> Totally agree!

Not a dig on your (very sensible) comment, but now I always do a double take when I see anyone effusively approving of someone else's ideas. AI turned me into a cynical bastard :(

Not working here, some CORS issue.

Firefox, Ubuntu latest.

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://isometric-nyc-tiles.cannoneyed.com/dzi/tiles_metadat.... (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing). Status code: 429.

Edit: i see now, the error is due to the cloudflare worker being rate limited :/ i read the writeup though, pretty cool, especially the insight about tool -> lib -> application

Not working here either. Two different errors with two different browsers on Arch.

- Chromium: Failed to load tiles: Failed to fetch

- Zen: Failed to load tiles: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.

Yeah I'm gonna blame Claude (and my free plan) for this one. Fixing!

Cloudflare caching should be back. Turns out that there were a lot of tiles being served, who could have seen that coming?

Same in Safari on macOS here, FWIW.

I believe it has to do with saving face.

I've worked with mixed nationality teams at a certain 4 letter austinite corporation a couple thousand moons ago. One thing in common with my Asian colleagues back then (many of which i still keep in touch with to this day), is that they would usually refrain from saying things that could rock the boat or disappoint you. If they lacked knowledge for the task at hand, they wouldn't let you know. If they were late on a delivery, they'd insist it would be ready by a certain date. This led to situations where other regional managers would have to plan contingencies to work around the issue.

> just with a small "sponsored", "promoted", or "ad" mark somewhere

And often, the only reason they do that is due to legal requirements.

They even wrote "grammer", to garner sympathy. Crafty.

Still astounding in a place where "hackers" congregate.

Not really. Two is not a large number of comments. Turn on showdead in your profile and see the dreck that most users never see.

This place lost its hacker lustre at least 10 years ago.

I registered my first account in 2011 or so and even then it had plenty of "pro-big corporate" energy here.

It's a site that was founded and run by venture capitalists. It always had "pro-big corporate" energy. If for nothing else, because that's one of the potential exit strategies.

I know but there was a "hacker spirit" undercurrent that's been diminished of late, I feel

Meh, when I registered in 2012 people were writing the same thing.

If it lost it 10 years ago... where's website that still has the hacker ethos?

You know, a good test would be to tell it to write a browser using a custom programming language, or at least some language for which there are no web browsers written.

Write a browser without any access to the internet, is what I'd attempted if I was running this experiment. Just seed it with a bunch of local HTML, CSS and JS files from the various testing suites that exists.

You would want to download all the W3C and WHATWG specifications first.

Some of them practically have pseudocode just waiting to be picked up.

I think that's too restrictive; agents should be allowed to reference the internet like we do.

Sounds like it's finally the time to put my matlab license up for good use.

Fortran 90 should fit the bill nicely.

Good idea, I propose Brainfuck

Getting tiresome, isn't it?

> Safely

You cannot. The best you can ever hope for is creating VM environments, and even then it's going to surprise you sometimes. See https://gtfobins.github.io/.

Not true for the db layer :)

Look into copy on write branching. We built this natively into our AI Data Engineer (https://tryardent.com) so it could make modifications to databases with 0 blast radius pretty much because yes it's impossible to make an LLM 100% safe if it has no proper guard rails preventing destructive actions

Wow, RIP the icons I guess :/