hackers.town: 2024-06-30 Sun 09:04

Been having fun converting the logic of my Python code to Go, but now comes couple time and that preempts all, even hyperfocus.

hackers.town: 2024-06-30 Sun 09:10

@alex @rafial the list bullets are my biggest frustration. My pinned post is a right mess because of it.

Trunks renders it though, so it looks like I’ve got a new mobile client.

hackers.town: 2024-06-30 Sun 09:11

@seatek yep, and the current state of the art treatment for tinnitus is — meditation and mindfulness.

hackers.town: 2024-06-30 Sun 09:15

hackers.town uses Glitch.soc, which supports Markdown, which up to now didn’t render correctly in any mobile client I tried.

But looks like @trunksapp does it right. Huzzah!

hackers.town: 2024-06-30 Sun 10:04

Brunch place we tried first was very full. Backup brunch at a diner that is very patriotic.

is that a flag-draped crucifix

hackers.town: 2024-06-30 Sun 14:35

Currently tracking three unrelated software packages named Fabric: a task runner, a Minecraft mod loader, and an AI workflow integration framework.

something something the two hardest problems in programming

hackers.town: 2024-06-30 Sun 16:15

weather is rumbly

hackers.town: 2024-06-30 Sun 17:01

Not for the first time and almost definitely not for the last, I’m doing a text processing task and thinking I should use Perl instead of the not-Perl I have selected.

hackers.town: 2024-06-30 Sun 22:29

I knew bits and pieces about The Warriors being connected to actual gang life and incidents of the 70s, but this ties it together well and adds stuff new to me.

There’s even footage of Black Benji, the real-life counterpart to Cyrus, who was killed in 1971 while negotiating peace between gangs. That led to block parties for truces, which helped out hip-hop.

The Real Gangs That Inspired The Movie The Warriors - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 08:47

“…a student in a wheelchair at the bottom of the stairs, looking up at her classroom, which she can’t get to. Words on the stairs read: “There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."”

Damn. That is good. A+ on that Art Activism class.

@hugo https://social.treehouse.systems/@hugo/112698132775613874

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 09:28

It’s a good day to focus on a little more desert #BloomScrolling

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 14:11

Prepping for a DevOps interview by playing Factorio.

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 16:26

“When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject’s taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject’s metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject’s brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.”

Douglas Adams foreseeing LLMs.

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 16:27

Phrases from Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy periodically pop into my head unrequested, and “almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea” showed up while I was arguing with an Ollama-powered chatbot.

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 16:51

@genehack I’ve found it useful on many occasions myself!

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 19:16

Jumpy Dog, very sheltered, sniffs with great interest, every new curiosity.

Bouncy Dog, more familiar with desert life, sniffs with interest but should something seem even slightly off he jumps like he’s dodging an invisible snake.

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 19:17

@genehack I liked her early albums.

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 19:37

An anecdote from tonight’s walk for any average-hearing folks curious what “moderate to severe hearing loss in one ear” is like:

If there’s a cicada blasting its tunes on my right, I hear it in my left ear — kinda, because even then it blends with the tinnitus — though I can’t tell from where until I swivel my head like a busted radar dish.

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 20:32

Here. Watch this. I know a few of you are fans of Akira, architecture, history, and visual design.

The Strange Origin Story behind this Iconic Megacity - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 20:41

@rafial If you use Markdown, you may want to add clues for clients that don’t support it^H render the HTML portion of the message.

More useful for complete lines with unified formatting.

“some terribly clever quote”

(a whole line of emphasis, which I usually use as a parenthetical aside)

Still working through when to use clues for inline formatting and how much to add. I usually let it slide for em and strong.

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 20:46

The problem with the analogy of Factorio to DevOps is that this kind of stuff gets boring a lot quicker if you aren’t getting paid for it.

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 20:50

@rafial it would be great if @trunksapp supported happy rendering of Glitch .soc Markdown.

