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In my teens I had enjoyed a book series "Tunnels" by Roderick Gordon & Brian Williams. The story cranks the mole fantasy up to 12 & surprise, surprise... it is set in some london downtown.
I think this is what you want to think, to support a world-view you have had constructed in your head through prior, often unrelated, experiences.
Prejudice is natural, being able to fight the first hunch & against instinct, await & study more information is really hard. At least for me, it requires active effort.
I very much say "Google uses web crawlers to scrape web pages." and if something breaks, or some data is stolen, everyone else is going to be saying that Google has to take responsibility.
I guess that team was dismantled some time ago, with no on carrying the flag anymore. Modern windows is impossible to work on using just keyboard. Some mods & extensions do help. But the native experience is abysmal.
Brother was so close to winning big, then just stopped digging, when one could smell the success.
I really need a tool, which is going to reliably consolidate collective kniwledge of many teams, about different parts of a product, into given structure.
It feels like an impossible task. With little bips and bops being relevant across the whole project. One would have to scour through the entire document they are creating, for every bip and bop they want to write down.
Not like LLM could not do this.
But, there always comes a point, where some important relation is skipped, or is just part of the tribal knowledge. Someone, somewhere just knows, that if X fails, he has to look in Z, but this fact is not noted in the knowledgebase. So, the re-write always falls apart.
I've taken hand-written, on paper, notes throughout my education, up to high school level.
In university, I've switched to hand-written notes on a tablet device.
At the end of uni, when I started working on my final thesis & Obsidian was becoming popular, I've switched to it and since then, everything I note is organized into markdown files or at least is somehow referenced through pure text.
Having experienced all of these methods. I've found myself regularly searching through my vault and referencing older material. While the notes hand-written on a tablet, made it much easier to sift through vast amounts of material I was ingesting at the time. I find myself unable to re-use these notes in any meaningful way. They still exist, I can access them, but I don't find myself going back to them.
Old paper notebooks? Most of them are destroyed, lost, forgotten to time.
The knowledge management, with easily indexable and searchable contents, has this invaluable perk of being accessible at a moments notice. Keeping potential of being relevant.
Holy AI Slop.
Each tool is a minimal implementation of a concept, rarely complete, ergonomic, useful solutions.
There is no search, so... how does one quickly get to what they need, on a kilometer long list?
Most of this stuff should be integrated into a search box.
There are hybrid packages, which are very good for performance applications. A performance oriented conversion, done well, should boost the value.
You would have to provide custom replacement hubs, for all the vehicle types you want to support.
Plus, adding a clutch system to a hub drive is not feasable. So, the hub engines are engaged all the time.
I've considered it as a modification for FWD track performance cars. It is much easier to add a hub into a stiff rear axle. Turns out, that adding an electric motor, which is not part of the main engine assembly, ads way too much complexity in controlling the whole thing and weight to power ratio, that it stops quickly stops making sense.
They both have their uses.
At the extreme, try to imagine Pubg as a web app. There are good modern games that work purely in a browser. But still, there are "applications" that function better as full fledge clients seeping small amounts of data and there are "applications" that function just aswell as dynamically loaded full server-side solutions.
In development, you don't have the privilege of using optimised culling and LODs. For rapid development, very little code is compiled & there are extra IDE tools running.
When you consider that 16GB has become the minimum requirement for modern A+ titles (with the Windows OS & background tasks squating on 4-6GB). Creating such a title might be difficult on memory limited machine.
Unreal had made some improvements in this regard recently, with direct from storage assets loading & stuff.
It is EXACTLY the type of people that are hired to make decisions, because of either nepotism or impressing with portfolio filled with overcomplicated, 3.js frontpages.
What about abstracting the complexity and achieving "config file" configuration with macros?
There is no soul in a human. Just a bunch of systems nudging each other to action. What people call soul is literally the same as the concept of personality. In essence, the way all systems in your body have been calibrated to exist.
I believe that the moment an artificial inteligence is going to "receive" a soul, is the moment it is going to be made to sustain itself. Either as a larger package (some bots working to keep an AI farm running) or as an individual (a bot which is tasked with not only fulfilling human desires, but also sustaining itself)
There is no soul. Just a bunch of systems nudging each other to action. What people call soul is literally the same as the concept of personality. In essence, the way all systems in your body have been calibrated to exist.
I believe that the moment an artificial inteligence is going to "receive" a soul, is the moment it is going to be made to sustain itself. Either as a larger package (some bots working to keep an AI farm running) or as an individual (a bot which is tasked with not only fulfilling human desires, but also sustaining itself)
A testament to how well Brave protects you from being identified by [Cloudflare in this example]
What do you mean that looking for SMB (Samba) related posts on HackerNews gives results about SuperMarioBros?!
This is why humans are better (for now) than AI.
There are far too many Asian electronic engineers for NA or EU based craftsmen to gain easy living.
You have to make a viral product and find a way to satiate the demand, to find similar success to software & AI bros.
No pricing page, you've lost my interest. Doesn't matter that there is an obscured quote on the front page. Be up front about the costs.
Fort Firewall is my tool of choice.
Each connection requires explicit approval.
This looks great if combined with versioning system. As part of git repor for example.
But, for general journaling, I would not trust something that does not leverage the strengths of a filesystem.
Why not... hifipartpicker?
I am an experienced dev, who learned about all the marvelous FLOSS tooling, by randomling stumbling upon it in deep dives into Linux ecosystem.
And I have no idea how it could be even remotely possible for a youngling to discover the same things in the torrent of sloppy SaaS.
Do you know of a "hitchikers guide to the FLOSS galaxy" that could teach the ways of the elders, from the ground up?
For me, its a distraction from the corporate world. A token of my outies existence in the innie world.
A lot of tedium is added into these games to force the player into spending real money for skips & access to content. It is a valid way to incentivize customers into paying for given service, but also means there are many time wasting repetitive tasks that can ruin the experience if one does not grasp the concept of "when the game starts getting tedions, you are supposed to pay"