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So essentially like the original Mac in 1984. ;) 128KB of RAM is just too little to run the OS and applications at the same time with any kind of performance. But once the 512KB model came along, then things started to really swing.

AI code increases productivity and reduces understanding.

If it is a project like this, that's cool. If you are deploying the safety control system on a power plant, you had better have a damn good understanding!

I think a big part of the 'slop' term should be associated with people who use it to either deceive others or just flood a place with low quality stuff.

It is a matter of opinion but many brandish the term around a little to freely. Some times justified, other times just folks trying to grab some power over others.

I'm not to most positive about AI generated stuff, especially in terms of text and images. But with code, it is a neat tool.

I think it is especially cool in building stuff to retro specs. It has allowed many to do stuff in days or weeks that previously could have been months. Projects that don't really have much value in terms of money but are just nice to have kind of things.

This project is a great example of this.

It does come back to that question though of who will pay for the code generation but that is something for someone else.

Pretty much. While I get the general vibe against using too much AI, many are over correcting.

Pretty much, so much of what we take for granted in culture was actually intentionally designed from the top down to have masses of people fall into line and become good servants of the economic system.

As for good diets, for instance, there is a wild meal schedule that has shown to be fairly good at managing weight, it is just intense. It is the 16 to 17 meals a day plan. One meal every hour you are awake, each one only about 100 to 150 calories. It does potentially work but try selling it to people and worse getting folks to stick to it.

I am surprised it hasn't happened earlier. Not a great idea to have a foreign country potentially control your vital infrastructure if you aren't always on the most agreeable terms. Not saying the US and China will go at it, but also they aren't always the best friends.

That said I know people who have worked in the NSA and they have said that even with Linux they have back doors in there, they just haven't used them unless absolutely necessary.

I guess it is because as soon as they are used they can be patched out fairly quickly so they have to use them wisely.

One could make the point that in a society that is primarily driven by capital, it is wise to keep an eye on the health of it from those that are within said system.

A flip on this reading. Rank, fame, and power all rely on others to enable it.

Sort of like how a narcissistic person ultimately needs others to validate them.

You aren't wrong, it just can be read two ways.

I appreciate the intention you and others are bringing. Not to be defeatist, but I do wonder how much of trying to set it straight sticks long term?

People have been trying to straighten things out for millennia and we are still in this predicament.

That isn't to say, don't try. It is to say, don't cling to an out come.

I generally tend to not have that feeling.

For me to feel like it is wasted is to put on a definition of the time period that wasn't there. It is internal personal fan fiction at that point.

I don't feel like I missed out on anything.

There is also the added point of whatever position you take, it is always a trade off with something else.

To be awfully reductionist. The fat people envy the skinny because their health is in check, the skinny envy the fat because they have a sense of care free freedom.

8 kids! Well if anyone wants to ask for parenting advice, they can go to you as you are a lone human data set.

> And I say this as someone who is very in favor of having kids and who worries about the looming population collapse in all developed countries.

Complete aside, I hope that this happens via the demographic collapse and not due to resource/environmental blow back. It would be the smoothest path down. In the same way that inflation is a smoother way to grow a pool of poverty.

A good example is the crushing stories of Frank Zappa's kids. Here is the guy touring the world making millions of dollars, releasing albums non-stop. His kids, barely saw him. For instance, his daughter Moonunit said the most time ever spent with him was recording lines for the song Valley Girl, beyond that he was fairly absent.

I have heard similar stories from many you wouldn't know, they say the same thing about their partner or parents. The desire to have it all ends up trading one thing over the other.

As a fun project, you should look up the history of eating schedules. They vary wildly between different cultures. Some have a single large meal at the start of the day, others have 5 smaller meals spread through, and everything in between. There is no standard even if it feels like it simply because that is how we are raised.

It is but social convention.

I always find it funny the genetics argument or the "I'm a dopamine addict!" just how they are framed with fairly modern scientific language.

Personally, legacy is but another grasping of the ego. It is meaningless and is most used as a justification to be selfish. I think kids are beyond that, it isn't something that is rationalized, it is just a means of life. And that is cool. I'm not pro or anti natalism, it all just seems to be a case of some people clinging to concepts and ideas just a little too strongly. But ultimately it has the same amount of meaning as a single ant that died a million years ago.

Also what if you cannot create genetic legacy?

If you are talking CXMT Apple recently learned the hard way that even with price fixed RAM from the big 3, CXMT is struggling to provide cheaper prices as they are using much older design/manufacturing systems.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/money/general/apple-s-cxmt-memory-...

I get the point you are trying to make but I will push back on one little part. I think lots of people are putting in more time and effort than ever BUT they have become victims of 'Audience capture'. They are out to do what others want rather than what they want, and that is the death bell of a creative person.

It is no big secret, but it is said quietly, that the most popular creators online are generally fairly anxious people as they are always afraid that they could bomb their entire house of cards in a single day.

Funnily enough this is what both Medium and Substack were trying to do but both have ended up being sucked into the system.

Seems to be a universal thing, in a society that values capital as one of the highest achievements, it will co-opt anything that ends up trying to work against it and sell it back to you.

Based on that stat, if the average life time is 80 years, Tik tok burns up 4,800 lifetimes a day. (380,000 years) Ouch!

I guess it might be a good example of evolution in action. Evolution benefits those that can adapt the best, not those with the most abilities.

I agree, I was talking more broadly. Unfortunately, on social media there is rarely time for people to sculpt well thought out takes. Those that shoot first generally win.

Sorry, my original comment may have some off as defending short form content in the context of social media, that wasn't the point I was trying to make.

What I mean is, there are times where folks tend to over expand their premise to the point of tedium. Something that could have been an essay become a book. That can drive people away from good stuff through sheer scale that wasn't necessary.

While there are still the small sites, they really are lost in the noise. The bigger players would probably prefer it that way, it prevent competition from getting a foot hold.

It is like trying to take on Coke/Pepsi with a new cola drink, good luck! They will do anything that can get away with so long as it keeps them on top.

I have said it for a while, Hacker news is the last place that still feels like the old internet, but even then I'm not a huge fan of it. Some days I open it up to see just 30 stories about LLM's, something I have little to no interest in.

While sites like Neocities are trying to keep the old web ideals alive, even there it can be difficult to find much of value.

That is a fair take. Personally, I use my android basically an iPod. Only offline files via VLC.

Never hopped on the streaming bandwagon for anything but the most throw away stuff. Yes, I kept all my DVD's from decades back.

I absolutely loved Windows Phone. It hit all the right notes on usability even if it didn't have the best app support.

Still bitter about that over a decade later.

It does have that feeling still but one does get the sense that they are on the path toward aggressive monetization.

Brevity is an art form, one that most do not have. Just because something is short doesn't mean it is bad so long as it is sculpted just right. 99.9999% of stuff nowadays is not sculpted it is just simplified for quick reactions.

I will say this with ditching the smart phone. I have done it but also gone back to it. But it is merely used for specific tasks. SMS, a camera, weather report, the occasional podcast or audio book. And that's about it. Things that are difficult to do on a flip phone but alright on a 'smart' phone.

I have said it many times. Look at the original iPhone presentation. It was a device that was very deliberate. It wasn't made to addict, it was made to be productive. Get in, do the thing you want and then move on. If only it stayed that way.