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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • It’s been 30 years since I used mega blocks, but damn they sucked.

    I’ve always wondered if it was QC, or if there was some material properties of Lego that made them so much better? Like can they use tighter tolerances because of better plasticity/flexibility of their material?














  • It’s beyond that, the context even matters. If I’m in my garage, and my car is parked in the driveway:

    -If someone asks where the car is (implication my wife could be out getting groceries, it could be at the shop, etc…) the answer is “here” (on the premises) as opposed to “there” (the grocery store, the shop, etc)

    -If I want to change the oil in my garage, I could as someone to bring it “here” (being the garage) because it’s currently “there” (the driveway).

    In both cases, my location and the vehicles location is the exact same. “For what purpose?” Informs if something is “here” or “there”.



  • Right now it’s just buzz and empty promises to not sound “left behind” to shareholders.

    Even if it could generate code that could be massaged into a production-ready state at a cost less than having human-only developers (colour me skeptical), I think middle-management would actively sabotage it. You can’t fill your day with pointless meetings when your developers are AI agents.

    So, I actually think the idea is only taken “seriously” at the very highest levels. I expect several layers of resistance even before it hits the actual engineers… Not because it’s a fantasy with no grounding in engineering reality which is ultimately doomed to fail, merely out of self-preservation.