mikercampbell

Holy cow. I don’t understand humans. I have to remind myself that the randomness that allows for cruelty is also the well from which incredible people are drawn.

> Flat-pack furniture is not meant to last. It has taken me too long to understand that flimsiness is part of its appeal.

Haha

Hey, I like this. More than I thought I would, as there are a lot of cheeky patterns, but this really summed up a lot of the things I value nicely.

Most definitely bookmarking for later. This is good.

“Flimsiness is a feature” or something - I love this

Wait, was this an ad for Mormonism?

I say this in jest as a Mormon of sorts.

I walked in, realized just how advanced this was and then proceeded to read through the same way I pan through the Abstract Art section of the museum.

I freaking love APL and would love to learn it, but it is so incredibly jarring not knowing anything about the syntax.

Yeah, have you seen the characters from the plates? Very similar. I had them on a brick on my parents’ shelf growing up. It was sort of a Mormon Household staple, but they are supposedly characters from the original golden plates.

This sounds critical, when it’s not meant to be. Well, historically critical, in that I feel like it aligns with the theory mentioned above.

A lot of Mormon History is a study of political savvy and lack thereof, and I will never not be fascinated by it.

I’m sorry I came down so hard. I was thinking about it, and man - I am just so scared for people right now.

But I see your love, and I want to help!!

I have experience in PII and HIPPA and can see if we can address some of this stuff.

I think a conclusive terms of service, less specific questions, and storing it entirely in the browser if possible, will be a solid start .

My passion is from concern, not anger. I hope that comes across

There are insane amounts of laws surrounding ALL of this data with significant fines and prison time, varying by country.

Shut this down now before you get too much attention.

Absolutely. I will give support to anyone chasing a dream, but I will shut this down so hard.

Stop, re-evaluate, and understand there is significant potential, but depending on where you are, there could be prison time, man.

NOBODY USE THIS. EVER.

First it’s sketch as fuck, second GPT is a guestimation engine and people are getting killed for asking it for psychological help. Someone in Belgium commit suicide to save the planet last month.

I love the drive and the idea, as someone who could benefit from this, but I have to shut this down hard.

As someone with significant mental health issues, and a moderate amount of experience with AI, who works with it daily, don’t mix them, please.

NEVER use GPT for financial, health, legal or other advice, as it’s not meant for that. Yes, it can simplify the research process, but always verify.

If you wanted to use a Language Model like this safely, you could load medical language models and ask questions about definitions, but never advice.

If you’re interested, I’d love to show you the basics, and I hate to shoot down other peoples good work, but not in this case.

Author: you’re probably not meaning any harm, but I have no way of knowing that.

You need to do far more research, far more legal considerations, and far more footwork to make this work.

Don’t be discouraged, but don’t get people killed with carelessness.

I would never attempt it. AI is way to nascent to be applied like this when it is convincing people to commit suicide to save the planet, like last week.

I’m sure OpenAI will keep it a secret, no worries

All this being said, this was actually a pretty insightful conversation for me, not having considered the complexity around press releases like this, but still being uneasy about them but not sure why.

As someone who was house shopping recently, I’d have paid $100 for this!

Good to know you’ll be here a year from now when we move next!!

I get “how this all works” but valuation seems like magic

I mean, I love the enthusiasm, but tax and legal advice were one of the few subject matters outlined

I’m pretty sure this is a direct violation of the ToC

Had not heard of hono yet!

That makes me feel a little better.

Same. I think a small but crucial accessibility move is to have an escape hatch, as much as it would ruin the vibe.

That was the smartest decision they made other than the product itself

I sat here and laughed for minutes.

I tried shuttle just because of this. Super easy!!! Like, too easy. Like, easy enough to justify making the leap to rust with this.

Haha I actually tinkered with it a bit.

One thing I love about supabase is that they are focused. They have a ton of features, but they're cohesive in ways no one else has managed. You can manage your document storage, their built-in auth provider, and websocket updates ALL IN SQL.

And now their QETL and remote servers?? (https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-foreign-data-wrappers-rus...) And their CDN and Image processing???

It is shocking and almost painful how beautiful this all is. And how with those basics, you could almost do anything. But yeah, I think the only thing between Supabase and Web Scraping Screenshots is a Postgres Plugin, entirely independent of what Supabase provides.

If I were one of those beautiful people who write a blog about rasterizing on a e-pregnancy tests, I'd give it a shot haha

As a supabase enthusiast I take this as a direct challenge.

Came here to say this haha. It's a trigger at this point

I hecking love the concept of shuttle. The only thing keeping me from using it is unfamiliarity with rust, but it's enough to make me rethink things.

I think the future isn't as much Lo-code as much as it will be (and goshdarn should be) Lo-DevOps.

There are so many advances in programming, like WASM for example, that will continue to cause this Lo-DevOps movement, but honestly, digging into the language, using the stuff that already is baked in for other existing business purposes.

But things like encore.dev and shuttle.rs (I'm associated with neither) are just mind-blowingly straightforward with no language, infrastructure, or other cognitively burdening information.

This is fantastic and exactly what I needed!!

Being a solo dev with some higher than comfortable risks, I'm worried that I might mess up and let my customers down. This is another line of defense that I'll be adding tonight. Any and every defense will help me sleep better at night.

Haskell is one of those that I want to get into, but don't have the bandwidth. I'm getting into elixir and even that has had to require a shift of perspective

Functional JavaScript has saved me so much. And I'm not talkin Ramda, just functional principles.

I can't tell you how much time I spent chasing a bug when it was a date that was passed by reference.

Rather than trying to keep track, I just return copies of arrays and objects and it's way easier.

Even a simple

``` function yeppers(input) => ({...input, x: 7}) ```

(An overly simple example)

has made things smoother.