I just had a cursed analogy come to mind and I can't help but share it. The Gang Nail Plate : McMansions Vibe Coding: McCathedrals?
The Invention that Accidentally Made McMansions
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they want to debank leftsits... now what?
I don't know how anyone ever gets away with claiming they're the first to do anything. It carries a huge assumption of omniscience. In practice, being the first to do something often means you just did something for the first time, which is a more juvenile but still commendable state.
I remember the first time a friend ever used the phrase "load bearing" with me. We were at a house party, and someone was like "wow, it would be great if this wall wasn't here", and he said "you could just take it out as long as it isn't load-bearing", and in that moment I learned a little bit.
There’s an improv saying that I usually attribute to James Thomas Bailey of ComedySportz LA: “An improviser’s knowledge is a mile wide and an inch deep”. Maybe that background contributes to why this very combinatorial era has been fun to me.
Citizen Platano 🇵🇷@daniloc.xyz · 2w agogoing to be an emotional crisis for lots of *specialists* folks decided to go all in on narrow depth and the rewards from that are going to be under steady threat a diversified portfolio of skills and interests, meanwhile, enjoys steady returns under this paradigm compositional problem solving
It took nearly 2 years, but it seems like America is finally paying attention. 🙏🏻
apparently DHH just published a blog post *verbatim* calling for remigration, so… shout out to everyone who responded to this crying about how mAyBe He DoEsNt AgReE with the speakers at the far right racism march he described as "heartwarming" and "powerful"
Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff.com · 10mo agoshow this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
The other side of the coin is that sometimes you are aware of a security issue that you need to urgently patch. I’m not convinced that a publishing delay system will be a clear win for npm security. Does anyone have the data on both sides of the issue?
Paul Jensen@paulbjensen.bsky.social · 3w ago@socket.dev notified of the compromised Astro package (7.1.0) within the GitHub dependabot request, so didn’t merge that PR. I think they proved their value there, and given the package was published only 9 hours ago, that is more proof of the need to delay npm package updates.
I like Fable. I don’t like the games Anthropic plays to try to lock its users in: Constantly moving trial dates, subscriptions that don’t apply to custom tools. These are not what a mature stack will look like. I hope their financials don’t depend on these kinds of shenanigans & they get over it.
so turns out you can *still* use ublock on chrome if you just inspect element it lmfao
You’d think that Jevon’s paradox would saturate our demand for paradoxes, but in fact we see only a growing hunger for paradox.
I expect some very cool stuff in the next 24h from people whose work was unblocked by Fable.
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Modern social media is basically a distributed reply all pocalypse. Each replier foolishly believes they can put the madness to rest by extending the thread one more post.
Well said. People keep discussing AI like it’s a thing that it’s meaningful to be for or against rather than a new dimension that just unfolded with dangers and opportunities that we can only start to know by exploring.
Alice I Cecile@alice-i-cecile.bsky.social · last mo.AI: virtually no subject provokes such vitriol in my communities. I can grant the haters many of its harms, but their solutions leave much to be desired. I fear for the future even as I wonder at the future we are living. And so, dear hater, I must write: shaping.systems/blog/ai-suck...
I think it's kindof beautiful that when the whisper model is asked to transcribe silence, it is prone to hallucinate "thank you".
Inference clubs definitely deserve to be a thing. A little tricky to rally 100 people who are all willing to trust a host. That host has to be going above and beyond to build community credibility, or have other ways of networking a larger group..
eva (^_^)/@eva.computer · 2mo agoif it costs like $350,000 for 8 Blackwells to locally run an open model with the capabilities that are equivalent to Opus, then i wonder if we will see something like small private clubs for inference like 100 people putting in $3500 for access to a private-ish AI run by a coop or club
As a guy who once turned a duck-sewage-green pond clear, I'd just share that my mental model is that you're going to have plants as long as you have unspent nitrogen in the water. If I were them, I'd throw in a bunch of those nitrogen-unfixing enzymes.
Don't you see? When you use AI models, you *take the plagiarism back*. "Good artists copy, great artists steal" - Picasso Be the thief, not the thefted.
I agree it smells of money grab. Setting a bar only you can see. Total emperor's clothes tactic.
I had an RIAA crossed out bumper sticker in high school. It was cool to be proud of piracy, ie cool to flaunt your ability to share and consume data freely. The ethics are probably like "if you're an underdog, nobody will begrudge you for it, but if you're the only one making money, then UBI."
Thorne 🌸@ens0.me · 2mo agoIT'S SO WEIRD after spending my formative years watching people rightly criticize organizations like the RIAA for suing teenagers for downloading MP3s
Btw, "Iroh bluesky PDS" is exactly the type of idea where any technical user is like "yes, I'd like the devs to do that", but traditionally would fall onto a dev team that is already underwater keeping up with the basics to be considering adapting to new shiny stacks.
Dan Finlay@danfinlay.com · 2mo agoIroh is one of those "everyone should just adapt their network stacks to support that as soon as possible" moments (iroh bluesky PDS?), and AI is going to make the phase shift happen faster than ever.
Finally looked up a painting guide for the TNG type II phaser model I bought at a convention when I was in like 3rd grade (my dad was awesome). I did NOT expect my "speed paint" to end up in the guide for allowing those grooves to pop in the handle.
Iroh is one of those "everyone should just adapt their network stacks to support that as soon as possible" moments (iroh bluesky PDS?), and AI is going to make the phase shift happen faster than ever.