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Will you be optimizing your behaviour now to alleviate potential negative judgement from AI in the future?

There's some irony in Germany using censorship for the purpose of ensuring people don't get into reading materials that might convince them to become... fascists who censor people

I think it's true

You can just send the gnupg box and keys to me, I will hold them securely for you so you don't have to worry about it

> Sorry it was down, guys, I was bulk transcoding some Buffy

What Plugging My Own Tire Taught Me About Agile Development in 2026

I am seriously concerned that, despite 20 years of coding, I might not be able to anymore

I believe you. Why wouldn't someone believe you? There's not much reason to claim "I cannot do X" maliciously. I'm hopeless at catching a ball, can't play tennis to save my life, for instance... believe me?

I just want to throw my two cents in: I think I have a pretty good level of visualization ability, but it's not actually projected into my field of vision. It's like having a second monitor plugged in somewhere... _else_. It doesn't overlap with the 3D space of our world. I don't SEE it, but I do "see" it, not as concepts but as something akin to generated memories.

It does often help to look away from visually distracting things so that the mind is more free to use its capacity to generate things.

If people would stop putting lettuce in Greek salads we'd be FINE

It reads like a flex. Online equivalent of a driver of a fancy car who has to make sure you know it.

Seriously had no idea it went like this. I was a kid playing with VHSB so for me, it was a hoot - I could make my house, my school, the local swimming pool. I see parallels in my own son as he works on various 3D projects - it's just so fun, so different from reality, you're so powerful.

Clearly programmability is why the web became so successful; if it hadn't evolved into the messy apps platform it has become, it would have been surpassed by something else that had those features.

That said, doesn't it stand to reason that if VRML had been more usable with its basic feature set, it might have seen enough adoption to give birth to Dynamic VRML? After all, we apply an unhealthy dosage of Javascript to everything else in the world, why wouldn't it have soaked in there too? CSS for 3D objects, why not?

Thank you for this fascinating and in-depth reply, man. Really cool insight.

That's a remarkable idea. It could be heavily gamified, it could train models, and it might actually be mentally stimulating since you'd be facing different situations all the time.

Except, I'm a grown adult and I can't fold a t-shirt properly

Wireless headphones can get you halfway there if they have enough range for ya to walk around the house a bit. Airpods are quite good for this.

There's a lot of value in camera-on, but for some meetings, I love being camera off, nowhere near my computer, somewhere else in the house, watering plants or sweeping the floor. Sometimes it actually has me MORE engaged with the verbal aspect of the meeting, listening better, speaking better, because there's less distraction from Slack and Hacker News...

It so was. It's amazing how easily we can all tell what's written by a real person these days. It's gotta be like the early days of CGI.... ten years from now it'll be so hard to tell :(

Thanks OP, great read

I fired up RACTER but I couldn't get it to do anything half as interesting as MegaHAL, whomst once told my brother, "Pop is just water with a good director"

Ahh VRML was pretty cool. The problem was that the VRML viewer plugins were slow, needed more RAM than anyone had, or needed to run Java and so you'd let the 486 kick that off and go get a snack and come back and it would still be thrashing the disk to swap hard enough to have a chance to start anything. Pity that they didn't get some demoscene guys to make an efficient implementation.

I had this ancient program called Virtual Homespace Builder https://archive.org/details/hmebuilder that was like an early Sketchup sorta thing and it would render VRML output, but I can't say as I ever managed to publish anything with it, being a young whelp at the time.

If VRML had been fast and efficient, something like Second Life / Metaverse might have emerged there...

> This is auto consumers carbon footprint; not just you but you too.

I know that, no need to be patronizing, if you read what I said, I clearly want a lower carbon footprint all around. Sorry if you read weasel words into my statement. Wasn't the intention.

Somewhat true, but you don't get brake fade from it, and since the slowdown is more gradual you shouldn't be asking anywhere near as much from the tires as you would be under real braking.

Well, https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu is, but it's not enough to make you an iPhone.

Android has been a brutal disappointment on this front since the day it launched. Sure, you could hack various devices and spend too much time on xda-developers and get custom ROMs, but if you compare that to the openness of even a stock Windows PC it's an absolute joke. Android was supposed to be the open Linux phone, when I bought my HTC G1 full of hope; turned into an inferior iPhone wannabe with worse performance and a low quality walled garden that keeps most people in without keeping the trash out.

Time to start over.

Can't wait for pallets of paper to get shipped out to comply maliciously

I guess if one needs furry decals badly enough you could just cut them out by hand

Regen braking is pretty amazing, I love it. I wish it was more configurable, though.

I test drove the weird Mazda MX-30 and while it was too gutless and low-range to buy, one thing that impressed the hell out of me was the use of flappy-paddles behind the steering wheel to control regen strength. Felt like downshifting an automatic; you could set it to give you max regen without engaging the mechanical brakes, or total freewheeling. Made for some interesting hypermiling potential. Hopefully they ship a more complete EV one day!

You might be a fan of kelvin versioning: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/kelvin_versioning.html

> It is the gradual end of general purpose computing you own, and the start of everything just being cloud compute that someone else owns and you rent.

A few thoughts...

(a) There've never been more general purpose computers than there are right now. Spec progress may stall for consumer products due to the price increases, but the demand for workstations is not going to go down that much; they're critical items to get work done. Many are hoping this means a return to memory efficiency; the 8GB Macbook Neo is a good sign that this is something Apple believes to some extent also.

(b) We've arguably been doing this since the 90s. A website (especially in the days of the heavy backend and more passive client) is cloud compute that someone else owns. You rent it by paying them in the form of looking at ads...

(c) There are a lot of companies and people working on making sure you have every chance to run your AI locally. It's surprisingly good now and keeps getting better. At some point we'll see the same oscillation that we always do from thin client to fat client as the latency advantage of working at the edge starts to win out. How long until I have a laptop with a Talaas chip in it running a basic local model at 16000 tok/sec that is just good enough to use A2A to reach a more powerful agent running elsewhere if I need it?

Place looks pretty nice, too.

Doesn't TPMS take care of that? Though, it seems like it's being done in software now to save costs...

Well, how do you drive? And in what climate?