Bob Nystrom
Person on 4 sites
Programming language engineer on the Dart team at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters. He writes about language design at…
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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4 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Generative AI cannot create personal meaning in an object, because meaning comes from the time a person gives up making it for someone. (opens korrents.com)
“Generative AI, when wielded deftly, can be an amazing tool for creating things with utility faster and more easily than you ever could before. But it can't generate meaning. The giant matrix of floating point numbers…”
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The more a thing is made with automation, the less of the maker is in it, and the less the person who receives it tends to value it. (opens korrents.com)
“The high level point is just that the more we automate the process of making a thing, the less of ourselves we put into it. And an object with less of ourselves in it is often valued less by the person who receives it.”
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Handmade things have value beyond their usefulness, in the sacrifice of time that went into them. (opens korrents.com)
“That scarf has value not because it's a great scarf but because I chose to spend an irreplaceable fraction of my life making it. It's a symbol of how much I care about her. In short, it has meaning.”
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Generative AI cannot create personal meaning in an object, because meaning comes from the time a person gives up making it for someone. (opens korrents.com)
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10 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Sublime Text (opens rcmnd.app)
“I write all of my prose in Sublime Text, usually in Markdown, even my book.”
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Phiaton PS 20 (opens rcmnd.app)
“When I'm walking to work and back or sitting at my laptop, I usually have a pair of wonderful Phiaton PS 20 earbuds jammed into my auditory ports.”
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f.lux (opens rcmnd.app)
“My laptop has f.lux running on it which helps keep my sleep schedule happy while letting me stare at a screen twelve hours a day.”
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Sublime Text (opens rcmnd.app)