Large format pen plotters with up to 8 separate pens were available for different line weights. Color was mostly avoided because the reproduction process of the time was still centered around diazotype[1], or monochromatic ammonium blue printing.

[0]https://piratefsh.github.io/2019/01/07/computer-art-history-...

[1]https://drawingmatter.org/a-blueprint-is-blue/

After speaking with IT for several days, they begrudgingly exempted my site after ‘leadership approval’ but were confounded as to “why anyone would need files older than 5 years”

Forget the AI boom, there still orgs struggling with storage, databases, and email.

The question is ultimate shape of knowledge compression and bandwidth optimization at which we arrive I suppose.

[0]https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_local_backup

[0]https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502/the-almighty...

How can anyone (financially) justify the cost of owning your own compute?

How can anyone (ideologically) justify the cost of not owning your own means of compute?

I'm not sure if it's when you run out of crypto, or when your bank gets hit by ransomeware.

I would be more interested in benchmarking the modeling of an anonymous structure based on provided references alone. It kind of feels like the shallow magic of watching an LLM one-shot a to-do app..

- You don't need a cloud key, or any other hardware to use the Unifi APs. You can SSH in or configure with an app on your phone. But you miss out on a lot of the features that make this hardware desirable. I ran a Unifi system for a long time with no controller or cloud key at all.

- I've never needed an internet connection to set up a Unifi system, in fact I typically get the local network setup and working, and configure the WAN as a last step. This provides the convenience of being able to consistently hit the router to debug issues.

- I can see the frustration of not being able to migrate the configuration from cloud key to gateway, but a migration is different from a restore, which is what a back up is intended to provide. In practice, I'd always plan to reconfigure if I'm changing hardware or software in the stack.

Unifi is indeed very Apple like (founded by ex-apple engineer I believe?) in both good and bad ways. I think their goldilocks deployment is large home / small businesses that need remote administration.

I thought Llamafile was just a model and llama.cpp bundled in to a single binary - is this the difference between Llamafile injecting a default sysmtem prompt vs hitting the raw llama-server endpoint with no harness?

That seems like comparing apples to apple pie, there's some ingredients missing.

Input leap[0] is a great open source KVM software version of the deskhop which allows me to control both computers on the same monitor with the sam peripherals.

[0]https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap

That's exactly my point. Photoshop is the wrong bellwether with which to test the vibe coding value premise refuted by the author.

It's like asking where all the skyscrapers are when The Home Depot opens up in your neighborhood.

And as someone that's used photoshop professionally for decades, pixel manipulation is precisely what it does.

I think this diffusion of knowledge, which represents the rising floor of progress, is the largest benefit of the AI phenomenon to date.