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maitland··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
> comp for was comparable anyone else on the team at their same level

You're so close to getting it... keep going...

maitland··on AI firm HUMXN offers free plumbing and HVAC service in Minnesota to train robots
the gen ai image on this page has a "shut off" label for the base of the human plumber's neck. To say nothing of the amusing drainage schematics (water flows up?)...
maitland··on TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)
heave to
maitland··on Botfile – Dotfiles for Agents
botfile is a symlink farm like Stow. It's goal is to bring some structure to the sometimes chaotic internals of popular agents by enabling users to extract, persist, share, and sync the skills (https://agentskills.io/home) and instructions (https://agents.md/) they use.

Specifically, it solves the problem of managing standard skills that a team shares, alongside private skills you want to use across your devices and agents.

It also works in the same way with instructions, things like AGENTS.md that exist as ambient guidance injected into the harness lifecycle.

It works with all the major agent harnesses, and is quite opinionated about following the UNIX philosophy of doing one thing well. In botfile's case, it'll only ever be a symlink farm with support for the agent component kinds (skills and instructions so far) that fit its model.

If you: - dont have skills or instructions at the user-scope, or - don't find yourself wanting to share skills or instructions across agents, or - don't share skills or instructions with a team.

It's probably not for you. If you'd like to try and start doing one, all or just some of these things it's a good place to start.

maitland··on Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla brand cars
It does.
maitland··on Block the Bots That Feed “AI” Models by Scraping Your Website
I'd be amazed if ai companies like openai respect robots.txt or any other good faith mechanism.
maitland··on LSD: Not Even Once
Also count me in. Excited to see others with the same experience.

I got to the point of rationalizing this as actually being some kind of memory of being born / memory of that trauma. The lack of all proportion to the sensation, along with the incredible stakes, feeling of pressure (literal and figurative) etc…

maitland··on Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?
Also curious to know projects, email in profile
maitland··on Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow
Subject of the video has a website: https://greenhouseinthesnow.com/greenhouse-kits

Quotes: $211 per lineal foot.

Further info is also in the description of the video:

> Finch sells a "Citrus in the Snow" report detailing his work with his "geo-air" greenhouses and says anyone can build a market-producing greenhouse for about $25,000 or "less than the cost of a heating system on a traditional greenhouse."

maitland··on Learn C and build your own Lisp (2014)
I found this book, it's approach and tone to be really engaging, it answered a bunch of questions I didn't know I had and allowed me to understand and engage with my work as a web dev on another level. Parser Combinators for example are fascinating. I find Daniel Holden's work similar to many ways to Brian Lonsdorf's... Honestly surprised there are haters for this type of thing!
maitland··on Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It
What data structure would be best suited to implementing this set of features?
maitland··on The Society of the Spectacle
I would also add that 'The Dialectic of Enlightenment', is perhaps a more thorough precedent to 'The Society of the Spectacle'... if you're at all interested ... the chapter 'The Culture Industry' is good. https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Max-H...
maitland··on The Society of the Spectacle
He made a movie of this text, which is available online, it's low resolution and some of the subtitles are hard to read. There's an updated version that's more legible but which stays true to the original in all the important ways: https://youtu.be/irdHSmRrdh0
maitland··on Algorithmic Justice Could Clear Convictions in California
The Digital Regime of Truth: From the Algorithmic Governmentality to a New Rule of Law - https://www.iainmaitland.com/pdf/Rouvroy-Stiegler.pdf
maitland··on Octopuses on MDMA reveal genetic evolution link to human social behaviors
Presumably one octopus must be caged in order to prevent them from harming one another.
maitland··on Federal chokehold on marijuana stymies studies on epilepsy, autism
Funnily enough when government funding for sex/sexuality research gets constrained - normally during a Republican tenure - researchers move to Canada https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/the-big-b...