Incredible work. I am just learning about PyBoy from your project, and it made me think of many fun ways to use that library to play Pokemon autonomously.
PureRGB [1] is a very comprehensive hack that fixes a bunch of bugs from the original game and adds a bunch of new content. All of the elementary school playground rumors are implemented as well like Bill's backyard, Mew being under the S.S. Anne truck, etc. I played through it last year until just before Victory Road before getting sidetracked by more important life events. I'll probably pick it back up sometime later in 2025.
Agreed. The more unique situations I program in, whether it is new people I am building software for or whether I am building on a new tech stack, the more I realize why so many packages and solutions exist in pip and npm.
Coding new solutions in new ways has helped me learn so much. Getting a career that supports that was one of the biggest catalysts for me (unsurprisingly), however, attempting to code anything is certainly beneficial.
Getting started in any way, keeping going, keeping growing is the key.
Self-taught developers are equally as formidable and can be found at or near the top of any company and required on balanced teams with “formally” educated developers.
Different styles of thinking, both are required on a successful team.
If anyone here has an issue with their Claude Desktop app seeing the new MCP tools you've added to your computer, restart it fully. Restarting the Claude Desktop app did NOT work for me, I had to do a full OS restart.
Hm, this shouldn't be the case, something Odd is happening here. Normally restarting the app should do it, though on Windows it is easy to think you restarted the app when you really just closed the main window and reopened it (you need to close the app via File => Qui)
I am not sure how these large companies think they will reach "greater-than-human" intelligence any time soon if they do not create systems that financially incentivize people to sell their knowledge labor (unstable contracting gigs are not attractive).
Where do these large "AI" companies think the mass amounts of data used to train these models come from? People! The most powerful and compact complex systems in existence, IMO.
I think it is reasonable to believe humans will use all three technologies as a means to an end. I think the user you replied to was more concerned about that, from my understanding.
I think Jake Sullivan's protectionist philosophy is super old school. I'm not a huge fan since it's just more Cold War-era policies coming out of Biden's cabinet. I'm speaking about the policies of lawmakers only and not the politics.
Is the border an actual problem though? Specifically speaking to the US border.
Is migration the number one problem that Americans struggle with? Or even in the top ten concerns, your average American holds?
I have not had a single issue with migration or an immigrant, ever. I've never met a single person, in the US, with a material issue related to migration or immigration. I have never felt worried about being near a migrant/immigrant based on who they are or their behavior.
> Is migration the number one problem that Americans struggle with? Or even in the top ten concerns, your average American holds?
Per recent polling [1], it's the sixth most important issue. It's consistently been raised as one of the top concerns in polling data going back as far as I have political consciousness, although a decent part of the existence of that concern is effectively a dog whistle for racism.
> Is the border an actual problem though?
The border itself isn't the problem; the actual problem lays in the extremely fucked-up nature of the US immigration system (and the actual problems are almost nothing like what people are complaining about). Even for as long as immigration has been a major political concern in the US, the border "solutions" have for as long been lampooned for the fact that they are doing absolutely nothing to actually fix the problem, even as politicians double down on proposing harsher solutions to fix the thing that isn't the problem.
It is a problem if you want welfare and government health care programs. An influx of unskilled hungry huddled masses that don’t even pay into the tax system will drag everyone’s living standards down.
Even if they DO pay taxes it is likely that on average illegal immigration would burden the social safety net.
And none of this gets into the second order effects of immigrants increasing the supply of labor.
I don't follow this. I would imagine an influx of extremely cheap labor would raise everyone else's living standards, not lower them. Because everything is cheaper to produce. That's why Dubai has extremely extravagant places put right next to pseudo-slave's shanties.
Everyone? You can’t imagine a situation where the surplus from the cheap labor is captured by a few capitalists while the rest suffer?
I’m not saying that is happening but it doesn’t take much imagination to see it could happen.
Also if you actually have to interface with clearly illegal cheap labor (landscaping, construction, low quality catering) you’ll see the pattern: a kingpin immigrant who only hires other immigrants with little to no English and a preference for being paid in cash.
And you haven’t addressed the elephant in the room. Practically all the “low skill” manual labor is done by poorly integrated, cash-only immigrants. Is this acceptable?
Of course it's not acceptable, but it's advantageous to us. That's why the republicans and democrats will never do away with it.
You're getting labor for a cost well under minimum wage. It's a sweet deal if you ignore humanitarian concerns, which our politicians do. The right doesn't actually want to end immigration, they just want to put in minimal effort to virtue signal to their voter base.
There are extremely simple and effective ways to end immigration. You will find exactly 0 republicans who advocate any of them. It's all talk on a stage to appeal to latent American racism.
> It certainly didn’t advantage any low skill American
I mean, I guess this might be true but then again "low skill" Americans don't matter from a political perspective because they barely pay taxes. Again, politicians may appeal to them but in actuality they don't care about them.
And, I'm really doubting that being a white, native English-speaking American puts you at a disadvantage even for physical labor.
