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You’re very good at this! I have trouble slopping out more than a day or two!

Treat this like art. There are some neat ideas, maybe not executed particularly well. Somewhere around 7/10 IMDB score. The working implementation makes the blog post more impactful more than the other way around.

There are some good ideas in the tools. I hope our culture has room left for curiosity and exploration in that way. I also highly doubt these will catch on over one-shotting and Jira though. Here’s one quick thought from each:

Beads keeps the issue tracker state in git. This can only work if you don’t have a PR/Review-Gate to submitting patches (to file bugs/issues/etc) but I’ve found it unexpectedly helpful for personal projects. Helpful enough to entertain the idea in other contexts.

Gastown uses an AI Agent _as the orchestrator_, and to kick stalled agents, and, that’s such an obvious thing in hindsight I can’t believe I hadn’t thought of it. I have adopted this in a few other contexts now.

Fictional books about asteroid mining, from what my Google searches are returning. I would love to learn that it was a real thing though

The opposite of this is also fascinating to me too. There are false beliefs that make people who hold them better in some metrics. Like, the idea that hard work leads to success. We all know there is some element of luck, but even so, people who discount luck and only believe in hard work tend to do better.

Drawing grids over an image is easy. Choosing which colour to drop in is impossibly hard and where the art is. Nearest Neighbour and Average of N Points are some algorithms than can be used but don’t take the overall style of the image into account. For example, one pixel could cover a part of the nose and a part of the eye and averaging them makes a blurry mess.

Non-American here. Letting ICE have anti-drone weapons feels like the step in this escalation. Is no one over there panicking about that or is it seen as a generally better option than regulations?

TLDR, people in the 1670s roughly understood how an internal combustion engine could work but never built one. They were able to extrapolate that to modern-ish cars, boats and manufacturing but not the social impact.

Starlink uses phased arrays pointed at the ground but lasers between satellites. So it wouldn’t be impossible to spin one around and have it bounce traffic to earth through the swarm pointing down.

But these satellites are very close to earth compared to the moon. It wouldn’t only save 0.3% transmit power vs just sending right to the surface. It’s very unlikely the consumer antennas could manage hitting an earth satellite from the moon.

> folks packing it in because of AI probably were not difference makers before AI

Anecdotal but I’ve been seeing a lot of the opposite. Some of those leaning in strongly are being propped up by the tools. Holding onto them like a lifeboat when they would have fallen off earlier.

I really like the sentiment and will quote this in the future! My own thoughts line up a bit closer to the article though, with this quote being a good summary of it:

> The 1% utility AI has is overshadowed by the overwhelming mediocracy it regurgitates.

We’re here right now looking at a CVE. That has to count as progress?

I really had thought (with no research) the correlation between mental health and glp1 effectiveness went the other way around. Thank you for this check-your-biases moment, you probably just saved me a ton of embarrassment down the line, if these drugs ever enter my life.

MacBook Air M1 was released six years ago. That’s pretty expensive for such an old machine!

I don’t think a human could tell the difference either. This will make phishing emails much more effective.

I know there is a lot of value in these indexes but I’ve never actually reviewed anything except sometimes the previous day. For me, this is more about taking a moment to check up on myself and the writing is a means to an end rather than a meaningful output.

I do this too but on a laptop. It is more beneficial to use paper but I don’t want readers to think it isn’t incredibly important even without the gear. Like how good running shoes are not important to start running.

I put a coffee machine right next to my bed to reduce those pre-coffee clock cycles as much as possible. I’ve found it more helpful than expected to have something close that’s more tempting than the phone.

Doom had the benefit of an OS that included a lot of low-level bits like a net stack. This doesn’t! That 800kB includes everything it would need from an OS too.

It would be much cheaper to spin up a VM but I guess most people have laptops without a stable internet connection.

I have been in small towns in the Maritimes where people looked shocked to see an Indian immigrant with me, probably for the first time ever. I meant more in relation to the US, though, which is a much more diverse country.

I will say that perogies are amazing and were much cheaper in Alberta than Newfoundland so you get an upvote. But don’t discount that this is also true of the white population in the US.

I’m upvoting you because you’re 110% right but don’t discount how diverse the US is too, without an obvious divider like that. The New Orleans Cajun are also French immigrants, for example.

> Americans are feeling powerless to thwart the Trump administration’s assault on our nation’s values. Praised by tech CEOs, surrounded by sycophants, and enriched by his return to the White House, the president’s actions march on unchecked.

As far as I can tell, Americans love money, guns, and freedom. So Trump must be losing money, taking guns, and making everyone live with their parents. I think I’ll keep my ChatGPT subscription, sorry guys.

Canada is 70% white where the US is close to 50%. That 20% puts them far above the majority line though. Not at all homogeneous, just much more so than the US.

This is the most interesting part of the way the US government is structured. Where the federal government has very little power compared to the states, each state is competing for talent. Like how Texas is more conservative and California is more liberal. May the best policies win. People will move to whichever set of laws better produces success. I don’t think that as true as it once was though.

Canada is largely still homogeneous but still welcoming to immigrants and very close to the US. Rather than China totally changing cultures, I think it’s more likely that US-based companies will have large satellite offices in middle powers.

That score is on par with Gemini 3 Flash but these scores look much more affected by the agent used than the model, from scrolling through the results.

I also have to eat and put a roof over my head. Tying that to a system that can change permanently at any time to something less helpful is dangerous.

Preferring open source is a risk mitigation strategy. The closed alternative may have better features to make them worth that risk though.

Not everyone here is American and the site is pretty vague about the specific grievances.

If I already know the problem space very well, we can tailor a skill that will help solve the problem exactly how I already know I want it to be solved.