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I thought that sounded good, so I looked it up. I can find Dells with 1920x1080 screens for ~$560, but the 4K ones, even refurbished, are closer to $2,000. But maybe I just wasn't …

> It does not assume that progress will be in LLMs If that's the case then there's not as much reason to assume that this progress will occur now, and not years from now; LLMs are …

I find Yudowsky-style rationalists morbidly fascinating in the same way as Scientologists and other cults. Probably because they seem to genuinely believe they're living in a sci-f…

It's surprisingly funny for AI, but there's just so much of it... It has no sense of pacing. It repeats the same jokes for too long, without including bits of normalcy in between a…

For everyone who's having a hard time parsing what Octelium does, I found this page to be the clearest explanation: https://octelium.com/docs/octelium/latest/overview/how-octel... …

I really like Mithril.js ( https://mithril.js.org/ ), which is, IMO, as close as it gets to web IMGUI. It looks a lot like React, but rendering happens manually, either on each eve…

I find it interesting that this kind of "animal intelligence" is still so far away, while LLMs have become so good at "human intelligence" (language) that they can reliably pass th…

Obligatory shameless plug whenever Zod is posted: if you want similar, but much more minimal schema validation at runtime, with a JSON representation, try Spartan Schema: https://g…

A thought I had while reading this: what about putting a flexible membrane above the wheels (or belt) with the dots? This would require the user to press down to feel the dots, but…

There is at least going to be a Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door remake coming out sometime in 2024. I'm hoping it's a sign of more traditional Mario RPGs to come, but who knows…

Disagree. Mastodon isn't so much a Twitter alternative as a Tumblr alternative with Twitter-like UX. And its value proposition is much the same as Tumblr: curate a collection of in…

I've had the opposite experience. On Mastodon I get a small, but consistent, amount of engagement with my posts, and I have over 400 followers. Twitter was like shouting into the v…

FreeBSD jails don't have a one-command way to install a preconfigured jail for a specific service. And they don't have a way (that I know of) to write a config file describing a bu…

I really wanted to like FreeBSD. ZFS is cool, jails are cool, pkg has such a wide variety of packages that it's comparable to Arch. In a world before Docker and btrfs, this would b…

My guess is it's a Magic: The Gathering reference.

Using the Jitsi website has worked well enough for me for years, and the calls are P2P as far as I'm aware. What's the advantage of hosting your own? Just preventing jitsi.org from…

I'm just imagining a type system based on this. I've had ideas about a Datalog-based type system before, but it was never really practical; this could be the breakthrough that woul…

Yes, but it's rare to see linked libraries that use this as their API, even though it would greatly simplify FFI.

I've had a lot of ideas for cross-language libraries that would need a C API, and this issue always comes up. The idea I had several years ago---but never implemented, because most…

Would you consider supporting Deno? (The npm module can probably be imported as-is in newer Deno versions, but a dedicated module is always nice and likely wouldn't be much work)

I get the sense that you think I'm saying more here than I actually am. I'm not proposing that this is the only kind of news that should exist, only that it would be nice if it exi…

I don't see how an unmoderated, anarchic space like 4chan is close to what I described; the entire point of what I had in mind is a very specific kind of moderation: stories are on…

The way I see it, news serves three purposes: --- 1. To let you know about local or world events that could affect you and those close to you. 2. To let you know about world events…