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I was an early adopter of Zed (private alpha mid-2022) and it's crazy how far they have come in a relatively short space of time. Sadly I stopped using Zed when the push of AI features started to happen (same with Warp terminal) and have since used Gram more. I may have to give Zed another run as I believe you can turn all the AI features off now?
Congrats to the team on 1.0!
I have had an eye on this for a while (found via pi.dev) but I don't really have a solid use case for it, but the idea/concept of is appealing where the price is not. I can buy a £100-150 mini-pc with better hardware to run 24/7 for my own VMs extending my homelab (granted my ISP doesn't put any restrictions on me, I know many others can't say the same).
You can see their base docker image here - https://github.com/boldsoftware/exeuntu
And even of those models trained for tool calling and agentic flows, mileage may vary depending on lots of factors. Been playing around with smaller local models (Anything that fits on 4090 + 64gb RAM) and it is a lottery it seems on a) if it works at all and b) how long it will work for.
Sometimes they don't manage any tool calls and fall over off the bat, other times they manage a few tool calls and then start spewing nonsense. Some can manage sub agents fr a while then fall apart.. I just can't seem to get any consistently decent output on more 'consumer/home pc' type hardware. Mostly been using either pi or OpenCode for this testing.
The opposite is true for many of us. Having used various models, tools, agent orchestration etc.. All of these sensationalist posts of 'When I use Model X with Tooling Y I can build the world!' just don't resonate and it becomes draining to constantly have all this pushed through my eyeballs and having to filter it out.
LLMs have their uses but it isn't as great as everyone makes out to be nor is it as bad as others make out it is. Every week its X model has new SWE bench and is the best in class frontier blah blah - yet its actually just much the same as the week before. Quarter to quarter you could argue there is more of a diff between capabilities and performance but the LLM news cycle is much shorter than that.
Video from a few years ago that might offer some background/context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVKeKpNQto
The channel has a few videos on it, not watched any other than this introductory one but some of the titles look interesting.
Also the introduction video above states an initial requirement of 'every PR must have a video' but it looks like that got dropped a while ago.
This is what is great about it, the community posting hyper-creative (sometimes cursed) solutions for fun! I usually use AoC to try out a new language and that has been fun for me over the years.
not like they changed anything significant about the product itself
They had already done this months ago, they changed the licence and stripped a lot of the code of their admin UI/object browser. So a lot of the features vanished for people overnight if they updated. This is what the OP is linked to - a fork at the point that they did this. This was work already done, feature already widely in use, they decided to take it out of what was available to the community.
So the product has significantly changed and offering had been reduced. That in addition to the stopping of publishing images - both without notice - caused a decent bit off community 'wtf'.
Why is DHH being mentioned?
Nothing to do with MinIO and their docker builds...
I am surprised Omarchy got such a large audience, DHH had already dropped an opinionated Ubuntu 'distro' - Omakub - but seemingly didn't gain popularity.
Even though I haven't used it, I don't mind Omarchy existing if it works. I had issues with omakub when I had tried it in the distant past.
That said, I think a lot of peoples criticism of DHH and Omarchy is based on their personal opinions of DHH or that they don't like that an opinionated Arch variant is opinionated, which is a bit of a ridiculous criticism too.
Not sure on this one, Reddit is arguably the worst place on the internet and has a lot of oversight, is heavily curated. Part of the reason it is so bad in fact. The pendulum just swings the other way compared to X and 4chan.
I really don't understand the toxicity here.. People saying that 'you shouldn't do things just for recognition/gold starts/reward/cv/etc are insane to me?
Do they have jobs? If so, to make these kinds of comments imo they should be working completely for free. Salary is a form of recognition for contribution.
Personally, adding a co-author (even if the final solution ends up different to the one proposed, but the solution is based around the findings of the original solution) is such a tiny thing to do. I think the author has a valid point to moan about this.. it isn't the first and won't be the last instance of somebody feeling their contribution to something is going unrecognised.
This is a terrible attitude to have, some startups are cobbled together by 1 or 2 people and get off the ground, yet you are expecting them to have a team of at least 12 and additional retainer resource of lawyers and similar otherwise "they deserve to fail"?
In the real world, many businesses aren't created in the Silicon Valley by established founders and friends with VC funds, who can afford the time and cost to have all this.
Edit: To clarify, I am not saying that the things suggested are unimportant or not vital to an established business.. But that the bottom line for a brand new business with very few people involved is to survive and be stable enough to have the change of introduce backing on/off site, distaster recovery plans, paying for pen testing, security consultants, dedicated QA, etc.
