The words and the performances, the chemistry and creativity of the actors, that's the real priceless stuff.

https://x.com/andlikelaura/status/1392091221032460291

It's really the opposite model of the "major" streaming players who fund tentpole releases in the conventional Hollywood way, and then have a long tail of niche content (cooking reality shows and the like) that are clearly on a much tighter budget, but still basically modeled on being a cheaper version of a cable show rather than a much better funded version of a YouTube comedy troupe.

This led to some hilarious implementation shenanigans for the Wii as a transitional console, where the Home button pause screen is not in fact a task switch to some underlying console OS but rather a piece of the SDK that is separately-delivered from each individual game.

ref. https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/wii/

I'd also be interested in how post-processing fits in with this. Like if you've got weather effects, film grain, tone mapping, etc, I would have thought the model would do better working on the image before those processes.

I assume Anthropic & friends have noticed this as well and will change how they handle long running sessions, so the gap will likely close over time, but this is definitely where things stand today.

Mentioned by the author in a recent HN thread, I'm also experimenting with automating this through a tiny issue tracker called epiq [1] that basically lets the agent sessions themselves file tickets with the follow-on tasks and relevant handoff right in them, and then a dispatcher automatically launches those tickets into new agent sessions.

[1]: https://ljtn.github.io/epiq/

Neither the UK or CA versions have "here's an LLM you can make general inquiries to" though; at least for now that appears to be unique to america.gov. Unclear to me why this required a separate domain with all this branding on it vs just being one of those "let our chatbot help you out!!!" popup widgets on the existing usa.gov.

Currently looking for a framework for managing this in a more formal way, and I think it's probably beads, but interested to hear from others.

Oh well.

That's a pain point in everyone's day that should make the benefit easy to understand.

And then you're stuck with a device that can only be communicated with when it chooses to wake up, whereas with BLE it seems you can listen for a remote OTA wake much more cheaply.

The Bright Creative site is also AWOL.

Too bad neither is set up to redirect to the current https://daveshea.com/

Hope he's doing well. Guys like him, Doug Bowman, Jeffrey Zeldman... all a huge influence on teenaged-me hacking away on my little blog and thinking of going to SXSW someday.

EDIT: He's just left after being at Shopify for six years: https://lnkd.in/p/dcYBvQfq

With a clanker though, no such obligation exists and the "hey also" content (like any other part of the response) can simply be ignored.