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by pilgrim0 6mo ago
The argument is not that only designers can design, nor that everyone should design like a designer. It’s to not confuse shopping for or generating generic solutions with the activity of problem solving. Per Alexander, trivial problems, tho
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by pilgrim0 6mo ago
On Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Alexander defines design as the rationalization of the forces that define a problem. You’ll won’t find a better definition. But people tend to think design is the synthesis and its results. This misunderst
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by pilgrim0 6mo ago
Just a thought: The fact that the found kernel vulnerability went decades without a fix says nothing about the sophistication needed to find it. Just that nobody was looking. So it says nothing about the model’s capability. That LLMs can fi
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by pilgrim0 6mo ago
Maybe because there’s no critical and widely used software written by LLMs so far? Which says a lot about LLMs are failing to even approach the level of capabilities you would expect from all the hype? The goal has always been, even before
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by pilgrim0 6mo ago
You’re absolutely right. But consider big brands make for a minor percentage of sites on the web. Also recall that all those big brands have standard profiles on social media and they share the very same layout as your local dog shelter. Th
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by pilgrim0 6mo ago
Nice analogy with movies, but essentially it’s a category error. Movies are media, not interfaces. You consume movies, but _use_ websites. A movie is immutable. A website is dynamic. As a matter of fact, even movies follow a very common str
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by pilgrim0 6mo ago
It could work if it makes production and distribution of content easier and cheaper. All social media sites without exception have standard layout and usability. There, brands encode their aesthetics through media, and brands are much more
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by pilgrim0 6mo ago
You could argue that space is highly useful for creating profitable narratives. You could even argue that this is the whole game.
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by pilgrim0 6mo ago
Try this one. You need to parse the hard data from all the speculation. So draw your own conclusions. https://www.aravolta.com/blog/datacenters-in-space As it stands, most if not all institutional and journalistic rese
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by pilgrim0 6mo ago
I wonder how long these shortages have to last until software developers are required to be mindful of RAM usage like in the decades before,
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by pilgrim0 6mo ago
> Money raised from a public offering would most likely help SpaceX finance its long-term goals of launching artificial intelligence data centers into orbit, creating a colony on the moon and getting humans to Mars. These are expensive a
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by pilgrim0 6mo ago
Which is a synonym for impossible. As far as the latest serious analyses have shown, data centers in space are a pipe dream. Starlink’s total addressable market was also shown to be way smaller than expected. The IPO in this case just signa
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by pilgrim0 6mo ago
I hated Wordpress so much that when the clients wanted an admin dashboard I used a neat PHP CMS called Kirby. It was awesome back then! So simple
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by pilgrim0 7mo ago
But now the desire for earthly riches took a role similar to religion and it is being weaponized to extract even more wealth from the working class.
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by pilgrim0 8mo ago
I suspect making the models more verbose is also a source of inflation. You’d expect an advanced model to nail down the problem succinctly, rather than spawning a swarm of agents that brute force something resembling an answer. Biggest scam
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
Someone tell him that web is about data, not apps. A markdown only web has much more chances to be relevant than this.
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
You provided a great example of using the conscious choice to seed as a way to signal an upvote. What better way to promote something other than the commitment to redistribute the content? In the context of P2P, it occurred to me that it&#x
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
PDF is a print format that evolved to support some modern features like links, forms, etc, but at its heart, it's still a fixed-layout document, and I think having a responsive static multimedia document is a massive advantage in a wor
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
> How many forms do you need? You just need to rethink the form, which is also an inheritance from print media, as a possibly fuzzy dialogue. Incorporating multimodal input, extracting information from uploads, etc., is a huge accessibil
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
What a dream this would have been
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
> come up with a JSON metadata schema that can be dropped in directory of multimedia. Then have JavaScript to render it Well, you're damn right! That's almost exactly what I did with my research! Perhaps to your displeasure, it
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
I’m not at all suggesting replacing HTML; it's a treasure we have. I think you're failing to see the point. Having hypermedia documents follow a file system model does not imply that you would need to basically give up hypertext p
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
Let me give a use case where an offline-first hypermedia document model would be useful. I used to work as an instructional designer, making art and photography courses. This sort of material requires a lot of media, practically of all kind
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
> If you think that file system is a viable approach to web site, how would implement Hacker News? Hacker news is a web application, with a client-server architecture. Indeed would be impractical to replicate with the file system model.
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
> Nobody needs to hand-edit HTML any more Doesn't that prove it absolutely failed? I mean, you have to abstract it so much that, like you said, it's a compiler target at this point! That's precisely my reasoning when I sai
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
> I found it took a while to get to the point. You're just a great understandeour > I agree that adding an "array" style of directory to our file systems would be really cool. I think this is sort of a low-hanging fruit
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
> It is fairly trivial to create basic HTML files. SSG + MD have removed a lot of the remaining obstacles These are advanced computer skills IMO > It doesn't just magically "arise from the structure", as much as I wish
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
I was expecting this. Sorry, it can’t be helped with the current architecture. This site is a proof of concept using client side rendering. But it’s only a handmade, ~20kb vanilla parser and renderer for the experimental document format. So
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
You cannot fully leave presentation concerns out of browsers. Layout and decoration is an integral part of authoring, it’s supported at the markup level. HTML and friends are practically rendering instructions at this point, as if a PostScr
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
Inline, ordered multimedia is the backbone of all consumer information systems. So your students have internalized the the archetypal equivalent of file systems through a different vocabulary, such as tweet (for files) and threads (for dire

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