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I’ve been playing with nanoclaw since it came out, which has similar use cases to openclaw. I initially set it up to monitor various news sources for me about specific theses I’ve had. I had it groomi…

I read this and feel happier for it. Keep it up OP! I like imagining a world where more people are curious, kind, and open to connecting.

I think there’s also perhaps an organizational explanation. A reasonable TUI can be built without any design or frontend people even looped in. Collaboration and coordination tend to slow down proces…

Is this an investment that disease and genetics researchers believe will be valuable? Or is this primarily tax deductible funds flowing back into the AI industrial complex? (Honest question! If it’s a…

Thank you, Zed team, for creating Zed. It’s clearly a labor of love, and I really want Zed to work for me. It seems like a quality project, it’s fast, and the base editor is easy to use. I gave it wee…

Yes I’ve noticed this as well! Now whenever I get a question of this format, I just relax the constraint.

Yeah writing out code by hand made me slow down and think more. One thing I recall is that the grading policy made it very clear that minor syntax issues were inconsequential in handwritten answers. A…

I’m guessing we’re similar vintage. My CS classes were like this as well. The only exception is that when I got into grad level classes we did have some big programming projects. But most of that prog…

I want to defend my hometown a bit: most people who live in and around SF have nothing to do with any of this crap. SF is a diverse city of many ages, nationalities, and values. It is not a “high scho…

Evolution itself has some skeptics among the religious right.

Yes the publish-distribute delay pattern looks like a reasonable design. But you’re not a “free-rider” if you intentionally let others leap before you. You’re just being cautious, which is rational be…

My iPhone 13 can’t run most of these models. A decent local LLM is one of the few reasons I can imagine actually upgrading earlier than typically necessary.

This is ridiculous and I’m into it.

I appreciate this idea. I don’t think it fits our current mental model of the web (or mobile), which makes it thought provoking. If you squint, it’s like the optimistic Web 2.0 era of open APIs expect…

Yes it’s not technically a scam because it’s legal. But it has scam smells: layering, misdirection, lock-in, very fine print, gamification, adjacent complex social media apparatuses. I’d place it near…

Yeah a bunch of negativity about the business case instead of just appreciating someone sharing their work.

Yes my kids also hate it. They keep it muted and just watch for the visual indicator that the next section is available. It’s worse than the annual corporate compliance training that many adults have …

Yeah I agree. It’s an acute problem on social media platforms where there’s a market force incentivizing it. If you’re mostly engaging in specific niche interactions with known communities or people,…

Surely this will end well. There are dozens of us who prefer to patronize corporations that aren’t actively evil.

That’s a thought-provoking suggestion. Most services would go out of business, and there would be a cascade of change. I wonder what would remain?

Is it great? No. Is it usually good enough? Yes. CI shouldn’t be a main quest for most engineers. Just get it rolling early and adjust as needed.

“Plainclothes forces raid homes across country, put detainees in secret lockups” Huh.

Fair, but it’s an exaggerated statement that’s supposed to clue us into the tone of the piece with a chuckle. Maybe even a snicker or giggle! It’s not worth dissecting for accuracy.

My recent hunch is a lot of the hyperbole in AI inherits from crypto. There’s more utility here, but the grandiosity is still absurd. These guys win biggest if we all believe their narrative.

Yep, I also have been a bit alarmed how this is pattern matching to early phases of the many revolutions covered in the Revolutions podcast. A U.S. revolution is a frightening proposition, even if it’…

> Fair enough, but is still a Subaru. So it doesn’t make sense to compare its value to a Tesla just because of auto steer. Funny, I totally read this intro the opposite way of what you went on to a…

It’s fast food content. Convenient, cheap, fast, tasty, but also monotonous, unsophisticated, unhealthy, habit-forming. People consume more and more of it until they get sick, and even then won’t stop…

> Motivation is a hired trait. The only place where managers motivate people is in management books Initial motivation is the hired trait. It’s very easy to demotivate people. The trick is to not d…