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I did not take that position. You asked if US citizens could refuse AI without religious exemption, possibly suggesting the dramatics are unnecessary, and I answered that I could not.

Possibly not. I would get fired if I said "yeah, I'm not using [AI]."

Here's an easy example. Every discord client now ships with Krisp, and many clients squelch settings were automatically changed from standard to Krisp when this feature launched.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040843952-K...

Local journalism _feels_ like more than a job. Before my CS career, I was a photojournalist for a few different daily papers. It felt like important work. We were history keepers and story tellers for a community.

> I still don't understand how people justify the cost of using API keys vs. subscription

Like a big white truck or a 600mm lens, expensive gear should be purchased by an employer. I think most folks talking about API access are getting it through work/self-employment.

Anthropic needs to retune their personal plans. Opus is the Amelia Bedelia of models. Maddening! I shelled out $100 for Fable to drive Opus and finish a personal project, but that's probably my last time loading up on usage credits. I put a second $100 towards API credits so I could dink around with API access and understand conversations like these.

> Given the palpable shift in online conversation since a couple of Russian datacenters got blown up

Forgive me, but hacker news is the only social media I participate in. Is this a pretty commonly held sentiment? Like are other social media users commenting on this trend? Any news articles? Thanks

> $300 minipc will get you much further than this thing will.

Unless your goal is to comfortably watch TV using a TV remote.

I could not find a single blu ray player online with this feature. Can you please provide a recommendation for a player that has multi-disc memory?

My PS5 supports this in the narrowest of cases: the DVD is stopped, power is uninterrupted, the DVD is not ejected. There's definitely no persistent memory of episodes watched. What is your DVD player?

I foolishly purchased the Blu-Ray remaster of Battlestar Galactica and every damn episode begins with the same introduction from Ronald Moore talking about sound quality.

To your earlier points about VHS and Streaming, both of those formats allow the user to pause and resume at a later time. DVD players don't provide this.

> as a form of entertainment

Absolutely and I was thinking about this when I wrote my initial comment. It's a good consideration. Star Trek _does_ have an AI computer capable of generating code and stories and all it requires of the user is a little prompting.

TNG shows humans are using this technology to engage themselves. People rock climb, ski, perform Shakespeare. Holodeck authors are well-respected throughout the galaxy. They also warned us of holodeck psychosis.

Data is an android, but what about his story suggests we should slurp up doggerel? His existence is the pursuit of humanity's "essence."

> Although it certainly helped that TNG is by faaar my favorite of the Treks.

The final season of Picard was pure fan service AND I LOVED EVERY MOMENT OF IT! Even when I'm critical of Trek, I'm still there and trying to enjoy. Thank you for sharing.

I've found season 4 of SNW to be the best Star Trek in the 21st century. Can you share what you enjoyed more in its earlier seasons?

DSC and Picard were long slogs in the spirit of "grit" and "realism." SNW having fun, switching up the mood every episode, and telling stories is a breath of fresh air. Strange New Episodes! The Henson Studio collaboration was amazing. Since Netflix canned Dark Crystal, I've been missing my weird muppets traveling across time and space.

Both LD and SNW managed to get less of that Kurtzman stink compared to Academy, DSC, or the movie which shall never be named. I hope they'll let the franchise mellow until they find new direction. (And a new owner.)

* Lower Decks is the truest Trek to ever Trek, but I know that's asinine so I saved my opinion for the footnote.

* ENT was off to a good start, but the 9/11-ification of TV took it off course.

AI generated Star Trek is an oxymoron. Gene Roddenberry's ghost stirs the longer we even consider the idea.

Two quotes from Star Trek "The Ultimate Computer" - a very prescient episode.

KIRK There are certain things men must do to remain men. Your computer would take that away.

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BONES Compassion. That's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps men ahead of them. Care to debate that, Spock?

SPOCK No, Doctor. I simply maintain that computers are more efficient than human beings, not better.

Interesting. I'm intending not to reach out it in my case. The goal was to find a safeISH default parameter when constructing a WHATWG URL only for its pathname.

I've seen google STUN servers used in production. Folks probably rely on unpkg too much to deliver their JS. Good to consider these failure modes.