But there’s still all the other clients, and the official Mastodon interface. They invariably render some aspect incorrectly, so I have to be careful with Markdown I use, when, and the intended audience.

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 20:54

@trunksapp very very close! There’s a strikethrough in there as well.

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 20:56

Am I saying I would be more interested in mastering Factorio if offered a six figure salary to do so?

Yes. Yes I am.

hackers.town: 2024-06-29 Sat 21:02

@bitprophet primarily that’s the British Columbia accent, or at least what I hear around Vancouver & Victoria.

hackers.town: 2024-06-28 Fri 08:25

Back in Linux to mess with cgo because if I’m learning a new tool I should keep it in a familiar context at least.

hackers.town: 2024-06-28 Fri 10:21

Because my brain’s very much in “hey let’s try $idea” mode.

Brain: “This logger supports JSON logging. Hey let’s find out if #Nushell can make JSON logging legible in the terminal!”

So yeah. Given a program that logs to STDERR and a Nu session:

hackers.town: 2024-06-28 Fri 10:33

@raganwald I grew up in close proximity to trained engineers, so startup / techbro “engineering” has always been genuinely weird to me.

I’ve always gravitated towards informal titles because the formal titles had weight to me.

And yet here we all are.

hackers.town: 2024-06-28 Fri 15:47

Ah now that’s the kind of sky I’m used to. Sure it’s 100F but I’m dressed for 100F, there’s a lovely cooling breeze, just enough humidity that you don’t build a thirst by breathing, and the sun is nowhere to be seen. Bliss.

#Tuscon

hackers.town: 2024-06-28 Fri 16:22

a little bit of lightning just makes the weather spicy

hackers.town: 2024-06-28 Fri 17:07

“With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 90s has been that it is fair use. Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like. That’s been the understanding”

Freeware and fair use are wildly distinct concepts. For starters, freeware is explicitly labeled as such.

“Social contract” my ass. There’s a reason entire orgs are dedicated to untangling open software and content licenses. https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/112696891873847152

hackers.town: 2024-06-28 Fri 17:45

Watching My Lady Jane and it’s a whole lot — uh — busier than I expected.

hackers.town: 2024-06-28 Fri 18:50

@gizmomathboy that’s the core unifying characteristic, yep.

hackers.town: 2024-06-28 Fri 19:02

Jumpy Dog itching to go for her after-dinner walk.

So excited! I’m putting the walking harnesses on the dogs! I’m getting the leashes ready! I’m — putting on my hoodie?

Why the hoodie? A confused look from Jumpy Dog. I haven’t worn the hoodie since — since —

We get two steps past the front door. She realizes it’s raining. The air feels funny. Oh and there’s been thunder for an hour.

Jumpy Dog decides she can wait for her walk. Both dogs turn in unison back to the door.

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 07:44

@sleepyfox @coffeegeek valid but at this point I’ve decided Twitter’s dead enough to stop tracking whether somebody grabs my username on X.

But — even though that means I’ve got some wasted business stickers — that’s a personal concern, not a professional or business one.

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 07:51

so excited

i may get to wear underwear today

(washer and dryer are being delivered; we’ve been hand-washing since a few weeks before we moved so this is a big deal)

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 08:04

@socketwench two

weeks

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 08:06

@c0debabe I rarely name them but when doing Web dev tutorials I often stack, then tile the tabs in the stack.

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 08:08

@c0debabe (also also, phanpy and pinafore both work great as sidebar bookmarks)

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 08:29

@masukomi same (though in my case 1991 is because this undiagnosed neurodivergent needed a 2nd senior year)

What bugs me is I feel like age is a factor in the jobs I want, just as I was starting to feel good about my skills.

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 08:33

@masukomi In the bigger picture that’s the greater concern yeah. And once I’m getting a paycheck again this’ll shift to being my bigger personal peeve. Until then, well.

