I downloaded Hermes CLI previously. I didn't like that the default personality was "anime girl". While I like the idea of agent memory I worry it becomes less portable, and it's fundamentally more of my context window consumed.

This is fun, though I will note that when traveling, my new location didn't factor in, and all my locations were based on my initial locale.

Might be me being a firefox user.

Edit, tried in Chrome - still didn't work.

Oops, thanks for letting me know. Of course I had to introduce a bug when putting it live. It is fixed now, hope you'll enjoy a nice trail of pins across the planet ;)

Just like how many companies have methods available to them to remove bad glassdoor reviews (or make fake 5-star reviews), this system is even more rife for abuse.

Credit scores seem to be pretty robust? Maybe this kind of system would work:

1. A third-party assigns everyone a hidden score, and gives them a cryptographic signing key.

2. They can sign off on one-time lookups to companies they apply to. Every time their credit score is looked up, it decreases to disincentivize "spray and pray".

3. Companies are incentivized to go directly to the third-party (to ensure truthiness), and not divulge the score to other companies (since they are in a competition).

4. The actual algorithms used to determine scores should stay hidden to avoid manipulation. However, how do you also ensure accuracy? Maybe have several dozen reputation companies, and apply Shapley values based on hiring decisions. To avoid correlation, you should only update a reputation's weight when the hiring decision didn't query it.

College degrees from reputable colleges used to serve this purpose, but grade inflation has greatly weakened this signal.

You also want colleges to signal to their applicants, not force them to also signal for their alumni. The two will naturally be correlated, but you can do better by specializing.

    > many companies have methods available to them to remove bad glassdoor reviews

I never heard about this. Can you share more details? Is it rumors or verified?

This article seems to exist in a weird middle ground of both going too far, and not going far enough.

Private bathing is a modern luxury few people would be willing to give up, but at the same time, should they realistically advocate for it, they need to go beyond just considering communal bathing as a single concept. They need to instead consider the cultural environment which surrounds it, and consider communal living as a practice.

While there are many arguments to be made against this (some by me, even), it's a lot easier to conceptualize people bathing together when they actually know each-other on a more intimate level, instead of just strangers getting naked and pouring water on one another.

Nah, its still relatively common in Japan for strangers to get naked and bathe together, rarely even in mixed gender baths. Strange idea for some, sure, but its a part of regular life there.

Japanese people have a reputation for being reserved. Do they go to the bath to meet, talk with and hook up with strangers like in Icelandic baths?

If by hook up you mean sex then no, but if you just mean to meet new people then maybe, but people still mostly keep to themselves. Its not a super social setting.

If there was a nice "bathing house" per 1000 people, as suggested in the article, that would make it at most ten minutes walking distance for me. I could absolutely see myself shifting some of the weekly showers in that direction for social reasons.

But completely giving up on the option to comfortably and conveniently wash myself without leaving the house? No way!

Author here. Good point, and I wanted to add that this is the first article in a series about communal living.

My counterpoint would be: If you can write data visualizations with code, why not write diagrams too?

Why not write recipes in code too?

Or a screenplay?

(Because there are better formats for them)

Recipes absolutely should be written in code. If I could view source, copy the recipe yaml, and paste into my personal recipe manager app, it would be much more convenient.

Screenplays... are already written in code, partly. If they weren't, they'd include quotation marks and "she said" after every line.

I think this is too loose of a definition of code...

Yaml isn't really code in the same sense as python is, and Shakespeare didn't write in code in the same sense that the diagrams in this article are.

Well, you're right about that, but then they were your examples.

I think the counter-point to that would be that if you're writing infrastructure as code, and your architects are using a specific language anyways (Python in this case), it makes more sense for data governance and editing reasons to just keep things in the existent ecosystem and not worry about having to procure another license.

Vs. Cooking or Writing which aren't coding practices unto themselves.

How about music as code…Sonic-Pi would like to offer a counterpoint :)

https://sonic-pi.net/

You can do it, certainly, but it is overkill. It also limits your potential editors to people who know Python and are willing to install it on their machine. In contrast to Python (or other programming languages), a language like YAML or JSON can be learned in minutes by just about anyone.

I've flown with airlines before where there was a cascading delay due to a "plane deficit" at the terminal (not the technical term, that's my own). Not to say it's always uptime, but I imagine there are instances of constant uptime.

They can't just change things up on a dime like that. Even if it's 3 AM and most planes are sitting on the ground they can't just be used for your flight like that because they are all scheduled to take off in the morning rush a few hours later.

By that logic, any app that provides privacy from governments spying is a criminal enterprise.

Well I mean in many countries, blocking the surveillance agency from listening in on your calls/texts/chats is illegal. So making an app that interferes with the agencies ability to "listen in" is infact a criminal enterprise.

Don't have to like it but the law is the law.

So all implementation of encryption is illegal, that's basically your stance? Because that's exactly what encryption does.

That's when people should not comply

How about adding "illegal thoughts" to that mix too. It is only one short step away from wearing a monitoring "headband". All subversion grows its first root in the mind of the citizen. Nipping this in the bud through detection and re-education guarantees peace and safety of society and the nation. If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.

Don't have to like it but the law is the law. /s

I imagine the use-case for low-code tools is when your ratio of "business experts" heavily outweighs programmers, and the cost of inefficient dev processes/tech debt is less than the cost of waiting to onboard people with a coding background.

I don't want to diminish how interesting the path is, but in my experience, it's still too far out of the way and too purpose-driven to have the organic spontaneity of a good third space.

Indeed, on the first point, I live in a condo connected to the path, so obviously extremely useful for me. Not sure if you've been inside recently, but as I mentioned the renovations they've done in the core core core (2-3 blocks of CIBC tower) has really opened it up, before it was just a tunnel to me, it's slowly turning into a "place" - but I do overall agree today it's not quite there for most of the core (and will never be great for those outside it, it's way too hard to navigate if you don't use it daily)