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by jrm4 9mo ago
What do you think I'm trying to do, precisely? I'd agree, if my goal was "to be a great and complete coder." I don't. I want just enough to build cool things. Now, that's just me. That being said, I'd a
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by jrm4 9mo ago
Oh, it's a mech suit with an annoying Jarvis personality that you have to reason with, for sure :)
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Not quite shell -- but obligatory: I've been using http://zim-wiki.org for now .. decades? As my main driver for most everything in my life, including my personal and teaching website, custom template I made. jrm4.com
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by jrm4 9mo ago
I like this analogy along with the idea that "it's not an autonomous robot, it's a mech suit." Here's the thing -- I don't care about "getting stronger." I want to make things, and now I can make big
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by jrm4 9mo ago
I feel like the vast majority of articles on this are little more than the following: "AI can be good -- very good -- at building parts. For now, it's very bad at the big picture."
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by jrm4 9mo ago
Yes, very good point sure. I (as a Black not-right-wing person) have huge problems with the whole "The Bad Place" thing (long story short, Black folks that I generally agree with politically are absolutely horribly ban-heavy and
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by jrm4 9mo ago
This continues to confirm for me that there's nothing particularly valuable about ATProto, and that some of the percieved "flaws" in models like Mastodon's model are features just as much as bugs. Honestly, this is makin
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by jrm4 9mo ago
So I agree with you that they should work like email -- but I've always said that Mastodon is better because it is like email; aka the power is in the nodes. What do you think is wrong about Mastodon? Genuinely curious because I also a
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by jrm4 9mo ago
I absolutely fail to see the problem and I think the whole "best to stick to built in linux commands" is an utterly dinosaur-esque take that can, and will, and should, go extinct in the age of AI-assisted coding.
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Honestly, this should give hope for people worried about it. Not the fact that it was done, but the fact that the New York Times immediately posts about it. That's about the best you can ask for now that this tech is ubiquitous and n
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by jrm4 9mo ago
I think this deserves a reframing: Docker is perhaps the greatest success story involving a massively invested tech company. We got an amazing durable essential piece of software from someone investing billions of dollars. Now, the fact th
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by jrm4 9mo ago
Interesting. I've been critical on "decentralized" for other types of communication (e.g. ATProto/Bluesky) because it seems to forget that "forgetting is sometimes good." But this seems excellent for code, a
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Good. Good good good. More of this. I feel like if e.g. Hypercard had lived, this would be a more defacto mode of doing things.
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Yes, and that is why it "won" even though there are pretty good arguments for 8, 12, 16 and so on. Measuring things is "for humans."
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What precisely is "better" about that? It's more predictable over -- some things that you don't know how they're going to scale? Again, the general thrust of "imperial" is better -- base your units on &quo
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Obligatory "what it's based on doesn't matter." Like programming languages and UIs, it's what and how people use them. Imperial tends to be better because it's more "evolutionary."
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Exactly. My journey is similar, probably because I've never had to code for a living. I started learning Vim. I dedicated 2 years to Emacs + Org-Mode. And eventually I left. I've come to realize (for me) anything that can't d
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by jrm4 9mo ago
I don't believe your last sentence at all -- especially if we're talking about "bespoke software for individuals." I strongly predict it will be trivial.
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But the thing is -- will it be? Which is to say, let's take two extremes. The "vim" way vs. the ultra-Emacs way, right? The thing is, it will soon become trivially easy to modify your own "text editing environment,&quo
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by jrm4 9mo ago
As op, yeah I'm actually with you on this. And at the very least, 2FA should be a much more "openly open standard." Which is to say, just do TOTP everywhere, let people have their initial generating key and be done with it. I
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by jrm4 9mo ago
So, in my head, once I heard the idea, I started thinking of something WAY different, and maybe its worth considering. I was thinking something like a combination "security question," "captcha" and "secondary identi
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This feels like the "wrong" direction today with the advent of AI? Just seems like in the realm of "bending yourself to the tool vs bending the tool to yourself," it's the LATTER that's about to get a whole lot
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I don't think "efficency" is at all the point? At all? It's safety, reliability, and human understanding -- and like OOP, for example, are often directly at odds with "efficiency."
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But -- I think, only because of the friction of having to read and parse what they did, which, to me could greatly be alleviated by AI itself. Put differently -- for those who'd like to share, yes, give me your locally implemented id
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Your first statement is good advice, but is factually WRONG. Stuff does go away. We know this from the other side of it, stuff that we WANTED to keep, but couldn't. Google deleting blogs, people not maintaining their own personal media
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The completeness AND the reliability! Consider that a muddy, "oh a bunch of different servers downloaded this guys history, but it's different on one from the other" could be ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE SAFER from a surveillance pers
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I think there's a massive difference between "some might be capturing" and "reliable, e.g. hashed records" Again, there may be some VALUE in the fact that "some might be capturing" WOULD BE inherently un
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Your last point is one that I used to be very strongly favor of, and today? Nooooooooooo. No. No. No. It's not going to happen and we shouldn't even consider it. Seriously. This thing we are doing here, which is "connecting
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The more I read and consider Bluesky and this protocol, the more pointless -- and perhaps DANGEROUS -- I find the idea. It really feels like no one is addressing the elephant in the room of; okay, someone who makes something like this is

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