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 10:47

Frustrating to get contacted about a position that sounds interesting, except it’s hybrid w/ four days on-site and the commute is 876 miles.

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 10:48

“we saw your profile” you saw it yeah but apparently you didn’t read it.

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 10:54

@thegibson That is one spiffy device.

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 12:27

Just so maybe one less person out there needs to figure this out in #python

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 15:08

oh hey yay my smash-logseq-into-a-graph-database Python code works directly on Windows now, no WSL intermediary. And pretty quickly, running off a Dev drive.

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 15:54

Nowadays I can’t tell if somebody’s naturally a terrible writer or if they’re using an LLM to strip everything down to the quality of an 8th grader with a thesaurus and no personal voice, trying to please a teacher who’s given up.

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 15:59

They need an editor either way.

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 16:29

Current weather outlook: DRAMA

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 19:37

Looking over some notes and it’s kind of amusing to me how much of my work ethic as pertains to startups is just sisu. “Yeah we’re almost definitely doomed but let’s make a good show on the way down.”

course i try not to say that stuff out loud during interviews

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 19:42

Holy crap this sunset.

#Tuscon

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 19:51

We had sucker holes in Washington too, but they usually don’t look like hellmouths.

#Tuscon

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 19:53

Meanwhile

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 20:35

I made enough spaghetti to feed us for a week.

I no longer get to make fun of her for over serving.

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 21:07

@genehack and then we go and get finagled into processing absolutely everything. I am disappointed in the collective generational We.

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 21:26

@genehack I suppose yeah that was kinda the point of the whole thing.

I just never stopped to consider how many unpleasant paths one could be taken down with no binding ethos as the binding ethos.

hackers.town: 2024-06-27 Thu 21:32

@genehack It’s kinda weird to notice in June but I’m finding less SAD stuff even during summer with day and night being closer in proportion to each other down here.

Maybe part of it’s after enough 10pm summer sunsets part of your brain is already going “well soon enough it’ll be dark by 4pm,” and I don’t have that here.

Though I have filed a stern letter with the local authorities about humidity in the desert.

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 06:07

@spinningthoughts @raf Hm, I’ve been messing with self-publishing via obsidian-export, but it’s not the data-oriented approach raf’s describing. My Logseq stuff is, but that’s not so helpful for this context.

Quartz is particularly featureful. Might have some pieces of what you’re looking for?

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 06:14

@anant @raf Whoa hey this one supports Dataview queries, which could get you the building blocks you need for the data-oriented approach you’re talking about in publishing.

Gonna take a closer look at this one myself.

/cc @spinningthoughts

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 06:38

Trying out the LLaVA model via #Ollama. Start with simple stuff, like describing an image.

“The image shows a small dog wearing a pink shirt, sitting on a kitchen floor. The dog is looking directly at the camera with its ears perked up. In the background, there’s a stainless steel refrigerator and part of a kitchen counter. The setting suggests a domestic indoor environment.”

Not bad, though that took nearly a minute. Some of the stuff I have in mind for the 1,500 images in my camera uploads will take a bit.

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 06:57

Made a 483x271 thumbnail to see if that sped up processing. It did not. And LLaVa had some issues recognizing contents.

“The image shows a cat standing on a desk next to a computer monitor. The cat is facing away from the camera, and its fur looks fluffy and white in color. In the background, there’s a blurred view of a room with what appears to be a TV or screen displaying some sort of content. There are also some indistinct objects on the desk, but it’s not possible to identify them clearly due to the focus on the cat in the foreground.”

How many cats are in that image?

“There is only one cat in the image.”

Poor Barry. Always getting ignored.

So LLaVa thinks there’s one all-white cat in this pic. Something to keep in mind for those surveillance tools we keep coming up with.

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 07:02

@antijingoist @calcifer I’ve been chewing people out for “but they have a smart phone? No wonder they’re homeless” for oh twelve years or so now.

