amysox

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by amysox 18d ago
Exactly the sort of thing I agree with. If there's code, ultimately, some human is responsible for it, regardless of whether they produced it by hand, by AI, or by rolling dice. (Not that anyone does produce code by rolling dice, m
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by amysox 1mo ago
I've been self-hosting Gitea for years, and moved everything I had on GitHub off at the time of the Micro$oft takeover. With Amsterdam[0], I've put it back on GitHub, but only as a mirror to increase visibility of the code. My e
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by amysox 4mo ago
Location: Aurora, CO, USA (Denver metro area) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel Technologies: Python, Java, Go, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Rel
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by amysox 4mo ago
People were calling the film "a two-hour Daft Punk video" at one point. Which would be pretty cool, come to think of it. I do think they were a pretty good choice to follow on from the original movie's electronic score by W
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by amysox 5mo ago
I feel like this should have had a warning like the one on the Epiphyte business plan in Cryptonomicon. "EXTREMELY SERIOUS WARNING: Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tou
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by amysox 5mo ago
Location: Aurora, CO, USA (Denver metro area) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel Technologies: Python, Java, Go, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Rel
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by amysox 5mo ago
I was going to say something about the choice of acronym for the project, but, well, a couple people figured it out. :D
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by amysox 5mo ago
I guess I was bucking the trend with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720333 , which points to https://electricminds.org . The UI of Electric Minds Reborn (Amsterdam Web Communities System) was not AI-gene
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by amysox 5mo ago
Robert Heinlein proposed something like that in his "lost" novel For Us, the Living: instead of declaring war, Congress would authorize a war referendum, in which only those eligible for military service could vote. The catch wa
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by amysox 5mo ago
It's hard out there for everyone in this market. I've got literal decades of experience, but I've been pounding the virtual pavement for month after month, and still nothing.
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by amysox 5mo ago
Well, Electric Minds Reborn is now online: https://electricminds.org I will be continuing work on the new software that powers it, the Amsterdam Web Communities System. https://github.com/amysoxcolo/amsterda
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Show HN: Electric Minds Reborn: pioneering virtual community, on a new platform(electricminds.org)
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by amysox 6mo ago
Can we just call him "Secretary of Death Piss-Drunk Pete Kegstand"?
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by amysox 6mo ago
Location: Aurora, CO, USA (Denver metro area) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel Technologies: Python, Java, Go, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Rel
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by amysox 8mo ago
This is a fantastic piece of work, AI or no! Feature idea: For those of us who aren't familiar with The City, could you allow clicks on the image to identify specific landmarks (buildings, etc.)? Or is that too computationally intensiv
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by amysox 8mo ago
https://erbosoft.com/ - Includes a blog among other bits.
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by amysox 9mo ago
Or use Gitea or Forgejo and host it yourself.
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by amysox 9mo ago
Those of us who have been writing it "Micro$oft" since the 90's can now say, "I told you so."
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by amysox 10mo ago
Location: Aurora, CO, USA (Denver metro area) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel Technologies: Python, Java, Go, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Rel
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by amysox 10mo ago
Couldn't you do that with Ollama + Tailscale? Minus some of the fancy bells and whistles?
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by amysox 10mo ago
I'm reviving a project I last touched in 2006, in the hopes that it might be of use today in making social networking human again. Back in the day, after the company I worked for bought the Electric Minds community and migrated it to i
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by amysox 11mo ago
Location: Aurora, CO, USA (Denver metro area) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel Technologies: Python, Java, Go, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Rel
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by amysox 11mo ago
Expect a ketchupnado in the White House...
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by amysox 1y ago
My doctor's office does the same thing. So do some financial services companies.
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by amysox 1y ago
What I'd like to know is why anyone thinks it's a good idea to have this level of granularity in libraries? Seriously? A library that only contains "a utility function that determines if its argument can be used like an a
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by amysox 1y ago
The cruelty is the point. Also, don't expect them to do anything that benefits anyone other than their billionaire cronies.
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by amysox 1y ago
That's like the old saying that when a company starts its message with "In order to serve you better...", what they really mean is "Bend over and assume the position."
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by amysox 1y ago
Location: Denver, CO, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel Technologies: Python, Java, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
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by amysox 1y ago
Location: Denver, CO, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel Technologies: Python, Java, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
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by amysox 1y ago
Especially since NYT is paywalled and Ars is not.

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