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Funny because I rewrote a bad port of dragons lair for a custom console with a tiny engine and huge dataset relatively, each frame having one "if press X goto frame Y" instruction.

I phrased that badly, Dragon's Lair was the example of low process intensity.

This time is a global average, including non working people or part time people.


The curious data point is that on this graph poverty seems to have strongly reduced during covid. Less poor.


Huge amounts of cash were given to many Americans during Covid.


Why does this surprise you? There were large, direct transfers to initially children, then everyone. This was the largest and most effective American anti-poverty program of all time.


How was this generated ? I'm quite sure "with ai/claude code" but what are the actual steps ?


For the animations specifically, it's using Motion (fka Framer Motion) Javascript library. If you describe some animations from the site to an LLM and ask it to use Framer motion, you get very similar results. The creator likely just prompted for a while until they were happy with the outcome.


Is there a reason to think it was done by an LLM?


AI-generated UIs, at least ones aimed at an engineering audience, have a very distinct appearance. They seem to always have the following attributes:

- Dark mode design with lots of colors

- Buttons that have vibrant, bright borders and duller backgrounds

- Excessive (IMO) usage of monospace fonts for stylistic reasons

None of this proves that it's AI (the other comments have covered that) but in my experience it's always correct.


It states "curation assisted by AI" at the bottom.


That doesn't mean the code in question was written by AI.


The author posted in this thread. It's AI.


You’re missing the point. It’s not a witch hunt, but rather a discussion on whether things are too quickly attributed to be AI generated.


That's one way to look at it but I don't think it was that deep.


The biggest reason would be: do you know a single developer who could have produced this in a couple of hours?


Yup, strange to see people still don’t understand LLMs massively speed up coding greenfield pet projects. Anytime you see a bee web app it’s better to assume AI use rather than not anymore.


I'm not familiar enough with this animation library to answer that. Someone could be very used to this type of website and just copy paste things they've done before.


What does Occam's razor say?


You can buy this bad boy [attiny11] with no ram, only registers.

https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/1006S.pdf


Curious about the workload, but as Im trying to make a tool about json, what are those files compressed with? What is the size of the average file ? What is their structure (ndjson ? Dict with some huge data structure a few level deep?)


In S3 the JSON is stored in plain-old .zip files. While downloading to local the files are unzipped to plain old JSON. It's basically an object containing tons of data about each website I manage including all fragments of HTML and metadata used on the sites. It can get quite large, some sites have thousands of pages. We often need to find things stored many levels deep in the JSON that may be tricky to find, it isn't usually a specific path, and lots of iterable arrays and objects are involved. The files range from ~20MB to ~400MB, depending on how much content each site has. And we have ~9000 total sites.


Frankly I don't know why we still have laptops. Honestly I think my mobile with a usbc base for screen and usb would perfectly work in a hardware pov. I don't know if Android would work, and besides of that a small fixed pc for whatever needs power.


because phones are not general computing devices, and really shouldn't be. They are too important to modern society to be unlocked for their full potential.

That said, I doubt the average person on a laptop even needs a general computing device, so your point does make sense. Though, is carrying around a screen and a keyboard and cable any better than carrying a laptop?

I could see an argument of it being cheaper, but that would take years, possibly decades, of multiple competitors in the space for the market to make that true.

Now, if we could have a decent folding keyboard and monitor that fit into the same case as your phone, that would be a game changer, but I don't think anyone is risking the investment to develop that.


People want a full-size keyboard. Adding a couple of millimetres underneath that keyboard allows you to put a whole computer in there.

We have laptops because it makes sense. Look at Apple's Macbook Neo. The tiny logic board on that computer is the least of Apple's worries. The most expensive components are the display and case. Why not charge 100 bucks more and not have to worry about this thing being a phone accessory?


Yeah, that's basically my point.

The only way it would make sense to use your phone is if the keyboard and monitor can fold up so small that they can attach to the phone and still fit in your pocket. Otherwise, just using a laptop is going to be better every time.


What you're asking, a laptop that can fold so small, requires materials science breakthroughs that we cannot bet on. A cheap slab of pure aluminium will be king by the time we're both dead. Mark my words.


Yes, that is exactly what I am saying.


Currently working exactly on that https://gitlab.com/makapuf/treewalker (even if it could always use some love)


Compilers won't do multiplication by power of two to bit shift for you ? I remember reading in ~2000: the only thing writing a<<2 instead of a/4 will do is make your compiler yawn


Even gcc's -O0 will do the bitshift, but even dividing with 5 on x86_64 will not do idiv:

        imul    rdx, rdx, 1717986919
        shr     rdx, 32
        sar     edx
        sar     eax, 31
        sub     edx, eax
        mov     eax, edx


2. BigCo owns ProjectOne now 3a. Bigco is now free to release version N+1 as closed source only. 3b. Community can still fork the older version and work on it, but BigCo can continue to develop and sell their original version.


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