I believe the SFW version was “everybody deserves to have connection to friends, family, and life-saving services. You prefer we have a caste of untouchables? You are wrong and should reconsider your life.”

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 07:20

And the reason “prompts” suck is between two attempts on my part, it took four and a half minutes to tell me it couldn’t read the file. Watching it type every word like some 90s BBS door game. I think I’ll shift over to API calls shortly.

Never mind the fact that the file’s readable by me, these processes are running as me, and it’s the image I made the thumbnail from so I know it works as an image.

Shoutout to @bmac for inclusion of “it’s worth noting that”

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 08:27

Get moved, get an appointment, get a prescription, get my insurance info, go to the pharmacy.

Wait a week and a half for insurance approval. So far.

#ADHD

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 08:43

Thought I’d continue today’s #Ollama exploration by setting up the Smart Second Brain plugin for #ObsidianMD

Set everything up and it needs to index my pages. No problem should — oh no i am in my old unrefactored vault with over 3,300 notes and much duplication.

The time remaining estimate keeps going up. It’s at 351m 6s now

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 08:43

@bmac Every rejected book that became a wall-of-text blog post.

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 11:13

@jnkrtech Right now I’m just using an interactive Ollama session with the llava model.

I strongly suspect there’s tweaking I can do to my setup, but I can’t recommend using it as-is for indexing your images. We’re talking 1-2 minutes for every query about an image, with dubious results for image descriptions. 1st was amazingly spot on, 2nd was disappointing.

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 11:18

@jnkrtech Different model, better video card, time for further developments, or even going slightly lower level with computer vision libraries. The chat layer adds a lot of overhead I’m sure.

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 11:18

@thegibson but it seemed so happy

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 11:21

@jnkrtech that sort of functionality is what I’m trying to figure out as well, so I’m sure I’ll post if I have any breakthroughs!

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 15:07

Well that was not worth waiting five and half hours for.

First question at default settings: it inaccurately described the topic page and invented a second page with commonly mentioned and generally insufficient coping mechanisms.

Okay, at least setting “Creativity” to zero kept it from hallucinating pages.

“Based on your existing knowledge in Obsidian” — it mentioned three of 14 directly relevant pages including the page I was asking about, insufficiently summarized two, and incorrectly summarized the third.

But I’ve got the embeddings. Maybe I can try some different models.

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 15:21

Okay with mistral-openorca we’ve bumped up to merely disappointing. Only mentioned five of 13 (mentioning one of them twice), and the summaries were mostly accurate. Not precise, but correct as far as they went.

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 17:09

@ifixcoinops Mine are manually added.

Reinventing old-school RTs in order to reinvent old-school quote tweets, before Twitter made them a feature.

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 17:12

One key to lowered stress levels is recognizing when my brain’s not up for the world that has people in it

and a partner that accepts this recognition gracefully

Two keys to lowered stress levels are—

amongst the keys —

i’ll come in again

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 17:25

“Steampunk modpack with realistic temperature physics!”

(freezes to death indoors next to a campfire)

ok then

#Minecraft

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 19:37

@jjude @AnthonyBaker I suspect it’s a mix of the right LLM model and the right model embed. Knowing very little about either, this could take a bit.

I’ll be revisiting intermittently. I want to put a little more time into my Logseq notes processing first.

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 19:42

In Windows long enough to notice I had a Dev Drive which I set up and promptly ignored in February.

Had to remind myself what it was:

“Dev Drive is a new form of storage volume available to improve performance for key developer workloads.”

Okay well so as not to ignore it, I’ve moved all the project and site folders from %HOME% to that dev drive.

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 19:52

@jjude @AnthonyBaker There’s note consolidation going on piecemeal. I often dump all my notes from all the sources into the big vault periodically, which I’m sure you can imagine creates a big mess. It’s the backup.

My site’s published from a smaller vault based on blog post history and recurring topics within the blog.

