If we're doing self promotion, I'll mention a game I made based on Levenshtein's distance, https://wordistance.com --

(hints enabled by default, but the real game is without them!)

> Not really. To do advanced stuff you have to understand the basics.

Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of these abstractions? Can you read the machine code that your C compiler produces? How much of electrical engineering do you need to know to write a bash script? The physics of how a NAND gate is implemented?

It's obviously in the early stages, and I don't disagree with you completely today -- but this will just be one more layer on top of an already deep stack of abstractions that underlie all of computing.

>Can you read the machine code that your C compiler produces? How much of electrical engineering do you need to know to write a bash script? The physics of how a NAND gate is implemented?

Unironically, I can and do. I took classes in college for things like ASM and logic gates. That's not the point I was making, though. The point is that you need to know how to read your code so that you can fix it if you have to maintain it. Or, if ChatGPT is down(like today) or not giving you the right answer, you can still do your work, albeit a little more slowly. My worry is that people will just plop whatever into a compiler, and leave buggy code that introduces bugs and security vulnerabilities. An LLM is only as good as its data source, and with things like ChatGPT and Github copilot, that data source is programmers both experienced and inexperienced. Use it, love it, but don't rely on it. Implement best practices, and use your head.

Honestly, I'm okay with some caution here - but it does seem overly restrictive.

I got the blocked message for both of the following prompts:

Can you create an image of the Easter bunny in the style of Francis Bacon?

Can you create an image of a bunny in the style of Francis Bacon?

The second one in particular surprised me, though maybe it detected it as a likely attempt to circumvent the block of the first.

... as long as those coworkers don't use Linux. I was going to give Notion a try, but not having a native Linux app sunk any interest. I understand Linux has a smaller base, but if you're making team software it only takes one member to have an unsupported system to force you to look elsewhere.

I use Linux. Notion is a web app. This is a you thing, not a Linux thing.

Interesting that you see things that way. I think the biggest hurdle to any Goodreads competitor for me is that it would be without GR's massive amount of user-content.

My reading loop is like this:

I start a book on my kindle ; it's automatically added to my GR collection.

I highlight as I read, on my kindle ; those highlights are transferred automatically to my GR account.

I finish the book, give it a lame 5-star rating ; its status and rating updated automatically on my GR account.

I write my own notes & thoughts about the book (pen and paper style in my own journal).

I go to GR to read what others have thought about the book. There are always a couple decent commentaries (and I read a lot of somewhat obscure translated fiction, sometimes only 100 or so other readers of it).

I just don't see any other service pulling me away, no matter how slick the interface.

Yeah, for your workflow here I don't think there is any better solution, especially because of the Kindle / Goodreads integration (which Amazon will never open up to other services).

As the Fred Wilson piece I linked above notes:

> I wonder if listmaking is really a vertical thing instead of a horizontal thing. That would suggest that there will be successes in verticals like food, travel, shopping, reading, film, music, etc but that each will be its own thing and not part of some meta listmaking community.

With Trove we're trying to build something closer to the "horizontal" thing, but I suspect power users of a particular vertical (e.g. "power readers" like yourself) will still flock to vertically focused and integrated solutions (like Goodreads for books).

Wouldn't a federal body less reliant on a favorable disposition from the police be the answer here?

Few are going to welcome more oversight of themselves, but it seems more and more like what's required. That oversight doesn't seem to work when it's locally based, for all the reasons you've outlined.

Interesting. Do you happen to remember the actual moral choice they had to make? It seems to me a belief in free will encourages (potentially amoral) reprisals and vigilantism in a way that a belief in determinism doesn't necessarily encourage.

I'd have to look it up. But if you want to read it for yourself, the book I ran across it in was _Who's In Charge?_.

Wouldn't those numbers only be useful if you understood the impact of x% differences? Does a 10% increase in left-right connectivity make you 10 times better at some task or 1000 times better?

I think we (or at least I!) know too little for any of this to be truly meaningful. But it's still interesting.

"This project is meant as a tribute to the original game by Jordan Mechner, which was my first introduction to computers."

(Perhaps it was added after your comment, not sure.)

That line was in the page when I first uploaded it... In fact I wrote that line before I even started coding the game...

:)

I think you should be more embarrassed by this incredible overreaction than by any association with reddit, which has been responsible for huge fundraising events, record-breaking gift exchanges, AMAs from the POTUS, etc., etc.

If you're worried about your internet reputation, I feel like comments like this aren't helping.