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jackbravo

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Developer from Guadalajara, México.
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jackbravo··on My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes
No one has mentioned Ishmael from Daniel Quinn, where they theorize how modern culture is a cult (has it's own mythology) ingrained to hate or antagonize indigenous cultures, and how even our founding stories (Adam and Eve) are probably adapted from earlier stories from indigenous peoples.
jackbravo··on The software business after code scarcity
> Once people depend on an application, the cost of its failure has little to do with how much it cost to build. An application that costs $1,000 to build can still cause a $10 million failure.

> As software cost comes down, dependability becomes a differentiator.

jackbravo··on Being ambitious and being a dad
Exactly. If he means successful instead, then we can have different definitions of successful. That being said, I don't think most startup founders have the same definition of successful as that meets: dad that wants to be there for their children.
jackbravo··on DeepSeek Harness
and you could say the same if not better from C#. But those are now becoming niche languages and ecosystems. One for people around microsoft, azure, etc. The other around oracle solutions. There are still pretty interesting projects around it any of them, but they seem to be losing mindshare against other languages.
jackbravo··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
Also lighttpd! Released in 2003, one year before nginx (2004)
jackbravo··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
Are you talking about EA or FIFA?
jackbravo··on CodePen 2.0
https://jsfiddle.net/ used to be also very popular, I see that it is still available, but haven't used it in a while.

Which other alternatives do people use now days?

jackbravo··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
If you wrote it on your company's slack space, it is not really private to the company. Everytime I have a "private" conversation in Slack I have the understanding that the information could be shared. Even now there is a share button not for the whole conversation but yes for individual messages
jackbravo··on Kimi Work
They say that they have too much demand so are stopping new subscriptions while they scale up: https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2078855608565207130

> Over the past 48 hours, demand has pushed close to the limits of our current capacity. To protect the experience of existing subscribers, we're temporarily pausing new subscriptions and prioritizing compute for current members. Existing subscribed users are not affected.

> We're adding capacity as fast as we can and will reopen new subscription spots in batches.

jackbravo··on Pseudpocalypse
Related articles:

- Claude knows who you are: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Jkb4CBB7rf4XYP5eb/claude-kno...

- ~ Opus 4.7 is the first model to correctly guess who I am based on unpublished articles: https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/2044962428547695007

jackbravo··on Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
Odd that AWS Bedrock has very poor support for such models. They only have Kimi 2.5, qwen 3 coder, DeepSeek V3.2, GLM 5. So none of the newer models.
jackbravo··on Magnifica Humanitas
Nice answer! And thinking about it, isn't the telephone and maybe also the internet in the same category. In México the telephone company was first a public company and then a private one that made our biggest billionare (Carlos Slim), so maybe not so much here :-p, but you can argue that both have been a net benefit for the whole world.
jackbravo··on Shunning AI is the human choice
What is it about?
jackbravo··on The people writing AI alignment policy are not whose work is being replaced
Hearing about aligning with the AI reminds me of this other post about the current prophecies about AI: “Everyone will have an AI assistant,” or “Companies that fail to adopt AI will be eliminated.” and that

> the power of prophecy lies not in accurately predicting the future, but in shaping it

https://projectlibertynewsletter.substack.com/p/reject-ai-pr...

We need better prophecies.

jackbravo··on Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
Another easy to use option is using byobu (https://github.com/dustinkirkland/byobu).
jackbravo··on Astral to Join OpenAI
Most likely, because it is less money :-p. But also because it is less known and harder, as you already mentioned. Personally, I'm based in Mexico, and I would never have thought about trying to get nonprofit funding for a community project, nor would I know where to start to get that.
jackbravo··on Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
The Simpsons helped popularize this theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8grGedzAw
jackbravo··on I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus
I also liked Dilbert's version: https://www.random.org/analysis/
jackbravo··on Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
sounds very interesting, but even though it says giftarticle.ft, I got blocked by a paywall.
jackbravo··on Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation
I don't see anything but an inactive account on that link.
jackbravo··on 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)
You can read the original forum discussion that inspired this article: https://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-bet...
jackbravo··on 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)
Not that helpful?

Yes, it is not a black or white thing, more a spectrum. But for many people, including me, just naming the categories is very clarifying, even eye opening, akin to beginning to know an alien civilization. It allows you to consider a different point of view, a way of interacting, taking decisions and actions very different to what you are used to.

jackbravo··on Skip is now free and open source
What big/famous apps are using Skip?
jackbravo··on Claude Advanced Tool Use
And actually I like it that new cli tools are emerging because of this. For example hono cli: https://blog.yusu.ke/hono-cli/
jackbravo··on Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell
Reminds me of this clean architecture talk with Python explains this very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJtef410XaM
jackbravo··on Why Nigeria accepted GMOs
One common drawback of GM crops is the monopolistic nature of their seeds. They come with a license and a cost to use, you cannot save seeds and use them later. So it seems like a threat to the sovereignty of a Country.

The article briefly mentions that initially some seeds are given with royalty free licenses, but for how long?

jackbravo··on Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species
Care to expand?
jackbravo··on I'm switching to Python and actually liking it
if you want to serve HTML from the backend, why not use FastHTML then ;-)
jackbravo··on The Future Is Niri
Ha! The niri README has an answer for this, https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri, it is https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon, "Tiled scrollable window manager for MacOS".
jackbravo··on The Future Is Niri
Is there something equivalent or similar for MacOS? This seems great!

I use (and pay) for the magnet app, I don't like the native fullscreen functionality or split screen options.

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