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New comment by ericrosedev in "The code and open-source tools I used to produce a science fiction anthology"

ericrosedev — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:31:10 +0000

I saw this on amazon the other day and picked it up. As an avid reader of short form science fiction, I was really excited to see an anthology that focused on interesting ideas. I'm three stories in and my only gripe so far is Twenty-Four Hours, I just can't find the outstanding idea in it. I think it is a lovely and touching story, it just lacks the punch I'd expect to find in this type of collection. I'd love to hear more about your selection process and what we can expect from future volumes. A+ for the quality of the books printing and presentation, extremely impressive!

edit: just found your article with more info on your process! https://compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/how-i-curate-an-a...

New comment by ericrosedev in "Figma files for proposed IPO"

ericrosedev — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 03:42:02 +0000

After the Adobe/Figma deal fell through a few years ago I thought they might breath new life into XD, it's a good program that integrates with your Creative Cloud libraries. No idea why they've put it on ice, especially without Figma.

New comment by ericrosedev in "Why email startups fail"

ericrosedev — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 05:39:04 +0000

Obligatory “as far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product”

New comment by ericrosedev in "The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More"

ericrosedev — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:55:23 +0000

Contractors down range used to have something like a company logo or something as their rank, you could always tell because it would be some guy with a gut and long hair in fatigues with a weird rank. Give them that and let them feel like soldiers, not an oak leaf

New comment by ericrosedev in "The Myth of Developer Obsolescence"

ericrosedev — Tue, 27 May 2025 14:18:40 +0000

“I can explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you”

New comment by ericrosedev in "Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game"

ericrosedev — Tue, 27 May 2025 06:28:38 +0000

You're right, I misspoke. I meant assured annihilation

New comment by ericrosedev in "CSS Minecraft"

ericrosedev — Tue, 27 May 2025 01:35:04 +0000

have you seen this modern marvel? https://diana-adrianne.com/purecss-lace/

New comment by ericrosedev in "Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game"

ericrosedev — Tue, 20 May 2025 02:59:16 +0000

And the stakes are instant annihilation! so there is no room for mistakes, eliminating almost all other viable positions

New comment by ericrosedev in "Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game"

ericrosedev — Tue, 20 May 2025 00:36:02 +0000

It looks like Copykitten is the sweet spot to me, with a focus on keeping miscommunication to a minimum. I wonder where, between 0% and 1%, there is a noticeable deviation, because I find the idea of the Copykitten more nuanced than the copycat, but the copycat always wins somewhere between 0 and 1.

New comment by ericrosedev in "What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)"

ericrosedev — Mon, 19 May 2025 05:48:33 +0000

I find GiveWells approach the most satisfying when I ask myself “how can I make my charity go the furthest”. https://www.givewell.org/ I also highly recommend Famine, Affluence, and Morality by Peter Singer, it’s a perspective changing book. Also, great comment!

New comment by ericrosedev in "Phi 4 available on Ollama"

ericrosedev — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:16:27 +0000

The enshitification trend seems pretty dominant, and pretty bad for users / good for investors

New comment by ericrosedev in "United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025"

ericrosedev — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:43:39 +0000

Flew on Hawaiian last month which had starlink. During the announcements they asked everyone not to do voice or video calls, and said they would disable the internet if they saw people doing it. Will be interesting to see different airlines policies as broadband becomes available on flights

New comment by ericrosedev in "Map UI – Ghost in the Shell"

ericrosedev — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 06:21:59 +0000

Hey some fellow green line enjoyers! I'm working on a small side project I'm calling a "Terminal-punk Fantasy Art Game" at spellkaster.app to scratch my cyber-itch.

Escape from New York has some amazing cyberpunk UI aesthetic, so does Jurassic Park and the 90's Lost in Space movie. Lost in Space in particular has some absolutely gorgeous scifi UI.

There is also a youtube channel called 'Datawave FM - midfi synthwave radio for retro computer funk' that has amazing music and visuals.

New comment by ericrosedev in "Freenet 2024 – a drop-in decentralized replacement for the web [video]"

ericrosedev — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 21:45:32 +0000

I’m still convinced the Internet Computer has a real chance at being the replacement for AWS et al

New comment by ericrosedev in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

ericrosedev — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:22:01 +0000

OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner.

There were 6 on the board until noon today. Assuming Sam and Greg did not vote, that leaves 4. If 3 voted out, that would have been a split decision. I don't think a 50% decision would have it, I believe all 4 of the remaining members voted out.

That leaves us wondering what the hell happened, and how it came to this? It's not angry tech bros, it's folks who feel OpenAI is a great company poised to lead AI into a bright future with principles and a purpose higher than profit. And now Sam and Greg are gone.

And poof, this human who happens to be female is gone. This human needed to have a statement ready, we're all trying to DM them the same question, why?

New comment by ericrosedev in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

ericrosedev — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 07:51:44 +0000

"Any necessary statements can be made through channels"

you have to admin though, she made a highly controversial decision, and instead of confronting it and saying something through her own channel, she changed the name of the channel and made it private. And we're supposed to assume this is because men (specifically) are mean. Respectfully, feels like a bad take.

New comment by ericrosedev in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

ericrosedev — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 03:55:00 +0000

No this can definitely be considered unusual, and it's misguided to paint it as angry men online. She participated in a decision that affects all of us (leadership/alignment of AI) and is now attempting to hide from the consistences of that participation (privatizing profile and change the name). You don't get to make big decisions and then hide under a rock.