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themgt

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About themgt

ongoing side projects/brainstorming:

https://amdahl.sh/ https://zqm.sh https://shakabot.xyz https://501api.org https://quidities.com https://z3os.build

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    Ed Zitron is like the living human embodiment of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, except he only talks about the one topic.

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    Comment #49154317

    Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. …

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    Comment #49153901

    > NATS control-plane events: stream leader election / R3 quorum re-form during pod churn. > Jesus. I had to lookup almost every word to make sense of this. There's a lot to say abo…

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    Comment #49144414

    It's an interesting piece. The great attraction of the Ars notoria for John was its promise of quick access to advanced scholarly knowledge. He recounts his continuing wish to stud…

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    Comment #49136342

    The prestige: "I Fired My AI Assitant" was the draft engagement bait post.

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    Comment #49133619

    Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub.

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    Comment #49066606

    Also the same vibe-code leader as zerolang, "The Programming Language for Agents" which Vercel launched with much fanfare in May, landed 1200 commits and then stopped ~mid-June. ht…

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    Comment #49066381

    They landed 802,000 lines of code in a single commit: https://github.com/vercel-labs/scriptc/commit/23d5918a5381e0...

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    Comment #49058287

    It's not World War 3. It's just two increasingly overlapping unsolvable wars involving two increasingly coherent geopolitical blocs consisting of dozens of countries spanning three…

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    Comment #49042571

    for sure, "fun" is definitely the vibe: Identifiers included in uploaded data. Information you upload to use the Services may include personal identifiers such as your name and ema…

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    Comment #49034829

    Pro-tip if you're a Tangled newbie: migrating knots and spindle on your Tangled PDS before building Bobbin? Remember that Bobbin "is only a glorified edge index, in the graph theor…

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    Comment #49026102

    There's actually two additional sockpuppet accounts (liquid64 / yakimbo90) in here self-promoting. Whole thing is throwing off a ton of red flags.

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    Comment #49018095

    As a programmer I wrote my app TheseusA by hand. As a product manager I vibe-coded my other app TheseusB. Then I had my LLM port TheseusA to Python, while I ported TheseusB to Pyth…

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    Comment #49014402

    Maybe they were poisoned, had malaria, were stabbed, and also suffocated and drowned, all at the same time? Just now learning Grigori Rasputin died of malaria.

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    Comment #49007081

    William Roper: "So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!" Sir Thomas More: "Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?" William Roper: "…

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    Comment #49004094

    Claude-written code is quite easy to spot - because it has this particular style of overly verbose "walls of text" comments, that 1. repeat verbatim what the code just below does, …

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    Comment #48996595

    That screenshot is some Lynchian horror. "#engineering. New direction, team – we're moving the prototype to Flutter" and then the humans and agent bots engage in flirty emoji-fille…

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