mrnotcrazy

I think this kind of game needs another innovation to make it interesting. I don't think adding more generative or LLM generated content is the solution.

If you scroll down they want you to "Connect copperhead to GitHub first." The bottom should have a page where you can give them access to a repo for handling stuff.

Could you expand on this more? It's not clear to me what this is implying.

Any water jets or dyson brand? I haven't had a single dentist tell me anything negative about them but I also don't trust dentists

My question would be how riffable is it? I don't have 10-20k to drop on a robot. I work for co-ops so while I make good money(90k~ pretty good!) its less than I could make else where but the trade off is I have more time to build random stuff. 2k is the price point for me where I might buy a big thing every so many years, teaching this to play board games, making new hands for it, teaching it to clean etc would be fun and at a price point that works for me. I would probably want a suction attachment for the fingers so it could handle cards and other flat tokens but that seems simple enough to build given the 3d models for printing are included.

I could see myself printing all sorts of costumes for it and using it as an ad hoc characters for tabletop games or as a spare bandmate if I ever finish my synth.

"We make money by selling the hardware for $1,688, with optional paid software on top."

The software would have to be quite good and also affordable for me to consider it, as all subscriptions are liabilities. I might one day want my robot to go with me to a show or to do something meaningful. Whenever that happens I will NOT be held hostage by software and will either source my own software or replace parts of the hardware till something works before I keep throwing money at a bad service. I would prefer to just have a good vendor supported software that I don't have to think about but I have trust issues. Privacy would be a huge concern, I can't have this in my garage lab with all my stuff being sent back to your servers for computer vision tasks etc.

Ever since I read this https://paulbupejr.com/developing-the-optigap-sensor-system/ I've wanted to build a system that takes in a shape and adds bends and fiber routing so you can dynamically create readable objects. I was initially imagining wanting to add the bending points manually but I'm not so sure that's the best practice and I may want to think of a heuristic for good vs bad bend points before even considering the UI.

I also bought some cheap gloves from harbor freight and used a needle to route fiber through each finger to make a simple power glove like thing which I think I can connect to arm arm to make a cool robot game. I think of the two I am more excited for the first but its much more work than the second and my day job is getting more exciting than I would like so by the end of the month I'll have had to pick one to finish.

I liked the counters on the old 90s/2000s web but it was best at the bottom of the page cause it was easy to ignore. I can't ever see me wanting a moving box telling me other people are reading the same article as me but if I did it would blend in better.

Email is more than a technology its a community. There have been plenty of technical attempts at replacing it but they have failed to un-seat email because they focus only on the technology aspect which as you have found is largely a solved problem although... getting the details right might be hard. You need buy in from the community which is not just users but also businesses and organizations that use email which is everyone from CEOs to church leaders. It's not enough to fix email you have to get buy in from the community to make a meaningful change and I don't see anything here that would do that. This isn't really a criticism, just an insight I offer. I work in this field and we're trying to get out of it cause managing email sucks. I would love something new to take its place but the community has heard so many promises that never came to fruition, when that happens you either need a better promise(harder than it seems) or you need credibility which may be very difficult in the current climate. Not an unsolvable problem, those don't exist but sometimes the lever you need to solve the problem is further than you can reach alone and this is one of those times.

This is the lamest possible implementation, exactly what I would expect from openAI. Nothing about it is interesting or unique or really leverages the power of LLMs to make a new experience.

Isn't Unlimited Context pretty difficult to promise? What exactly do they mean, could I just have two agents locked into a TTRPG back and forth forever?

Does the ball need to be iron? Can we just take a 3d printed sphere, paint it with glue ,roll it around in a bucket of rust and then smash?

If its a revolution you probably aren't hitting them 40k in the air, your hitting them when they park similar to how Ukraine sent drones after bombers behind enemy lines. I really hope we can avoid any kind of conflict, with the way American's think I could see one or both sides resorting to biological/chemical weapons faster than they start making missiles. There is also no reason to assume what starts out as your side will remain such, revolutions are crazy risky.

I have agents run at night to work through complicated TTRPG campaigns. For example I have a script that runs all night simulating NPCs before a session. The NPCs have character sheets + motivations and the LLMs do one prompt per NPC in stages so combat can happen after social interactions. IF you run enough of these and make the prompts well written you can save a lot of time. You can't like... simulate the start of a campaign and then jump in. Its more like you know there is a big event, you already have characters, you can throw them in a folder to see how things would cook all else being equal and then use that to riff off of when you actually write your notes.

I think of my agents like golems from disc world, they are defined by their script. Adding texture to them improves the results so I usually keep a running tally of what they have worked on and add that to the header. They are a prompt in a folder that a script loops over and sends to gemeni(spawning an agent and moving to the next golem script)

I also was curious to see if it could be used it for developing some small games, whenever I would run into a problem I couldn't be bothered to solve or needed a variety of something I would let a few llms work on it so in the morning I had something to bounce off. I had pretty good success with this for RTS games and shooting games where variety is something well documented and creativity is allowed. I imagine there could be a use here, I've been calling it dredging cause I imagine myself casting a net down into the slop to find valuables.

