heidi 6 months ago

This Claude Vending-Machine experiment is hilarious, especially in light of my experience with an 8-year-old mulberry supplier who very seriously told me that i can pay more than the price she was asking:

AGI Meltdown: Claude’s Vending-Machine Disaster Exposes the Real Limits of Artificial Intelligence

Claude’s vending-machine meltdown proves today’s “smart” AI still fumbles basic business—and why your job is safer than the hype suggests.

heidi 6 months ago

Handy tool for profile backup:

Nostr Profile Manager

heidi 6 months ago

Reminder that if you are traveling as a US citizen, US customs cannot force you to unlock your phone if you are only using a passcode. Don’t use or turn off biometric unlock.

heidi 6 months ago

Free free…

heidi 6 months ago

Be the 1 View quoted note →

heidi 6 months ago

Hasn’t everybody vibe-coded a Cashu wallet by now?

heidi 6 months ago

Study Bitcoin…

heidi 6 months ago

People are so worried about people outsourcing their brains to LLMs… But people have always and forever been outsourcing their brains to “authorities” or something that will reduce their cognitive load… …instead of doing the harder work to learn, understand, build…

heidi 6 months ago

Inspired and motivated by the unknown, non-public people who love and use Cashu for more private transactions… I can only imagine what unseen good they are doing.

heidi 6 months ago

Bad company…we keep keeping it…

heidi 6 months ago

Goodreads

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akka…

heidi 6 months ago

I don't know who Paul is and I'm afraid to ask...

heidi 6 months ago

Vibe coding/debugging is not just about building--also for: -Writing test cases -Converting code - e.g, Perl to Swift. -Learning about an existing code base -UI Language Translations -Learning new programming languages (old dog, new tricks) -Other?

heidi 6 months ago

Someday we might transmit ecash by tapping our fingers or rapping a tune. Stop that.

heidi 7 months ago

“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”-Marcus Aurelius

heidi 7 months ago

Appreciate all the people still here for censorship-resistant money….

heidi 7 months ago

Reminder: “If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws have privacy” - Phil Zimmerman

heidi 7 months ago

Courageous journalism(good read) :

PenguinRandomhouse.com

Bad News by Anjan Sundaram: 9781101872154 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

In 2009, Anjan Sundaram began a journalist's training program in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Often held up as a beacon of progress and mode...

heidi 7 months ago

“AI should serve freedom not tyranny” - Oslo Freedom Forum

heidi 7 months ago

Tears for Fears was right …