If your service runs on AWS, reaching amazon dot com seems somewhat more reasonable an internal health check.

I have been naively using example.com in the browser. WHATWG URL throws if there is no origin when constructing the URL. Web apps that need to construct _just_ the pathname must go through this song and dance. `new URL("/blah", "https://example.com").pathname` This isn't relying on any external example.com service but I'm learning the lesson.

Sony broke the Canon/Nikon duopoly of professional, digital cameras. They put out a mid-level mirrorless camera and rode it out. Today, I see Sony kits everywhere like on sidelines, press pools, and studios. But I'm not a Sony investor, so maybe like you, there's not much personal interest beyond "Wow, they made a great business decision."

> It was a gamble against your own time and patience.

At this point, what do the words even mean? Your own patience and available time are always completely random and fairly distributed across a large enough data set?

> Maybe I'd waste hours down the wrong rabbit holes trying to find a library that worked for my use case. Maybe I'd waste a day trying to get an API to do something it turned out it couldn't do. Maybe I'd have to redo my entire approach because of some factor I hadn't considered.

Our ignorance isn't random chance. As we research and experiment, we reduce the problem area.

> but I don't want to be rude and mean.

I've also found that "bruh" and f-bombs get me better results, but like you say, I don't want to have that vocabulary.

This is a skill I learned as a coffee shop supervisor and youth camp counselor, and now I really practice it on Slack with half-interested product owners.

- Always describe tasks in the positive. (Never describe tasks in the negative.)

- DO guide the user safely. DO NOT use DO NOT because the reader already DID.

- Give guided choices based on your expertise.

- Asking two-or-more questions results in one-or-less answers.

- Conditionals are also questions, so you only get one.

I only use AI agents and tools for work, I don't create them, so I'm not a subject matter expert. Where I've anthropomorphized the tools highlights my own misunderstandings.

The experience can be vastly different than deeply configuring a system like a power user. My nontechnical, 87-years-old grandfather is putting together apps to help him with his language practice. He uses Google iirc. The chatbot is a familiar interface since his time working did overlap with IRC, email, early internet, yada yada.

I don’t want to necessarily argue about merit or quality, but I have seen that custom software can be accessible to a general audience.

> the validity of the argument itself is orthogonal to the speaker’s identity.

How did you arrive at this conclusion? Are you actually the Big Bad Wolf? That sounds like something the Big Bad Wolf would say.

This doesn't hold up to scrutiny because tech companies _do_ provide input at policy level. Sticking to transportation, auto groups and manufacturers were able to popularize "jay walking" a century ago. Tech leadership and politics mingle at the highest levels too. For ex, Trump took Huang, Cook, and Musk with him on a recent trip to China.

It seems like the wrong tool for the job to me, but I was curious and thought about it a little:

After initial page load, a service worker could intercept all the HTMX app's AJAX requests, but it could only work with what's already cached. Using a lot of tooling like workbox the developer could pre-cache the entire app. (Would that mean no dynamic responses?)

Alternatively, implement the entire HTMX app in JS, build the app once for the NodeJS/Deno backend and once for the front-end. After page load, the frontend could take over.

Or something like that. It's a bit convoluted as PWA solutions often are.

My current provider shows me their computer monitor for the entire appointment. I didn’t ask for that treatment but I really appreciate it.

What board are you using that supports SODIMM? I’ve got 64GB I want to put in a workstation but I’m not finding the right solution.

Waymo cancels cars when they are unable to get to you in a reasonable time. The service will not resend a car automatically, so the user needs to babysit the app until they’re actually in the car. I’ve seen this twice in the last week. In Phoenix and SF we have preferred ride share or taxi when the car showing up is important, like getting to a medical appointment on time.

> Is there a good reason browsers could and or should not support ts out of the box?

Because it’s a Microsoft product and Microsoft still follows Embrace, Extend, Extinguish process. Once every browser supports TS, what prevents Microsoft from revving TS with a license change? Who’s going to take over the TS fork?

Bill Hicks was a comedian. It's not advice.

> The real question isn't "do you need a database" but "do you need state" — and often the answer is no.

This is a solid takeaway and applies to a lot of domains. Great observation