> so you might as well use one of those. Did someone say... Xonsh?! It's tough to give up the niceties of zsh and it's various plug-in ecosystems, but I would love to be able to use Xonsh [1] as a daily driver for…
But how would you know? If you're an inexperienced developer you may well end up ingraining bad patterns without even realizing it.
What if the code sucks, because it was vibe coded by an LLM over a dozen disparate sessions?
Will second this, as someone that took the same path. Alternatives like Fastmail are so, so cheap when compared to the headache of building, maintaining, and troubleshooting a DIY stack. For something as fundamental as…
Hats off to the folks behind this for keeping such a cool project alive! This, ReactOS, and TempleOS have been my answer to the question of: "what should I install if I'm looking for something interesting?" for at least…
What is your definition of "known to be a clown"? I'm not sure how one would even begin to evaluate that at scale. Or what practical impact that would actually have for anything but the most critical of dependencies…
You're implying that reckless rewrites within the JS ecosystem are a novel event, or more specifically that surprise language changes over a short period of time are. And yet... I can think of at least six times in…
I don't have the personal investment that you appear to have with Bun, but why does this matter? Do you scrutinize the rest of your dependencies this way? Much of working in the JS / NPM ecosystem is already pure faith…
As others have mentioned: battery, build quality, Linux-ish ecosystem. If I could get all three in another laptop I would go for it, but nothing comes close at the moment. There was a very brief moment in time where the…
Assuming you ran the gamut up from what you could fit on 32 or 64GB previously, how noticeable is the difference between models you can run on that vs. the 512GB you have now? I've been working my way up from a 3090…
You would still have to do some pretty outstanding volume before that makes sense over choosing the "Enterprise" plan from OpenAI or Anthropic if data retention is the motivation. Assuming, of course, that your legal…
But why? Spending several thousand dollars to run sub-par models when the break-even point could still be years away seems bizarre for any real usecase where your goal is productivity over novelty. Anyone who has used…
If 40k is the barrier to entry for impressive, that doesn't really sell the usecase of local LLMs very well. For the same price in API calls, you could fund AI driven development across a small team for quite a long…
I don't think the concepts are as unrelated as you're suggesting, they both tend to operate on the premise that they can be more effective than others because they're able to bypass the lanes that everyone else is…
I was part of a user study on Azure back when it first rolled out-- they were looking for seniors with an AWS background to participate in UX research, and I remember walking out of that study with imposter syndrome for…
I maintain to this day that the Zune was one of the best designed hardware and software platforms I've ever used. Probably the only truly design forward product that MS ever produced.
It's arguable, even if you're right, that the net loss to humanity is still far greater without these restrictions than with. Modern social media is leading to multiple generations of emotionally stunted, non-verbal…
As I'm sure the author now realizes: truly elite skill among those working in the trades is in wildly high demand as compared to what someone might expect coming from the software industry. If just 1% of all software…
I might be missing something, but what does this do that an app like AnyDesk doesn't? Is there something inherently better about remoting in with dedicated hardware rather than using any of the free and widely available…
Influencers say things they were paid to, certainly. But the reason that someone is willing to pay them in the first place is because they have an audience that knows them and trusts them. Influencer advertising is…
I am like you, I'm someone that can happily code for eight straight hours on task and then happily jump to a side project afterwards in a totally different language / domain. Take it for the single point of data that it…
I mean, I was speaking more to the breakdown of the metaphor than the argument itself but if that's your response then it tells me that there is no reasonable way that Suno can ever really claim fair-use. I can't…
You may be reaching the limits of the metaphor here, but restaurants are absolutely responsible for the e coli if it's found in significant quantities whether it's in the initial ingredients or the cooked end product. A…
But are any of those things a strong enough motivator to warrant the average person paying several hundred dollars more for an incrementally improved device? You haven't really made a strong argument for why a user…
For those of you who don't know, the project was archived in 2024 but there was at least one modern fork of XChat in the form of HexChat: https://hexchat.github.io/
> so you might as well use one of those. Did someone say... Xonsh?! It's tough to give up the niceties of zsh and it's various plug-in ecosystems, but I would love to be able to use Xonsh [1] as a daily driver for…
But how would you know? If you're an inexperienced developer you may well end up ingraining bad patterns without even realizing it.
