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Also the convert energy into aluminum glitch.

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I've thought about this at times. How convenient that things seem to work out that way! Though I wonder if it's more just a bias. All the very impressive things you can make from the abundant materials have already been made. Like, say, all of life?

So I plugged this into free tier claude.ai and asked it to make a Hamster Wheel Washing Machine. It said, "sure can, boss!" and went to work, only to return with zero output to say, "we need to talk about this project's budget..."

It's a lot like hiring the cheapest contractor you can find.

I dunno how prevalant this term is, but people at my last robotics company called it the "dead sea effect." Those who can, leave. Those who can't, hang on.

Sorry I didn't mean to sound authoritative. I am, by some definitions, antiauthoritative.

I find tremendous beauty in the idea that HTML is just a syntactically structured document and in a perfect world you can render it to paper, voice, braille reader, screen, e-ink, etc. I'm equally attracted to the idea of asking an HTTP API for your desired content-type.

But in practical terms it's often just a distraction. You should do it if it's worth doing. I can imagine some websites having almost zero audience for "I want this printed" while others probably have a considerable audience (though oftentimes they just point to a .pdf which offers better layout guarantees). Some websites should be printable.

That's interesting. Thanks for the correction and for sharing.

So if I understand this correctly, there's basically both concepts? One is an unambiguously evil figure, while the other is essentially a definition for anyone who denys that Jesus is Christ, even if their ideological differences are begign?

Sorry, this gets into a fuzzy realm that might not be useful beyond just wild conjecture: it gets me thinking about the possible intent to create a sort of strawman. Create a megalomaniacal bogeyman and align to it anyone who doesn't toe the Church's line? I don't mean to be offensive or critical and I'm sure there's a term for this sort of meta theology (or is it just theology?) where I'm fascinated by what might have been the intent of these stories as curated for generations by a historically dominant power structure?

Is it even possible for an "evil" person to be evil while being consciously aware that they're evil? Has a notable figure like this ever existed?

Slightly tangential: this is one of those language things that tripped me up, and still does on first blush. "Antichrist" reads intuitively like some sort of polar opposite good vs. evil thing. That if Christ is about love and forgiveness, the antichrist is some cartoony evil concept. Then I learned that "antipope" is just a hard fork of the pope and isn't necessarily aligned against Catholicism in any significant way.

If it falls flat, it's not a joke, it's an anthropology experiment.

This is amazing. Now I'm imagining the ability to simulate less-than-ideal conditions for tree growth. Placing the tree next to a building or on a hill or culling branches at certain stages in its life to see what happens next, etc.

I think my overall thought is: we see plenty of nice looking trees in games and graphics. What about authentically degenerate trees?

They take on bushels of potentially generational debt to afford horribly overpriced and locked-in John Deere farming equipment to farm food when food can just be bought at the grocery store!

I think if you followed the money you’d find that it would be such a small amount as to be a ridiculously dumb scheme if it was meant to be one.

I feel like the lack of a question mark betrays the intent of the comment.

I think big organizations, by necessity, operate in a very compartmentalized way. Almost nobody is viewing the whole. Designers care about aesthetics. Lawyers care about risk. Developers care about shipping. IT Security cares about vulnerability. I really think this is unavoidable at scale. There's just no incentive for any of these groups to care about the other groups. Which is why you need a buck stops with me BDFL Steve Jobs like a-hole that looks at "DAFT PUNK™" and says, "absolutely not."

Yesterday I turned 40 and reflected on the same thing.

For most of my life the “main quest” was always obvious. I went to school, found my soul mate, got married, bought a house, had kids, paid off the mortgage, got yelled at by Howie Mandel, won the awards, achieved my career goals.

But now there’s no main quest. It’s just a whole wonderful, brilliantly rendered world of side quests for me to pick from. I’m spoiled with choice…

The thing is… main quests drive you, but you have to drive the side quests; they’re perfectly content to not get done. It’s an adjustment, and I’m optimistic that I’ll overcome it. But I’m currently trapped in the doldrums of figuring out what to do between now and when the credits roll.

There’s not one but two major HOMM games in late development right now.

I think it’s a reading comprehension level kind of thing. If I slow right down, it’s all there and understandable. But the quality of prose is terrible. It doesn’t lend itself to fast skimming. So it feels like I have to slow way down to understand it. To be fair a lot of humans at work write this poorly as well.

Slightly after your 51st birthday you won’t know why, but you’ll embark on a yearslong journey to discover the story.

The Blaster virus was a fun one.

The Internet is also just a series of tubes... but there's emergent properties that come out of any sufficiently complex system.

I think the framing provided in this creative writing is quite disagreeable. But I can understand why it feels that way. The important thing is to comprehend that it's not actually that way. The Internet is just a series of tubes... even though sometimes I refer to the Internet as an entity that can do some really funny stuff...

I want the same kind of phone. But I reject the premise that it's impossible to have a deeply nested "De-wall this device yes I know what I am doing yes I confirm I'm about to really open myself to issues if I don't understand the implications" settings option without compromising the walled mode security.

It's a felony to subvert the natural order of disposable tech consumerism.

Was it always called Docker? Do you think the branding played a larger role in success than you would have expected?

I remember when PS3 online was free but enough XBOX Cawadoody Halo 2KSports gamers were happy to pay extra for… I’m not sure what… that it was normalized and so Sony got in on that too and made the whole industry more expensive.

Reminds me of the enshittttification of TV where every new system starts off ad free and then adds ads anyways.

I really hope this isn’t chewing at you and that you’re just trying to do what you feel is the right thing by posting this.

There's so much potential here. It just takes a human who barely knows what they're doing to sit and make critical decisions about it all. You don't even have to have design experience. Just some common sense about consistency and intent.

Witnessing a candidate’s thought process is probably the most valuable part of the interview process for me. Nothing else comes close. Just let me listen/watch you solve problems.

The only time I think you ever need an icon beside text is if the exact same feature is found elsewhere as an icon only. And even then ask yourself if it can be avoided.