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I believe they licensed smth from groq
If you allow yourself to redefine “achieving greatness” you may be surprised by what is on the other side :)
My guess is that this change has its roots in the move from physical media delivery of software to internet delivery.
My instinct is that there is some general principle that relates “friction” and “quality”, although I’m not sure I have the vocabulary to describe it.
I.e. where there is a barrier to entry, quality of results tends to improve.
I also see this in ease of publishing to social media, bias of “old music is better” (time has sorted wheat from chaff) and so on.
Perhaps there’s a well known description of this phenomenon somewhere already…
Hi, we’ve never met but I dig the energy you put into your work that I’ve seen (books, dart etc). An idea I’ve had, but not brought to fruition, is that of using SmallTalk to produce a document of some kind — that is, the result of the work would be a portable executable image that could be read and interacted with and so on :)
Betrayal of trust is indeed serious, and a hard lesson for many of us. Consider also that progress is made one step at a time, over a long time. While a desire for sudden, wholesale changes is understandable, it may be counterproductive. YMMV
If someone can please figure out how to integrate a purchase/payment system into a similar protocol we would love you forever :)
I would so love to help my many artist/musician friends get set up direct-to-consumer with digital content, subscriptions etc — and with their own shops, that they can run, in whatever funky style.
I think you almost have a point in that you seem to be advocating for something along the lines of unbiased input (questioning the presented information because it was constructed for presentation, suggesting that an AI could somehow assist, presumably to help ground your information in a wider context etc)
I think what you may be missing is the role of trust. There is much to say about that, but in this instance, a nice thing about RSS is that I can trust the algorithm it uses to generate my feed. It is very simple, and I, myself choose the sources it draws from.
With some other systems, this is not the case.
Perhaps you could stand up a small service on another host using headless chrome or similar to render, and fall back to client side if the service is down and you don’t already have the pre rendered result stored somewhere. I suggest this only because you mentioned not wanting to pollute your current server environment, and I enjoy seeing these kind of optimizations done :^)
I think upon reflection you may discover that indeed many generations have _lived it_ many times before you as well
Hi, I don’t fully disagree with you, but a gentle reminder that for many “contribution” is itself out of reach.
An aside: I remember when I was a child, my dad’s favorite coffee mug was black ceramic with a white monotype slogan “Life’s a bitch and then you die”. If that made you chuckle, maybe you’re in a pretty good spot :)
I’m not sure your assertion regarding ancient Egyptians’ feelings on art trends of their time can be tested :P
People create with what is at hand — this includes ideas, not just physical media. In my opinion, suggesting there is society-wide progress (or lack of it) in art is silly, like suggesting the same for fashion or cooking.
Exploration, technical evolution, yes. And progress in ideas, in society? Of course!
If you are designing for that kind of long term I suggest looking into SmallTalk. A lot changes in 30 years.
Allow the user to draw into the frame buffer during play and feed that back, and you could have something very interesting.
Have you all looked into pluggable types at all? It'd be nice to be able to enforce a convention like, any class annotated with type x must prefix all methods which call into y with z, and be given warnings/errors at build time. Forgive my ignorance if this is already doable, I work in OS X.
Generic sequences are coming to common lisp. I'm working on a simple implementation inspired by clojure which I'll be posting to /r/lisp in the coming week.