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Too many tires (or perhaps on second thought that was you joke, sorry just woke up).

At our place it's opposite, I guess when you do it often enough you get a preferred method though a relentless optimization loop, which in the end ensures it's all clean, the plates are well separated only in 1 particular order, the glasses are placed to the left so all small pans fit at the right, deep plates are placed half over cutlery rack so they are supported and more fit in, small plates in front so all lids fit before them... etc etc etc.

Base install of Graphene on Pixel 10 is pretty close to dumb-phone (I speak from experience). Just get the APKs of Signal and Google Cam (or just use Graphene's cam app, it's not bad, supposedly). Pixel 10 has 3 camera, wide/normal/tele. Pretty decent imho.

As log as your don't desire a house to do the thinking in ;)

If it's any consolation, I stay on top of all changes, but when the AI API stops I feel just as stuck.

I understand what I made, the speed just drops to 0.1%. So I just start studying the codebase, planning work for later, ordering thoughts by writing DESIGN.md, adding jobs to the kanban.

It scares me that I don't own the LLM though, but someday I will, it will be local and I'll feel better when I own my means of production again.

I feel the same. In 2 days I meet the people that gave me this assignment, they have questions, they will look at the visual I made of the DB layout and the RBAC table, and they will say some stuff is wrong, or ask why I deviated from their proposal.

And no-way am I going to ask them to wait as I relay my questions to Claude.

So I stay on top of things. I tell them: "I simplified the RBAC because these two roles here are functionally the same and, I noticed there were two axes underneath, scope and trust which I encoded here and here..." etc. Yes, a lot of it is Opus' findings, but along the way I also stopped Claude from over-complicating things at several stages in the development.

I do also feel that I'm slowly developing this way of working, perhaps I'll learn to lean into it more, perhaps I will get better at it. Perhaps it's just exhausting for now and I can handle more and more agents as I do it more and more. That's what I hope at least, to become a one-stop software shop by employing agents, all while being uncompromising on quality. What choice do we have?

IDK, I'm thinking more than ever. I used to be in a flow, writing code, now, I'm thinking at the top of my lungs, making a new decision every 10 sec, Claude thinks through all the scenarios, makes proposals for many data models, RBAC rules etc, and I'm just focusing on understanding it all and deciding (and it can be pretty exhausting!). More thinking than ever. Am I doing it wrong? Should I just think less? Rely on the spec more?

It's important that we don't concede FOSS to people screaming at either end (or the middle for that matter) of the political spectrum that their side is the best.

Why would you swap a 17 for an 18? Just curious as someone who just uses phones until they break (just retired my iPhone 12).

Gerrymandering!

I guess so, I now know of a lot of sovereign activities gaining traction (ie the Dutch NixOS based government desktop).

But then again with out politicians being this unwilling to experience some papercuts for freedom [0] I guess they have nothing to worry about. (Although the certainly endured the Teams papercuts until they didn't feel them anymore.) I honestly don't understand why they're crying so hard, I really enjoy Element "ascii shrug".

Ah well, the old saying "Privacy is for Nerds" remains true as always.

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-microsoft-teams-alternati...

Some dude at the other side of the worlds... And could be a close friend, just like that. We are all so similar. Btw, pretty soul-less company (in a way they all are, but this is really cold.)

Haha, never looked at it that way, you could indeed read it as "This website puts a value on your privacy" (And subsequently we can't ignore the enormous value, so we're selling it, indeed)

Edit: why would anyone flag tfa? There is no anti-flag vote right?

"Artists understand that AI is bad for art." Art is in the eye of the beholder, don't tell me what makes for bad art.

You know what AI is bad for? Menu's. Our butcher just send out a pamphlet with discounts for the week. There is sushi on it that looks like plastic covered in slabs of candle wax, inside is avocado but only at first glance, when you look closer it looks more like a mushy bean. The nori looks covered in sesame seeds, but on closer inspection the seeds form a network, like a fungus. In my head I can just feel the horrible mouthfeel when I look at the image. Weird that I find it so disgusting. It seems that some people do, some don't really see the problem with it.

I also recently say on a banner on a Vietnamese restaurant a shrimp.. But only at first glance, because a shrimp is not a full taurus, like a pink striped donut.

Yeah agree with you, and perhaps both are even important in our public opinion forming... Recently I've been hearing people like Grant Sanderson on AI, and they are all very "wise" and informed, neither dismissive nor mindlessly (p/b)ro, but really thinking implications of this technology through. Like Tao does here. I love it, these people provide real direction.

Certainly not implying that! He's the one with the deferred judgement and the wisdom.

I think we can say by now that we should not listen to the early nay-sayers and just wait a bit. With every trend, not just "AI". They still have some points (the ethics and environment etc), but the we don't hear from the Stochastic Parrot folks anymore.

Of course it's good to have the discussion... So maybe, we listen to the nay-sayers, but defer judgement on the matter... That's wisdom.

