this must be paired with the '350k lines / then he discovered loops' post from the same site

https://folklore.org/Discovered_Loops.html

not having investigated this tool, I'll say that the key thing for 'open alternatives' is simplicity of hosting, + many tools have failed me in the past

thinking specifically of immich + simplenotes, which have complex docker compose stacks, and at least immich requires a lot of TLC to keep the backend in sync with the frontend. fail at this and your images will not sync.

(and I am not knocking it, I use it + love it)

these apps are in a sense featureful, with ML indexing and other search features, but in a sense just auth wrappers on file storage; hosting them they should, somehow, be simpler than it is

risks

> distros like Debian will routinely patch out phoning home and telemetry from the software they package

yes this. learning about the user-aligned patching in debian's chromium made me feel like I had made the right choice with desktop linux

oh my god these things run on a gpu don't they? they have nothing to do with golang? to the extent they run on a cpu they're heavy; we're not like solving the c10k problem with agents

Agents don't typically, and any LLM they're calling is likely hosted remotely.

why the H does this have the same opening line as moby dick

why are emacs users like this

I'm not seeing any "Call me Ishmael".

some years ago

> Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world

“Some years ago” isn’t a Moby Dick-ism, it’s perfectly normal English to open an anecdote with.

'some years ago I went through a phase' in an introduction is plausibly a moby dick reference

It’s really not. “Some years ago” is a very common phrase, completely unrelated to its occurrence in Moby Dick. Its use in Moby Dick isn’t iconic or anything like that.

Is there something you want to tell us about having read Herman Melville's classic American epic novel Moby Dick (1851)?

tldr we are moving on from nix because we are selling an alternative to nix?

guessing it's this liposome tech (same lead author, sakai): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33845721/

more on what I assume is their hemoglobin prep process: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30715862/

and if you want to make your own liposomes, instructions here https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8234105/

ah yes, how the kiva robot lifts a mobile shelf full of Codes and brings them to me for my inspection. I use my left hand to reach for the Code I need and place it in the tote, because my right shoulder is injured from repeating this motion.

The tote goes onto a conveyor where it is shot forwards, backwards and sideways, all around the warehouse until it reaches the compiler station. There, another worker will lint each Code with a lint roller and compile them by selecting the appropriately sized cardboard box.

Next, this executable bundle will be linked with its customer, possibly by means of a plane or 18-wheeler truck, with last-mile linking performed by a smaller vehicle suitable for urban traffic ...

engage rationally with build vs buy decisions

accept that there are compatibility boundaries such that it is sometimes quicker to create a new X than locate it on the market, or that X is too expensive and it's time to pursue vertical integration

but teams who can't do build vs buy properly are kind of doomed, sentenced to endless cycles of Not Invented Here syndrome which block other work.

if you're in a meeting and someone says 'we can't launch our website until we develop a platform-native way to host websites' you're in the wrong part of the curve