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zcw100··on Creativity is the new moat
Absolutely this. The same thing is, and will continue, to take happen in the work place. This is the real threat of AI. Not that it's going to take your job, that it's going to redefine what is used to measure your value.
zcw100··on Creativity is the new moat
Maybe everyone has it backwards. They shouldn't be mad at everyone pumping out AI shit. They should be mad at all the crappy stuff we were forced to endure that was no better than AI shit. The only difference is the crap doesn't cost anything anymore.

The emperor has no clothes.

zcw100··on Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes
Looks like it was misattributed as CC BY 4.0 but it should be CC BY-SA 2.1 Japan
zcw100··on Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes
You don't need to call it amateurish. It's free.
zcw100··on Ask HN: Where Is AGI?
Here's a crazy idea. What if we are looking for AGI in the wrong place? We built a global internet. If we do achieve AGI maybe it will be a globally distributed one. If it did would we even know what to look for?
zcw100··on Gen Z is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents
This is just awful. I can't even contemplate a more nuanced rebuttal because I don't want to engage with it. I feel more sorry for children today because of articles like this are being written about them.
zcw100··on Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face
I only learned about their CDN and protocol called Xet a couple of days ago https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/xet/index That puts it in the Cloudflare of AI models category.
zcw100··on Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL
SEM_EXTRACT, SEM_MATCH, WEB_SEARCH are pretty vague functions. Makes me wonder why you'd bother with the SQL part at that point and not just ask the question.
zcw100··on Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today
I worried about this myself. 50% higher limits were nice but the flip side is you get used to it and then it just feels like they're taking 50% away. I'm not sure it's going to have the effect that Anthropic was expecting....or maybe that was the point. Who knows. I can see both perspectives.
zcw100··on DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser
I have and the suggestion was received positively. Thanks for the suggestion to do that. DuckDB rocks!
zcw100··on DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser
I'm excited about this and have some use cases already lined up but I'm continually worried about a grammar free-for-all and collisions as each extension author tries to modify the grammar. I'm hoping they already have something in place for that and I just haven't read about it yet. I'm concerned that you can load an extension and kind of mangle the interpretation of the syntax. Two author extensions could legitimately want conflicting parsers and there's no easy way to unload an extension in duckdb. Something like an explicit "GRAMMAR SQL" or "GRAMMAR GGSQL", etc would be nice.
zcw100··on A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
What do you plan on stripping and what's your target? The Emscripten based build is ~10Mb. I have a component build so I'd be interesting on how you'd like to break it up.
zcw100··on RayforceDB – a pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax
I was just thinking yesterday that some of what these AI generated sites have exposed is just how vacuous and low information content a lot of websites have become. The difference is previously you could at least say, "hey, someone at least spent a little money to create this" now that cost is pretty much zero. I think the answer is to simply demand more from people who have real products. If you have a product, I want to see a screenshot. Even better a demo and I'm not hitting the "schedule a demo" button. Either you step up and demonstrate capability or you're going to get lost in the noise.
zcw100··on A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
You can add :p to print the command.
zcw100··on A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
I like to alias it to "please"
zcw100··on How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video]
I can't help thinking of David Rees. This guy is hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KabOfnbS4TQ&t=139s
zcw100··on The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era
People need to stop yelling "Slop!" all the time and saying silly things like "every line of code was reviewed by a human". First, it's ridiculous. There is no possible way to verify that claim, determine what was or wasn't done after reviewing it, and there's no reason to review every single line. It's performative. I have a ton of stuff I haven't bothered contributing. Why? So I can deal with all the hate? When it was "many hands make light work" there was value in sharing the load. Now I've got a backhoe and it's not worth the hassle.
zcw100··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
I guess you're just supposed to read Clausewitz not actually understand it.
zcw100··on Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
A large number of logically irreconcilable perspectives (in one's own mind) is the precise definition of cognitive dissonance. You also say that I may be building a straw man without even trying to point out where you think I've done that. You've already conceded my argument that there are many competing perspectives and I make no attempt to poke any holes in that so there is no straw man.
zcw100··on Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
I'm done. The cognitive dissonance over AI has jumped the shark. It's not fair that it's everywhere. It's not fair that only a few have it. It's not fair that it uses so much electricity. It's not fair that it's killing my environment. It's not fair there's a datacenter in my back yard. It's not fair there isn't a datacenter in my back yard. It's not fair that it threatens my job. It's not fair that my employer doesn't give me access to AI.
zcw100··on Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor
Can't really win can ya? Scarce? They're driving up prices! Plentiful? It's all a big bubble!
zcw100··on Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata
I've always loved the original work and it's nice to see they're still working on it. I've always wondered if there was a way to connect this back to infrastructure rather than images. Something you could run on a cluster and if portions of it failed it would regenerate the system.

Like a bio inspired Kubernettes.....Bionettes.

zcw100··on Chameleon Ultra: a flashdrive sized NFC toolkit
> "no single „this is what this project is” anywhere in the repo description, readme or docs. "

That sounds like he read through the docs to me and make a perfectly valid observation that that the maintainers might find valuable. He didn't criticize them for not doing it he just pointed out that it wasn't there. You then told him to RTFM when you didn't seem to spend much time reading what he had written.

zcw100··on The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0
> You don't need to write platform-specific code if you use some cross-platform framework. For simple programs it may be enough to use only the standard library of your language of choice.

That's a circular argument and "some" is doing a lot of work there. What cross-platform framework would you be referring to?

> It has little value. Compiling a separate binary for each OS isn't that hard, since only a handful of architectures and operating systems are actually in use. Using an abstract cross-platform binary (like WASM) in the other hand adds extra performance costs and other user-side overhead, which isn't strictly necessary.

It my have little value to you but that doesn't mean it has little value to everyone. I don't agree that compiling to multiple architectures is without difficulty and restricting yourself to only popular ones proves the point. What specific "other user-side overhead" would you be referring to? Lots of things aren't strictly necessary, that doesn't imply they're not necessary. Yes, there is a performance cost. Sometimes that cost is worth paying.

zcw100··on Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF
You can use iPXE https://ipxe.org/
zcw100··on Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering
I wrote a Subsack post on this topic back in December https://open.substack.com/pub/zacharywhitley/p/the-coming-ag...
zcw100··on Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime
Is this being handed over to the Bytecode Alliance or is this a hard fork and will diverge from Chicory? It isn't clear from the announcement but I suspect the former.
zcw100··on A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp
What your discussing is a tautology so it is not clear.
zcw100··on A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp
If you have factual observations to make that's fine but can we stop with the "smells like vibe coding" attacks? It's like an AI version of an ad-hominem attack.
zcw100··on A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp
You can have a network enclave in an air gapped network.
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