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Social differences shouldn't make you question class consciousness. Quite the opposite is true, to be class conscious means to have recognized what economic class you are in regardless of any other features.

Hidden there is a good point though. Social differences can be leveraged as a means to deter class consciousness. Let's take the idea of the wage gap for example. Now both male and female workers can be underpaid. As a result, everyone is less likely to become class conscious and realize that, if they instead fight over a wage difference within their class.


So I should just look past some people wanting homophobic or sexist or racist in the name of class consciousness? Nah

I think it makes sense when you look at it specifically with the "burnout" context in mind. The truth is, burnout can happen to anyone and it is often unclear whether there even is any real recovery.

And it can even happen not just necessarily due to overwork but due to lack of a clear goal, death by a thousand papercuts, complete riddance of passion and interest for certain reasons.

Sure it's nicer to work from your desk than to hang drywall but if you do end up burning out that will affect your brain and possibly permanently alter it. After that, who knows if you could even work in the industry at all anymore?

Personally I believe we way way underestimate it. Longevity is more important than exploiting the passion and overmotivation of potential burnout candidates for short term gains.


I can only speak for myself, but I would absolutely rather work burned out in tech than work in the trades again.

Drywalling was absolutely destroying my body, mind, and will to live.

Mobility is also a factor - I’ve had high stress tech jobs, but always had the option to quit and do something else if I felt close to burnout. That mobility doesn’t exist in many other jobs.


Your blog seems cool but it doesn't seem to provide an RSS feed... I think that would make it much easier to discover the posts.

RSS feed is here, just doesn't seem to be linked anywhere: https://fastcall.dev/index.xml

I just added a icon to the main page, thanks for the feedback!

You can also slap this in your head to make it discoverable by readers.

    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="fastcall's Blog" href="/index.xml">

Great! Thank you :)

Can you explain the "intelligence" part? Can't one derive a decision tree of any "intelligent agent" that is in essence no different than a classically programmed algorithm?

Yes, for Computational Agents you will either code "Agent Intelligence"/"Agent Cognition" algorithmically, or using AI/ML/LLM (either by pre-training, or using continous re-training for Adaptive Agents).

Useful abstaractions:

  - FSM/State Machines
  - Behavior Trees
  - Behavior Action Trees
  - Workflow Orchestration
  - Dataflow (mostly for pipelines transforming LLM Prompt into LLM Reponse)
Another option is to outsource it to a Human, like it was in the ALICE program[1], e.g. Human-in-the-Loop, Participatory Simulation, RLHF, Whole-brain computer simulation, like in The Age of Em[2] (SciFi).

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43409240

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1. https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/participatory-simulations...

https://ccl.northwestern.edu/papers/partsims/cscl/

2. https://ageofem.com/


Just replying here to tell you I replied to a question (cisco) you asked me in case you miss it. Thanks!

Makes the page entirely unreachable from within the Harmonic hacker news client on android... Good idea in practice but defeats the purpose if it blocks legitimate users.

It's not a good idea in practice precisely because it blocks legitimate users. As it always will. It's not possible to do this sort of thing without blocking legitimate users.

Are there any security concerns when it comes to a model like this?

It's pretty open book. e.g. when adding compute you can see the image being generated. So no nsfw

The parts of blender that are security concerns are disabled, so not all of the blender pipeline is available


Could the people running the render recover the blend file you’re rendering?

Don't know but doubt it.

From memory you basically only see a blurry thumbnail.

Doubt anyone is using this for serious work that has copyright risk though...it's just people playing with blender from what i can tell, so a more relaxed stance is fine


But the render process has to get the scene data including the whole 3D objects and materials and shaders to do the rendering, right?

Yes, the machines who are doing the rendering could take the .blend file/data for themselves, otherwise the renderer wouldn't be able to do its job.

This isn't a statement about these specific protests (that I'm not informed enough about) but don't you find "registering" a protest at least a little bit laughable?

As someone with some mental health issues, may I ask how your story continued and what you're up to now?

I am permanently disabled with Schizoaffective Disorder Bipolar Type and I am currently homeless. But all and all I am doing well. I accepted my illness, take very few meds, and just live the best life I can. I know my triggers and that helps the most.

Thank you for replying. Oh wow :| I'm sorry to hear that you're homeless. I wish you could live in a country with the required social safety nets to keep that from happening and hope you are safe.

The tool mise-en-place seems to have this. It is a replacement for asdf that I think can be used as a drop in replacement (compatible CLI interface).

Yes you can sync versions python versions bidirectionally with uv and mise. I intend to make further deeper integrations with uv where possible directly into mise core in order to offload python complexity out of mise and into uv where possible.

Thank you for creating mise! My only gripe with it is that it can do so much that I keep having to revisit certain parts of the docs :) but it is a good thing, it's nice if a tool takes care of many related little annoyances. I made a cheat sheet for myself and that helps.

That (main) page doesn't mention python once, so personally I was immediately wondering if this is an alternative to tools like uv or more generally tools like mise and asdf. It really isn't that clear so could you try to elaborate a bit?

Hah, your comment persuaded me to look at that page, and honestly I also can't tell what it even is. I think it's supposed to be an alternative to `mise` and `asdf`, but it mostly mentions various Python tools? And doesn't seem to have an overview of what's available to install through Pixi?

Then I clicked a link and got to https://prefix.dev/ ...

> pixi is a fast software package manager built on top of the existing conda ecosystem. Spins up development environments quickly on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Oh, build on top of conda. I am so going to stay the hell as far away from that as possible!


Google works for you too, friend.

In fact, I elaborated in my comment that not even the homepage of the project itself makes it clear. Why would google, an unrelated website make it any clearer...

The broader point you're missing is, HN commenters are not your personal AI summarizers.

You're literally on the Pixi website, and you know its name if you want to look for forums, feed it into Perplexity, etc.


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