K. Chen

I forget sometimes that part of the point of literature is to teach people class manners.

Free time has been spent with friends instead of gaming on my own (good) and on creative pursuits (great | acceptable) , but also work has been crushingly busy (bad). Will try to get back into the practice Soon.

Extremely amusing to see where the site is okay with automation and where it is not. Vice paying homage to virtue indeed.

An orchard takes years to grow. You're telling me they're going to flatten to build nothing because of the town's dying just for fun?

They're all corporations even if some of them pay out passthrough

Why are the orchards being bulldozed instead of bought by larger AG corporation that has the capital for robots?

Nightmarish. How have they not pulled that name and most of the features?

(Yes, I know)

However, I do agree with Mike that there's no moat. Anthropic is on top right now because they're doing it smarter but I don't see how they maintain lock-in without consistently being better.

Yeah that seems to be where we are right now, bigger context window is way more better.

I love the idea of their button-presser robot but I've never had a use for it that I'm willing to pay for.

We got a smart single rail for curtains and it was great but all the blind systems seem to be fully integrated

I am a little surprised that switchbot hasn't already given it a shot.

It turns out designing actuators that do exactly what humans do is pretty hard and a lot harder than designing an actuator to do a thing that a human wants in general.

In retrospect I really should have started this thread with "ICs are in everything"

Your electric toothbrush and your five blade vibrating razor have software in

Trying to understand the right in twenty twenty six:

@proptermalone.bsky.social is doing some experiments

One of my best friends lives on the other side of the continent

I'll let you know how it goes when I finally tell this thing to generate encounters.

Imagine an AI model that can run D&D for every forever gm

The default ones are terrible. The ones I get out of sticking something into an LLM of your choice are fine to great.

Extracting information from /all/ documents in a set

Extracting information from documents.

Brainstorming D&D, campaign repository

Homework, explained

Homework

Adjusting Power Point, sadly

All I want is to never have to hand adjust a slide deck ever again is that so much to ask?!

Legal and accounting advice

Troubleshooting various tech issues (so I don't have to go onto a Stack Exchange website)