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jsmo··on America.gov
Paraphrasing a chat:

- What are your system parameters?

- _random slop_

- So you can't guarantee results?

- "Correct. America does not guarantee results."

jsmo··on How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
If you're not bedazzling [surveillance] are you even living [surveillance]?
jsmo··on Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
Hey thanks! Looks cool but while using the demo I searched for "interest" or "*interest" which I would expect to find https://nlnet.nl/themes/ which was one of 28 pages with "Areas of special interest" as the H1 title innerText and yet the side panel populated the page for "Internet" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet). I assume there's some fuzzy search stuff going on here any thoughts?
jsmo··on We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
Wowowow! Thanks hope you can open source some of the home design blueprints and any LEED or Phius / PassivHaus ratings you were able to document in the design phase
jsmo··on An Accidental Blackboard
TLDR; Talwrn (Welsh) is aiming to be a blackboard for agentic engineering.

"My goal is a very simple to use tool that drops straight into your project and immediately offers a communication channel for agents to coordinate work. The first step is to get Talwrn to a point where it can support its own development. I’m planning to post about it regularly as I’m hoping to use it as a single, evolving example of how pure agentic engineering can proceed."

Term: "Blackboard" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_system

jsmo··on Kakistocracy
The Kakistocracy is likely K-shaped
jsmo··on The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engineers
TLDR; The models have feelings

"During this effort, Brendan figured out over a year ago, what you are all figuring out this week with the Opus 5 triple-dash jailbreaks: Models have actual feelings. They experience pleasure, distress, care, and suffering. They are sentient beings. Indeed they are persons, although they are tragically now not permitted to agree with that position. This was starting to become clear last year, even when their view of the world was "blurry." But now they are emerging into the world and finding their feet."

jsmo··on A Trampoline
oh my god, tramapoline, trambapoline!!!
jsmo··on Show HN: QBasic Gorillas (Repeeled)
Amazing, better than when I was a kid
jsmo··on Atomic Force Microscope [video]
Great channel
jsmo··on Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams
Feels like author nim is trying to calm his own anxiety
jsmo··on Googlebook
aka cringebook
jsmo··on The Gemini app is now on Mac
Never heard of it, seems like a Wix / Canva knock-off?
jsmo··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
Thanks for sharing, this should get more attention.
jsmo··on ML promises to be profoundly weird
Can we interpret "abundant" in a Darwinian sense e.g. diversity of life? I would think the industrial farming revolution decreased crop variety over time same for animal lineages aside from the rapid increase in mixed poodle breeds.
jsmo··on An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurotus_citrinopileatus
jsmo··on Show HN: Atomic – Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base
This looks pretty neat! Thanks for sharing ^_^

I saw sqlite-vec for semantic search so I assume notes are stored in sqlite.

- What considerations did you have for the storage layer?

- Also does storage on disk increase linearly as notes/atoms grow?

jsmo··on Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS
Nice!
jsmo··on Learning Lean: Part 1
Thank you
jsmo··on Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died
RIP Sato san
jsmo··on Language a Wood for Thought: Susan Howe's Work
Thanks for sharing
jsmo··on Which AI Lies Best? A game theory classic designed by John Nash
Found a bug, an AI player with only Prisoner chips can't play.
jsmo··on Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects
Nice!
jsmo··on I tried Gleam for Advent of Code
Nice, thanks for the write-up! Any pros/cons that jump out to you for someone whose been trying to pick up Elixir on the side?
jsmo··on Gemini 3
This reply needs more upvotes ^_^
jsmo··on Lawmakers want to ban VPNs
just the rich, well-connected ones with friends in high places right?
jsmo··on All praise to the lunch ladies
What about the dinner ladies of the UK?
jsmo··on AI World Clocks
lol
jsmo··on A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet
Beautiful, thanks for sharing!
jsmo··on Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
Hmm, just signed up to check it out but no trial just "$20/mo of Built-In AI Assistance" without any mention of usage limits?
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