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> There are ways to make go get use ssh but even with that approach the repository needs to be accessible over https.

No, that's false. You don't need anything to be accessible over HTTP.

But even if it did, and you had to use mTLS, there's a whole bunch of ways to solve this. How do you solve this for any other software that doesn't present client certs? You use a local proxy.


You're at a good time for The Hobbit. Strangely I find that Winnie the Pooh does not age well and is an awkward read.

The Wind in the Willows is good beginning around that age too.


Yeah, I'd have thought so. The lad's a little behind on appreciating narrative, though. Loves books, but can't yet focus on anything that isn't ~= pictures::words. It's fine; he'll get there.

Love both Pooh, and Wind in the Willows, and will enjoy seeing how they take him.


Really? I still love Winnie the Pooh, but I grew up with him so I’m somewhat biased. But I love the whimsy and musicality in the language.

> I’ve found reading aloud helpful for staying engaged — limiting myself to mouth-speed rather than eye-speed means I won’t rush, miss important details, and then lose interest, which has always been a problem for me.

This worked for me... for a time. And then what happened surprised me (but maybe shouldn't have): I started zoning out and thinking about other things, missing important details, while reading aloud. Wild that we can even do that.


It's a capability with which having children will make you intimately familiar

I initially thought this was just a function of reading the same thing multiple times, but I’ve since had it happen many times when reading something completely new. Somehow my mind wanders and when I tune back in, not only am I reading clearly, I’m still doing the voicing for different characters. It’s so weird.

I haven't had it happen while reading aloud (since I almost never read aloud), but I've definitely had it happen while reading something new that I hated. I'd end up having to read the same page (or more!) three or four times because I kept zoning out.

By the 3rd week of Goodnight Moon at bedtime, are you still reading the printed words?

No, because the kid has learned to anticipate what's to come, and reading it becomes a game or performance art.

Throw in an occasional Goodnight Opus and learn to depart from the text

I always find these takes curious because they could not be further from my experience. I'm still discovering tons of good music. Perhaps it's specific to genres, but I haven't encountered any generated junk tracks.

Since relatively recently I'm getting AI music in my automatic radio. They look/sound like soulless facsimiles of the real thing.

It depends on the algorithm which often preferences "similarity" (for whatever definition of similarity is).

This year I got into some pretty generic blues/rock when driving and really liked one of the songs in some playlist/radio [1]. Little did I know that the song was AI. So when I started a radio based on that song, the resulting radio was 99% AI though I didn't even realise that until after a second/third listen through.

So you can really fall through the rabbit hole.

[1] He Talked A Big Game, Played A Small Tune by Dumpster Grooves. A better song than most human slop that sells stadiums. https://youtu.be/L3Uyfnp-jag?si=mPBgJ_qO2AF80FGP


Wow, that channel is misrepresenting its songs as lost records. Pure cancer.

Yup.

There's also obvious care and human creation there as well.

They have several "artists". Bertha Mae Lightning gets the better lyrics and artangements. Virgil Dillard gets simpler tunes and the occasional weird grammar/lyrics. And so on.

I even saved that radio as a playlist to show people: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/072Wp3cFsziKBQlnglF5XM?si=... It has both obvious AI ("artist" by the name of promptgenix) and not-so-obvious (Enlly Blue, Dumpster Grooves).

The weird/sad/funny/ironic part? Many of those songs are still better than whatever Taylor Swift and a lot of other artists produce.


Really? How about asking google to "play bloomberg news on spotify" next time. Then see if you can remove the resulting chaos from your history so it won't start feeding you slop.

It's open source: https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website

I wouldn't say it emulates so much as implements a renderer for each game. It's totally nuts.


I contributed one earlier this year! The community's a great bunch and I learned a lot.

Always remember, folks: the best feature request is a pull request ;)


Yes! I loved the thread on twitter back in the day where Jasper explained how he implemented the Half-Life 2 water shader using the two camera method.

I can wholeheartedly recommend going through his account there and on bsky, lot's of interesting stuff.


I had a similar bizarre experience recently where when "Walmart" would be mentioned in an outgoing message, instead of sending the message it would change the nav destination.

> I believe that process was better than me just fully validating it myself

Why?

> and part of the process toward encouraging them to use LLM as a tool for their work.

Did you look at it from their perspective? You set the exact opposite example and serve as a perfect example for TFA: you did not deliver code you have proven to work. I imagine some would find this demoralizing.

I've worked with a lot of director-level software folk and many would just do the work. If they're not going to do the work, then they should probably assign someone to do it.

What if it didn't work? What if you just wasted a bunch of engineering time reviewing slop? I don't comprehend this mindset. If you're supposedly a leader, then lead.


If you can't tell the difference between active tracking and inspecting request headers, then it's worth committing a bit of time to ponder. Particularly the costs associated with IP tracking at scale.

I had a ceramic coffee mug that I loved and used very regularly. I bought it at a fair from a local potter and it had a very unique glaze, lots of blues and greens.

A friend who is a potter saw me drinking out of it and said that the glaze looked suspicious. He said it looked loaded with heavy metals, and that I should probably not use it or at least get it tested.

At the time I knew a guy who worked in a lab that tested certain substances for hazardous materials. He was intrigued and brought it in to work one day, and later texted me asking if I wanted it back, because it was very likely leaching cobalt, lead, and cadmium, and it was probably also very mildly radioactive.

I feel much better drinking out of mugs from IKEA and other big name stores.


Maybe I'm missing something but it's not a self contained file if it has external imports. It appears to be using unpkg CDN for CSS and JS. There's also multiple files, no license file, a server in python (???) and many, many indications that this is just AI slop.

Yeah...

  // Parse Meshtastic protobuf data here
  // This is a simplified example - actual implementation needs protobuf parsing
  console.log('Received BLE data:', data);

If it works despite being a mess, I think there should be a somewhat less protective term than slop. Goulash?

There’s no reason to think this works fine given the readme mentions the author is waiting on their first meshtastic device to test against and the install instructions include ‘insert download link here’.

It’s a shame this is just slop, an approach like this could be interesting, using web APIs instead of native apps… but iOS Safari doesn’t support Web Bluetooth so it’s not going to work on iPhones at all which is a big unmentioned limitation.

Probably because it’s untested AI slop.


I think of AI that is messy, but gets the job done more as "drive-through fast food"

Perhaps "Soylent Green"? It's made of people ('s stolen creative work).

I meant to say "pejorative", not "protective", sorry.

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