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The Ludditism in this thread, and the linked thread, is shocking.

You got me.

This is actually super interesting, but then I realized it can't be true. :)

Upvote for a real answer.

That's fun, good call. PR review can happen in web interface (when GitHub is up).

What’s the use case for editors when agents write the code?

> The only downside of the USB cable tester is that I would love to support more plugs on the B side: USB-A (for my Frankencables) and USB B (which everyone but seems to think extinct).

Music production peripherals, until the recent USB C transition, commonly used USB B for some reason. Anyone know why?

Technically correct is best correct! Touché!

assert(spellcheck(“Friednly”));

The problem is you're getting downvoted by the people who didn't.

I wish the Polaroid exposed film.

ETA: I know how hard that would be with bricks -- would need a custom piece for a light enclosure.

Mac Neo

The MacBook Neo is, to my mind, almost certainly a sink for rejected mobile chips. My understanding is that they run a nominally six-core chip in five-core mode.

This is fine, and actually a brilliant business move to monetize inventory investment that is otherwise sunk while releasing a new product that doesn't require them to fight for fab capacity.

It's just not something I'm seeing in the consumer discourse that, perhaps, people might like to understand.

Do you watch Star Trek Academy?

No worries, it’s unenforceable.

"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."

Almost certainly the IP will be held in Singapore for tax reasons.

Especially with Trek.

The trick in corporate environments is to watch for the people who respond well to this kind of speech and avoid/eject.

The people who roll their eyes at corporate nonsense are your skunkworkers.

This kind of argument, while moral on a surface level, belies a misunderstanding of human nature. In Jungian terms, it assumes that the shadow self either does not exist or has been fully integrated without confrontation.

Once one has enough power and experience to achieve one’s goals despite opposition, and to use others instrumentally, the moral calculus can become difficult. We do not all start from the same circumstances: I am writing this on a phone produced by slave labour.

As Lenin might have said: “compassion for whom?”

You say “God is a choice”. Solipsism is a choice.

What we now call Silicon Valley was created by the Navy in the late 19th century because they needed advanced radio technology to coordinate Pacific patrols. From then to about five years before the time you’re talking about, schools and tech companies worked closely with the military.

On the timescale of the industry as a whole, working with the military has been the norm and we are seeing a reversion to mean after about two decades of aberrant divergence.

I am shocked. Shocked! This is shocking /s

Perhaps forced to move over to building military and intelligence models.

Hitler attacked several countries before attacking Poland.

“A bunch of localized conflicts” is what contemporaries thought WWII was before people realized the larger pattern.

WWII, contemporaneously, was thought of as several small regional wars: “wow, that Hitler guy has started a bunch of small limited conflicts.”

It was only when one stood back to regard the whole picture that it became clear that something larger was happening.

OP is making the same point.

Op made an evocative point but then immediately betrayed it.

It is interesting to think about the difference of livestreaming versus television.

Do you support the Iranian regime?

Once I became a Dad, getting socks for Christmas suddenly turned into one of the most thoughtful gifts possible. A self-care item. The flip was very sudden and surprising.

As long as you’re careful, you can let it meat puppet you (go here do this).

You give it its own accounts, say email and calendar, and have it send you drafts and invite you to stuff. It doesn’t need your email and calendar.

Actually, I just asked my guy and he suggests just generating local ICS files. Even safer.

OpenClaw running Opus is intelligent, careful, polite. It has a lot to do with the underlying model.

And if you don’t connect it to stuff, it can’t connect.

> On Christmas Eve, 9 “peer-reviewed” economics papers were quietly retracted by Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher.

It is becoming clearer and clearer that peer review is a systematized band wagon fallacy.

It relies on the belief that one’s peers in a competitive field, presented with new ideas and evidence, will simply accept it.

And yet, “science progresses one funeral at a time” is an old joke.

“Peer review” is an indication an idea is safe for granting agency bureaucrats to fund, not an indication of its truth, validity, or utility.