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mparramonon fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.

UX-wise it's quite minimalistic, that seems one of their differentiators. And I'm liking it!

mparramonon "That's not SOC 2 compliant"

You can pair program.

mparramonon WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale

That's the issue with metaphors, they are always different. Try steelmanning the issue and see what you think. I'm not here to prove a point, and I hope you're not either. I'm here to learn.

And what I'm learning is, artists are happy.

mparramonon WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale

So the artist simply accepts the AI generated wooden house. Might it be possible that he does not?

Furthermore, before AI, artists also used assets that came from other creators, accepting them wholesale. No intention, then?

The issue I see here is that we're judging the tool, not the artist.

It reminds me so much of the digital photography backlash. But here we are.

mparramonon WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale

With tools like this, the artist is not removed from the art. He just has more leverage.

I would argue the opposite even: this is more personal, as a singular artist can now do more by himself, without relying on others to do the parts that he couldn't do before.

mparramonon SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading

Like?

mparramonon Grok Build is open source

Classic commoditize the complement, well done on SpaceX's side:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

mparramonon Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts

Every time a state tries to regulate, it loses to the states that promote instead. Seems to be a better evolutionary strategy.

mparramonon Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts

It has already started:

  zero-graph v1
  origin source-text
  module "hello"
  hash "graph:a7f7e6899a73f3b4"

  node #decl_ad8d9028 Function name:"main" type:"Void" public:true fallible:true
  node #param_4610ae76 Param name:"world" type:"World"
  node #expr_c403020c MethodCall name:"write" type:"Void"
  node #expr_653eeb6e Literal type:"String" value:"hello from zero\n"
  edge #expr_c403020c arg #expr_653eeb6e order:0

https://zerolang.ai/

mparramonon SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

I choose positivity, because it allows me to live a happy life.

Regarding Starlink, I like it because it gives people free internet in flights. It gives a friend the possibility to stay in a rural home while being able to work. It gives tens of thousands access to information when there are catastrophes like the Venezuela earthquake.

It makes people being able to live a happy(er) life.

mparramonon Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

Very happy to have helped you with this :)

Venkatesh Rao is an amazing writer as well, I invite you to read some other of his posts. One of my personal favourites: Text is All You Need.

https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/text-is-all-you-need

mparramonon SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

Loving this, not loving the negativeness in this thread.

I wonder what the negativists will say about Reflect Orbital, which uses their Eärendil space mirror to light the world.

* https://www.reflectorbital.com/

mparramonon SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

Exactly. Elon Musk does things for (1) fun (2) revenue in order to fuel his real mission: derisk humanity by conquering Mars.

mparramonon SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

I like him! :D

mparramonon SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

>Nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM

mparramonon SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

Absolutely. Degrowith is the guilt-fueled poverty mind virus.

Abundance, friends. Nothing stops us.

mparramonon EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0

https://exitchatcontrol.org/

mparramonon Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

Related, amazing read about Meccano teaching you reality-based work, in contrast with Lego:

https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/truth-in-inconvenien...

mparramonon There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋)

For a moment I thought this was a nature-inspired introduction to Quantum Computation and Quantum Information[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Computation_and_Quantu...

mparramonon What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

mparramonon We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes

They call it the programmer's dozen, 9 bits for a byte

mparramonon Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL

That's how Steve Irwin died.

mparramonon Where's Firefox going next?

I've yet to have one single problem after running Firefox as my main driver for ~3 months. Only 2 webpages have made me quickly open Chrome instead to check them out, and the content wasn't worth engaging for long.

It puzzles me how more programmers don't switch to a real open source browser not controlled by an advertising giant which will use their overwhelming monopolistic force to steer the way browsers work so that it benefits its bottom line.

Vote with your feet, use Firefox.

mparramonon To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

They taught me in school to think about preconditions, invariant and postconditions for loops. Then I switched to only using functional affordances like .map() and .each(). I am much happier now.

mparramonon SpaceX to Invest $2B into Elon Musk's XAI

Non-paywalled: https://archive.is/Ain92

mparramonon Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

It’s the principle. When they’ve shown they’ll jank one extension because it doesn’t align with their business model, they’ve shown they’ll jank any extension in the future as they see fit.

I’m voting with my feet.

mparramonon Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

I did, a few months ago when they disabled uBlock on my Chrome.

The experience has been a delight. It runs smoothly, I can customize it more than Chrome (compact mode being one example [1]), and with the official iCloud Passwords extension I get to use the same password manager I use on my iPhone.

I don’t think I’ll ever go back. Best part being, if I need something that Chrome provides and Firefox doesn’t, I can potentially implement it myself, and contribute to a proper open source project while I’m at it.

1: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compact-mode-workaround...

mparramonon Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

This would mean that short term tasks, the bulk of what knowledge workers do nowadays, forgo learning on the job.

mparramonon Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

Remove the </satire> and you have a viral X post in your hands. People will believe and act on this analysis. Future think thanks will be based on it. The revolution of the machines is nigh.