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ash_091
·28일 전·discuss
Following the PGP example, I wonder how long until "illegal" tshirts with weights printed on them start popping up.
ash_091
·3개월 전·discuss
Do you have any sources I could read to better understand your concern?
ash_091
·4개월 전·discuss
I'm confused. Your comment says you built your own agent, but the first line of your website says Clawsify will "Deploy OpenClaw inside your infrastructure".

Which is it?
ash_091
·4개월 전·discuss
Ugh, I've had this happen over and over. I can't trust my laptop to actually shut down. I have to wait to see the light stay off for a couple seconds before I put it in my bag.
ash_091
·4개월 전·discuss
That story is a classic urban legend.

Both agencies used pencils, but they were problematic because the graphite could break off / float around / cause shorts.

The space pen was developed by Fisher independently of NASA. NASA bought 400 of them for $2.39 each. The Roscosmos later bought 100 for the same price.
ash_091
·4개월 전·discuss
Luckily I carry around a device with infinite reconfigurable buttons!
ash_091
·4개월 전·discuss
What would be the incentive for someone to do this for real?

We all have access to SOTA LLMs. If I want a "clean room" implementation of some OSS library, and I can choose between paying a third party to run a script to have AI rebuild the whole library for me and just asking Claude to generate the bits of the library I need, why would I choose to pay?

I think this argument applies to most straightforward "AI generated product" business ideas. Any dev can access a SOTA coding model for $20p/m. The value-add isn't "we used AI to do the thing fast", it's the wrapping around it.

Maybe in this case the "wrapping" is that some other company is taking on the legal risk?
ash_091
·4개월 전·discuss
> statistically women all try to get into a relationship with the same 1% of men - who sleep around and cause toxicity all around. The remaining 99% become bitter and consequently... Are even less attractive to women.

As a regular 30s dude, definitely not 1% by any measure, app dating had its rough spots but generally was a good time, I experienced no bitterness.

Instead I met a bunch of interesting people and found my partner. We now own a house and are talking about kids.

The real toxicity here is the idea that women at large are somehow responsible for anyone's lack of dating success.

For anyone reading this who might be dating and feel disheartened- the hard truth is that you have two options: you can either blame the group of people you're trying to attract for having faulty preferences, or you can reflect and work on yourself and your approach. Only one of these has any chance of helping you.

One thing I do agree with you on: bitterness is extremely unattractive.
ash_091
·4개월 전·discuss
Browsing past project 5 in the portfolio leads to a plain black page which needs a refresh to recover from.
ash_091
·5개월 전·discuss
I generally agree with you, but:

> If other industries worked like this, you could sue an architect who discovered a flaw in a skyscraper

To match this metaphor to TFA, the architect has to break in to someone else's apartment to prove there's a flaw. IANAL but I'm not positive that "I'm an architect and I noticed a crack in my apartment, so I immediately broke in to the apartments of three neighbours to see if they also had cracks" would be much of a defence against a trespass/B&E charge.
ash_091
·5개월 전·discuss
"If you're unsure, ask. Don't guess." in prompts makes a huge difference, imo.
ash_091
·5개월 전·discuss
Sure, you could just do it in software. Maybe it would produce something interesting though, to have that extra layer through the physical world?
ash_091
·5개월 전·discuss
*thousands, not thousandths, right?

The correct number is fourty six thousand, two hundred and fifty five square mm.
ash_091
·5개월 전·discuss
I don’t think anything you said is wrong, but I do think you’re misreading the intent of the channel.

Practical Engineering is very deliberately framed as edutainment. The animations, pacing, and level of depth are conscious choices meant to keep non-specialists engaged rather than to maximize technical rigor.

In that sense, it belongs alongside other popular "science-y" channels like Kurzgesagt, Vsauce, and Technology Connections: content that prioritizes narrative and engagement over completeness or instruction.

The target audience is the broad middle of the technical bell curve. Animations of runway layers may make the video less appealing to you, but more accessible to a much larger, less technical audience.

Different goals imply different success criteria. If the goal is reach rather than comprehensive education, a million views in seven days looks like success.
ash_091
·6개월 전·discuss
> "Why think when AI do trick?"

> grug once again catch grug slowly reaching for club, but grug stay calm
ash_091
·6개월 전·discuss
+1, Todoist has changed things for me drastically.

I was diagnosed with ADHD a year and a half ago in my ~mid 30s. The meds (Vyvanse) help somewhat, but the real key to improvement for me has been using Todoist.

IME the real trick is using it consistently, and for everything. My routines (e.g. morning routine: meds, eat, coffee, brush teeth, brush the dog's teeth, etc etc) are all in Todoist, not because I struggle to focus on getting that stuff done in the morning (well, sometimes, perhaps) but because starting the day with do-easy-thing, mark-it-done, repeat, sets up the rest of the day to be run by Todoist instead of the bit of my brain that goes "I know we should be getting ready to leave but WHAT IF YOU WROTE AN APP TO DO THIS COOL THING, JUST QUICKLY TRY THAT NOW, YOU CAN LEAVE AFTER".

I had a similar experience with org-mode too. It was great at work where I'm at my desk all day, and made a huge difference, but not having a good mobile experience makes it impractical for day-to-day home use.
ash_091
·7개월 전·discuss
So with 108,000 (60 X 1,800) Bob Ross PPUs (parallel painting units) we should be able to achieve a stable 60FPS!
ash_091
·7개월 전·discuss
How about a site which parses your credit card / bank statement to find out where you're spending money and provides tips to save cash based on that spending (which could be sourced from community submissions + voting)

E.g. I buy supermarket gift cards from a slightly obscure site which sells them at a 5% discount. Super easy way to save a few hundred dollars a year. The hardest thing was discovering that this was an option.
ash_091
·7개월 전·discuss
> I'm not understanding why TFA author has such an attitude about this

To me it reads like an ego trip rather than any kind of righteous vendetta against the author. Implicit in "look at the dumb thing this other person did" is "I'm smarter than them because I noticed the dumb thing".
ash_091
·8개월 전·discuss
While I agree with your general sentiment, the 10 key being on the "wrong" side could be good, perhaps, in some cases?

Historically I've done some heavy spreadsheet work where the resting position of my hands which minimizes movement is right hand on the mouse, left hand on the 10 keys. On a normal keyboard that has the disadvantage of causing a "closed" posture which isn't entirely comfortable.

Outside of that kind of niche use case though, it definitely feels like a strange choice for developers.