think that people mistake building/ bundling js with compiling js. even when you use bundlers, the code still needs to be compiled by the JIT. so bundling is really kind of a weird step that makes web dev different afaik. they're trying to turn browser dev into a standardized scripting environment and stop the silly browsers from trying to innovate in what should be user-dev space. That's my idealistic take at least.

personally I've been using vanilla es6 for years and not bundling, because I dont care about mobile safari, and I love it.

neither here nor there but it sounds exactly like my experience on mushrooms, in which I explored a lot and took extensive notes of my thoughts and observations in what were later very self evident ways. The vastness of time was very evident. I wouldn't be shocked if the pathways activated were similar. I really wish we had more real time brain activity scanning available, then we could easily see when someone is going through X/Y/Z episode

Any target objective which you might define in data to a computer is potentially optimizable by machine learning, if you are able to generate large amounts of permutations of potential generations of that target data, and then let the machine begin to sort out what the best ways to get that objective are.

The technology behind MJ, SD, Dalle is not dissimilar from self driving cars, from financial investment, from seemingly intelligent conversation, to coding with Github Copilot etc etc. We are on a journey of mimicking and extrapolating all goal-oriented human behavior.

I think I have the same. the only thing that stops me using it more is I do a lot of threejs dev in the browser. I'm not sure if it's the GPU itself or the browser drivers which i can't update now, but it crawls. Favor - if you go to threejs.org are you able to run example sketches?

any chance you have open source codebases?

the tunnel theory seems fairly easy to test.

maybe not from within a submersible thousands of feet down though.

I've only ever heard that term to mean bias against people considered too old for a given activity.

These articles always describe the arithmetic of compound interest; I would be very interested if instead they read “I made 2 million dollars over time. Here is what my childhood, personality, family and friends were like.”. I think the mere fact of how someone -identifies- and prioritizes things at a young age account for 95% of these outcomes, and the arithmetic of investing maybe 5.

I would imagine most people agree with the What and the Why of the article in about 30 seconds of reading. What I think is missing from the article and perhaps from all of us is the How. Tracing the line from urban design aesthetics to policy to legislation to legislators and lobbyists is a very obscure line with many sharks looking to stay obscure and keep their cut in the pipeline I imagine.

This probably explains the prevalence of bike lanes (I do use them frequently) because its so much easier for polticians to say “I built that!” than it is to say “I prevented abstract concept X!”

I think the eccentricity of the site design is just the right barrier to entry to keep it from getting flooded with low quality traffic

I think you’re well intentioned obviously, but in your offer to help, the first thing you do is ask he take 5 minutes to digest your ideas, when he hasn’t really indicated he’s looking for help. Thats a very long time for an internet browser. So yes I think they’re downvoting the context not the content. They are interesting ideas though.

From an engineering perspective https makes all the sense in the world, but the *pain-point I think they're getting at is that http/s is basically user-facing as well, and it is now both more difficult to set up and maintain, and less semantic, for hundreds of millions of people.

Over the past decade I've helped maybe 100 small businesses set up internet presence, and I promise you none of them understand https or set it up correctly at first, despite often paying for it from hosting providers like Godaddy.

This isn't the fault of the engineers behind implementing it; it was necessary of course. But if the web were a perfect authoritarian regime we could have just saved us all the headache and dropped http altogether, thus avoiding this bureaucratic protocol redirecting mess.

I would be very interested to read about why that was not done actually. (I'm sure there were reasons)