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For a second I thought you might’ve been in a plane crash! 😂

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I couldn't help but notice how well-written this was so good job, chat lol

To be clear, I mostly only let it fix mistakes in what I already wrote myself 👀

I use this prompt:

Good English? Only fix mistakes:
"""
<my text>
"""

Btw, I think it's cute how people call ChatGPT "chat"; I also noticed @Scoresby doing that.

_{Oh and I have been using semicolons in my writing before ChatGPT came out. I consider semicolons a part of my writing style. It's unfortunate that it also sometimes suggests to use semicolons, haha. I reconsider using em dashes in my own writing for that reason 🤔}

Thank you @anon for this post, I loved reading it!!

I also have a question about this, though I'm not sure if you'll see it:

I had just completed a transatlantic flight from the United States to the UK

After I learned how important it is to always know where to land in case of an emergency, I wondered how this is handled on transatlantic flights. Could you share some insights on this?

But when the leaders began to speak, I quickly recognized this is something new, and in it, a rare opportunity for powerful revolution driven by the technology we love. Each of these men and women shared a story along similar lines: “I’m from this country, the dictator wants me dead, I fled, now I work for change.” Hearing from them, I was struck by the gravity of what we had gathered to do. There are families who need uniting, there are local leaders who need a platform, there is information to be uncensored. There are real people on the end of the vibe-coded hack.

Thanks for mentioning this; it's good to be reminded of the (good) impact software can have on people. I almost didn't read this post because I wished I could witness it myself. My remark "AI peak indicator" in the Signal group wrt 50m sats for the winner sounds ignorant now, haha.

I think I came to a wrong prejudicial, sweeping generalization, inspired by the following quote from Chickenhawk, which I read years ago, thinking that any project integrating AI is not worth my attention, at least not for the next few years, when the hype is hopefully over:

'Just remember,' said Farris, 'of the thirty-three kinds of snakes over here, thirty-one are poisonous.'
'How do you tell them apart?' asked Resler.
'I think that with those ratios, you could afford to come to a prejudicial, sweeping generalization – like, kill them all.' Farris turned and left.

I came to this conclusion even though I really came to love what the team behind Cursor did, and I use ChatGPT a lot to make sure there are no mistakes in my English writing, including this comment. Cognitive dissonance?

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I think what's going on here is that to go from 010c121f1c1902 in base32 to 0b25fe64 in base256, we group the bits into 8 bits from the left and pad at the right after 35 bits:

00001 01100 10010 11111 11100 11001 00010
 0x01  0x0c  0x12  0x1f  0x1c  0x19  0x02

00001011 00100101 11111110 01100100 010ppppp
    0x0b     0x25     0xfe     0x64     0x40
                                          ??

This is what you've shown in #1342878.

But to interpret the bytes in base32 as bytes in base256 that can then be interpreted as the timestamp, we actually need to group the bits into 8 bits from the right and pad at the left after 35 bits:

00001 01100 10010 11111 11100 11001 00010
 0x01  0x0c  0x12  0x1f  0x1c  0x19  0x02

ppppp000 01011001 00101111 11110011 00100010
     0x0     0x59     0x2f     0xf3     0x22

and 0x592ff322 in base256 is indeed 1496314658.

Or you can just shift 0x0b25fe64 5 bits to the right to remove the padding on the right, and you get 0x592ff322!

Why are you using testnet3? I can recommend mutinynet.

Ohh, this looks great, thank you!!

Yes, I’m embarrassed it didn’t occur to me to interpret my 5-bit bytes as 8-bit bytes, haha

Nice, thank you so much!! I literally spent multiple days on this hahaha

But you've made a mistake, it should have been:

01100100 = 0x64

instead of

01100101 = 0x65

Then it's 0b25fe64500d04, but 0x0d != 0x50, 0x04 != 0x0d.

Probably some encoding / endianess thing.

Edit: I think I just copied too many timestamp bytes, so 0x50, 0x0d and 0x04 aren't actually part of the timestamp.

Everyone’s a scammer

Yes

It’s base32, not base256

I always wonder why people dont ask hobbyist rock climbers if they are going to go on the pro tour, or ask those who sing in a choir when their next platinum disc will come out.

Mhh, I think the answer to your question is in your question: because climbing and being in a choir are interpreted as hobbies.

When someone says they are a writer, and not “writing is one of my hobbies,” it suggests that’s what they spend most of their time on, so the question how successful they are at surviving naturally arises, no?

So I think this:

It's strange that everyone expects writers to both have commercial goals and be hitting them.

is less about success as in “are you getting rich??” but “how are you not getting poor??”

I hope this makes sense.

People are reluctant to introduce themselves as a writer if they aren’t doing it full time for a plum wage.

Hey, this is similar to what @plebpoet mentioned in #824438:

However, I haven’t always felt comfortable calling myself an ’artist’, when I don’t produce much, or don’t have anything I’m known for. The same goes for calling myself a poet. I don’t want to sound self-aggrandizing, but sometimes it feels that way.

I’m also not doing it professionally, but that’s sort of what people expect of you if you use the title. For example, if I were to say I’m a beekeeper, you would ask me how many bees do I keep or how many jars of honey do I process, you know? But I have to do other things to sustain my life, and I don’t want writing to become that. I don’t want to squeeze life out of my writing. I use writing as expression, not as livelihood. If I did lean on it to keep me alive, as in bring in my money, my relationship to writing would flip to the opposite, and that would be a scary place for me.

Btw, I really like the play on your name and “unfiltered”

The portable social graph is indeed one of the few things I can see nostr has going for it

or a lot of money thrown at it 👀

I'd probably get a grant

Copy-pasting between my laptop and my phone, hahaha

No, jk, it just sounded interesting to establish "true" p2p connections, where the relay can go offline after the session was established. I didn't have a specific use-case in mind.

I was really interested in using nostr relays for WebRTC signaling; maybe I'll look into that again now that I have time.

But I guess that would require specific support by the relay, so it would only work with nostr relays that support it, so not sure if it makes sense to build something like WebRTC on top of nostr instead of just using WebRTC ...