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LOL - True Dat !! Thanks!

The sad part wasn't the bubble bursting...

It was watching all the potential being squandered and the internet basically being relegated to click farming and selling people crap they don't need.

All the really cool stuff seems to have died with the bubble...

It has been done... We used to get our POP gear built out from Dell (?) in shipping containers - pre-racked, wired, and cooled - just add network/power feeds. We'd have them dropped places we needed more capacity but there wasn't space available in the DC.

Thanks for the overview - I'd never heard of Kemal, nor the ARM support!

Sounds like 'advogato' for github... Social trust metrics

https://web.archive.org/web/20170715120119/http://advogato.o...

Huh - I don't remember Atmosphere ... just VRML ?

Thanks for the link!

Oh .. Hopefully, they can get sorted out.

Thanks - I appreciate the update :-)

Nice to see Crystal is still going strong 10+ years later ! I was never a Ruby coder, but I'm surprised it didn't get more adoption. Is there a reason ? I figured it was supposed to be like 'Ruby++' and eventually most Ruby projects would migrate to it ?

Yeah - writing styles have really changed over the years. Last time I ran a business document thru Grammarly, I was told it wasn't written at a 6(8?) grade level and was too complex :-P

When I first started out, I was taught you use passive voice in proposals (eg 'a program will be written..' not 'I will write a program...') since you didn't know who was actually going to write it. I can't imagine how that would go over now...

yeah - that's like PCBWay, et al. You can make boards yourself (even etch your own if you want to). But a lot of people opt. for the convenience of out-sourcing it.

Yeah - I've tried a bunch of them, and nothing's really perfect but those seem to be good enough for lightweight use.

I tend to use 'bat' or 'glow' though I've tried 'mdlook' and 'mdcat' as well.

LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaF-nRS_CWM

Hey! Thanks for E! It was my daily driver back in the day :-) Pretty cool to see it could run on cell phones as well! Thats some pretty tight code! :-D

LOL - this is great. Always cool to see people do weird shit just for the fun of it - congrats!

yeah - I wish the 'Hacker' part of 'HackerNews' got more attention. Last few years it often feels more like "VC-Buzzword-of-the-day-News" - AI is just the most recent cycle.

Hey! I resemble that comment :-P (I still tend to use apt-get out of habit...)

wow - I thought it was called 'ideation' or 'brainstorming'. he didn't give it a 'spec', he started a conversation with it to see if 'something actionable comes up' - which you actually quoted, but didn't appear to read ?

He didn't say they weren't ? He said youtube keeps recommending 'cringe' shorts no-one wants to see. I can sympathize with him - I have the youtube recommends the same 4 videos over and over again in multiple categories issue, and the 'lots of shorts I don't care about issue'. Though, shorts at least get refreshed/rotated more often then the stupid suggestions.

>>I take your point, the way I used “abuse” there probably carries more charge than I’d meant it to.

Fair enough.

>> But that’s not what the subscription product is for.

This was the point I was trying to make - I pay for XX tokens/usage. But somehow using them all is 'taking advantage' ?

BTW - I'm actually not complaining about the limits - I probably only use half my tokens on average week. I'm just annoyed at having to jump thru hoops if I want to try something 'API' oriented. For me, AI is still the new shiny - I try all different sorts of things learning/playing. There was an article posted today about writing agent harnesses. That could be interesting - maybe I want to try my hand at it. But then I've got to mess around/pay extra to _try_ something I that my subscription already easily covers.

[added:] >>to take on personal-scale projects, to allow them to learn without having to understand the tool’s economics upfront. To play without fear of expensive mistakes.

This is exactly what I'm trying to do - however, as soon as you want to try anything 'API' oriented, the 'fear of expensive mistakes' comes right back.

>> but is it a question whose answer matters?

I think it does? "scummy person loses job, finds another way to cash in" almost seems to becoming a trope? I think it raises questions about what is left _out_ of the book, not just what's in it - are the issues raised the worst/most important, or just the ones that will sell the most books? Did we really need someone to 'tell us' meta/social media can be evil?

There are reasons that (some) criminals are not allowed to profit from books/movies about their crimes.

Anyway, that's just my general feelings about this sort book - I've never heard of the book or the author. And I honestly have no interest in reading it. Based on what I'm reading here - that would basically be rewarding/enriching one of the 'bad actors' ?

>>when your MCP avenue of abuse catches on

Thats an interesting way of phrasing it - so is there a way to use the quota that's not 'abuse'? MCP/claude code seems to be want they want you to use it - are loops or ralph abuse as well ?

>>So even if Anthropic loses money on a power user, they profit overall and keep public sentiment high by not alienating users with restrictions

So they profit overall if I use all my tokens either way? Again, I understand usage limits - I just don't understand why some usage is 'good' and some 'bad' if I'm using the same either way.

>>More users spinning up OpenClaw

I'm pretty sure that's a small percentage of overall users, and probably skewed towards the very people that would be recommending/implementing you model for work/businesses. Seems like that would be the group you are encouraging/cultivating ?

you can write automated MCP tools that run within claude code, and could theoretically generate as high a load as any other automated/3rd party agent. You can also do loops that burn tokens incredibly fast. This is allowed with no caveats (I use MCP's basically to test what I'd like to try with the API...) So this explanation just seems a lil hollow.

This is what I've been wondering about for a while now. I have the 20x plan as well, which I thought would allow me to try some API coding - but you get zero API usage.

As you said, I would imagine where the token usage comes from is irrelevant - you are generating the same load whether you do it from claude code or some other agent. So it seems like the rules are more to do with encouraging claude code usage, rather then claude model usage.

IIRC the Stratus/Model 88 was Moto 68K chips, not x86? I worked on them for years on wall st. - really nice machines! :-D

"we" paid ISP's ... which in turn, paid for infrastructure. Some of "we" pay cable providers for internet service, which in turn paid for (in my case) fiber-to-the-curb. Advertising basically supported social media, search engines, etc.

An article about old school bbs'ing and no-one mentioned 'door games' ?? Tradewars 4 evah !!

Heh - QWK was such a god send for those of us paying long distance charges to access boards. I think I used 'Bluemail' ? 'Bluereader' ? and really liked it.

The visual component editor does look pretty nice :-) I guess I always just associated sbc's with a more 'hands on' style...

Anyway, seems like a pretty cool project - congrats!