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by toddmorey 6mo ago
You joke but as a parent, I’m so sick of the gem packs, etc. they try to push on the kids to obfuscate your actual spend on games in real world money. And now it feels like the are gamifying the compute we use for work for all the same reas
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by toddmorey 6mo ago
wow that's fascinating
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by toddmorey 7mo ago
Why are all these checks still performed on an authenticated, paid user?
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by toddmorey 7mo ago
Paid users?
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by toddmorey 7mo ago
It’s interesting to remember Apple used to orient the logo so that it was upside down when opened. That looks right to you as you open the laptop, but wrong to everyone else. Now when you’re in a coffee shop, all the little metal promotiona
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by toddmorey 7mo ago
I see many, many startups that promise to be an automated marketing agent that will do this exact thing: scour sites for conversations and post links to your product. Obviously that burns down the human Internet, but it’s also a business th
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by toddmorey 7mo ago
Edit: I do think it’s fair to say our economy is much more diversified and resilient to a drop in tourism then a country like Spain where it’s closer to 20% GDP. But maybe the right way to frame it is it wouldn’t be felt as much nationally,
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by toddmorey 7mo ago
It accounts for 3% of the economy and provides around 15 million jobs. That’s absolutely going to make a dent. And international tourism supports local tourism. I think Las Vegas will continue to be a shell of what it was until internationa
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by toddmorey 8mo ago
“ For years, you’ve sat in front of a rectangle, moving tinier rectangles, only to learn that AI can now move those rectangles 10x better. As someone outside the equity class, you begin to wonder what your role is in this new paradigm. And
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by toddmorey 8mo ago
VSCode opens single files outside of projects. What do they do? Personally I wouldn’t mind if it just defaulted to the settings of the last-used vault.
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by toddmorey 8mo ago
What is obsidian beyond a pile of markdown files without the app?
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by toddmorey 8mo ago
I’m worried that opportunities like this to build fun/interesting software over models are evaporating. A service just like this maybe 3 years ago would have been the coolest and most helpful thing I discovered. But when the same 2 fou
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by toddmorey 8mo ago
The ethics are exactly what the DoD is complaining about. They want any legal action to not be obstructed by guardrails.
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by toddmorey 8mo ago
I don't think it's sanctimonious to say, hey, I don't want the technology I work on to be used for targeting decisions when executing people from the sky. Especially as the tech starts to play more active roles. You know gove
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by toddmorey 8mo ago
Yeah that sentence struck me as very carefully worded. They also don't mention how often RA is needed or invoked. We'll encounter a lot of these autonomous systems (cars, robots, equipment) that escalate decisions and edge cases t
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by toddmorey 8mo ago
You are not the one folks are worried about. US Department of War wants unfettered access to AI models, without any restraints / safety mitigations. Do you provide that for all governments? Just one? Where does the line go?
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by toddmorey 8mo ago
Maybe. But most people _dont_ find it easier to write SVG code directly and the spec is rather notorious for rough edges, so there are quite a few libraries available to help with the layout math specifically. Secondly, the model as present
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by toddmorey 8mo ago
I mean… What does your shop even do? Write software? Why? The whole premise is that it’s now easily cloned.
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by toddmorey 8mo ago
It’s fun to ask the models their input. I was working on diagrams and was sure Claude would want some python / js framework to handle layout and nodes and connections. It said “honestly I find it easiest to just write the svg code dire
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by toddmorey 8mo ago
I love this so much. I do worry about the hidden cost of maintaining these software stacks that have a userbase of one. Things like hidden vulnerabilities, bugs, and edge cases that could bring a business down for days. But I do think the d
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by toddmorey 9mo ago
“He should’ve been so aware that his job was going to be the first one cut, and he was responsible for building a tool to cut his own job” That tool was going to get built whether he did it or someone else did. Maybe only thing to do is buy
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by toddmorey 9mo ago
I think this is exactly why Anthropic bought Bun!
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by toddmorey 9mo ago
Well LLMs do make normal Linux tooling more accessible. I needed a video reformatted to a new aspect ratio and codec and Claude produced a rather complex set of arguments for ffmpeg that I hadn’t been able to figure out on my own.
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by toddmorey 9mo ago
Right you are. Nature can be violent, but prefers gradual change. Abrupt change shocks ecosystems and always comes with unintended consequences.
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by toddmorey 9mo ago
I struggle with the thesis that our institutions haven't already been fatally wounded. Social media and endless content for passive consumption have already errored the free press, short-circuited decision-making, and isolated people f
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by toddmorey 9mo ago
OpenAI is here because Sam Altman is NOT a product guy. He craves Apple style consumer success, but he's terrible at productizing his technology. Remember the marketplace of custom GPTs? Hell even the name ChatGPT. Anthropic had to sho
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by toddmorey 9mo ago
TERRIBLE! Can’t believe Apple is using these.
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by toddmorey 9mo ago
Q: What would prevent them from using git style version control under the hood? User doesn’t have to understand git, Claude can use it for its own purposes.
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by toddmorey 9mo ago
Commercial OSes (both Windows and MacOS) now feel so insanely agenda driven, and the agenda no longer feels like anything close to making the user happy and productive. For Mac, it feels like Apple wants to leverage what came out of VisionO
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by toddmorey 9mo ago
It was more than a library of prewritten css, though, they did quite a bit of engineering work on tooling (speeding up the code scans and dynamically creating custom classes, etc). I respect the team's productivity. This is more a ques

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