Durandal

Data-intensive web applications, books, metempsychosis, endurance sports, adventures. Na Bean Ris A Chat.

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@cremieuxrecueil Bidirectional causality

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Markets take the shape of their container, and until recently, social norms and material hardship shaped who we chose and why.

We "solved" those, so what's left shaping the mating market is status games and algorithms. Not sure we can have our cake (viz. freedom from raw competition) and eat it too (viz. freedom from social or environmental constraints).

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@feelsdesperate Acquiring power requires competence, but holding it requires loyalty. Over time all institutions shift from rewarding the former to rewarding the latter.

(See also Robert Michels' Iron law of Oligarchy.)

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@miguelbetegon Should have been "swipe right" vs. "swipe left". Everything is converging to gooner casino anyways so why resist it 😆

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A colossal metaphor, one so vast that it would get out of hand, but also out of foot, out of head, out of eye; one that would get out of us entirely and sweep us along with it.

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@simonsarris Have you ever read Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun? I thought of it the first time I saw your homesteading posts.

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@heyandras @coolifyio Brother you are FOMO'ing me today 😆

Anything special in the prompt? Going to try this right after 9-5

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@heyandras Thanks, crazy stuff indeed!!!

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@majamediaco One could argue that performing “for others” is braver because it risks judgement.

Doing something “just for ourselves” is usually still a performance… in which we’re the only (famously forgiving) audience!

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@geniusliberator @cremieuxrecueil That's a good example for a different dilemma, not for this one.

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@rauchg Software will be like food.

Vibe coding = Doordash
Hand coding = Cook at home
Paying for a SaaS = Restaurant

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Posts about the job market have converged with posts about the dating market.

« Extension du domaine de la lutte » accomplie!

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All productivity gains of AI will be eaten up by the rising authentication costs, and you cannot opt out if you want to stay in the game.

As the Red Queen told Alice:

"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."

We are in Looking-Glass Land now.

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i'm blocking anyone that sounds like a bot

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@mitsuhiko Instead of a Responses API, how about a Choices API 😁

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578 years after my forebear, Seath Mòr Sgòr Fhiaclach, was buried in the Doune at Rothiemurchus (57°09'39.3"N 3°50'38.1"W), a mortsafe went up around his grave.

Not to guard his remains.

But to protect us, the living, on the outside.

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@alasky__ Yours truly, left my copy there as one of many reasons to go back often. Same trick works if you leave yours!