So, yes. But also, why on earth is your self hosted RSS aggregator on the open internet using password auth? Why is an RSS aggregator trying to use a bespoke cryptographic handshake?
Why does every app have to implement authentication in the first place?
I’m sad to hear this, but I hope the adventure continues in the best possible way.
Or sure, I don‘t think it’s especially overpriced. I just mean that given those specs, it’s not as likely to pull down perception of the brand either.
Also that USB2 port is a bonus! Previous macbooks only had the one.
It’s also at least twice as expensive as a low end Chromebook. So that’s an interesting choice. They couldn’t completely distance themselves.
In fairness to the researchers, the experiments are actually pretty detailed and I don‘t think that would pass the tests. Doesn’t feel like we’re far off though.
More snarkily, it made me realize that we’re now debating consciousness primarily because nobody is seriously able to debate intelligence any longer
But more interesting is that Claude Code (the agent+LLM combo) is a lot closer because it has a task list and persistence. And those little stateful bsky bots with long-term memory check off all the boxes that I found in my cursory investigation.
The short version is cogsci people have legitimately done experiments to measure differences between awake humans (conscious) and sleeping/comatose ones (unconscious) and LLMs come up on the unconscious side by those measurements.
So the bad news is I looked this up and actually learned something of value
Lots of people, but for all the wrong reasons, alas
Ironically you can easily get an answer by asking an LLM
With all this talk of consciousness, which is just another word for magic, I thought I’d look back on my essay about magic (I mean engineering) from 2.5 years ago. It’s held up pretty well! apenwarr.ca/log/20230415
Yes. Although if one public blog post (or better, a test suite) start to exist for the set of edge cases, the problem of repeatedly re-solving it gets progressively easier.
You have it estimate agile story points (preferably from a quasi-fibonacci sequence) obviously
In an old marketing book I read, there’s a story about how they used to sell the optimal ketchup, optimal laundry detergent, etc, determined by extensive survey of average preferences. Then they realized that not everyone has average preferences. Software is still in that earlier phase.
Yes. Although more commonly I imagine you’ll want to collect sessions from multiple locations into a single place for analysis.
Yes. But embedded in that statement is that all the tools people are making needs to be ones people want to use. If anyone can make a useful app for $10 the don’t all need to earn even $100.
Luckily this can be the first step of your research project: tell claude to provision its own disks :)
Are you thinking of using Aperture itself or just the ideas in its design? Aperture supports the notion of Hooks so volunteers could run their own Aperture instances and send you copies of live conversations (matching certain criteria) as they happen for example.
Yeah, I’m much less confident about calendaring backends
Working on a tailscale application for MuOS. I just want to transfer ROMs easier!
Some progress on the mustard os tailscale app!
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Neat! I’d love to hear more about this if it’s written down anywhere. I think a lot of human-centric learning/training/improvement can be done with this sort of architecture.
Currently I can buy more kinds of toothpaste than I can buy calendar apps. And this is about to be dramatically reversed.
Not necessary, bluesky does that automatically!
rsync is clever, it only transfers files/bytes that have changed. And you can tell it to exclude folders if you want.
In Waterloo to represent Tailscale at Hack Canada!
Hackathons are pretty inspiring, seeing a few young people really dig in to a problem is a cure for cynicism, even for a jaded GenX goat, such as myself.
Ugly webcam shot of dying plants and grow lamps
Reason #152 why I love @tailscale.com:
I set up this "wicking rope" to water my plants while I'm away. But I don't trust it. So I set up an old laptop and wrote a small python server.
Thanks to Tailscale, actually reaching the server is easy and safe.
Now I can watch my plants die while away.
