Ancapistani

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by Ancapistani 4mo ago
Yep. Chad was one of two people who materially impacted my entrance onto the tech/startup in the early 2010s. In particular, he moved heaven and Earth to make sure I got to attend a conference when my employer decided to cancel my tick
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by Ancapistani 4mo ago
Yeah, but the vast majority of those were planned, and at least most exceeded expectations. Was this an expected outcome? It doesn’t sound like it, but I’ve not really investigated it deeply.
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
You’re not alone. This is the second time this week I’ve seen that, and thought it was a mistake the first time.
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
Yes, and the War of 1812 happened. The US grew too strong to be plausibly taken by the UK.
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
I’m aware of the entire progression, and objectively I’ve seen juniors come up without knowing “the old ways” at all. I’m not sure it’s a problem, but I also can’t quite wrap my head around the way they understand systems.
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
It was mostly in jest, but consistency would be nice - even if WSL makes no sense.
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
Shouldn’t this be “Linux Subsystem for Windows 9x”?
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
I never really fell into that, but obviously saw it around me. Phones are fine for content consumption, but not adequate for creation. AI lets me spend a few seconds to get a thought out of my head, then I can come back to it later and not
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
I remember when IE6 was the shiny new solution that we desperately wanted :). IE 5.5 was much, much worse, and there was a long time there when it didn’t get any updates at all.
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
I read Blindsight three times, and I’m still not sure what happened…
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
I was turned on to this book by an HN commenter a few months ago. Since then, it’s become something between a goal and a fear that one day I’ll get to the point where I wonder how much of my consciousness is me versus how much has been push
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
It’s OK if it’s a polyfill. Wait, not far enough back… It’s OK if it’s a shim.
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
I think that’s OK. When I first had to use XML, I had to learn the XML spec and output it manually - serialization libraries didn’t really exist yet. I’ve since seen generation of juniors come up through the ranks using XML as an interchang
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
The best part of this article is in the footnotes: > see CEO of Tailscale apenwarr's vibe-researched thread “Vibe-research” is now a core part of my vocabulary.
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
OK - so Bambu has harassed legitimate F/OSS projects. Serious question: why not just release whatever you want but not tie it to your identity? Bambu demands OcraSlicer make changes under threat of litigation? OK, cool. Enjoy the 5,000
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
To be fair, I don't think I've ever seen a company identify the inflection point after bankruptcy, accurately or not.
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
The obverse is true - because a ransom organization is dependent upon their reputation, a company claiming to have paid and received confirmation from the group could prevent them from releasing it as well. The general public (including t
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
… why has the US been responsible for “human population globally”?
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
I strongly disagree. It was also a funnel for American tax dollars into the pockets of those who run the NGOs that facilitate it, who in turn funnel a portion back to our politicians in the form of donations.
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
Agreed. This is the same problem that crypto addresses in an unregulated market - it provides attestation and continuity, but not much else. New actors are untrusted. Trust must be built through small transactions until someone trusts you e
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
No, they're proven themselves to be malicious. That's not the same thing at all.
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
I've been playing with writing a visionOS app that allows an AI agent to be aware of what you're looking at at any given time. At some point I fully expect eye tracking (or attention tracking) to be common enough to be a first-cla
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
Of course they are, but I don’t see how that relates to this statement: > Everyone has to rely on Iran's satellite images to find out what's happening No one - not even Iran - is relying on Iran’s satellite images.
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
For random stuff I'd rather not put into someone else's cloud, and for light automation - absolutely. It's great for those things almost out of the box. For development work... I think I'm getting close. It's not th
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
The highest resolution imaging satellite Iran has is "Paya", and it's 5m base resolution. These do not appear to be that at all.
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
Yep. I switched over to Zensical shortly after it was released.
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
Insufficient - the LLM can figure out what to pass in and pass it in. I have a production system that I deploy through Claude Code, and initially placed a safeguard like that. About three weeks later it had automated around it. That’s fine
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
> lots of people self-identify as anarchists while holding beliefs that are diametrically opposed to my own
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
I’m not sure; lots of people self-identify as anarchists while holding beliefs that are diametrically opposed to my own, and lots of people who are much closer to my own beliefs call themselves other things because they’re either afraid of
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by Ancapistani 5mo ago
Well, I’ve been persevering through the hard bits for 42 years, and still struggle with it. It’s not about chasing novelty, it’s about novelty being many many times more attractive than it is for others.

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