beardicus

yikes. i feel like the headline here could plausibly be true, maybe, but this site is just chock full of red flags. no thanks.

boy, i wonder if these researchers maybe did more research than casually glancing at at top 10 list on the internet?

the site makes it pretty clear in multiple places that they're talking about "added" or "hallucinated" toxicity. maybe your culture war outrage is misplaced?

the first link in the sidebar of the MIT writeup is to the paper you linked. it'd be nice if they linked it in the the body copy as well but here we are.

the blog post in question is written by steve novella, who also produces _the skeptics guide to the universe_, a fairly popular science and skepticism podcast. it reads like more than just a "restatement of an MIT press release" to me. i don't love the entirety of the message but it's not just a summary of the paper or a summary of the summary of the paper.

it's on HN so folks can rage about outrage culture and have their biases reinforced.

if you're into bees and visual stimulation, i collected a bunch of beehive art and beekeeping related art and design a few years back on tumblr:

https://iseebees.tumblr.com

1. this is an editorialized title 2. it's "rationale" not "rational" 3. mercola is a garbage bag full of medical disinformation. this alone seems like a perfectly good reason to not provide them with banking services.

isn't the bolt $30k whereas the cheapest tesla is $50k? seems significant.

i collect links to plotter-related projects, code, manuals, et cetera here:

https://github.com/beardicus/awesome-plotters

in case you find this stuff as fun as i do.

national (US) average teacher salary this year is estimated to be $68,469. zero states have an average over $100k, though NY is in the high 90s. do you just happen to live in NY and know a lot of late-career teachers then?

Another thing you could do is simply follow the posted speed limits, instead of using technology to evade law enforcement. It's very relaxing!

what you’re missing is that not everything has to be a serious profit-making venture. sometimes humans can have fun.

> other options that do not push this crap on me

push what crap? the existence of gay people? why is it "pushing" something to more fully represent reality in our media? why should movies continue to pretend that gay people don't exist just because some parents refuse to teach their children about totally normal things?

This talk is... not great. Being a controversial contrarian isn't too helpful when you're mostly just wrong and misinformed. I commend him for at least linking to the responses of his critics, though I'm not sure he's ever addressed them.

I'd suggest reading Steven Novella's response at least:

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/john-horgan-is...

paperless-ngx https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ can do most of this as well… except for the automatic metadata retrieval. i’ve been really impressed with paperless over the past few days as i’ve set it up and imported gobs of PDFs from an abandoned Evernote install. The web interface is quite well done.

this looks very nice. i think i like the ergonomics of your library... the "sketch on a plane then extrude" workflow feels nice and familiar.

could you compare and contrast replicad to JSCAD (https://openjscad.xyz)?

the examples in your docs are quite sluggish to load in Safari, but the workbench is very snappy!

i imagine everybody still has “that one thing” that safari doesn’t support… for me it’s offscreen canvas. here’s hoping their momentum continues.

I imagine many of Mike's points would be addressed just as well by Just or most any other task runner... but I thought his main point of "Makefile as documentation" was valuable.

After reading this way back in 2015 I decided to give it a try for a not-code-related task: downloading a book from the internet archive, copying out all the images, and running some adjustments and conversions on them with ImageMagick:

https://github.com/beardicus/bk-fig-phillips

It was fairly ridiculous but works well and I learned a lot.

twitter is almost completely hollowed out for me already, so that's all the incentive i need. additionally, i don't want to participate in a social network where the only moderating philosophy is "is it legal or not". that's just bad community management.

> You're not owning your Mastodon servers — at least not the ones that are actually large enough to matter

what does "large enough to matter" even mean here? plenty of folks run single-user instances with no issues.

you don't need to do anything to "get federated". as you (and/or your users) follow folks on other servers, it just works. yes, there are disadvantages around discovery on small instances (you wont see "the firehose" of posts from people you don't follow on other servers) so... bootstrapping a network of people you follow can be difficult for sure.

1. book bans have nothing to do with shelf space. it's weird that you would even bring this up. 2. the school board president does not mention book quality in their statement at all, but rather content objections. did you read the article? 3. this is a book, not a club, but also the associated organization states the following regarding boys in their local clubs: "we encourage our Clubs to welcome any member who wishes to join the Girls Who Code mission irrespective of gender identity".

1Password is fine, and the constant Electron whining is boring and probably quite duplicative in their forums by now.

I don't love some of the changes with 1Password 8, but Electron has nothing to do with it.

i am looking forward to this book _Designing Developer Documentation as a Product_ which should come out in 2023:

https://www.alejandraquetzalli.com/book-designing-developer-...

it might be a little more on the practical "nuts and bolts" side of things vs. "how do i write well", but it covers lots of areas that always seem to come up when producing documentation for developers.

strong agree, though with the caveat that it's "bad" for my tastes and priorities, but is clearly ok for other folks.

it feels all too common for folks to rage against bloaty interfaces (i agree, they're terrible!) but swing wildly back towards clunky browser-default randomness. you can have a consistent, polished interface without javascript and tons of images!

one thing w/ sourcehut that i find adds confusion is their choice to make their various services (source vs tickets vs mailing lists) completely separate apps. start on this page:

https://sr.ht/~martijnbraam/photoflow/

when you click on the "source" tab what do you expect will happen? i expect i'll go to a page with a source tree, listing files and directories. i also expect that i'll now be on the "source" tab at the new page, and will have the option to click back to the "summary" tab or any of the others that i currently see.

instead, you're taken to basically the same exact summary page (displaying README content) but with some git commit info on top. the highlighted tab is now... SUMMARY, AGAIN and there's a completely different tab set available to you. there is no way to click anywhere to get back to the previous version of the summary page and explore that tab group further.

i'm sure this makes sense to some folks (and they'll explain why i'm wrong below), but to me it feels like a cohesive user experience is not being prioritized here, and that's something i value ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

this looks really great! i had recently been thinking “boy it’d be really great if there were a ‘supabase but sqlite’ available” and here you are! now i just need a clever project as an excuse to use this.

1 question: are the docs in a repo anywhere? i don’t see them in the main repo (i might just be missing them somehow) or anywhere in the org. if they are public somewhere would you be open to a docs polishing PR?

bunnie is so kind and thoughtful, even when being critical. compare this to the typical frothy-mouthed 'rant' format we see here.

i'm sure rants are cathartic for the writer, but i rarely find them compelling.

How would you invest effort without first signing up, and how would you sign up without learning of these login limitations?

Having to use Google or GitHub to log into Tailscale definitely gave me pause when I was signing up. I actually pumped the brakes for a few months when I first encountered that, but eventually relented and chose GitHub.

I don't particularly _want_ another login, but I also don't cherish the thought of losing access to Service A because of the actions of Service B.

It's probably useful to note as well that Destin is acting as an educator during these interviews, and so he's probably asking a lot of questions that he already knows the answer to... but he needs to bring the audience along.