This is great, your final line summarizes my thoughts as well. When it comes to matters of faith your average Redditor and Hacker News commenter will heap scorn and derision on religious people for accepting things blindly without any proof, yet they will blindly accept what other people tell them is true, or now what an LLM says is true.
My co-founder and I met in high school, and we wanted the name to carry a sense of craft. Cardboard was always that material in school projects that was firm enough to hold structure but malleable enough to build almost anything out of. That balance of structure and flexibility felt like a good metaphor for what we're building.
Also we just thought it was a cool name and bought a bunch of domains... https://cardboard.mov is one of my favorites :)
Exactly my thought. MapQuest had a big print button for A to B directions in the late 90s, before Google even existed. I can't find the print button anywhere on their site today.
When I was a kid I sent a letter to Snapple telling them that they should make Snapple flavored popsicles. They sent me a nice letter telling me it was a good idea. I have not thought about it since. But I wonder if my letter directly lead to this disaster:
"Disaster on a stick
An attempt to erect the world’s largest popsicle in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film — but much stickier."
I tried Zork 1. I got stuck immediately. I saw a house, went to it, read what was in the mailbox, but couldn't open the door. Now what? I never played the original Zork but if this was D&D there would be a little more information to go off then just "you see a house and there is nothing you can do there".
I used to dislike AppleScript but now I enjoy using it. The turning point for me was when I finally bit the bullet and read a book on the subject.
AppleScript’s human readable language lulls you in this false sense of security that you can wing it and everything will just work out. This is simply not the case, it is a very quirky language and it helps to read a book to get the right mental model.
The second thing that helped was getting AppleScript debugger from Late Night Software. They recently decided to no longer develop it and release it for free on their site. It’s worth getting if you haven’t done so already.
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