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"Software [ought to be] about people, not code" Related but not quite the same as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem

Previously, I had done a fair amount of research into how Google's monopoly on web crawling further entrenches their monopoly in the search engine market. You can read more about t…

Long shot, but if there is anybody reading this from Salzburg, lmk if you want to meet up!

Reminds me of the idea of Radical Monopolies from Ivan Illich in a way. If a technology or service becomes so wide spread within society, even though many different versions of the…

Looking forward to seeing how you handle it! I understand the complications of it as an engineer, I hope you figure out something soon!

You should talk with dang, as the email I received about this from him, to my eyes, does not agree with your stance here in the long term. I don’t want to get into the interminable…

Yes, I am asking if that particular policy could be changed. A little AI here and there is fine, to each their own, but I would prefer not to read posts that are overwhelmingly so.…

I ran this through an AI checker and it flagged half of it immediately. @dang, I know Substack just enabled Pangram integration, is there anyway you could get Y Combinator to sprin…

Congrats! I very much enjoyed my time at Recurse Center back when it was Hacker School and idly daydream about returning some time. Thanks for making something so great!

Did you read the article? It provided a pretty good argument against exactly this attitude.

Would you say the same about something like, say, Spacemacs?

Great post! Thanks for the write up, enjoyed reading it and the visuals.

Yeah I was surprised a while back that ChatGPT was pulling them up (I was doing some research on origins of sudoku and it was pulled up very old threads on Usenet). So now I specif…

Something that I have started doing lately is asking ChatGPT et al to check usenet for reactions from users about events (if it is the right 80's/90's time period). Sure enough, ao…

Shouldn't we know a better answer to these questions once Anthropic's IPO materials surface publicly? I understand, and maybe even expect, SpaceX's materials to be all over the pla…

Not affiliated with them, I just found it after casting around for a while trying to find something more or less exactly like this. Looks very neat, and like they made some good ch…

I will soon! https://threeemojis.substack.com/ just downloaded digithunt (first sudoku generation program I can find evidence of, from 1989) and was playing it some last night. Had…

I attended a decade ago and it was great, lots of people working and exploring a lot of cool stuff! I think what I would quibble with is that yes it is “random” what people work on…

Implementing a solver/optimizer for the Minizinc challenge in Rust! It's very fun, and maybe next year I will even try and put it into the competition properly. As well, I am worki…

Not just the weird billing, which has been annoying the last month I've been trying it, but they have had a couple incidents lately where I feel like I got ripped off because their…

Yes, correct, they both have the same capabilities, however it felt like codex was pushing me harder to use my local desktop in an annoying way, while claude code was happy to spin…

I feel like Codex made a big push to run everything on your laptop. With Claude, I get 4 cpu's, a fair amount of ram and 30gb for every one of my dumb ideas for free in the cloud c…

I remember a couple months after ChatGPT came out I was in a 1-1 with a coworker who hadn’t really played around with it much. I was very much toying around with it and was surpris…