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This is neat but feels like an uninspired shot in the dark. Apple’s been turning from industry leading to people pleasing in recent years. Not that its a bad thing entirely, but something is lost.

Aren't there more strict laws on marketing imagery being similar to their actual products in Japan? Wonder if that plays into it, or if the photography team was just having fun.

I tried it for a few days and then dropped it. The prompting/memory/context system for OpenClaw chewed tokens and performed subpar for my usecase. I was mostly interested in having AI writing little toy projects. I used pi over ssh instead, and eventually built myself a little mobile-first web UI wrapping pi.

App needs a bit of review, rather buggy, reloads and presents layouts while I’m typing, if I type in something thats not dimensions the error presents and then rotates through seemingly many different responses to other’s prompts? Vibe coding is a tonne of fun but its worth putting it through the wringer before making public :)

Folks are reviewing the code, but the standard shape of a review is a PR. This diff assumes you have an underlying knowledge of the system, one that is most realistically gained by having written the code. Could you “just remember” every diff you’ve seen? Maybe, but I don’t think it’s realistic; we learn far better from doing than from reading.

> There needs to be a business model based on selling the hardware and software, not the data the hardware collects. An architecture where the company that makes the device literally cannot access the data it processes, because there is no connection to access it through.

Genuine Q: Is this business model still feasible? Its hard to imagine anyone other than apple sustaining a business off of hardware; they have the power to spit out full hardware refreshes every year. How do you keep a team of devs alive on the seemingly one-and-done cash influx of first-time-buyers?

I’ve heard something similar: “there are people who enjoy the process, and people who enjoy the outcome”. I think this saying comes moreso from artistic circles.

I’ve always considered myself a “process” person, I would even get hung-up on certain projects because I enjoyed crafting them so much.

LLM’s have taken a bit of that “process” enjoyment from me, but I think have also forced some more “outcome” thinking into my head, which I’m taking as a positive.

Speaking for myself, speed. I’d be noticeably slower than my peers if I was crafting code by hand all day.

Knowing my taxes go towards these things is the reason I stay.

I grew up leveraging many of the same programs, this post helped illuminate how lucky I was to have them. Thank you!

Super cool stuff! Excited to see what p2p between clients might look like, and how it compares on speed with Wireguard.

Interesting, The Mountain in The Sea is becoming a reality.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59808603-the-mountain-in...

This.

I’ve learned that being brutally honest with myself and others regarding what I’m feeling and why has been super helpful.

It _does_ run the risk of sounding childish, but thus far I’ve found the open vulnerability more rewarding than punishing.

Identifying when I’m irritable, I’ll say “I’m grumpy, I’m gonna suck to be around, sorry”. Or when the real reason why I don’t want to do something is just because “I’m feeling shy”, etc.

Its hard to break the whole “men should be stoic” expectation but I’ve found people are remarkably understanding when you’re honest about why you’re feeling what you’re feeling.

This is similar to the concept of “sousveillance”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

Neat! Must just be compring the distance of embeddings?

> you have no idea what AGI will lead to

Neither do you? None of us do, in fact I’d imagine the people trying for AGI right now would have a better guess than you or I.

> there would be an immediate and total power vacuum caused by the advancements. these advancements would be so huge that it would change the geopolitical equation beyond recognition.

This sounds like you’re assuming someone will flip a switch one day and the most powerful mind in history will be let loose. I’m not sure AGI will advance that fast. We might have alot of incredibly “stupid” iterations of AGIs first, for many years before a clever one rolls around.

> this is intrinsic and unavoidable. it cannot be disproved or denied.

Were all just making assumptions here, I don’t think yours get to be called “intrinsic and unavoidable”.

I understand the concerns here, but if you’re willing to claim the end of the world, I would suggest basing your claims on something, or atleast making your assumptions explicit. E.g. “assuming we achieve AGI, and its equipped to rapidly become more powerful/intelligent than the whole of the human population…)

I dont disagree, I was expressing that I find their tone surprisingly “yee haw, we’ll getcha’” for an org that wields such power and responsibility.

Those fashion designers make a pretty mean little RISC chip.

Not ominous, threatening, and somewhat juvenile IMO.

The way its typically done, AFAIK, is that you train these big models on a breadth of information, hoping that it picks up on the generalities of the information. In the case of LLMs, things like basic inference, for example. You then take these big, general models and “fine tune” them for specific applications, with specific bits of data. This way, you get things like basic inference, and logic, while still having something that can answer specific questions.

OpenAI offers the ability to fine-tune some of their models: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning

There are also other services that will fine-tune an LLM, for a specific domain, for you: https://activechat.ai/build-your-own-chatgpt/

Had no idea copy protection would be so intense for those old arcade boards. A whole ARM 7 right on the cart, hardcore!

Hmm, yea privacy in public is an interesting thought. I don’t think its ridiculous to say you should have _some_ privacy, even in a public space. It feels like the expectation is that you can be physically seen, but beyond that I don’t see how someone loses all facets of privacy, unless you’re assuming a surveillance-state.

Actually, the “skip list” I implemented wasn’t as general as the ones talked about here. I had the “skips” pre-computed at specific intervals to skip sometimes huge numbers of entries, sometimes just a few, it wasn’t equally distributed. Didn’t know there was a more general implementation, neat!

I remember implementing a skip-list in order to do some hacky ray-casting on the GPU. Pretty significant performance improvement, and fun to implement!

This absolutely rips. So impressed by the 3D achieved here. The other examples of 3D GBA games I’ve seen play some pretty obvious tricks to make it performant, I cant spot any of those tricks here.

This.

Even with my favourite distro, being a sys-admin gets annoying after a while.

After wrestling with TrueNAS for months, this looks pretty good. I also really, reaally like the initiative to make self-hosting accessible.

So cool. I’d honestly love to replace my laptop with an iPad. That apple pencil is so good.

I think part if it stems from how multidisciplinary a game studio can be. In my experience, visual programming languages allow people with minimal programming experience (artists, designers, etc) to implement ideas. Im willing to bet onboarding someone with a visual language like Unreal’s blueprints is a much better time than trying to teach them C++. I also find prototyping, especially collaborative prototyping, to be easier with visual languages; its easier to “follow the fun” when all it takes is a drag-and-drop to change some logic.

“ You don't need to have a structure in mind before writing. Just focus on ideas; the structure will emerge.”

I’ve been obsessing over this idea for a while now. Never got around to implementing anything, but I really like the thought of just barfing things into my keyboard and having it all available at the speed of thought.

Hope you achieve some success to this end :)

Feels alot more like curling than golf, but "Gas Pump Curling" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.