But because notes are tree-shaped in my head, I do most of my capturing and a lot of my processing in Logseq. Can’t wrap my head around Datalog queries yet and don’t like its export tools, so I’ve got my own external tools for processing and eventually publishing.

But I definitely have an $app_of_the_week problem.

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 19:59

A frustrating thing parsing Logseq is the two layers.

See, you’ve got a Markdown list on the outer layer, and the inner layer is each list item being basically an independent multi-line Markdown document.

It causes just enough headache that sometimes I wish they’d used YAML for the outer layer.

…

:blobthinkingeyes:​

nah that’s a terrible idea

:blobthinking:​

hackers.town: 2024-06-26 Wed 20:00

@AnthonyBaker @jjude I’m just proud that I’ve whittled the core set to maybe a half dozen, and stopped putting vital information into the shiny new one.

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 08:07

I don’t think I could comfortably do a four hour round trip commute.

Also, I’m not an electrical engineer.

But hey at least (some of) the shotgun recruiters are getting the right state now!

#FediHire

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 09:23

@vantablack hang on now would this be a device that launches some biological weapon which induces priapism, or an improvised trebuchet so that those suffering from the specified ailment could be used in siege warfare?

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 10:25

Some of my note consolidation includes pulling in tumblelog pages, which were initially generated via #OrgMode capture templates.

Got the urge to find a #Logseq plugin that would generate Org-style timestamps. Full House Templates appears to do the trick!

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 11:10

@jenniferplusplus this is an interesting perspective, and sure as heck explains a lot both about the marketing and the almost MLM-level embrace of this messaging I’ve seen from devs I’d previously considered level heads.

Friends who used to be all about “look at this cool thing I can do with $tool!” have largely shifted to something that sounds more like “we’re all doomed but you can be slightly less doomed if you learn AI now.”

which does not click with me

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 11:32

I’m not immune to negging. I am a wildly insecure person. But thanks to being all neurospicy, many forms of emotional manipulation just go right past me without the slightest register.

AI marketing as negging would sure as heck explain why it has failed to click with me.

@jenniferplusplus

https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/112678571949623617

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 13:57

Don’t we all?https://botsin.space/@dfbugs/112679180038204953

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 15:14

That’s what you call an evergreen toot.

@c0debabe @drwho

https://hackers.town/@c0debabe/112679539344034068

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 15:34

@JoscelynTransient my long-running joke is that the #ADHD meds help me focus, though not necessarily on what I’m supposed to be focusing on.

Some success with listing key items for tomorrow’s TODOs before I go to bed (so it’s a little closer to surface thoughts when I wake up), allowing myself a timed hour or less of frivolous morning hyperfocus as caffeine and meds kick in (logic being it’s sometimes easier to do work if I have happy buzz from doing something interesting but not too interesting first), then forcing myself to the task list.

This is not 100%. But it works more often than going tunnel-vision on the first interesting thing.

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 17:41

way ahead of you

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 17:47

No but really though the brain cells I’m putting into generative AI are about APIs and glue rather than prompt engineering, because “prompts” feel like very much the FONT tags of this particular domain.

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 18:05

@masukomi I guess?

You’re talking the rhetorical narrative “we” right? Because I haven’t done any of that and I’ve a hunch you haven’t either.

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 18:06

@masukomi I figured but my brain went literal for a second. Needed to reassure myself.

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 21:42

A few days ago Jumpy Dog switched to being terrified of — ??? — at night. She won’t go upstairs unless bodily carried, goes back down as soon as she can, and shifts around restless regardless of where she is.

My only guess is she’s figured out the late night outside noises aren’t neighborhood dogs being taken for a midnight walk.

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 21:48

@superball Me too! She’s always been prone to anxiety, but her usual tactic was to effectively glue herself to us. This whole thing of hiding downstairs is new.

hackers.town: 2024-06-25 Tue 21:49

@Wrewdison unless she knows something we don’t about what’s in the walls.

hackers.town: 2024-06-24 Mon 08:53

Minor annoyances of aging case study n+1:

Slept a little funky and my hip joint’s bothering me a little today. But it only hurts when I walk, sit, stand, or lay down, so I’m sure I’ll be fine.

