Oh hell yeah, thanks!

I’ve enjoyed Garfield Minus Garfield for the artistic statement, but perhaps it also exposes the patterns you’re referring to.

I tried it a few years ago. It was expensive compared to popular alternatives, and it didn’t directly integrate with my mainstream chest strap anymore. You still had to run multiple apps to collect your data, then go upload it to Strava separately. And that was it’s new policy at the time; previously, it did support heart rate monitors directly, and I guess they decided “nah, that’s not what we’re here for.” No idea what it does now because switching to a much cheaper app gave me more functionality. I think its shtick was the training feedback. So that tells you what it was trying to be, at least back then–a personal coaching app, not a comprehensive workout tracker.

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What, Wired? Looks great to me–one of the most pleasant-looking article sites I like to read, but that’s on Firefox with uBlock Origin and Dark Reader.

Yep. I also still remember the last PS blackout. That was 24 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outage

There’s no changing Sony because there’s no changing its users.

The good version of this says “see you on the other side”.

Or when we’re being family-friendly, we just press or hang a “full moon”. We’re not savages, after all.

No problem. The same people arrive from even later in the future with enough built-in power for both machines and rescue themselves. Everyone returns to their own times. When they arrive back in the earlier time, now they know they have to build another machine with spare power to go rescue themselves.

…and killing the dual boot feature of the PS3, and attacking Geohot for rooting the PS3 (so people could resume dual booting)…

Pack a towel.

I wonder, those objecting to AI, are they also objecting to using any web search or predictive text features? As I understand it, it’s all just varying degrees of the same math.

edit: Ok, I think I see now that it may be more about what it does rather than what it is.

This place really is not that different from Reddit. “iN fAcT yOu ShOuLdN’t FlOsS…” wtf kind of backward assed fart steam is that shit?

I think there is more nuance or spectrum than good or bad. Vibe is one extreme, but along the dial from traditional to pure vibe are degrees of involvement. I’d characterize the degrees something like:

0. No AI, just elbow grease
1. AI as just auto complete on steroids
2. AI generating more complete change sets, but still from focused, more surgical specs, and still a human review on everything
3. “Spec-driven development” where, as I see it, you’re engineering a multi-agent-role workflow to intersect different contexts and iterating to try to converge on carefully designed specs

In 3 of those 4, the human is fundamentally the one owning the output, and AI is an accelerator and potentially an influence, kind of like pair programming. And even the SDD workflow can be a human-in-the-loop approach, although the more agents produce autonomously, the harder it might be for a human to be effective at reviewing the output.

So I’ll agree that “use it or don’t” is a binary, but I’d just add that there’s still a spectrum of how it’s used.

Shout-out to floatheadphysics (Mahesh) for his video on spin. The way he steps through the learning process like it’s a conversation with the giants that gave us the knowledge (based on their writings) and how he presents it with all the excitement of “getting it” is cathartic.

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The Earth began to cool…

The autotrophs began to drool…

More efficient, sure, but their argument was about freedom, which is just a different dimension. In an extreme example, private jets provide more freedom than public transportation does, even though it’s obvious which one is worse for the environment, more expensive, more intrusive, etc.

meta

Ever since I started thinking this way, I started finally seeing all the other cars scurrying past me to get to the same red light that we all stopped at. It compounds the calming effect to see validation through others demonstrating the futility of what I no longer choose to do.

edit: To be clear, I’m not saying I totally drag ass and block traffic. I’m just talking about smoothing out my acceleration curves a bit and the occasional person who zips around everyone else, only to hit a stoplight with the rest of us. I’m not that old yet.