These services shouldn't make assumptions based on demographics, like location. Some broader examples, it shouldn't recommend US pop music to me because I live in the US or country music because I live in the south.
Fruiting plants require more space. You're not going to grow tomatoes or peppers in a server rack. Density works well for leafy greens and microgreens.
I used DESQview with my BBS. It only had one line but I ran a second local node so I could be online at the same time as my users. I don't remember ever having any problems with it.
I never spent as much time as OP on this but I did collect a lot of data during peak quantified self. I liked having automatic data collection and being able to see trends, for example. I stopped because of a few issues, not related to time:
* Hardware companies went out of business, stopped supporting devices, etc. It became obvious that there was no long term commitment to make good quality hardware that lasted a long time.
* Many devices and/or data collection was consolidated big, data hungry companies Google and Apple. Competitors have similar anti-consumer uses of data. I don't want any of these companies to have my data.
* Related to the last one, limited to no offline or local only data collection.
It is very hard to gather most of this data with off the shelf hardware and keep your data private.
This provides some insight into startup ideas around privacy, local first, offline only self data collection. I agree this kind of personal life data is something you don't want to contribute unknowingly to big data. I could see wanting to share it particularly around a health problem where only massive compute has a chance at providing answers.
That is exactly what I felt looking at Darkrealms' site again.
I grew up on BBSes and ran one in the late 90's. It's not the same, there's no going back. Downloading random txt files with wacko conspiracy theories, fighting other online users in door games, dialing long distance for a chance to find cool warez, it's all hollow now. There's no community left. Any info you want can be found in seconds.
What's with so many people creating new accounts to promote LLM generated projects? Are they people who don't care about HN and just trying to self promote? Existing users creating new accounts? Lurkers?
It's a bummer because sometimes the headline seems cool, but its always generated blah blah recently. I don't think I've seen a non-AI readme on here in months..
Everyone has their own hueristic, but if it took someone 6 hours or whatever to make some whole big app, my confidence that they will continue to maintain or care about it even next week is pretty much zero... How could they? They've already made three other apps in that time!
I don't care if the code is perfect, all this stuff just has the feel of plastic cutlery, if that makes sense.
Writing software isn't like a small bakery with fixed demand. There are always more features to build and improvements to do than capacity allows. For better or worse software products are never finished.
Anthropic's write up[1] is how all AI companies should discuss their product. No hype, honest about what went well and what didn't. They highlighted areas of improvement too.
I would have been using iPads as my primary computing device for the past 10+ years if they gave us root access. Without root they aren't usable and I refuse to buy them.
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