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New comment by plomme in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

plomme — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:01:10 +0000

Sure, but LLMS and image generators are not the death of "consensus reality". Healthy democracies will still have investigative journalism, public debate, trustworthy institutions, etc.

New comment by plomme in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

plomme — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:50:46 +0000

You're right. But I'd rather be uninformed than misinformed.

New comment by plomme in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

plomme — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:17:29 +0000

I think it may turn out postive; That the less we are able to take images and video at face value the better.

Motivated actors have been able to doctor, fake, or spin media content since time immemorial. But peoples default mode was to trust what they saw. Now that fake imagery is ubiquitous, maybe we'll all get a bit more skeptical.

New comment by plomme in "The sigmoids won't save you"

plomme — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:03:57 +0000

I’m not saying he’s wrong about the core thesis here, but using Claude Opus 4.6 as a “mic drop” with a chart showing it being twice as good as the last model feels in my experience way off.

New comment by plomme in "The vi family"

plomme — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:19:06 +0000

Flash is amazing, and what made me drop VSCode. Flash feels like an innovation and basically lets me move my cursor at almost the speed of thought. Highly recommend people try it out and play with it!

BTW: The Vimium extension [1] for Firefox has a similar mode for links called "linkHinting" which I've mapped to s[2] for a similar experience in the browser :)

[1]: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/

[2]: `map s LinkHints.activateMode`

New comment by plomme in "The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?"

plomme — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:15:35 +0000

To play devils advocate here: could it be a good thing?

That way they would be incentivized to think about the long term actions of their actions, like not dying before getting affected by global warming etc.

And once aging is understood and solved, maybe it’s possible to iterate on the approach and make it cheaper and more accessible. That would greatly help the aging populations of the west.

If you’re around forever I’d imagine you would care more about what people think of you, too. If not your number of enemies would just rise forever.

New comment by plomme in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

plomme — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:55:15 +0000

Hah, that reminds me! My first work issued Mac didn't have the ESC key, just the touch bar. IIRC a program hung in fullscreen, freezing both the app and the touch bar. So I had to reboot to get out of it because the esc key didn't work.

New comment by plomme in "Making Wax Sealed Letters at Scale"

plomme — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:57:02 +0000

Given the title I was hoping the page would say something about the “how” you scale wax sealed letters but cool niche business!

I’ve waxed and sealed a bunch of letters in the past and it’s a huge PITA (at least the way I did it). Would have loved this.

New comment by plomme in "DIY Soft Drinks"

plomme — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:25:37 +0000

Love that you made homemade Club Mate! My favorite soda by far. I didn’t realize it was just tea before now. They have made a sugar free version now as well, but that not as cool as making your own

New comment by plomme in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

plomme — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:34:11 +0000

How do you “get away” with that? Working remotely? What do you do instead with your time? Are you hiring? Lol

New comment by plomme in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

plomme — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:54:58 +0000

The biggest cost when bootstrapping always seemed to be your salary to me, not infra costs. How long can you pay your mortgage and feed your kids off what should be your retirement or rainy day funds?

New comment by plomme in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

plomme — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:10:50 +0000

I never understood this take. Why do you think an employer would waste resources like that? I’m not saying that bullshit jobs don’t exist but I think you are off by an order of magnitude, and even that mostly applies to white collar workplaces with > 100 employees.

Good luck doing nothing of value in a restaurant with 20 employees.

New comment by plomme in "How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers"

plomme — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:28:08 +0000

A point I didn’t see sibling comments make is that the dentist often has to file between teeth for them to sit and align correctly. They did so several times in my case. I would not want to do that to myself!

New comment by plomme in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

plomme — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:15:54 +0000

The existence of incentives can encourage crime. Why would anyone throw a game if there wasn't an upside? Nobody does anything for "free", and by creating a market you are providing liquidity leading to more "labor". A market for whether or not someone will die within x date sets up a financial incentive to kill that person. That is encouragement.

Saying that people who enjoy sport/ gambling "don't have anything to do with people who want to cheat and steal to gain materially from it" is a false dichotomy. It's nature. Ask yourself, would you throw a game in your sport of choice in a hobby league for 100 million dollars or whatever? Why not, no one gets harmed, it is a lot of money, it's not even a proper league. This applies to all levels of real world consequences, some people have a larger apetite for risk.

New comment by plomme in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

plomme — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:16:33 +0000

I don't think anyone objects to curing cancer and better figuring out how our bodies work, but getting into conciousness/ mind uploads/ simulated humans is another can of worms ethically speaking. I'm assuming you've already read the fantastic story about Lena by qntm [1], if not, enjoy some existensial dread.

[1] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

New comment by plomme in "This time is different"

plomme — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:12:09 +0000

How are you doing speech-to-text with Claude Code?

New comment by plomme in "Lena by qntm (2021)"

plomme — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:13:24 +0000

In case you, as I, has not kept tabs of the progress of cloning since Dolly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/29/horse-clonin... or https://archive.is/dwHsu.

Horse cloning is a major industry in Argentina. Many polo teams are riding around on genetically identical horses. Javier Milei has four clones of his late dog.

New comment by plomme in "Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?"

plomme — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:08:48 +0000

Well you are in luck because that was the point of Schroedingers cat; it was constructed to show the impossibly odd implications of quantum mechanics.

From the wikipedia page: “This thought experiment was devised by physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 in a discussion with Albert Einstein to illustrate what Schrödinger saw as the problems of Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg's philosophical views on quantum mechanics.”

New comment by plomme in "Art of Roads in Games"

plomme — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:04:07 +0000

The romans did care about property lines! Romes’ second aqueduct was held up when land owner Crassus refused to give up private land for its construction. Check out the article for a fascinating read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_aqueduct

New comment by plomme in "We mourn our craft"

plomme — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:20:36 +0000

I think it’s naive to think that not every part of our jobs will worryingly soon be automated. All the way up to and inckuding CEO. This is not exciting.