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even with gpt 4, it hallucinates enough that it’s not reliable, forgetting to open/close brackets and quotes. This sounds like it’d be a big improvement.

Homebrew 3.0 5 years ago

I can’t even begin to imagine how much value Max Howell (creator of Homebrew) has added to the world. It’s the recommended package manager at every place I’ve worked at and saves so much headache.

I use Linux at home and package managers like AUR are great, but macOS is where the users are.

Definitely, I personally know really smart Mainland Chinese graduates who ended up falling in love with the U.S. and its values, but had to move back to China due to U.S. immigration policy.

I like how hardware based this list is. I definitely don't think we have hit the limits (or anywhere closed) of software productivity improvements, but given that software rests on top of hardware, it would be very exciting to see how these hardware productivity improvements would translate to software productivity improvements as a first derivative effect.

As an aside, what does the U.S. need to do to make sure this list happens in the U.S. as much as possible and not in places like China with less regulatory capture and more state backing?

The question I would posit is: Do the actions from Google that the Justice Department consider to be anti-competitive prevent competitors from becoming better?

For example, let's say I could be curious about DuckDuckGo if I had to choose a default search engine when I got an Apple device instead of Google being the default, then that could be revenue to DuckDuckGo for them to improve their search engine.

One suggestion I can give you is to get a dynamic microphone. It won't pick up quite loud keyboards behind/below it (if it does, it'll sound like really soft switches).

I would love to run GUI Emacs using this, so this is great news for me.

At the same time, does anyone both love WSL, but is also scared about Microsoft's strategy here?

I'm at the point where I have a main desktop computer that I use for general purpose and gaming, and WSL has been great for me to also be able to do few-compromises coding work on it (previously had an arch linux partition but was tired of having to reboot to access it).

2020 Bundles 6 years ago

How do smaller products compete with bundling from these large competitors?

It's interesting. Despite all the money that these studios have, my favorite games of the past few years have all been indie games (Rimworld, Factorio) or smaller studios (Paradox Plaza games such as EUIV, Stellaris). I understand that the majority of the industry's revenue is generated from these bigger studios, but acquiring first party developers doesn't make me as too concerned. What I'm concerned about is distribution is controlled by a few parties to a higher degree on desktop, like it is on mobile.

Have you taken a look at Doom Emacs? I liked Spacemacs, but I found Doom more performant, as well as not abstracting too much, which allows you to slowly learn Emacs as you go.

This immediately made me think of the Unix philosophy (Do one thing well and provide the right way for other tools to connect to the output or pipe in input) vs the Emacs way (Operating System within an Operating System).

If we frame it this way, I think it helps us understand better the pros and cons of each, and importantly that they appeal to different type of folks depending on their use cases.

For e.g., one of the main appeals of Emacs is that it's easier to combine functionalities across mini-tools within Emacs than in Vim. However, it also means that when building one of these mini-tools, you have to have awareness of all other mini-tools in the system, and integrate with them properly, which makes the cost of building much higher vs Vim.