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- How this is different to any other post announcing an incremental improvement in an app or service?
- Why would you put that whole python file in the context at all? Doesn't Codex work like Claude Code in this regard and use tools to find the correct parts of a larger file to read into context?
- "Design Patterns are a sign of missing language features".
https://wiki.c2.com/?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeature...
https://norvig.com/design-patterns/design-patterns.pdf
https://medium.com/@letsCodeDevelopers/your-design-patterns-...
- Devil's Advocate time. Would the result of that be better or worse quality public standards?
(I don't actually know what I think off the cuff - but it's the obvious follow on question to your statement and I don't think your statement can stand on it's own without a well argued counter)
- I work on a big ball of open source spaghetti and AI has become invaluable in helping me navigate my way through it. Even when it's wrong - it gives me valuable clues.
- If you accept that "qualia" is a coherent concept" then surely emotions require qualia. And I'm really not buying the idea that current gen AI is capable of subjective experience in anything like the sense people usually mean.
- NME = "not my experience" I presume.
JFC TLA OD...
- This makes no sense. It takes a complex industrial society to keep that tech going. The supply chain to make GPUs would not survive even a modest disruption in the world economy. It's probably the most fragile thing we currently manufacture.
- I might have a very different reading of the parable of the cave to you?
Can you elaborate? (At the risk of spoiling the joke)
- Surely something close to perceptually lossless is sufficient for most use cases?
- We never really implemented REST APIs. We had a bunch of REST-ish APIs.
Anyway - the REST movement served it's purpose - it killed SOAP and forced everyone back to simpler HTTP APIs without tons of over-engineered XML layers so it did well.
- It's amazing that the "hard problems" are turning out to be "not creating a completely broken user experience".
Is that going to need AGI? Or maybe it will always be out of reach of our silicon overlords and require human input.
- I just wish there was a nice text based representation. I hate dragging boxes around the screen.
- Taste in what?
- I'm getting slight "Is this your first day on Planet Earth?" vibes from this. They are pointing out something real and true and valid. And yet - they seem to think that just saying stuff out loud will fix things.
I mean - yeah. Sometimes it might - but usually there's layers of scar tissue and pain and misunderstanding in the way.
In fact - if there's one myth movies perpetuate, it's that of the "epiphany". Two characters finally name the thing, talk it though and there's permanent change.
Permanent change is rare - more so permanent change precipitated by a single conversation.
- This is an asymmetric conflict. The factions who want this to pass have more resources, time and background influence and can keep pushing this until they get lucky.
And once in place repealing it will be tremendously difficult.
How does society resolve this kind of abuse of the democratic process? It is a dynamic that is repeated in many areas.
- They vary with quality of eyesight which usually correlates with age.
(Open Brush can be used to create content for platforms such as VR Chat as well as being a way to create explorable spaces and artworks in it's own right)