apparently new @White Noise update just came out

In an alternate reality, on Earth that has much thicker atmosphere, humans were able to exploit possibility of flight during earlier stages of civilization. First, during the stone age, there were only primitive parachutes and leather baloons. Later, after they inveted woodworking, someone came up with body mounted wings. Large bird-like contraptions came soon after. Bamboo proved to be an excelent material for lightweight constructions. A member of the Bamboo civilization was the first to circumnavigate the planet by air.

watch out, there is a new group of bots with impressive fake bios.

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If you are using a computer mouse, do yourself a favor, turn off mouse acceleration. On most systems, mouse acceleration is on by default to accomodate for touchpad users.

I hope this global warming comes soon. Cannot wait to start growing figs here.

One thing I stopped doing as a libertarian is blaming things on "The Government". Now I call it "The System".

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To what degree new tech wil take away jobs depends on the elasticity of demand for the goods/services in question. If the demand is inelastic, then lots of people will be fired. Smaller number of people will be employed in that sector producing same amount as before. If the demand is elastic, then increase in productivity and subsequent drop in prices will lead to massive increase in quantity of the product being bought and sold. Same number of people will be employed producing more stuff. Examples from the top of my head: 1) Industrialization of agriculture leads to agriculture workers being fired. People demand roughly same quantity of food, so less workers is enough. Demand is inelastic. At most people eat 2x more calories if food is cheaper as a result of tech. 2) Scaling up of computer chip manufacturing leads to lower price and people want more and more and more etc. Instead of couple computers in a firm where it is really needed, you get 5 computers per person. Consumption rises by mamy orders of magnitude. #economics #ai #technology

My observations when vibecoding as an amateur/beginner: - I am starting with tiny projects - barier to entry has been lowered massively - i keep getting impressed - the robots are way ahead of me. Even taking precautionary steps on their own initiative. Trying to follow "good practice". - I have a tendency to micromanage it. I want to understand the code. - It is good at expaining why it did what it did, when I ask. I ask the way I would ask a teacher. - I think it suits me well, as I think of myself as a "man of ideas" rather than a "man of craft". - Before I knew I would dislike being a coder. Now I can skip a large part of the profession which requires hyper-specialization. - I think I am good at prompting it. It is about exactly expressing intentions in words. - vast majority of effort and time goes into tweaking and polishing the results - my favorite prompt thus far is "split the code into more functions, such that it is more readable by a human"

Looking nice! Cannot wait to try it. View quoted note →

I need to try this! View quoted note →