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One thing I kind of always want to see when I find cool resources like this are "How are you funded?". Because if it's not clear then have to there's a high risk it's a rug-pull, virus or might one day be either. There's just too many secretive "Here's a super free perfect tool for you!" rug-pulls out there.

"We're funded by the goodness of a team of volunteers" is a great answer.

Something I did yesterday with my own setup.

"Please find 3 fencing clubs in South London, find out which offer training sessions tomorrow, then add those sessions to my Calendar."

That kicked off a maps MCP, a web-research MCP and my calendar MCP. Pretty neat honestly.

Honestly, this is such a good rewrite of Apophysis. Congrats to you all for bringing back some happy memories.

Reading it I imagine it's roughly because they started with the problem of "we have to async writes to postgres for scale" and then solved it with "we synchronously write checkpoints with enough performance and guarantees to postgres to solve scale". The middle bit was likely quite hard.

Watching a checker-board of laser-light scattering across your eyes is a highly uncomfortable and wildly unique experience. I agree with the other comment that it's a very safe process, done hundreds of thousands of times, and improves your quality of life measurably.

The Dr asked me to please be quiet because I was in awe describing the whole process out loud.

There's a difference between prosecuting a crime, and restricting people to prevent it from even happening. Both have a place but only the former retains your liberty.

I believe a logic similar to this was used to enact the "Gestures" system in Black and White 1. Breaking down the mouse-movements into vectors following a guide-point. (https://blackandwhite.fandom.com/wiki/Gesture).

To add a bit more, I didn't really read until later, around 8, but then read at a fairly quick and passionate amount for my age. People thought I'd dodged my family curse but later around 10 it was shown I was quite behind at school. My dyslexia was described as "a defect in one aspect of intelligence", which for most kids is reading comprehension, but for me it showed in a lack of decent short term memory. As you say, learning disabilities are interesting issues to deal with, but I'm sure your son will do great with support like you around him.

I imagine part of the issue is how many PDFs are just a series of images anyway.

Just to add an anecdote, as of 15 years ago I had similar scores and was diagnosed with dyslexia.

Major grocery shops routinely swap their profitable items with the popular items. They do this to stop the customer going into auto-pilot and instead forcing them into actually looking for what they want. So no, shoppers finding their product does not pay for itself.

But we did, I've been protesting against laws like this for 17 years now! Genuinely, they've always been trying to implement these laws, and simply relied on us missing the ship one time.

The fact another story on the front page is about a User Verification site having a massive leak is pretty relevant (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44684373)

I have to ask, if they have access to get a loan of $2.2m then the friend could likely save for 5-7 years and just retire someplace cheap. Like, spending that much seems wild given the implied access to straight cash.

But you brought it here to get feedback? Our feedback is things like, the docs (https://github.com/ebogdum/callfs/blob/main/docs_markdown/02...) have a pile of references to things that just don't exist in your code? You have a change-log that isn't used? Your main file references a site that doesn't exist "https://github.com/ebogdum/callfs/blob/main/cmd/main.go".

So you're trying to get buy-in for a tool, when you yourself don't see the point in confirming it works? Those "tedious tasks" are software development.

I actually like the style. It's very on brand for Ruby from what I've read. Make coding punk again.

Thank you! Finally a good Rama reference in the wild.

Hey, yeah, the site name is great, I'll never judge that. And even as design goes it's not "bad", it's just not as great as the parent comment originally implied.

I originally mistook the site as an ad-website because of how it's designed, which lead to me leaving. The neat part, is that's pretty easy for you to fix, so best of luck.

Politely, on point 1 I disagree entirely. At a glance I thought it was a parking domain and closed it because I figured their site had crashed. Likely because the "Listen Now" looks exactly like a Google Advert and the jump in gradient for the other element.

Just going to say it. It sounds like you are using the wrong medium. What you're doing is emailing, nothing wrong with that, but imagine if someone talked as you described face-to-face. It would be a very weird experience.

I'll say it as I always do. One time I threw together a "blurred version of your text is shown as you type, becomes clear when you hit enter" and it was some of the nicest instant-messaging I've ever had with another person. Blur was the trick, to give a sense of the length and activity, but not the message.

I see it as basically Cunningham's Law. It's easier to see the LLM's attempt a solution and how it's wrong than to write a perfectly correct solution first time.

Just a small caveat, that article was from 2012 (13 years ago). Things may have changed for the better or worse since then.

This would be the actual issue right. Any AI smart enough to write the good things can also write the bad things. Because ethics are something humans made. How long until we have internal court systems for fleets of AI?

I know that due to being interested in a specific industry, lets say Video Games, I can combine a general understanding of the environment, to a specific understanding of certain companies and the games they're making. If I see in a low-key mailing list that a company is making a new game that I know will line up well with the direction the industry is going, then I can invest in that company and likely be ahead of the market.

My hunch is that if you spend more than 6 hours a week studying the mood of a industry, you would likely be "luckier" than the market (although all risks still apply). I also believe a LLM could do exactly what I do with enough investment.

Spacechem!

Just to challenge that slightly. There is a range of clubs, some are honestly very easy to get into if you end up there for some work event and talk to at least two people. It's the ability to socialize, and lack of clubs focused on new industries that's made them elusive to the new-money (There isn't a National Software Club for example). I'll also knowledge most would run about £1-2k a quarter which is restrictive (by design) cost.

Anecdotally I heard this was because straight-women would prefer these clubs due to less pressure and more fun, which caused straight-men to try get into the clubs just to hit on them.

Context: https://xkcd.com/1053/