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Yeah I recommend reading “JavaScript the good parts” and don’t use anything far beyond those. Instead of “compile-time safety guarantees” by these vendor-lock-ins-masquerading-as-open-source, just use the language as it was designed: dynamically, and unit test—because you’re gonna be doing those anyway.

It’s not the spoon that bends, it’s the world around it.

There’s no such thing as stateless, and there’s no such thing as serverless.

The universe is a stateful organism in constant flux.

Put another way: brushing-it-under-the-rug as a service.

Yeah I’m just saying in general. I probably shouldn’t have replied to anyone in particular—just jumping in the conversation. =)

Another way to think of this is not making a “game engine” but just “making a game”. Get rid of all the generic stuff and use some common patterns that fit the game exactly. No need to over-abstract!

I think one can consider what AI will bring to the field of physics. Merit is quite deserving of math and science of building tools which will unlock potential discoveries from here into the future.

Despite all of the talk surrounding AI in the workforce/business world, I think it is actually most important in science.

Please hire a real artist those graphics on the home page are disturbing.

Im thinking a lot of those issues might be related to “smart” scraping which parses JavaScript. Could lean in to the bot and just make it easier for them to scrape by removing JavaScript from the websites.

I realize this is somewhat off-topic, but the big companies kind of destroyed the internet with all the JavaScript frameworks and whatnot.

I’ve always wanted to drive in circles under power lines listening to the Jethro Tull Christmas special!

The fact that everyone still calls it twitter answers your question. =)

Maybe if he reverts the name.

Yeah it’s tough. Could get the people to curate the content. Bookmarks used to be a sacred thing. I’m sure if we band together, the best sites are already known to someone, somewhere.

But yeah, read a book. Practice poetry. Go analog. It’s very rewarding!

Yeah I agree—they should use the AGPL as that’s the one that protects on the server side.

It seems more like someone advertising as a Honda dealership.

Yeah when I go to WPEngine site it feels like they copy-pasted it.

This is the thing about open source is MOST people do not contribute anything. And we’re seeing this trend with the whole Continue.dev situation too. Copy-paste, rebrand, make some money.

I think everyone needs to consider what the O.G. Wordpress team has created—and how many hours of blood, sweat, and tears went in. And then some folks just copy-paste and siphon out their business.

Another parallel is type foundries and printing presses. At one point people operated these linotype machines which used molten lead. Of course this transitioned to photo typesetting which, to the dismay of everyone had poor results. Along came Donald Knuth and TeX to fix those deficiencies. NOTE: mechanical printing has a profoundly better result no matter what. It is the ink and the impression in paper that makes it superior (for letterforms and such).

So, if AI follows suit, we will witness the dumb (but very knowledgeable) AI start to supplant workers with questionable results; and then someone (or a team) will make a discovery to take it to the limit and it’ll be game over for large swaths of jobs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_metal_typesetting

JetBrains built a business on top of IDEs long before AI was mainstream.

GitHub built their business on top of Git and collaborative coding. Microsoft (who owns GitHub) built part of their business on Visual Studio (also IDEs) long before AI was mainstream.

So it’s a natural extension to their existing business.

But if you’re selling me on a smarter autocomplete, I can already say from experience that AI can bounce good implementation ideas around, but it ALWAYS takes my intervention to get it right.

I’m happy to pay for an AI service, but I’m not going to pay for an AI service, an AI coding extension, an AI diff util, an AI SCM, and so-forth.

I watched the video promoting Continue.dev and just think to myself, these AI editors don’t actually add much value.

EMacs and Treesitter is much faster way to “find all references to X” in the codebase. Other questions can be answered with the naive grep implementation and marginal brain power.

If all they’re investing in here is to write boilerplate code, well, that takes not much time in the grand scheme of things. Where the value add is actually in the design phase. And, as a result of these tools people are going to just skip those crucial steps.

Am I missing something?

You “just” need a more vivid imagination if that’s as far as your comment stretches.

I mean seriously, people on here. I’m just spitballing ideas not intended to write some kind of dissertation on brain-machine interaction.

That’s Elon musks department.

The something special about biology is it uses much less energy than a network of power-hungry graphics cards!

Well, I mean to say, not exactly human brains. Consider an extremely large brain modified to add/remove sections to increase its capabilities.

They already model neural networks on the human brain, even though they currently use orders of magnitude more energy.

I think it will be an organoid brain bio-machine. We can already grow organs—just need to grow a brain and connect it to a machine.

I’ve recently discovered Tcl and absolutely love it! It’s such a fun language.

The starpacks/starkits for packaging apps together are really nice.

For anyone interested there’s a fork of the Tcl Dev Kit at: https://github.com/bandoti/tdk

This allows one to package applications with shared libraries and all bundled together.

Haha, wireless plumbing. What a delightful image. =)

This to me seems not a problem with remote vs. office, but a particular company culture. Meeting notes aren’t difficult to create.

The problem with chat-based solutions is people get lazy in articulation. So instead of a cohesive idea it’s spread across a giant thread. And instead of actually creating a proper document, it’s easy to say, “Meh, I’ll do it later it’s in slack.” But then it never gets done, and the info is privy to only those in the conversation.

It can be good or bad either way, but there’s no substitute for in-person communication; and there’s no substitute for a thoughtfully constructed document.

Everything is made of plastic now though including those fuzzy blankets and pillows people love.

Wow thank you for sharing this project. Definitely going to buy a copy.

You might want to change Road Runner logo because it’s definitely copyrighted

ChatGPT is really good at answering specific questions. Just like asking a co-worker, it will do the best to its knowledge, but expect you to know how to integrate that knowledge.

It’s a very useful tool to see how to do something a different way, and sometimes it’s surprising and has some really good ideas!

The problem is people expect these tools to “just do it”, but that doesn’t work. You need to iterate—if it makes a mistake, nudge it in the right direction and you’ll find it knows how to intelligently adjust where it goes wrong.

Makes sense. Instead of having a flat back, it might be kind of neat to have it slope like a “wedge” shape.

It would actually make the phone more comfortable in the hands too because they could improve the weight balance.

My biggest complaint is that the lenses aren’t flush with the back. I hate having cases on my phone, and their design makes wireless charging somewhat useless because it’s not flush with the charging mat.