What if the code sucks, because it was vibe coded by an LLM over a dozen disparate sessions?
Will second this, as someone that took the same path. Alternatives like Fastmail are so, so cheap when compared to the headache of building, maintaining, and troubleshooting a DIY stack. For something as fundamental as…
Hats off to the folks behind this for keeping such a cool project alive! This, ReactOS, and TempleOS have been my answer to the question of: "what should I install if I'm looking for something interesting?" for at least…
What is your definition of "known to be a clown"? I'm not sure how one would even begin to evaluate that at scale. Or what practical impact that would actually have for anything but the most critical of dependencies…
You're implying that reckless rewrites within the JS ecosystem are a novel event, or more specifically that surprise language changes over a short period of time are. And yet... I can think of at least six times in…
I don't have the personal investment that you appear to have with Bun, but why does this matter? Do you scrutinize the rest of your dependencies this way? Much of working in the JS / NPM ecosystem is already pure faith…
As others have mentioned: battery, build quality, Linux-ish ecosystem. If I could get all three in another laptop I would go for it, but nothing comes close at the moment. There was a very brief moment in time where the…
Assuming you ran the gamut up from what you could fit on 32 or 64GB previously, how noticeable is the difference between models you can run on that vs. the 512GB you have now? I've been working my way up from a 3090…
You would still have to do some pretty outstanding volume before that makes sense over choosing the "Enterprise" plan from OpenAI or Anthropic if data retention is the motivation. Assuming, of course, that your legal…
But why? Spending several thousand dollars to run sub-par models when the break-even point could still be years away seems bizarre for any real usecase where your goal is productivity over novelty. Anyone who has used…
If 40k is the barrier to entry for impressive, that doesn't really sell the usecase of local LLMs very well. For the same price in API calls, you could fund AI driven development across a small team for quite a long…
I don't think the concepts are as unrelated as you're suggesting, they both tend to operate on the premise that they can be more effective than others because they're able to bypass the lanes that everyone else is…
I was part of a user study on Azure back when it first rolled out-- they were looking for seniors with an AWS background to participate in UX research, and I remember walking out of that study with imposter syndrome for…
I maintain to this day that the Zune was one of the best designed hardware and software platforms I've ever used. Probably the only truly design forward product that MS ever produced.
It's arguable, even if you're right, that the net loss to humanity is still far greater without these restrictions than with. Modern social media is leading to multiple generations of emotionally stunted, non-verbal…
As I'm sure the author now realizes: truly elite skill among those working in the trades is in wildly high demand as compared to what someone might expect coming from the software industry. If just 1% of all software…
I might be missing something, but what does this do that an app like AnyDesk doesn't? Is there something inherently better about remoting in with dedicated hardware rather than using any of the free and widely available…
Influencers say things they were paid to, certainly. But the reason that someone is willing to pay them in the first place is because they have an audience that knows them and trusts them. Influencer advertising is…
I am like you, I'm someone that can happily code for eight straight hours on task and then happily jump to a side project afterwards in a totally different language / domain. Take it for the single point of data that it…
I mean, I was speaking more to the breakdown of the metaphor than the argument itself but if that's your response then it tells me that there is no reasonable way that Suno can ever really claim fair-use. I can't…
You may be reaching the limits of the metaphor here, but restaurants are absolutely responsible for the e coli if it's found in significant quantities whether it's in the initial ingredients or the cooked end product. A…
But are any of those things a strong enough motivator to warrant the average person paying several hundred dollars more for an incrementally improved device? You haven't really made a strong argument for why a user…
For those of you who don't know, the project was archived in 2024 but there was at least one modern fork of XChat in the form of HexChat: https://hexchat.github.io/