(attempts to lean casually)

ow

hackers.town: 2024-06-24 Mon 09:23

Any random stranger: “So how are you enjoying the move from western Washington state to Arizona?”

Mrs Geek : “I love it! I didn’t realize how much I needed the sunshine and warmth.”

Me: “WHAT IS GOING ON WHY IS EVERYTHING SO MEAN IS THIS WHY DESERT GODS ARE ALL SUCH BASTARDS”

Tucson

hackers.town: 2024-06-24 Mon 10:52

Next.js tutorial talking about client vs server environments and

“The server refers to the computer in a data center….”

but but but what about home labs or containers or virtual machines or

shhh

they aren’t writing this for you

“computer in a data center” is good enough especially when that’s not the core topic

hackers.town: 2024-06-23 Sun 09:29

Damn

Put a content warning before you attack me like that again

@skeletor https://mas.to/@skeletor/112666763804212541

hackers.town: 2024-06-23 Sun 09:38

@flyingsaceur @thegibson (clink) (clink)

hackers.town: 2024-06-23 Sun 12:20

Having fun on a Sunday afternoon, watching as three or four project threads from the last year or two start merging together.

I have some strange ideas of fun.

hackers.town: 2024-06-23 Sun 15:43

@jack AFK but the witch hazel theme I think, using the included hypercolor variant

hackers.town: 2024-06-23 Sun 16:33

@jack back home and confirmed!

https://witchhazel.thea.codes

hackers.town: 2024-06-23 Sun 16:36

@maddiefuzz right about now

hackers.town: 2024-06-23 Sun 16:43

@voltur @maddiefuzz right about now

hackers.town: 2024-06-23 Sun 20:57

“Those are like, good screams, right? He must be doing fine…”

#ProjectZomboid looks to have perfectly recreated the TTRPG experience.

Project Zomboid but we are stuck in an apartment building - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-06-22 Sat 05:11

ExplorerPatcher let me put my Windows 11 taskbar on top of the screen, and a bunch of other tweaks. I am pleased.

Also got OpenShell for an old-fashioned Start menu.

I don’t use Heptabase as much as I’d like, though it’s quite nice. Mostly end up with Kinopio when my processing is in a visual space.

(neither were open at the moment, but the pinned icons in the taskbar reminded me)

hackers.town: 2024-06-22 Sat 12:46

I don’t generally think of rote computation as an opportunity to get creative. Accountants get into trouble for that.

I’m not opposed to technology fueling creative workflows. Tech can show paths to new expressions of art — even generative AI, if used as one tool of many.

But OpenAI’s CTO minimizing the impact of their work on the lives and labor of others while the company demands access to all the fruits of that labor?

Yeah we can slippery slope that one all you like and I’m still not gonna be cool with it.

hackers.town: 2024-06-22 Sat 13:35

Haven’t seen lightning today but the thunder’s grumbling so constantly you’d think it was me getting ready to socialize.

hackers.town: 2024-06-22 Sat 13:45

That shapeless gray mass of crankiness keeps getting closer and bigger.

And I just learned that’s where the lightning and thunder are coming from.

Yep we are done with the afternoon dog walk.

Tucson

hackers.town: 2024-06-22 Sat 17:10

When introvert-type parents discuss introvert-type offspring’s possible marriage plans:

“We would be delighted to pay for an elopement package. Officiant, bed and breakfast for two. Somewhere cozy without room for a lot of guests.”

I mean yeah. I can absolutely endorse it. Second-best marriage I ever had was an elopement package.

First-best was at the start of COVID lockdown.

