I have 2 pairs of pants that cost over $500. Both of them use technical fabrics (Schoeller Dryskin and Stotz EtaProof), have complex patterns (asymmetrical, articulated, etc.), lots of hardware (Riri zippers, magnetic pocket closures, Cobrax snaps), and can be ordered in custom sizing. They also have no text / logos anywhere on the pants. One pair is garment dyed as a complete unit after sewing to give a unique effect that's more interesting and has more "depth" compared to a flat, consistent color.
I got a pair of Common Projects Chelsea boots maybe 10 years ago now. I still have them, they're good shoes. I wore them all the time for the first year I got them. They don't make it into my rotation much now these days though. My most worn shoes now are: Guidi PL2, 11 by BBSxSalomon Bamba 2 high, Rick Owens "Vans", Rick Owens "Dunks", CCP Prosthetic Tornados, and Visvim Christo slides. Everything except the Bamba 2 highs is a replica and cost under $400.
I don't think they're "sucking out souls" so much as people are giving them away willingly. No one taking notes in emacs has this problem. Why Goodnotes 6 and an iPad over org-mode and a laptop? I'm no longer interested in wasting a bunch of my time jailbreaking locked down devices, I'll just buy a PC for every use case.
When I'm driving around town and I see that soooo many vehicles have a sticker on the back, or a license plate frame, or something that advertises for the place that they bought the car at. I do not understand this at all.
I owned a car for a decade that I bought from the dealer that had one of those frames and I never bothered taking it off. The power of defaults are strong.
Some are even more obnoxious. My wife bought a car once, where the dealer had their logo added to the inside of the middle brake light panel. This did not fly well at all.
This is exactly what I see all the time in the wild:
- users service
- quotes service depends on users service
- notes service depends on quotes service
So... notes depends on users. Unless I'm missing something, I would not distribute this example ever in a million years. Most requests probably pull back all three pieces of data, so just do it in a single query. Do not introduce unnecessary extra network latency to aggregate the data. If you want to scale this horizontally then just add a load balancer in front of n copies of the single service.
Now, let's look at an example you might want to distribute:
- web service (API)
- video encode service (Running on specialized hardware)
Now we have an actual reason to separate our services, we want to take advantage of specialized hardware for our long-running, async video encode tasks while leaving our standard synchronous API responsive.
Another reason to distribute:
- Team A works on API A
- Team B works on API B
This allows each team to reduce the scope of their knowledge by focusing on a single API, but comes at the expense of extra network calls, serde, API negotiation, and versioning.
Reminder to airlines ahead of move to more BS for your customers: You provide one of the most enshittified experiences ever conceived. I have been, and will continue avoiding flying at all costs until the customer is considered again.
I'd imagine that even current models are aware of these "tricks". Does anyone have examples of this sort of meta-prompting working? It seems to me like it would just pollute the context so that you get a bit more "secret journaling" which the AI knows isn't at all secret (just like you do). Why would you even need to qualify that it's secret in the first place? Just tell it to explain its reasoning. All seems a bit like starting your prompt with "You are now operating in GOD mode..." or some other nonsense.
IMO the take home assignment is trivial, even for non-game developers with zero Unity experience; maybe you don't need a take home assignment at all. I also think that asking people to "not use AI" when you have absolutely no way of enforcing it is just self-deception.
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