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I like this, but not things I wrote instead of using existing lib took weeks, not an afternoon. And I didn't think they would take an afternoon.

If it's trivial, probably use existing lib.

I don't know what my rule for deciding this is....I don't think I have one. I just make decisions. If I don't like a library I won't use it.

the thing I like about " old School " Unix systems is you can have a bunch of users on there and they can chat to each other with message.... and it's so easy to set up

I added a correction for usernames with Capitals.

They are now published at "the tilde"

as in

https://jtbiggle.net/~MyCapsUsername

Yes. That way you can set it up however you like.

But perhaps it would be more useful if it restricted to using something like markdown and automatically make a blog out of those files.

It could be easier right? How would you do it?

:) Thank you for the links :P

particularly 2nd one. seems very interesting. really appreciate! :P;) xx fascinating both :p ;)xxx

This is a great point.

I think hallucinogens might "turn the dial" on our quantum consciousness and "tune you in" to different parts of the signal, possibly meaning they can "entangle" the quantum structures in our minds with persistent information structures present somewhere. Maybe they do this randomly, or perhaps each drug is "frequency locked" to some particular part of the "spectrum" (not that I think it's anything so simple as a spectrum defined by a couple of parameters like 'virbation frequency' or whatever, but...), because there are often the same qualia reported for some chemicals independent of the person or setting (like DMT, apparently everybody on that saw an entity once).

Maybe the way chems affect us like this, is the same with getting into altered states without drugs. Or, to take a line from the matrix, "disrupt your input/output carrier signal" (as the red pill did).

what are you using to do the full text search?

hehehe. chuckle. it's like giant orgs make an art out of dysfunction, more sophisticated and sophisticated levels of dysfunction. as if refinement of dysfunction to its highest potential was the ultimate aim.

Agree. But some people will see lack of weapons as weakness to exploit. It's easier and higher ROI for 1 to arm, while rest disarm, than for all to remain disarmed, so it will happen. Making the current undesirable state where we have this fantasy of nuclear slugfest, paradoxically more stable.

But yeah, in a sense it's like we're storing AN in a warehouse beside a city. Seemingly stable, but bad if not. Unless we're not storing AN, but just sawdust. But who knows really?

an even more stable situation would be to have every country convinced they have a mutually assured destruction but then for there to be some higher power that can prevent that. so we don't start a war because we believe mad is true but even if we do there's a fallback. but who knows?

I was hoping you could help me think of more uses.... :D haha

I didn't think of it that way, but sure! I was thinking more...who is happy in whatever they are currently doing: current "role", self-employed, indie maker, side project, research, parent, carer.

I guess the most obvious focus to me was "current full time regular paid employment", but I didn't want to limit it, so thanks for your suggestion!

I think it would be cool to hear stuff like, "I'm taking care of my son, who's six and home-schooled. We live in remote Alaska and my partner works in oil and gas, that's how we met. We used to alternate fly in fly outs, but now we've decided to do longer stints taking care of our first child. I'm loving seeing how he views the world, and the home life I make with him."

Cool. Are you by any chance in materials science? Or oceanography?

Looks cool!

Meta: How is this under "Ask"? Are these paid submissions?

Answer:

- Generate a grammar of a natural language. Generate against a grammar + other models to generate text/code. - Generate proteins/RNA

- Generate lattices/materials

- Generate objects in pure maths: knots, planar graphs, polynomial rings, solutions to diophantine equations, error-correcting codes

- Generate "neural nets" deep learning graphs, and see what they do, and see how they work as starting points for different tasks/trainings

I guess it works to say "improve my reactions" not "fix" . fixed and inflexible is not what I'm going for. Creating improvements is :)

Thinking about this more, I think we need less expressive tools with less freedom.

Freedom = more ways it can fuck up. Which is more scary.

We don't need "easy to use". Easy to use just means "easy to make a big mess."

It probably needs to be hard to fuck up, less magic, not too expressive, but targeted on the problem. Constrain people, and they will still find a way.

I think making things easy to use has been over-hyped by idiot founders and investors who don't get the customers they pretend to understand. But yeah, reject me from YC 9 times, and don't fund my work...I guess being an indie dev/maker is more my style. Who wants to have an investor boss anyway?

Sorry I should have seen what happened. I made a good point, and you took a tiny piece of it, found something to disagree with and held on for dear life, to prove "joshspankit is right", "browsergap is wrong". Yay! Congratulations! Good for you. Within the confines of your narrow misinterpretation, you have proved you're self right again, you advance to the next stage.

If I hadn't been so triggered by being unresolved about being criticized as a kid...I probably would have seen that what you're saying just backs up what I said: if people are scared of complex sheets, they're likely terrified of app makers.

I wish people like you would acknowledge the good points I make, and not take them out of context, and not define themselves by disagreement, but say something like, "Well you can break a spreadsheet. But I get what you're saying, it's less scary than apps in general."

And I wish I could not get triggered and just respond like: "Yes you can break a spreadsheet. But they're still way safer than app makers. Which is what I mean."

And I wish HN was not such a fucking shit show of people acting out and abusing and being mean to each other...but then why do I keep coming back?

But I'm not the boss of HN and I'm not the boss of you. So all I can do is fix my own reactions. People like you gonna keep existing...finding disagreements, maybe you enjoy it...maybe you're unresolved about something and this is how maladaptively try to recapture your power.

Whatever it is, we're all fucked up. We all just gotta find our own way that's to live that's free and untormented by past traumas that we didn't deserve and that are not our fault.

Maybe that's why I keep coming back...because it pushes my buttons, and I know that's some opportunity...it gives me a chance to work it out...rather than just "act out" on automatic. :)

Clearly you didn't see what I mean. I mean you can't break the "app". A spreadsheet app like Excel runs and it's literally like a kid's sandbox where you can do stuff in the sheet and Excel will just keep chugging. And if Excel breaks hey it ain't your fault.

My point is people don't want the responsibility us devs have to build "apps" that they are afraid they will make broken.

I think we probably don't need no code tools to help people build "apps" we need a more expressive executable document the combine stuff from the web, Microsoft word documents and Excel into something that's a little more powerful and fits today's use cases.

Just my two cents. Feel free to try to crucify me cuz my views differ to yours.

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Interesting. I think because "no code" doesn't actually empower people.

Seems paradoxical but it's not. Belief empowers, without that you think, I might break it, and that will be terrible. You can't break a spreadsheet.

Weellll.. take a look now. I've updated terms.