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by fvdessen 11mo ago
thanks, very interesting.
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by fvdessen 11mo ago
Yes, this is trying to prepare for a future in which AIs have enough agency to be legal person or act as if. I prefer the term humanist.
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by fvdessen 11mo ago
Licenses are more powerful than just the legal enforcement they provide, they are also a contract that all contributors agree to. They build communities.
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by fvdessen 11mo ago
Hey, I'm the author of this post, in a sense I agree with you. I doubt it will ever be mass adopted, especially in this form, which is more a draft to spark discussion than a real license. I am not against AI, I use it every day, I fin
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by fvdessen 1y ago
> There are plenty of ways to maintain state, including server store, sessions, localstorage, cookies, etc. Say you want the user to be able to customize the app layout: that doesn't need to be in the URL. Now say you provide a sear
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by fvdessen 1y ago
I have been using htmx to build a web app and came to the conclusion that it is a dead-end. The main problem is that the state of your frontend application is in the URL. This is not flexible enough for modern UI where you might have many d
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by fvdessen 1y ago
indeed, a centralized database with transactions was implied in the solution. You're right to point out this is not always available. I did not talk about it simply because the software I worked on never reached a scale beyond what a c
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The Human Only Public License(vanderessen.com)
2 points by fvdessen 1y ago|2 comments
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by fvdessen 1y ago
I agree with you but many programmers really enjoyed the fiddling with the lines of code and solving the puzzles more than actually building the thing and are not liking the changes. I saw it as a means to an end (which I enjoyed getting go
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by fvdessen 1y ago
So many copying monks screaming that the printing press will ruin books forever
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Never Ever Use Content Addressable Storage(frederic.vanderessen.com)
1 points by fvdessen 1y ago|6 comments
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by fvdessen 1y ago
It seems very reasonable to me for a first version of a system to only support the most popular platforms. Especially since this is open source, nothing stops enthusiasts to port the mechanisms to more niche platforms later.
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by fvdessen 1y ago
the first smurf drawings had pointy hats, the curve is most likely a stylistic evolution. https://www.lm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/schtr...
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by fvdessen 1y ago
This is almost certainly completely wrong, the smurfs get their hat designs from the type of hats that gnomes and dwarves and goblins usually wear in germanic folklore, the most well known of all being the garden dwarves, whose design also
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by fvdessen 1y ago
Because app navigation is not linear like the url history. Think of a popup with tabs within a page. There's the navigation within the popup, and the navigation within the page. When you close the popup, you don't want 'back&
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by fvdessen 1y ago
That is just the location of a page, and indeed that should be put in the URL. But a modern js app has much more state than that: partially filled fields, drafted documents, scroll position of lists, multi-path navigation history, widget di
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by fvdessen 1y ago
HTMX is indeed simple and lean, but unfortunately that doesn't mean solving common frontend problems with HTMX is simple either. After a decade of frontend dev and being tired of react/vue/etc, I tried HTMX, wanting for somet
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by fvdessen 1y ago
In 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' the argument is made that the most important cultural changes happen outside the debate, where new structures of thought are being built without being noticed. As without a competing thought structure w
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by fvdessen 1y ago
Similar to the 'Gini coefficient', named after Corrado Gini, former president of the Italian Genetics and Eugenics Society and author of 'The Scientific Basis of Facism' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by fvdessen 1y ago
Ah cool! thanks for the research, I couldn't find references and was sometimes doubting I remembered the story correctly
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by fvdessen 1y ago
Here's an interesting, related European history tidbit; Most of the popular old school European Comics are from Belgium; Tintin, The Smurfs, Asterix, Lucky-Luke, etc. That doesn't mean they were all made by Belgians, there were Fr
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by fvdessen 1y ago
I suggest you to try to let the AI think through race conditions scenarios in asynchronous programs; it is not that good at these abstract reasoning tasks.
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by fvdessen 1y ago
Turing test is not really that meaningful anymore because you can always detect the AI by text and timing patterns rather than actual intelligence. In fact the most reliable way to test for AI is probably to ask trivia questions on various
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by fvdessen 1y ago
Then like what happened with the cookie banners, everybody is going to put the minimum date, and the only winners will be the lawyers selling consulting in EU regulation compliance with the publishers.
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by fvdessen 1y ago
That would require a complete re-architecture of game engines and complete rework of how the games are developed and published. If I had to satisfy those requirements next year, I just wouldn't release in Europe, and I say that as an E
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by fvdessen 1y ago
I developed a few commercial games on unity a while ago, here's why some of what's proposed is harder than you think, - The original developper is not working on the game anymore, another company is maintaining it and has no capac
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by fvdessen 1y ago
Modifying the game so that it runs offline is supporting the game. Three years after releasing a game, the devs who made it are usually long gone, busy on other projects, the libraries and framework used are out of date, out of support, etc
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What Is Good for AIs Is Good for Humans(frederic.vanderessen.com)
3 points by fvdessen 1y ago|0 comments
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by fvdessen 1y ago
That they can activate latent mental illnesses that wouldn't be activated otherwise is the main risk of psychedelics, and is absolutely a real problem
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by fvdessen 1y ago
I find it excellent news that all the techniques that make agentic coding more efficient also make human coding more efficient. There was a worry that code would become big mud balls that only AI understand, but it looks like the opposite.

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