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Long ago I ordered an indoor algae system from a couple of CMU PhDs. It is very cool, it looks cool and has a nice water flow backgroundy sound, the algae grows quickly, allegedly …

Junk. The plain language of the executive order differs from what this piece claims. There is no conflict with BIS work.

The permanence and effectiveness of every policy Trump declares is mediated by his attention span, its inherent legality, and his opportunity to profit from gatekeeping. I would be…

Advise you to listen to a recent Odd Lots podcast with Anjney Midha. It will be educational. The compute will be commoditized. Nobody has a monopoly on data. There are a zillion sp…

With what process, spec driven? Having AI produce all the code is pretty common. An agentic workflow operating at a higher level of abstraction especially for brown field is not.

OpenCode is a "harness" that manages conversations/interactions with LLMs. It does not run a model itself. An extended interaction can include- many turns of conversation, providin…

Run llama.cpp on your machine and point opencode to it

Way to put the work in!

Tyler is an academic economist. He is accustomed to thinking about the magic of the markets. No consciousness there. Sure. But the "market" is a human invention around which there …

Any formulation of consciousness requires learned/stored distillations/compressions of reality, some form of object constancy, so, yes.

I thought this reference was to skill files, which do rapidly become technical debt- so what was the rotting inventory metaphor? But no this is in reference to human skill acquisit…

(2024)

That does not sound like an accurate description. Sounds like Slack in a TUI.

Offered at its absolute peak of value.

All (or most) of them are second order effects following ending of dollar convertibility to gold. Not an argument to go back on but the game changed.

Go Florida. Never thought I would say that.

Social factors, not a skill issue.

Money is a lie. But money and credit lies are what every economy works on, even pre-human economies. Hard money has economically failed in every use.

This misunderstands the power of monetization, or mistakes "dollars" having some kind of fixed "value." They do not. Whether one agrees with that or not, thinking of this as a "deb…

This is not an HN worthy post but since it is here I really hope he executes on this plan, thus ensuring the instantiation of the "Markwayne Mullin effect" in the chronicles of pop…

This is like a one shot prompt to build a space station, using 2 or 3 generations old exemplars. No offense but this is not something you should promise someone you can build ("pro…

You have problems younggato. And JE did not know sh t about f ck.

Never had it, the concept of "God" always ridiculous and authoritarian to me. I really like the narrative in the book Sapiens, identifying the "Cognitive Revolution" as the main di…

(Lenovo) Thinkpads, specifically many of the X, T and P products, are best in class. All the Linux things just work at this point, and have for the last 5-10 years. Some products s…

Yeah...pay opex to Anthropic or your capex to NVidia- whose Blackwell gen prices are now up 25% from launch, with more increases to come.