If the company got overcharged for materials, you don’t get a refund either.

Unless the company wants to. Apparently, Costco has said they will be providing refunds:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/costco-pass-along-tariff-refu...

Since using AI costs money, some way of contributing AI patches when asked might make sense here? Let the project maintainers decide what’s worth attempting to solve with AI.

Suppose there were a website that helped would-be contributors of AI assistance to match up with projects that want help?

Maybe stick with 4.6 until the bugs are worked out? Is this new filter retroactive?

It’s more like some cryptocurrency scammers tried to bribe him to promote their coin and he took the money and refused to stay bribed so the coin tanked. As it would have eventually, because it was a pump and dump.

Why should the scammers who gave him the money get it back? They knew what they were doing, even if Yegge seemed a bit naive about it.

> he took the money and refused to stay bribed so the coin tanked.

I don’t think he refuse to stay bribed. I think he did what was asked and they executed a rug pull. He is extraordinarily honest and flippant about it. [0]

> And with that disclaimer out of the way, I must reiterate my sincere regrets to the CT/BAGS crowd, who so generously funded me to the tune of just shy of $300k last week on bags.fm. That money was hard to duck, and the funds are deeply appreciated. They will help Gas Town be a big success this year. But Gas Town itself needs my full attention; between that and Beads it’s a wonder I get anything done at all.

> So I had to step back from the community. I do find it amazing how they band together, dissenting voices rolling around like a big Katamari Damacy ball, and yet they somehow collectively find the discipline to act like financial analysts for institutional investors, weighing developer dossiers, product business cases, and doing critiques like a collective of professionals. All in crypto-bro speak. But it’s the same due diligence.

> But the CT community, like any highly engaged stakeholders, were going to be asking for a lot of my time. There are always strings attached.

[0] https://steve-yegge.medium.com/steveys-birthday-blog-34f4371...

This seems similar to the lesson learned for cryptographic libraries where open source libraries vetted by experts become the most trusted.

Your average open source library isn’t going to get that scrutiny, though. It seems like it will result in consolidation around a few popular libraries in each category?

An important difference between SaaS offerings and open source libraries is that the latter have not liability. They can much more easily afford exhibiting vulnerabilities until those are fixed.

If it was made before suitcases commonly had wheels, you’re still going to want to replace it. The grandkids (if there are any) won’t want it.

It’s not suitable for air travel, but I treat anything for air travel as disposable. I still use it all the time for car-based travel. It’s larger and nicer than what I fly with.

The funny thing is that from what I heard with the antiques markets (which is admittedly possibly a decade or so old) it is antique luggage of all things which is 'in' and antique furniture which is out relatively speaking to the past.

The grandkids not wanting it may still apply if they are still minors, there would be plenty of time for tastes to shift again.

For very long international flights I could see it, but I also see people in the first class seats on shorter flights where it’s hardly worth it. (I assume at least some of them are upgrades.)

Also, checking a bag is not expensive.

I assume that many/most people flying business or first class on shorter flights are either flying for business or churning.

Pointing a camera at a pressure gauge and recording a graph is something that I would have found useful and have thought about writing. Does software like that exist that’s available to consumers?

I'm pretty sure claude will one shot this for you, including making you a home assistant dashboard item if you ask it.

I wonder how the municipal employees would react to cameras suddenly appearing on the meters around my house.

Look into opencv.

frigate can be setup to do this I believe, but its overkill. Openclaw could do it, slightly less overkill.

It's open source. Free riding is expected and normal. We all benefit from the work of others.

If you're not doing the work yourself, it makes sense to give the people who review and test their dependencies some time to do their work.

It sounds like a gate is a prompt that shows up at the appropriate time, which works because LLM’s pay more attention to the last thing they read.

It seems like a lot of coding agent features work that way?

I suppose, I mean the LLM is still reading it, the issue is, Beads gives the model a task, and then the model finishes, and never checks anything. I kept running into this repeatedly, and sometimes I'd go to compile the project after it said "hey I finished" it wouldn't compile at all, where if it would have just tried to build the project, it would have just worked.

From my understanding the way Gas Town uses beads is that it's not only "what to do" but also contains a workflow.