keep debtors and investors from ripping apart a company and then transferring the debt to the ones running it

So instead we get “vulture capitalism” as an entire ecosystem of companies, doing this but with more diffuse consequences, by spreading out the bag holders far and wide (but always among the powerless). Fits like a glove with the general “privatize profits, socialize losses” strategy of wealth extraction we like so much.

Corporate person-hood is a stain on humanity and the world. We should never have shifted culpability and direct experience of negative consequences away from human beings, ever.

Made me think of a Far Side comic lol

Uvalde showed us all what cops are. Nothing else needs to be learned or said about police, that disgusting event told us every single thing worth knowing.

The very hardest part of designing software, and especially designing abstractions that aim to streamline use of other tools, is deciding exactly where you draw the line(s) between intended flexibility (user should be able and find it easy to do what they want), and opinionated “do it my way here, and I’ll constrain options for doing otherwise”.

You have very clear and thoughtful lines drawn here, about where the flexibility starts and ends, and where the opinionated “this is the point of the package/approach, so do it this way” parts are, too.

Sincerely that’s a big compliment and something I see as a strong signal about your software design instincts. Well done! (I haven’t played with it yet, to be clear, lol)

This sounds really interesting, I’m looking forward to reading the comments here in detail and looking at the project, might even end up incorporating it into my own!

I’m working on something that addresses the same problem in a different way, the problem of constraining or delineating the specifically non-deterministic behavior one wants to involve in a complex workflow. Your approach is interesting and has a lot of conceptual overlap with mine, regarding things like strictly defining compliance criteria and rejecting noncompliant outputs, and chaining discrete steps into a packaged kind of “super step” that integrates non-deterministic substeps into a somewhat more deterministic output, etc.

How involved was it to build it to comply with the OpenAI API format? I haven’t looked into that myself but may.

Woof, after reading your “contributions” here, are you this fucking insufferable IRL or do you keep it behind a keyboard?

Goddamn. I’m assuming you work in tech in some capacity? Shout-out to anyone unlucky enough to white-knuckle through a workday with you, avoiding an HR incident would be a legitimate challenge, holy fuck.

Cheers, thank you!

Rad, I’m sold whenever this thing becomes unusable. I’m on the lighter end of phone use so it sounds like I would lose absolutely nothing.

What do you use for maps?

How long have you had it and how do you like it? Any major annoyances / limitations?

I was in a fight with some coked up racists in my youth (we were prolly gonna lose that one, lmao) and that precise sound legitimately stopped the fight. Don’t get the wrong idea, we dipped too, it wasn’t “for” us lol

Cheers! As long as you know what you’re in for, you’re gonna love it.

Here’s a fun way to learn about an American you just met. Take em to Waffle House!

If they’re a judgmental asshole, never speak to them again, trust me. Let them get back to their $23 hamburger spot that charges for subpar ketchup they call “gourmet”.

No one worth a moment of my time shits on Waffle House or feels uncomfortable there. Not one person.

Whoops, forgot to say the other ways it’s fun to get to know someone. If they’ve never been, it’s a great neutral litmus test to see what they’re like.

If they’ve been, they might have fun stories 😅 All my best friends have fun Waffle House stories.

Pure poetry. There aren’t many things to celebrate in the US anymore, but they’ll never take Waffle House from us. A true national treasure.

The fuck? Waffle House is a goddamn delight. Things occasionally go off the rails 2-3 AM or whatever thanks to rambunctious drunks. By and large it’s efficient, cheap, consistently delicious “greasy spoon” diner food. Made by competent folks who don’t take shit.

Anthony Bourdain loved it, I mean really what more do ya need to know.

Thank you, interesting read.

Paywalled.

If you’ve never seen anything dangerous or overly bad in a “normal” public restroom, first off, that’s amazing. Congratulations, truly.

But beyond that - with that statement alone, you just told everyone who can read that you have absolutely no fucking idea about even a single relevant detail for this topic you have opinions about. Remarkable, just sincerely a breathtaking degree of self-admitted cluelessness.

I have some important messages for your cousins, can you put me in touch?

Okay, I see what you mean. I’m usually pretty sensitive to things that smell like exploitation for financial gain, and it didn’t trigger that response for me.

But after hearing some of the less hostile takes here (like yours) I think I have to acknowledge it’s me, there may be some bias I’m unaware of going into my reading on this one.

Thanks for elaborating.

Would you say more? Are you saying he hasn’t contributed the open source stuff he claims? Or that someone else wrote this for him? Something else?