Edit, to be clear, I consider Tao to be the wisdom provider, not an early nay-sayer!

I recently saw a YT short of Grant Sanderson on AI in math and found it (as always) very insightful. But I'm sorry, I never ever find anything back on any of these ad-ridden platforms these days, and perhaps it was a short with content stolen from some other longer content anyway. So, if you feel like getting informed, somewhere out there is some nice content by Grant Sanderson.

Apologies for the rant, I really tried to find it. It had something to do with not being able to predict what this influx of proofs may bring us on a meta level, it could be very interesting. But he also had some critical notes about the missing process and the things found along the way.

It's sad when a technology so thoroughly changes what you love. It's life as a human I guess. I hope people like this can still find a way to enjoy themselves, differently. Usually humans do, given time.

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"

I have an iPad so I can get all the apps (like banking and governments ID stuff), but other than that it's GrapheneOS and Linux. I only miss things that are put on only the closed platforms (iOS and Android). Other than that I experience clean minimalism all day. Bless Gnome, bless NixOS, Bless GrapheneOS. They just get out of my way on the road to being productive.

...Ok there is bliss... and the pain of having to use MS365 through the browser which "just doesn't work" [tm] (constant log-outs, you're logged out but you don't get an error until 5 minutes of wondering where chats are going, you're a guest in an org but that works 20% of the time in 20% of browsers, etc, etc , etc)

If the desktop-mode on GrapheneOS (Android 17) would have a bit less papercuts that would be a nice platform for my MS365 stuff, but is suffers from stuff like the keyboard taking half my ultra-wide in some apps, and poor window management. It's really is close to being a viable work env imho though. That'd be so cool... The dream since Ubuntu's Convergence...

100%, also: Diaspora. <3 Greg Egan.

I understand electricity usage... But water "usage"? The water is not used, heat is transferred to the water, and then it is available again, right? Am I missing something? Is the heat the big problem? Why do we call it "usage"? Is it actual tap-water that could have been put to other use?

Water that had some heat transferred to it sounds like perfectly well usable water, right...?

Because we have never forgotten our kid's birthdays, but I have forgotten my own (ok I was older), and Inhave forgotten wedding anniversaries. I depend heavily on my phone for remembering these days. And, I'll be honest I am very curious about the responses I'd get, I do genuinely think the importance put on this one day is weird and was/am hoping someone would articulate in a rational way why we do. Sorry, I know it comes across as being a dick. But sometimes that's what internet identities can be for, right?

I think it just irks me that everybody thinks it's so bad this boy's birthday was forgotten, while not knowing anything about it. I have friends that take their kids to out-of-school care at 7:00, pick them up again 18:00 all week, so they can put them to bed and that's it. But hey, they have a nice birthday right? Lot of presents! We have always made it a point to have someone at home (early on it was also the grand parents), someone to pick them up from school, no day-care, we have a drink with them ask them about their day, help them go to friends etc. But heavens forbid if I'd forget a birthday (which honestly could happen without my partner here, although with smartphones nowadays it'd indeed be a big oversight.)

"... many of the AI contributions were not planned and showed little understanding of the software architecture. So the team wants to "prioritize working on contributions from our own team and regular contributors.""

Sounds reasonable, even to avid LLM users, I suppose. You have to draw a line. This line is too simplistic, but it'll work, for now.

Well luckily my wife is always on the ball. But I tell them I love them almost everyday. I really hope they will forgive me my chaotic mind. If a child has to get all their sense of value from a single day a year something's very wrong. I get all your points, it's important but not that important.

I could absolutely forget my kid's birthdays. Even though I love them dearly. It's just a round around the sun and culturally made important. Idk what else was going on but building something in the yard together with your parent sounds like fun to me.

Or, this was sarcasm?

Anyway I don't like birthdays myself. I don't like getting presents, I don't like giving them. If you want something just buy it. Why this weird ritual??

Wouldn't you just post-process all images again at that point?

I agree it's not easy, but someone in her position could put out a call for companies that would support her (and benefit from very good PR in the process). Ie, perhaps the Dutch ethical (and low-tech) bank Triodos would be a candidate? I agree such companies would really put their behinds on the line, so maybe that won't work...

"I went home and Alexa wouldn't talk to me," she told NPR's Steve Inskeep.

ICC judge and she has a device like this in her house. I think that she did not read any Snowden related books.

Furthermore it's a bit of a missed opportunity for her to not move to Proton, NextCloud, GrapheneOS, and show how she can still live her life with many modern conveniences. She could find some non-over-complient companies and list them, I'd go for those from now on, great PR. But alas, she is not a Techy. Maybe Meredith Whittaker can pay her a visit and show her a thing or two. I'd like to see that happen. Whittaker will be in the Netherlands soon for an Honorary degree [0]

[0] https://vu.nl/nl/nieuws/2026/vu-eredoctoraat-voor-voorvechte...