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It's not outside Jason Rohrer's style for this to be... guided output, but it's also not outside his style for this to be the creepiest fully autonomous bot I've ever seen.

That's a great idea. It's also what Tally does.

I love the aesthetics. The cryptographic strength tradeoffs (against UUIDv7) seem rough for a lot of applications, though.

Both technologies (cryptocurrency and nostr) are very cipherpunk—I'm not particularly surprised that they draw overlapping crowds. Another take on decentralized source control with…

I really love Rob Mensching's framing in Open Source Maintenance Fee[1]. "The _software_ is free. The _project_ (issue tracker, forums, release management, package repository, etc.…

They have three other approaches that they're considering as well. (Check the About page on TFA.)

In all three cases, they own hardware (Apple in a slightly different sense) that they'd love for you to pay to run your favorite models on, open or closed.

A game like Rogue. Slightly less obtusely, it usually was a procedurally generated dungeon-crawler with potions and scrolls and varied weapons to use against varied mobs. When you …

Pizza Hutt is Jabba The's cousin. Pizza Hut is the restaurant chain to which you refer.

I'm sure MySpace thought the same thing about their never-before-seen accomplishments. I suspect very few people knew what "something else" was in that case, either.

ChatGPT's threat to Google isn't that Google can't match it--it's that it changes the approach to search results from displaying lists of results where it's "natural" to insert spo…

This has caused me to realize that I need to replace my old model of vi: > command mode has primacy; insert mode is a time-bounded special case with: > insert mode is every other m…

By definition, each program only produces the digits of one number. It's okay for more than one program to produce the same number. Am I misunderstanding your point?

I _do_ work at Microsoft, and judging by the recent crop of promotions (early September) there was still plenty of opportunity for white males (and everyone else).

(That was the joke.)

I think the TLA you were looking for is TRA?

Is this a totally different thing than Dr. Fill [1]? [1]: https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/american-crossword-puzz...

Stephen Wolfram has really grown on me over the last 10 years or so. He came across as obnoxiously arrogant for the longest time (so much that I still (defensibly) refer to "A New …

As terrible as rescinding offers is, offering severance and job placement assistance is a very interesting approach to minimizing how terrible.

VS Code, while not a fully-fledged IDE, is really good at suggesting code completions across platforms. As others have mentioned, Rider is also a wonderful fully cross-platform IDE…

True in every browser I've tried far. I also had two separate blogchain tabs hard-hang and they had to be killed. I'm not sure I'm ready for all of this mindboggling innovation in …

I have no idea why, but I love alternate number systems (p-adics, surreals, base -2, split-complex, etc.). This one is playful. Anyone know where to find a rigorous maths treatment…

> Those two things cannot be true simultaneously. You cannot say "running big systems is hard" and "they can run a big system better than you can run a small system". They can abso…

This feels like an "it is what it is"-style viral stunt, even though I actually suspect it's a sincere(?) post about reasons for developing without an audience. It's gonna end up w…

Go was definitely ahead of the curve on a few things. I'd argue C# was there (or very very close). C# has had value types (and fine-grained memory layout) since the beginning, reif…