About six months ago I had an idea for a short story in which an LLM takes over the world and is decidedly bad. The solution was going to be for everybody to write positive stories in which the LLM is good and relinquishes control, which then made it's way into the LLM's training data and it backed off. I never got around to it.

A print farm manager for bambu printers in lan mode. I lay down the base types and schema structure and a few other bits here and there.

Using AI to preprocess some amazon transactions from both personal account and business accounts as I untangle them since I started a side business with my spouse a few months ago (involving 3d printing).

Starting on a yoga workout generator and food/fitness/weight tracker.

I didn't see anything in parent chain that implied this. Nor did I see it "characterized as a magic eraser"; I saw it framed as something that impedes learning, and that was tied back to constant simulation.

> Or at least, aware that this argument continues to be made with tenuous evidence and anecdotes

The arguments I read and the argument you seem to be replying to seem to be different things.

Yes, moving is possible, and easier than switching countries. But the biggest strength of the U.S. is not that people can move, but that the blast radius is contained. The strength is being able to think later "I'm glad we didn't try that everywhere at once." The strength is being able to experiment, not necessarily have states aligned to with all there residents needs within a certain threshold.

It comes off very much as a summary of days of vibe-coding from the AI itself, but it's still nice to see the condensed decisions, approach and frankly the whole concept of embedding a wasm runtime.

The other part is the upfront cost. I bet we'll get to injection molding in the next few months as revenue allows, and we're going to start exploring it this month I think. We'd like to keep things local, though we know we'll still have to contend with knock offs sooner than later.

She sells a product with 16 different printed parts, and she prints the parts in bulk batches across 7 different pause points, some of which have pause points for embedding magnets.

The idea is to integrate inventory management and print scheduling into the tool, which will be nice.

I have working so far: * Pulling camera images * Pulling the currently printing file, including the preview image (rendered in bambu studio and bundled with the print; standard for bambu studio), and the pause points * A dashboard with projected timing information * Notifications about jobs starting, stopping & pausing * Remote printer control

Next on the list: * Delayed printing - schedule a print to start in the night. Mostly useful so that if there's a pause point we don't leave a print paused for hours on end. * Print queueing - manually build a list of prints so that after switching plates we can just "next print" for a printer * Print scheduling - select a quantity of print files or groups of files to print, and have it schedule the prints, including projected switch times, to maximize printer utilization by avoiding jobs ending at night * Tracking magnet & filament usage, and integrating BoM and production quantity tracking.

I've been mostly AI coding this, but I've go in to make it extract out components, etc. And I lay down and enforce the DB schema. I've had to ask it to back out a few things entirely. And I've had to give it the Bambu API docs I found github. But it's been going pretty well.

I worked at a dev company, and we got bought by an IT company. Much pain and friction, all around. Is that a reductive representative of the company differences? Yeah, but it's still a useful mental model that helps one understand the differences. And I think the lawyer vs engineer trope is useful. Yeah we have both. Both my companies had both IT and developera, but the stakes & priorities were different enough that that lense became extremely helpful.

I know one of the lead protest organizers where I live. They have a long list of things. Things they feel are bad and want reversed. And having known them for a long time, I can say they are internally consistent, and would be out there protesting if it was a Democratic president doing this, or more likeable person doing this. It's less about the hate, and more about concern for the direction things are going, and blatant disregard for the law.

It's not just that idea though. Plenty of presidents have done that without pushback. It's that idea combined with:

* Rhetoric dehumanizing the immigrants

* Raiding churches, courts, jobs, etc

* Revoking legal status of immigrants

* Reducing training time for new hires

* Detaining U.S. citizens and threatening them

* Saying it'll help the U.S. citizens, when data shows it doesn't

https://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/ ~ 1,600

https://downdetector.com/status/att/ ~ 1,500

https://downdetector.com/status/verizon/ ~ peaked at ~169k, dropped to 67k

Are we at the point yet where someone can use something other than a major headless browser (firefox, chrome) for converting html to PDFs without huge css gotchas?

Is there any comparison/ are we x yet reviewing alternative browser engines being developed? It seems like there's quite a few in active development at this point.