MattGrommes

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by MattGrommes 7mo ago
I just watched this great mini-documentary about a local landline system in Bellingham WA. Well worth a couple of minutes. https://youtu.be/UhVi3smmvTs?si=ow6zw_xTKo22WpLZ People can call each other but also businesses have
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Show HN: New idea for automatically teaching your agent new skills
1 points by MattGrommes 7mo ago|0 comments
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Probable Futures: What futures can humanity still hope for?(probablefutures.org)
3 points by MattGrommes 7mo ago|0 comments
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by MattGrommes 7mo ago
I'm also seeing companies looking at only hiring juniors from overseas because they're using the same generative tools as US-based juniors but cost even less.
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by MattGrommes 7mo ago
A related book I've been thinking about in terms of LLMs is "Working Effectively With Legacy Code". I'd love to be able to work a lot of that advice into some kind of Skill or customized agent to help with big refactors.
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by MattGrommes 7mo ago
There's already BMAD - Breakthrough Method of Agile Agent Driven Development Basically, it's Waterfall for Agents. Lots of Capitalized Words to signify something. Also they constantly call it the BMAD Method, even though the M alr
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by MattGrommes 7mo ago
One of my favorite additions to this phrase is Merlin Mann's use of "double turns out". This is useful for stuff like "X is bad for you." "Turns out X is actually great for you and it was Big Y spreading misinf
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by MattGrommes 7mo ago
Mine is 98% for reading comics and 2% learning to draw on Procreate. Most everything else I find awkward to do on it.
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by MattGrommes 8mo ago
Defense is a much more fitting name for an organization that does a million more things than just prosecute wars. War is just the favorite part of their mission for these wannabe toughguys.
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by MattGrommes 8mo ago
This administration has shown no qualms about enacting retribution against people who speak out against them, no matter how powerless or seemingly irrelevant the person is.
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by MattGrommes 8mo ago
Yeah, I have no idea what this guy is talking about. I still get Make magazine full of people making projects every month. My youtube feed is similarly full of people making stuff and sharing it with the community. Check out the Maker Proje
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by MattGrommes 8mo ago
I wonder if they have a policy about not accepting ideas / replying to people don't think their idea was stolen. I know TV shows have that policy so nobody can accuse them of plagiarizing their script idea.
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by MattGrommes 8mo ago
Not sure why people are downvoting this, it's absolutely true. I watch a lot of youtube on my TV and I can tell in milliseconds if it's logged me out and I'm seeing the default feed. It's fully insane and inane.
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by MattGrommes 8mo ago
The problem we have is that there are a ton of sites all asking for $5+. With PBS people can choose to give once at whatever they're comfortable with and aren't dealing with an ever increasing number of $5 charges. Some guy's
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by MattGrommes 8mo ago
I took this to mean more like not jumping right on OpenClaw, but wait a quarter or so to give it at least a little time to shake out. There are so many new tools coming out I think it's beneficial not to be the guinea pig.
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by MattGrommes 8mo ago
This is what I've been saying. We're not so much learning that LLMs are intelligent, we're learning that a lot of what we think of as intelligence is actually just pattern matching.
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by MattGrommes 8mo ago
Everything was obviously DOA after it dies. I also thought it wouldn't last but it wouldn't be the first or last tech company initiative that lived on long after people thought it would die. Weird things happen. "Obviously&qu
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by MattGrommes 8mo ago
The comment I read about this that I liked was that they want to push the idea of starting with an Issue and a discussion before going straight to a PR. That way you can build reputation by contributing to a discussion first. Maybe you coul
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by MattGrommes 8mo ago
The origins of the word utopia are exactly that idea. The original books about utopias almost all showed the negative heart at the center of the idea.
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by MattGrommes 8mo ago
That's the big difference for me. I use Github Copilot because I want to see the output and work with it. For people who are fine just shooting a prompt out and getting code back, I'm sure Claude Code is better.
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by MattGrommes 8mo ago
If your neighbor kept baking and giving you cookies, to the point where you were wrapping and reselling them at the market, don't you think you should do something for them in return?
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by MattGrommes 9mo ago
They're also heavier, which is a concern for use cases like cars. There's a good video I just watched that addresses the sodium battery industry and differences with current batteries: https://youtu.be/nrTCgZmUFCY
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by MattGrommes 9mo ago
Here's the Slo Mo Guys teardown. Very impressive tech. https://youtu.be/jW7M8H99x7Y?si=9xjafT2tCresYC9l What was fun for me was the fact that when this thing came out everybody I knew thought it worked by shooting red
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by MattGrommes 9mo ago
There's a similar feeling story in a later League of Extraordinary Gentlemen book* where it's a history of England in that universe. The part that really stuck with me was the description of the government from 1984 as just anothe
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by MattGrommes 9mo ago
In blacksmithing there's the concept of an "anvil shaped object". That is, something that looks like an anvil but is hollow or made of ceramic or something. It might stand up to tapping on for making jewelry or something but
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by MattGrommes 9mo ago
Oh boy do I wish I was nearly as cool as Dean Kamen. :)
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by MattGrommes 9mo ago
Just a small correction, the founder of Segway is Dean Kamen who is still alive. It was the then-owner of the company who died.
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by MattGrommes 9mo ago
I always like to point people to Simple Wikipedia - https://simple.wikipedia.org/ . You can also change the (lang).wikipedia.org URL to simple.wikipedia.org and a lot of the time you get a great, simple language explanation
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by MattGrommes 9mo ago
Not everyone who uses ChatGPT gets advice on harming or killing themselves, but some people sure do. And some act on it. Just as we don't necessarily want to eliminate a technology because of a small percentage of bad cases, we shouldn
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by MattGrommes 10mo ago
I'm not an embedded systems guy (besides using esp32 boards) so this might be a dumb question but does something like this open up the possibility of programming an esp32/arduino board with Javascript, like Micro/Circuit Pyth

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