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by echelon 6mo ago
He's been fairly forthcoming about his process: https://x.com/DannyLimanseta/status/2052040017007251946 Here are the direct links: https://github.com/dannylimanseta/tinyskies https:&#x2
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by echelon 6mo ago
This was made in two days of vibe coding. It has flaws, but it's impressive as hell: https://tinyskies.vercel.app/ It's got a fun Zelda-inspired mechanic (I won't say which one), and you'll have to unloc
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by echelon 6mo ago
> it now feels that the most effective way to do that is for only $99.99/month, and that price needle is only going to move further upwards as capabilities increase. That's not how economics works. That can happen briefly with
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by echelon 6mo ago
> Sure, and in the meantime try to think and read about how privacy-preserving age verification actually works. This requires you build a whole apparatus around controlling what people can see, say, and do. The concept of "slippery
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by echelon 6mo ago
I think it's that the things learned in school are academic (red-black trees, dynamic programming, writing toy OS and programming languages, etc.) In the real world you're faced with building five nines active-active systems that
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by echelon 6mo ago
> CPanel Now there's a name I haven't heard since the 2005 or so era. How is that thing still around? Next you're going to tell me people still run phpBB and vBulletin somewhere. And use FileZilla FTP. And manage their dat
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by echelon 6mo ago
What do your prompts look like? Mine are pretty robust and articulate. I tend to write very lengthy instructions and include snippets of code, file paths, struct names, etc.
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by echelon 6mo ago
I work for myself and I absolutely love AI. I'm able to get 3x the work done. Greenfield stuff appears almost immediately. My job is providing value to customers, not worshipping at the cathedral of software that will last forever. Not
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by echelon 6mo ago
> But we as a society are indeed slowly and steadily giving away our rights of many, for the rights of few cartels. Increasing geopolitical multi-polarity may force big tech to give up ground. The EU and ASEAN in particular should be hit
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by echelon 6mo ago
The OSI is garbage, and "open source" outside of the most viral licenses is too. I'll go further and say that it accelerated getting us into this mess we're in today. The OSI is owned and controlled by the tech titan hyp
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by echelon 6mo ago
We don't even have an accurate mathematical description of how a single water molecule works. We have so much scientific work to do.
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by echelon 6mo ago
All so kids can't access PornHub? Jesus Christ. 14 year old me ran into porn on the internet all the time. It didn't turn me into a serial killer. Meanwhile we let kids have exposure to algorithms that pervert their sense of self
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by echelon 6mo ago
Dalton has been the worldwide leader in carpet manufacturing since before I was born. Multiple generations of people have worked in those factories. They earn good money and can afford big houses and savings. You should talk to the people o
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by echelon 6mo ago
Dalton has been the world's top carpet manufacturer since the 1950s. It's not "back". It never left.
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by echelon 6mo ago
I drive through Dalton anytime I visit Chattanooga (a cool hipster city on the border of Georgia and Tennessee). The scale of manufacturing there is wild. There are so many factories. Dalton makes something like 70-80% of the carpet in the
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by echelon 6mo ago
> "z0mg net split!" :P The 00's were an interesting time in internet culture. Internet slang like this disappeared almost completely once the whole world got access and platforms rooted out all the weird and niche communit
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by echelon 6mo ago
> ShinyHunters Is that a Pokemon reference?
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by echelon 6mo ago
PlayStation 5 has a price increase in August, 2022. I think this was the very first time this happened. Xbox Series X had one in June, 2023. Nintendo Switch (original) had a price increase last year. I don't remember this ever happenin
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by echelon 6mo ago
I'll wait for the Ocarina of Time remake. The leaks have been coming out for months now and say it is supposedly coming out this fall. The upcoming Legend of Zelda film sets seem to be based on Ocarina of Time, recent merchandise (LEGO
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by echelon 6mo ago
This and the crazy macro economic environment.
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by echelon 6mo ago
> How exactly would you ask this in an interview setting? You now know which companies do this. Every company laying off now has to wear a Scarlett Letter: "we're a layoffs company".
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by echelon 6mo ago
TLS fingerprinting and Cloudflare are easy to bypass. There are lots of libraries that do so. The application-layer stuff is harder. Each application can develop its own heuristics, and that's difficult to automate in a cross-cutting f
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by echelon 6mo ago
I'm surprised these platforms don't have advanced heuristics to detect API calls and inauthentic traffic. Did you clone the Reddit API from browser traffic and then turn it into a 100% API driven thing? I'd imagine they'
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by echelon 6mo ago
This. Everything important has moved to discord. Which is sad because of how undiscoverable and unsearchable it is.
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by echelon 6mo ago
> where I had an agent karma Was this a browser using agent? What did you use?
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by echelon 6mo ago
I didn't read the article, but I read your response and it feels a bit heavy handed. > What about the weather systems in the atmosphere? Could you argue that one of the most complex systems (maybe only second to the ocean current sy
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by echelon 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones It's an unsubstantiated local rumor: https://rondougherty.com/photoalbum/2010/20101118EasternTrip... https://people.howstuffw
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by echelon 6mo ago
He also helped Atlanta land the 1996 Olympic games.
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by echelon 6mo ago
He's why Atlanta got the 1996 Olympics. He's responsible for rejuvenating Atlanta. It grew into a reasonable city after he built the TBS, CNN, and Turner Broadcasting empire. Without him, Atlanta may have been closer to a Charlott
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by echelon 6mo ago
Just wait until we simulate old films and media and turn them into living, breathing VR games. We'll eventually do that for all of history. At least the history we have samples of or can plausibly recreate. I'd imagine playing one

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