I enjoyed playing GBA game the most on my Anbernic. They do feel good to play in the way the previous generation just doesn't.

Good pixel art is quite difficult to make. This default pixel art usually isn't; it's just not that great.

you're smokin crack, i don't know a single person who uses twitter anymore. literally not one. 5+ years ago? _everyone_ was on twitter.

That's your bubble. Organizations are pretty much still exclusively using X and so are many individuals.

You can't one shot a perfect app with AI. You definitely can create a pretty complex and beautiful production-ready app with AI in a couple of days or weeks depending on what exactly you're building.

I now have my own link catalog, read-latter app and an RSS reader. Tailored to work exactly how I like. Hardened, with automated backup, and external users for the RSS app. It works. It takes learning, some knowledge of terms and very high-level practices, plus design thinking, but I haven't written a line of code for these.

I consistently enjoy Martin's writing on LLM, this post in particular.

Do you imply that you never order anything online?

My search engine is a digital product that's already free and private and good and is different to when you give someone your home address to send a package.

The problem with micropayments isn't the tech really, it's that only the users want them but not any publisher. Which is completely reasonable.

Publishers want them and many have tried. It is the other way around, people don't want to make micro payments. Some say they do, but the evidence proves they're wrong.

Edit: Typo

Would AI tokens count as a kind of prepaid micropayment?

Why would any publisher want them? Who exactly tried?

As a publisher, I'd want consistent subscription revenue. The goal is to convince users to pay after they hit the paywall several times.

I think the majority publishers have tried it in the past 10-15 years.

If you are a publisher, something which gains widespread attention might happen in your region, or an article might become viral for other reasons. You know that a lot of people would like to read that article and not become subscribers. So if you can sell access to an article 50 000 times for 1 dollar, that's $50 000 in income you wouldn't otherwise have.

But unfortunately, very few people are willing to pay a dollar or 50c for an article which they are desperate to read.

And Earth's magnetic field is extremely weak

The paper was still expensive and there wasn't yet as much demand for books.

And Gutenberg still was shooting for the high-end of the market -- he had his printed Bibles touched up by artists (Illuminated capitals, some color added here and there), meaning his Bibles weren't much cheaper than hand-copied because he believed that nobody wanted just cheap, functional books.

Commoners weren't literate in those days, so I expect his literate customers would be wealthy and would be willing to pay for an illuminated book.

But as books proliferated, it suddenly became advantageous for commoners to learn to read (the Bible was the typical primer used), and a virtuous cycle began and revolutionized everything.