As an aside, the developer of Stardeus streams themselves making the game almost (if not) every day.
Which Ver number?
Are there any open source hardware TVs or OSS TV OS to load on Samsung/LG/other smart TVs that have some (if any) traction?
Theres also a flexbox tower defense site that was pretty neat iirc. Similar concept/way of learning by gamification.
Possibly, but at the same time I am fully aware that babel is used in almost all of the frontend nodejs projects I have been involved with. It isn't something hidden away, it's something you set up for a new project or likely see/configure a little from a templated/skeleton project.
So even from a development point of view, not an end user, I don't think its a far stretch to 'being used by millions of developers, and they know it is being used'.
In large organisations, with lots of tape actually getting the ball rolling on what is proposed with all the sign offs, funds allocated, people/resource allocated for the tasks.... It takes months, not weeks.
They probably published this off the back of a signed off proposal and may start implementing off the back of it early next year.
This is by no means an exhaustive list nor 100% accurate but yes data, likely to go in to the social profile they build of you to sell/use in advertisements.
Data such as; information provided at sign up, web/links to other users based on sign up info, inferred location information, purchases, interests, visited products, used products, active hours, usage hours, general use metrics... etc
Maybe their vision was to build a more modular and cloud development friendly IDE while keeping it as close to the most widely used editor/IDE today for user friendly-ness.
I would switch from chrome. For sure.
The internet intrudes too much on my user experience with tracking, ads, etc. I just want to see the content I WANT to browse for. I want to read this article, which could be 30% of the pixel length with ads removed. Etc.
Trying different things and settled on running with 2% chance.
At bet 600 I was at $191.25. Not too bad of a gain, but the I went 200 bets without a win, putting me at -$8.75 and I stopped playing.
I always find things like this, chance and probability a very satisfying and interesting thing to see how it works out.
Here in the UK we have 'smart motorways' that show lanes as closed and over a few miles, guide traffic into a queues but people still don't obey then completely and end up contributing to the messy traffic.
As a bit of an extension to the experience thing. I recently changed jobs and they hired somebody else, to the same team, for the same work as me at the same time.
I had 0 experience with this software stack/language but I am an extremely fast learner. The other guy boasted 30 years of software experience and 8/9 in this specific tech stack.
After ~2 months he was let go in his probation period and people had told me that I had already picked up, was doing more work and knew more than what he was showing in the same role.
He was on just under double my salary - my salary did not change. I believe people should be evaluated and have salary adjusted based on merit and value over time
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As an extension to the merit thing, I changed to this new job because my old one had the directors of the company, who didn't really have a huge understanding of individuals roles across the 150-200 person software section employees, telling us they pay on merit.
Yet I had joined and quickly become one of the more knowledgeable people on the team, so much so that people would often come to me. I did a lot of the software releases, worked (unpaid) overtime a lot, especially around said releases, worked to improve processes and in my spare time worked on tooling. No recognition other than from the team and one of the principal developers. All while someone who had half my throughput with daily work but had worked there for 30 years, had about 1.8* my salary.
What was it more, loyalty, that they meant?
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Overall, me knowing other peoples salaries in similar/the same position just demotivates me (partly due to my mindset at the moment) in that some people can have such well paid positions while blagging, or doing little in comparison. Why do I even bother trying? At the same time, I am always at home teaching myself something new, learning something to better myself for my career, but that is more my nature than to do with knowing salaries.
A good little ship that supports cloaking is maybe... a 2-3 weeks of training in terms of skills and relatively cheap at 30-40m for a basic fit with bonuses to warping and agility.
Could easily source that yourself over a few hours but no doubt, they more than likely take donations to their corporate wallet in game.
Indeed I have seen more and more people adopt TypeScript for all kinds of JS projects.
It is one of the things I have noted to look into next too.
Classic read. I thought most people had read this already?
I honestly prefer to not use pay walled websites. I also run adblock but in a whitelist mode, sites i often visit, find entertaining and worthy of any money from my activity, get whitelisted.
Having a quick look through I think most of the responses are just trolls.
I am always fascinated by pen testing and studied computer networking in security to fall into a software engineering job. I just never knew where to start with heading a leg up on the tools and practices to be able to go into pen testing professionally... I couldn't find any apprenticeships or junior roles for it so ended up shelving it as a 'maybe one day' 'dream'. Where would be the best place to start? Most of the books I have are pretty dated now.
Also the article was a great read. Pinning it to go over again on the weekend as my lunch is now over.