🦧 Simon Gray
The tributes for Drew Struzan remind me of learning air brush in high school art, where a discussion was had that new tech air brush was considered a type of cheating by traditional artists.
Pzumk
🚨 last night, warning sirens echoed across hamburg. it turned out to be a technical error but where did the police clarify it? not on any official app or website. no. on twitter. the official apps were 45-60 minutes late and everyone's (rightfully) pissed off.
👨🏻💻 Moroni
Why do we need to clean our homes regularly? Where is the technology that will do this for us?
🏒 Lucian Marin
"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." x.com/AuthorJMac/s...
🐈 Pan Sarraceno
Waiting for Debian 13, as an arch user, this release is the most exciting tech news I'm waiting for
🤷 Tom Hyndman
My main use for the uBlock Origin element picker was to remove irrelevant virtue signaling banners from technical documentation web sites
👽 Paul Webb
The U.S. is in such a sorry state that other countries are moving to open-source to avoid running government infrastructure on American-made software techradar.com/pro/... While this makes sense, it's also quite telling.
🦇 Arr
Just read a heading on hackernews: "making social "social" again". This site here is what makes social media "social", instead of corporate, again. (But media is technically just text, so not media, but social text, at its best, I guess.)
🏒 Lucian Marin
Yes! How many times I need to explain it? Subreply is HN version of a social network.
🏒 Lucian Marin
Subreply needs to be as good as Pixelmator to be acquired by a big tech company. pixelmator.com/blo...
🔥 Krigs
What's one book that changed your perspective on life?
🦧 Simon Gray
Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion, technically a trilogy tho.
Zero Edge
Disappointing how easily duped our politicians are: "oh we aren't price fixing its an algorithm that controls that", "oh were not tailoring search results its an algorithm that controls that". Not saying the full truth which is that the "algorithm" is modified until it produces the results they want. If they understood even a fraction of how the modern world works they would ask more pointed questions. I just keep thinking of all the embarrassing hearings with top tech CEOs where they are essentially lied to and they still don't realize it..
🏒 Lucian Marin
It's year 5174. Brain researchers discover that neurons inside the brain work by quantum entanglement. A couple years later they develop a device that makes brain to brain communication possible. Now humans power a thinking network that's superior to AI, the quantum brain. Warriors who seek to destroy the technology move out to a nearby galaxy because communication is slowed down by the speed of light. A intergalactic war starts between AI, peaceful humans and the warriors. Peaceful humans continue to pursuit technological advancements to defend themselves from both AI and warriors.
Zero Edge
I've never liked the whole "monkeys on a typewriter" thing because technically it isn't true. An infinite amount of monkeys given an infinite amount of time would never write Shakespeare because no matter what, a monkey cannot type in perfect randomness, meaning no matter how many or how long it would never type Shakespeare. If you made a device and trained a monkey to type perfectly random.. yeah, sure.
🏒 Lucian Marin
Can ChatGPT write Shakespeare? In a world of AI generated text, Subreply might be the only places where people actually think.
🙍🏻♂️ Vasanth V.
Apple will allow sideloading apps with iOS 17 techcrunch.com/202...
🏒 Lucian Marin
If they allow alternative browsers then I might buy an iPad Mini after all.
Zero Edge
Does "tech debt" exist if the development cycle has a clear ending? Seems like tech debt is only relevant when you plan on updating a system indefinitely.
Samuel M-squire
I like the idea of this community. The problem with content is that few people are willing to pay for good quality, well researched, tech news, so I pay for medium and use Hacker news and then spend some time on lobsters occasionally. I would like to read tech blogs, so if you have any recommendations, I would appreciate them.
🤦♂️ Patrick Williams
What do you think about web3 platforms like hackernoon or hive.blog?
Nicolás Parada
Subreply feels pretty fast. Which stack does it use? Have you writen any technical showoff of it @lucian ? I've been making a social app on youtube and I've taken inspiration from subreply youtube.com/playli... :)
🏒 Lucian Marin
I'm using a Python stack: Falcon as web framework, Django for ORM, PostgreSQL, PgBouncer to keep DB connections hot, Gunicorn for async and multithreading HTTP requests, sockets for connections between each stack component to reduce latency. I pay vultr.com/?ref=894... for a high frequency Intel server to reduce latency even further.