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That’s what I’m building, along with the invisible unified data model underneath, that is needed to tie everything together. Always glad for feedback, reach out in my profile if it sounds interesting!

Thanks! WebCC looks interesting. I like the attempt to be lean, but in the context of running an entire browser, my personal choice would be for a little runtime overhead vs a new language and toolset.

All the best with it!

P.S. It would also be interesting to see how far it's possible to go with constexpr etc.

Sounds interesting!

But do you think it would be possible to achieve similar results without a new language, but with a declarative API in one of your existing languages (say, C++) instead?

If possible, that would remove a big adoption barrier, and avoid inevitably reinventing many language features.

That’s because you’ve become so accustomed to politics as tribalism and sports-like entertainment that you’ve completely forgotten why we even started the political systems we have today in the first place. Divestment of power, not accumulation. Serving others, not ourselves. You can still embody those things. But it’s better to admit to ourselves that we aren’t selfless enough to do that, than hide behind a learned helplessness.

All unregulated free market arguments rely on low/no barriers to entry. There are very few markets where this is true in reality.

Does it? I think it detaches them from _some_ of the consequences of devaluing their reputation or accountability, which is not quite the same thing.

But we also have a stake in our society, in the form of a reputation or accountability, that greatly influences our behaviour. So comparing us to an LLM has always been meaningless anyway.

Oh I completely agree.

Startup = disruption = threat to existing control.

If you love control and have control, why would you want to create fertile ground for startups?

(This was meant as devil's advocate, not my personal point of view).

As someone who was in the same boat for a long time, I only clicked with Blender once I had a real need for it: In my case, creating an ad-style video for a product I’d created in Fusion.

I’m not sure there is any point trying to do what you can in parametric software in Blender. Despite both being capable of a range of 3D tasks, they have remarkably little in common.

> I think one of my personal core values is that curiosity should never be left unsatiated if ant all possible!

I don't disagree: I just posited that there are other ways to satisfy it, and that there is an opportunity cost to the path you've chosen to satisfy it that you don't seem very aware of, because your curiosity and desire to be correct are tightly coupled - but that doesn't actually have to be the case. It has its pros and cons.

Now I'm more of an "it's the journey not the destination" guy, so accelerating the journey doesn't appeal to me as much as it used to, because for me its where I get the most value. That change in my perspective is what motivated me to comment.

But anyway, you clearly enjoy it and do great work, so all the best with it!

I think what's interesting/telling is you view (3) as less desirable.

Alternatively, you could have spent that half hour on the train exercising your own creativity to try and satisfy your curiosity. Whether you're right or wrong doesn't really matter, because as you acknowledge it's not really important enough to you to matter. Picking (2) eliminates all the possible avenues that might have lead you down.

I'm not saying one is better than the other, just that you're approaching the criticism on the basis of axioms that represent a narrow viewpoint: That of someone who has to be "right" about the things they are curious about, no matter how trivial.

Weirdly I’ve been building something along those lines for the last year. Not SQLite backed, but fully local and native (and also does non-local integrations, which you can also script yourself). Should be ready in a month or so if you’re interested!

Interesting thanks, I wasn't aware of container2wasm. I do wonder what the output sizes are. They don't mention compatibility with CF's runtime, it is more restrictive than any of the ones they do!

I wrote up my experience trying to do this in case it helps anyone else! There's a boilerplate repo at: https://github.com/saus-app/wasm-cf-boilerplate

Yes, like everything: Nylon might be my favourite example of us never being able to use innovation in moderation.

We do, you might find legal sentencing guidelines to be informative, they’ve already been dealing with this for a very long time. (E.g. It’s why a first offence and repeat offence are never considered in the same light.)

The problem is that a lot of the most influential FOSS only exists because of VC capital (or other dysfunctional markets), either because they sponsor projects directly, or they pay the salaries of the people who happen to do it themselves. FOSS has become a form of economic dumping that could be causing more harm than good. If Google couldn’t “dump” Chrome for free, or Facebook couldn’t “dump” React for free, maybe browsers or front-end frameworks would be regular, functional, competitive markets. Making it “FOSS” is just an inoculation against what would otherwise be considered an anti-competitive practice.

Well if you want to continue the analogy, I could say: Apple at least invested in a SoC architecture years ago has already put it in a different league as far as AI capabilities go.

So to say they haven't done "the same kind of homework yet" seems quite presumptive. Only Google has done anything remotely similar with TPUs and certainly not on the deployment scale that Apple has done.

FWIW I don't care either way, I don't get emotionally attached to corporations, I just think the entire framing of the original post is very reactionary and naive, and I continue to think that the comparison with Toyota is an apt way to illustrate that.

Or maybe it’s like Toyota and EVs.

Sure, but when you can’t clearly attribute the survivor’s survival, there’s still no meaningful conclusion to draw. And given how many different ways there are for businesses to succeed or fail, that are never ever repeatable due to the passing of time in the market, then I think attribution is impossible, so having the humility to somewhat attribute luck is admirable.

I think if we referred to LLMs as AK (Artifical Knowledge) instead of AI it would be easier to have more cohesive discussions.

I don’t see how there can be a single truth when there is not even a single definition of many of the underlying terms (intelligence, AGI, etc) which this discipline supposedly defines itself by. Combine that with a lot of people with little philosophical perspective suddenly being confronted with philosophical topics and you end up with a discourse that personally I’ve mostly given up on participating in until things calm down again.

It feels like nobody remembers all the timelines for which we were supposed to have self-driving cars.

3rd world country or not - I hope you appreciate that you are incredibly fortunate for "ancient culture" and "history" to be 2 of your top 3 considerations for where to live and the quality of life that would give you.

Perhaps revalidate the "thriving economy" assertion before taking the plunge though (and be mindful of how hyper-localised that is).

Why did you choose to wake up as the child of a peasant in one country but the child of the president in another?

Quality of life is inherently tied to trust and morality - both in terms of the effect of fear (a lack of trust) or isolation (a lack of moral consensus, or equality and sense of shared belonging).

Yes I found the grayscale surprisingly effective. An additional tip is to bind it to the triple-click side button accessibility shortcut, so you can quickly enable/disable it if you need colour for something momentarily.

I agree - busy building to solve that :)

Thanks!

I don't think anti-capitalist is a useful label in this context. There doesn't have to be a contradiction in being pro-capitalist and also being pro-eat-the-rich. A situation of extreme inequality that is likely to precipitate an eat-the-rich sentiment is probably not an effective example of capitalism at work.

Yes it's not advocacy for anything: It's up to everyone how they respond to their situation if they feel disenfranchised and I'm in no position to judge them one way or another.

The point is just that it's a tale as old as human civilization itself. It would be disappointing if we've not yet learnt enough from our history to avoid more change via trauma.

Laws are only as useful as the social contract they support.