So much nuance in model selection its hard to keep up.
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XBOX DISC TO DIGITAL COMING SOON #shorts - Yo ...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pdy00S2dxuICompletely missing the point of physical media. I don't see why preserving physical media is a win for xbox right now. The game is not on disk. In 30 years when the game servers are gone, I wont be able to play the game. I wont be able to buy cheap used copies in 6 months as people beat the game. I wont be able to trade in games I've beat to get a different game at a low cost. own nothing and be happy.
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@waylonwalker
9 days ago
Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck ...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sMujMp4h_EYInteresting thoughts from a real OG Kent Beck. He argues we are whitnissing the biggest advancement in computing in 40 years. For 40 years we have been almost exclusively writing in compiled languages. Languages that output to some sort of binary compiled assembly instructions for each processor type. Before that it was all hand written instructions directly to CPU. Now we are seeing the genie revolution. The genie is good a writing in many different programming languages given english prompts. It loves to complete problems and is not afraid to write lots of code very quickly. Its quite good at skirting around our best judgement in order to accomplish the goal we set.
Some take aways from this talk is that NO ONE knows what the fuck is next. No one knows the best ways to use these things. Everyone has their own opinion wrapped around their experience that might be wildly different than yours. It seems clear this is changing every day and ways no one can measure, predict, or prepare for. So much sits in the hands of model labs and model providers. Without real access to any of it, its all magic.
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@waylonwalker
12 days ago
The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn’t Exist Any ...
https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.htmlI align a lot with this post. From growing up in a rural house where internet access was harder to get. It was slow and only had one line, if you were on the internet, no one in the house could recieve a phone call. Idk if what is now the smol webl, the indieweb, is seeing a resurgence, if I'm just noticing it more. It does feel like along there has been a very small number of users willing to get their own domain, their own server, and host their own shit. A few of these are starting to really break out occasionally, see things like wordle hitting mass adoptioun before being swooped up by a giant.
I too miss the internet of old, heck I really dont even mind the middle era of fb, twitter, instagram dominance, but what we have now is dominated by political undertones on it all with everyone shouting "Fake News" at each other. These sites are the easiest place to stay in touch with those you have met online, yet they are riddled with so much toxicity its impossible to have a great experience on them. I'm about a year and a half of not having a single one on my phone, and at this point I barely log into them once a week. RSS is the way forward, as long as its not killed by paywalled substack and medium.
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@waylonwalker
23 days ago
Nibelungenlied40 | Book Split Keyboard Design
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/1u9awcz/nibelung ...Absolute whimsy achieved in this book themed #keeb build!
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@waylonwalker
33 days ago
Dumb people lay off - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ss0brGFXVwEoof Mark, this does not feel like it is set to age well. These people in power feel so disconnected from regular people with a job trying to do work.
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@waylonwalker
46 days ago
The Website Specification
https://specification.website/A solid checklist for agents to implement on most sites. Very few sites need 100% coverage, but most should probably check most of these boxes
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@waylonwalker
47 days ago
Revisiting the closed canon
https://derekkedziora.com/notes/revisiting-the-closed-canon-This is what makes rss so interesting to me. Its boring old tech that fell out of mainstream popularity years ago, yet many sites still support it. Not all, especially ones that come with a good [[dickover]].
At the same time, it's sad to see the human internet dying, even more quickly than before. Not only do we have rampant bots and sites seo maxxing to get to the top. We have ai search overview that answers mose simple questions pretty good, chat that does good, and agents at our fingertips. The need for tutorials is pretty much dead.
What we need now is human experiences shared and documented more than ever. I've been writing a whole lot less simply because this transition has been hard. Most of my pre 2024 posts were how to, notes for future me. Things so simple agents just spat out better versions in seconds these days with barely a question.
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@waylonwalker
48 days ago
On Rendering Diffs :: Pierre Computer Company
https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffsIt's incredible how some problems seem so simple until you load the browser with so much text it just bogs to nothing and how impossibly difficult it becomes after this point. Very cool implementation of a problem that.... who has this problem. If it takes me 2 mintues to scroll through a diff at mach speed like the video, is a diff going to solve my problem?
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@waylonwalker
48 days ago
His presence is still felt in the codebase to ...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sAFy__T8-7QRemember this clip in 5 years, after the churn we just had with RTO and ai this is going to hit. Or AI will just figure is all out for us, who knows anymore. Not that they will figure out the human side, the what does this do, why is it here. A temporary fix is a clear signal to your other devs I didn't have enough time to do it right, but this works. I think AI will squash a large number of these, especially in big coorporate internal tooling where you are trying to juggle as much as you can and just keep it a float at all times.