I did have an idea where all my sites and UI would be checked against some UI heuristic like Oregon State's inclusivity heuristic but results have been mixed so far. The initial reports are fine, the implementation plans are ok but it seems like the loop of examine, fix, examine... has too much drift? That does seem solvable but I have a concern that this is like two lines that never touch but get closer as you approach infinity.

There is some usefulness in running these guys all night but I'm still figuring out when its useful and when its a waste of resources.

I think the URL should be suno.com, the link you posted is a different thing? Suno.com is the one I've used, I generally use it for DND type campaigns when I need custom music for scenes or background noises. It does pretty good sound effects and spoken word so sometimes I use it for that as well.

If you think the republic is one of the worst books in human history I would ask what makes a good book? When there are plenty of implementation issues for direct democracy it feels strange to blame Plato... Particularly when the world has benefited from the republic in so many ways.

I'm working on an escape room! Initially I was working on a software/hardware bundle that I was planning to market to other escape rooms but I think that is the wrong approach. So I am going to build a bunch of modular stuff in my garage and eventually start my own, its been an awesome project so far! I want a more dynamic and action oriented experience so it might not really be an escape room anymore but I don't know what to call it yet.

Escape rooms are honestly... almost always a let down but the concept has a lot of potential and there are some really neat ones that standout like this local one where you pilot an airship https://www.portlandescaperooms.com/steampunk-airship

Once I build the best escape room on the planet, I can consider selling the tools.

Can you expand on what’s wrong about it? I have some ubiquiti gear and I haven’t noticed anything wrong but I haven’t taken a close look.

I think in engineering maybe you can have different levels of doneness? At my job closing a ticket means the job is done but better than closing a ticket is documenting the solution. Even better is automating a solution for the future so maybe coasters are more likely to be close tickets and move on.

I'm not sure its that they aren't interested, I think its just really hard.

I think the better deployment of this would be 1 human and 4 AI buddies so you could have a more tactical experience and games could have larger more realistic battles.

I think strategy might be more important in the future than switchy aiming

I’m taking some time to go back to school and finish my bachelors. I work with a lot of rural ISPs so I think for the moment I’m ok. I might pick up some networking skills. It seems like networking changes slower than server side stuff cause it more often requires hardware upgrades.

I think depends on the context as to whether or not it’s cynical and how much is hard evidence vs personal perception. You think the world is in bad shape cause the national trend is towards a lower trust society? I don’t think that is necessarily cynical. If you doom scroll and have now collected a bunch of scary things you Have to be anxious about, probably a bit cynical.

I think it might be the reverse? I think if your goal oriented your not programing for the sake of programing, your programing to solve problems. LLMs are exciting if you like solving problems because you can now tackle things you would otherwise never be able to alone.

If programming didn't help me automate my sys admin work, help me make games, websites and other creations I wouldn't bother with it.

Is it possible to go from linux administrator into something related to robotics without a major amount of training? or is that leap more of a go back to school for four years type deal?

My big hope for all this AI stuff is that normal people start to use computers to solve problems more often. I work as a sys admin, if I want say a specialized script to organize my music in a special way. I can write that, probably wouldn't be the best code cause it doesn't need to be.

The average person could be using computing to solve all kinds of problems but it requires expertise and a time investment that is just not a good value proposition for a lot of people. If GPT or some other thing comes around and makes it so my uncle could say to his computer "hey build me a site so I can show off all my fishing trophies" and it just does it? the world would have a lot more niche software, more weird stuff and overall everyone would be more productive and happy.(or so I hope)

I don't think the average person has a concept of what digital privacy is but its still a fine list of things to work towards.

I think these are policies which are important but parties are built around ideologies right? so maybe by looking at all of these and finding a common thread you could make that the corner stone of the hackernews party or whatever.

Getting people to believe your party aligns with them wont be enough though, you have to get people to believe that by not voting for their favorite entrenched party they aren't helping their opponents to win.

Meetup groups! I live in Portland Oregon and there are so many awesome board game meetups. I also tend to like hacker spaces but they can be less social and you aren’t guaranteed to have personal interaction

I don’t think everyone is getting tired of LLMs. Citation needed. Personally I use chatgpt everyday for all kinds of stuff, it’s just a part of my workflow now

Shouldn't this be verifiable in some way? Like if enough people start posting about mastodon and then comparing their notes?

I see a lot of posts about Elon(twitter) allegedly taking down posts and limiting the reach of posts but I am not sure how much of it to believe. Especially with the limiting claims, I don't know how you would measure when its being artificially limited and when people just don't care to engage with a post.

I don't doubt that there is some level of manipulation going on but that is always the case with social media.

It sounds like they are saying take the job and then don't show up? Cause this will cause them an inconvenience? I don't know if that is a good approach OR maybe I also don't understand what they meant.

I work in the Industry and I can assure you Smaller ISPs often offer faster speeds without datacaps than comcast and such. There are some rural places where this is the exception but often the larger ISPs either aren't offering anything or everyone is offering the bare minimum.