it may be slop, but its very pretty slop

As someone who is a victim of never feeling he has done enough, I totally empathise with this blog post. The incentives which got me into tech were completely intrinsic and altruistic. Over time, I have felt them warp into something which can be best as "capitalist greed", everything is now about wanting more. The first and perhaps the easiest, thing to be sacrificed at the altar of wanting more, is mental health and relationships. Thankfully, I'm conscious of this now and is something I actively work on.

However, this is something I can only do at this point in my life, in my early 20s I was much more of a grind person and even if I could change things I wouldn't change that.

that was my experience as well. in my case, i kept running into issues with using chrome plugins.

this is what excites me most about the probable AI future. househelp is cheaply and easily accessible for most people in the east, however being able to afford a cleaner or maid in the west is a luxury. i spent a ginormous amounts of time every week keeping my house in shape. i look forward to the day when i will be able to carve out that time and get it back for myself.

Househelp isn't cheaply and easily accessible for most people in the east, a large portion of people in the east is just poor but you don't consider them in 'most people'.

I think anything more advanced than a Roomba won't be cheaper than a maid for actually cleaning your house.

I wonder, what will you do with that free time you will crave?

Work more for my boss and landlord so the fiefdom can survive.

And pay for the maintenance costs of my new robotic servants! At least now I can finally feel like my own masters, ruling over these robots. /s

i want to read more for the most part. my reading list is evergrowing.

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(PS: people who comment about the faults in my website will be downvoted. im sharing my reading list, not looking for a codereview)

Here's 10 things just starting with "A".

Amateur astronomy

Artistic painting

Audiobook binging

Aerial yoga

Archery practice

Aquascaping

Antique hunting

Acoustic guitaring

Alpine hiking

Astrophotography

.. Need more?

I've been slopfolding since back when it was just called "dumping it in the wardrobe".

Most people in software misunderstand how physical goods work. When making machines you don't care about getting everything perfect all the time, you care about staying within tolerable limits all the time.

How bad do the folds in your laundry need to be for them to be no different then just being dumped in a pile? As long as we are above that point the robot is useful.

I think there is a stark contrast between the plus or minus micron level tolerances, and whatever is being churned out of LLM ('not getting it perfect all the time')