jackdoe

when I say EVs need less maintenance I mean things like cylinder honing or clutch slipping.

do people actually think you buy a tesla and just drive?

I am working on changing the bushings and seals on the forks, and the diagrams are correct, I have them completely disassembled, and tbh I dont think I would've been able to have good mental model of them just from the manual.

The brakes also seem correct and the electrical as well, the starter relay relay assembly and fuses at least seem correct. I have not open the engine itself yet so cant confirm. But I will do a shim check soon, so I will let you know :)

ha damn Astra made the same for my bike (TDM 850) https://punkx.org/tdm850 even posted it to HN but didnt pick up.

I think its amazing to be able to do such vizualizations in 30 minutes or so.

This is approaching Tony Stark making badassium level of tooling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddk9ci6geSs

as long as it is honest, everything is ok.

their point is while the 'group' wins, the rest of the world loses.

localized gains, distributed loss.

Most people never get to do their great work.

Bob Dylan reflecting on his early work https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fh3pAJf-vdU

I wish to live my life so I can say one day 'Nothing I ever do again will.."

> then hundreds of dollars to service when they break

Can you explain what do you mean by that? It is quite rare to see broken trrs jack on a laptop, at least I have never experienced one, nor on walkman or anything getting heavy plug/unplug use.

I thought it is an issue in reducing the cost to manufacture the case or something.

depends, I would say it is not safe for work as it makes you question what are you doing there :)

its phenomenology porn

Can you imagine in few years getting Fable level intelligence at 20k tokens per second?

"You are not prepared" --Illidan Stormrage

In the next decade open hardware will win, any machine that exposes itself to be programmed by its user will be infinitely better than a machine that doesn't.

From keyboards to phones to tractors.

The appstore will die, and the walled gardens will die.

Unless they use 'for the children' to make open machines illegal.

I am starting to seriously consider switching my pi-hole from blacklist to whitelist; block everything except few domains. I am convinced now most of the text I read is either ai generated, or people who wrote it have been influenced by AI so much that they write like it.

I cant read this shit anymore.

"creating cross functional AI evaluation team to keep the company honest"

Fucking garbage.

I have an old book between me and the keyboard, and just read it while the AI is thinking, so I can read non AI words.. otherwise its like reading books by the same author over and over and over again.

I will go touch some grass now.

yet

> It's the same tech that's scalable to a certain limit of diminishing return.

of course, my point was that gpt3->4o was smaller jump than opus 4.6->fable

yes, I assume we will have the 'replicator' from Star Trek, and programs will just appear as you want them.

experiencing the gpt3->4o->sonnet4->opus4.6->fable trajectory I am fairly confident what we call programmer today will not exist, in the same time regular people will finally be able to tell computers what to do and this will unlock the next stage of complexity in manufacturing/material science/medicine and so on.

of course I am likely wrong, people say: its never as good or as bad as you think.

the elastic demand will be consumed by ai

jevon's paradox just says people will consume more software as software gets cheaper, which is likely true, not that there will be more high paid jobs for programmers.

as programmers are not the resource, the program is the resource, programmers were the means of production of said resource.

stated differently: in a world where you dont need programmers to make programs, there is infinity of programs, and no jobs for programmers.

I vibecoded https://punkx.org/apl/learn.html [1] its good slow entry into gnu-apl, at least it got me to be able to make tictactoe, vibecoded or not, it helped me to start.

I am amazed how quickly APL changed the way I think.

Also strongly recommend watching Aaron Hsu on youtube.

There is no better time to re-learn programming, try APL, Forth, LISP, z80 machine code, UXN TAL, just try new things.

"Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail."

[1]: https://github.com/jackdoe/gnu-apl-wasm source of the repl and learn playground and also how to compile gnu apl to wasm (vibecoded)

there is only so much attention/time human beings have

games are competing with netflix competing with tiktok competing with sleep

    Johnny Mnemonic: Yeah, the Black Shakes. What causes it?
    Spider: What causes it?
    [points to various pieces of equipment throughout the room]
    Spider: This causes it! This causes it! This causes it! Information overload! All the electronics around you poisoning the airwaves. Technological fucking civilization. But we still have all this shit, because we can't live without it. Let me do my work.

Its discounted on steam summer sale, I bought it and played all evening yesterday.

Printed the zine.

It took me to my happy place.

Thank you.

why would they compete with it when its open?

> You always buy fossil fuels with an EV,

"always" is just not true. "most of the time" is true, and it will get less and less as time goes by.

there is a difference in a kid asking a LLM to explain 0! or 0^0 and to ask it to be its friend.

we are closer to watering our farms with gatorade than mining landfills for lithium.

> Social media is a HUGE shift to society

Our teens are living through a changing time: peak unregulated social media, that I personally belive is approaching heroin level addiction and damage; covid lockdowns testing the very limits of Piagetian theory; AI in school and outsourcing understanding; very uncertain job market to enter into; possibly the collapse of AMOC; reaching Peloponnesian war level of unstable democracy; the true collapse of idealism, the birth of the mechanical man and the first total spiritual crisis

Our institutions absolutely can not react with the accelerated change, so I think the only thing a parent can do is act as individuals, teach their children, and position their families in the best way they can to weather the storm.

AI romantic partners are coming.

I have no idea if this is AI or not. I tried reading it, and was doubting every sentence. Damn. At this point I am not sure it matters. Few years ago I would've read it with joy.

I love Tom Bombadil, Tolkien's ghost.

yes, that is my point, but at some point, better is unmeasurable, and both the better and the not-as-good produce similar result, and then you pick the one with 1/10th of the price

I think there is some threshold after which "best" model doesn't matter, we are not that far from it. Fable now is really good, in a year or so, if Kimi catches up, even if Fable6 is much better, I think I will use kimi at 1/10th of the price.

I said that about opus 4.5 at the time, thinking "this is so good, in 6-12 months the Chinese models will be as good and cheap, I will use them", but I was wrong.. I pay premium for opus4.7/8 and Fable.

But at some point, it will just do the thing you want it to do, and then the race to the bottom will start.

Now that Chinese companies have access to some very good Fable tokens, I hope it speeds up the race.

denying smartphone basically makes your kid an outcast, which might be fine for some kids, not fine for others, but ignoring that, the school basically requires smartphones, even uses apps to open the lockers, or to communicate about group projects.

apple's parental controls are total joke, per app blocks are not good at all, what you want is content type blocks, which of course is impossible.

example: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254480754?sortBy=rank

I have seriously dealt with this for 30 years, from before cups existed, and as I said I have forgotten more about lpd and cups than most people know.

You have no idea how much I don't want to understand.

I am not being witty for comedic effect.

I have forgotten more ways to fix CUPS than most people know today.

I really don't care.