“Ooh sorry, no. I couldn’t risk your health and safety by letting you attend our wedding.”

hackers.town: 2024-06-22 Sat 18:07

Weather doing that thing where the humidity makes it feel warmer than the actual temperature and I wish to register a complaint.

Apparently this is a hint of upcoming “monsoon season” or some such.

hackers.town: 2024-06-22 Sat 18:15

Some person annoyed me in replies so I muted them.

Spent twenty minutes being haunted by that decision. So wildly uncharacteristic of me.

So as soon as dinner was done I blocked them instead. Much better.

Anyways enjoy a comic that will — unfortunately — always be relevant.

Mister Gotcha | The Nib

hackers.town: 2024-06-22 Sat 18:25

@WuMargaret It’ll be something, that’s for sure. Even the rain yesterday afternoon combined with the quality roads around here, I had to be careful driving.

hackers.town: 2024-06-22 Sat 18:50

Running WinDirStat over my c:/ drive before I install any more interesting stuff on it.

hackers.town: 2024-06-22 Sat 20:05

Out here in a desert that is somehow muggy, listening for coyotes and rattlesnakes, dodging pepsis wasps, keeping the dogs back from poisonous toads, trying not to panic tarantulas hiding from wasps, wondering what I’m doing in Little Australia.

But the sunsets are nice.

hackers.town: 2024-06-21 Fri 08:11

Watching a video that’s supposed to be about Next.js (hey don’t judge my moments of resume-driven-development) and baffled by the absolute contortions the presenter is going through to justify their use of Tailwind.

“I’d have to come up with a clever class name and go and edit the style in a whole separate file”

okay second I see your editor supports tabs “second file” WTF and first of all NO YOU DON’T IT IS THE TITLE OF THE PAGE JUST USE <h1> AND CALL IT A DAY

hackers.town: 2024-06-21 Fri 08:44

Out walking the dogs. Somebody stopped their car to let me know they saw a coyote run towards the path we were just about to turn onto.

That’s downright neighborly.

hackers.town: 2024-06-21 Fri 09:09

“server components [in Next.js] are a major innovation”

Pausing the video before I reach through the screen (and time) to assault the presenter with a server-side include

hackers.town: 2024-06-21 Fri 09:11

It’s taken me two hours and one dog walk to make it almost ten minutes into a 45 minute video.

I think I’m gonna need to change my meds if I want to work with folks whose entire world is React-based.

hackers.town: 2024-06-21 Fri 09:24

Jack and Barry getting comfortable in the new space.

hackers.town: 2024-06-21 Fri 11:12

Explaining the idea of #neurospicy to my mom — who in the last 40 years has gone from “ADHD’s just an excuse for doctors to overprescribe” to “I’m finding the ADHD is becoming more intense as I age” which must’ve been a hell of a journey for her.

She immediately took to the idea, and we riffed a bit.

hackers.town: 2024-06-21 Fri 14:22

Weather alert on the phone

“Severe Thunderstorm Warning”

“significant threat to life or property”

Let’s hope they mean somebody else.

hackers.town: 2024-06-21 Fri 16:59

Time for the afternoon dog walk.

How are the clouds looking? Oh impressive.

And this way? Very nice.

And what about that way? What’s this thick wind pushing towards us?

Ah. Hm.

Let’s make this a quicker walk okay pups?

(thunder rumbles)

hackers.town: 2024-06-21 Fri 18:19

Got enough Logseq structure in #KuzuDB that now I’m on to a publishing workflow.

And because this is me we’re talking about, I’m doing the script to generate site content from the database (which I built with Python) in JavaScript.

hackers.town: 2024-06-21 Fri 19:26

Big fat raindrops so I didn’t find a more scenic view for you.

hackers.town: 2024-06-21 Fri 20:14

“Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn’t have been there in the first place”

Which jobs, Mira? Which jobs?

I know the answer from that kind of mind, of course. All of them. If you lose your job, they were doing your former employer a favor.

If they lose their job, it’ll be a tragedy that demands government intervention.

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