insane_dreamer

can you use Calibre to put files on it?

another feature that pycharm has (and Zed though not as well implemented): insert the filename into the commit text.

zed inserts the filename but doesn't allow you to edit the commit (so it's all or nothing), pycharm allows you to edit the commit prepopulated with the filename if only one file is staged.

another enhancement is that neither pycharm or zed can handle inserting multiple filenames into the commit. so while editing the commit, you could potentially have keys to insert the staged filenames, i.e., by pressing a meta+number key combo where ctrl+1 inserts the first filename in the staged list, ctrl+2 the second, 1-9. just an idea.

Great project! Kudos to the designer.

Might need additional datasets though -- this one is lacking. only ~10 fortresses in France? LOL

The fortress / castle distinction is quite difficult and perhaps not useful? This map classifies the Crac (Krak) des Chevaliers[0], in modern-day Syria, as a "castle" but I would argue it's really a "fortress" (and in fact, one of the best preserved ancient fortresses in the world).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers

samwho? samrose.

thanks for the info; will give it a try

fyi, a couple of features that lazygit does not have, or that aren't easily done in lazygit and which pycharm does quite well (I've used _many_ git tools, and IMO pycharm's internal implementation is still the best, but I switched to lazygit because I dropped pycharm for zed).

- diff any branch against any other branch (lazygit relies on certain branches being marked or inferred as main branches against which you can diff)

- see a file's git history (and which branches those commits are on), drill into the commits

- github (or gitlab, codeberg, etc.) support: open commit in github (easiest way to share commit with a co-worker, for example)

statistics are not helpful.

if a small town is worried about its local water supply because a large AI DC is being built next to it, it doesn't matter whether AI only consumes 0.25% of water usage in the USA (if that's even true), they will be negatively affected and they have a right to oppose it. your stats are offensive to them because you're basically telling them that they should bear the negative consequences so people can have ChatGPT. It's not like they should suffer so that we can cure cancer or something useful like that.

dishonest atrocity propaganda campaign against it

If anyone's being dishonest, it's the AI companies.

We're supposed to be _significantly reducing_ our energy consumption to avoid potentially catastrophic consequences, and instead here we are _significantly increasing_ our energy use (and water use, for which we don't have a "renewable" solution), and for what? so you and I can code faster with CC/Codex? I feel like all these "it's not so bad" people have developed collective amnesia about the climate change crisis.

Japan doesn't have a history of mass layoffs, whereas in the US people know that employers are itching to fire them and replace them with AI if they can

do we just want slaves? basically, yes. this captures it:

he enjoyed the ability to create 10 prototypes out of thin air, picking on the ones he personally thought were best

prior to AI, you'd either have to make k prototypes yourself, or, if you could afford it, provide employment/work for another artist, perhaps not as creatively skilled as you but who had developed the skills to do good art/video/whatever. So AI makes you, the creator, happy because it saves you either time or money, and it abstracts away work that you consider to be a chore given your advanced skills. But to someone else that "chore" represents real work that not only provides them with the means to live, but which they also find some satisfaction in doing.

So, much like income inequality, AI makes a small number of people extra-productive or saves them money, while robbing other people of potential employment. This eventually reduces the number of skilled people, and reducing those artists to ... what, exactly? (that's the big unknown, isn't it).

Much like income inequality, we end up with two classes: a small number who use AI, stay gainfully employed and save money or can command an even higher salary because they're so productive; and a much larger number who the AI replaces, who can no longer find employment (or at least not employment doing anything that uses their skills), and become ...

I started using lazygit a couple years ago, never looked back. It’s great

lazygit works great and fast enough

Yes

the problem is healthcare is run in a capitalist "free market" model, in which all actors are incentivized to increase their profits at the expense of the other actors, and where the patient is either a customer or a commodity

it's inherently the wrong model for providing a necessary feature of life (health), and combine it with a highly litigious society, and well, this is the result

actually $17B isn't so bad because it's so obviously an error and not something you can fatfinger. if you expected it to be $17 and it was $17,000 you'd be much more worried as that looks like a plausible error on your part

agree 100%; but kaiser is already a non-profit organization, that's not the main issue in this case

so far, almost always when I get an AI responder I find it useless and basically try to get to a human as quickly as possible

if it was easy enough for an AI responder to solve I would have solved it myself

the more I read about how AI is being used, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that despite me personally find it quite useful in my work, and even my personal life to some extent, it is a net negative to society as a whole, and if the choice is between zero AI or the AI that is being deployed, we'd be better out without it

what significant improvements to society or humanity have come about as direct result of AI, that wouldn't have been achieved without it? faster protein folding is the only one I can think of and that more a matter of "faster" than "impossible without AI"

I think at some point there's going to be some version of the Butlerian Jihad

sure, US political parties have been largely pro big-biz

but if you can't see the stark difference in pro-mega-corp policies and blatant pay-to-play corruption in the last 1.5 yrs with the previous 4 years, you're clearly not paying attention

the fact that BigCorp couldn't wait to get rid of Lina Khan, and found a willing ally in Trump, is just one tiny example

I have to admit he is a great financial engineer.

so was Madoff

Not only that but with so much human capital and resources devoted to AI’s explicit goal of replacing human labor there are two outcomes: 1) it succeeds and we have a serious social problem on our hands with large swaths of the population out or a job, or 2) it fails and we have a very large market and economic crisis as the AI bubble collapses.

Maybe there’s a partial success future that isn’t those two, but I’m not hopeful. And I’d take the Ai bubble collapse over AI BigTech achieving its goals

Available in US? I’ve only seen the Solterra

I’d like a Civic Type R for my midlife crisis please. No modding needed ;)

I think we’re going to start seeing more OSS models that perform especially well on certain tasks instead of trying to be generalists like the frontier models. That’s a winning formula because if you’re building an app on a model it often has a specific set of use cases

It’s what Meta was supposed to do but Llama fell of the wagon.

There’s also Prism

A good book to read is The Ministry of the Future; yeah, parts could be better written, and I'm not hopeful things will turn out the way they do in the book, but what it did convince me of is that nothing substantial will happen until there is a catastrophic event along the lines of what happens in the beginning of the book -- and even then only if it happens in a "major" (by Western standards) country (i.e., all of the DRC could die and Americans would still happily drive their SUVs to McD for burgers).

The other interesting thing in the book is the emergence of radical groups fighting against who they see as responsible for the destruction of our planet and potentially even our civilizations. We could see a lot more social violence, assassinations (Mangione-style) etc. I'm fairly sure that's going to happen.

Maybe I've lost hope, but I honestly do not want my kids to have any kids of their own, as I'm afraid of the world they will inherit. (And I've been a confirmed techno-future-enthusiast my whole life until 5-10 years ago.)

If we don’t do something about this

we were sorta going to do something about it, but then we invented LLMs and now nobody cares because $$$ and AI is shiny

I fear future generations will not view us in a positive light.

you can be sure that they already will curse us

I think one reason it's because many prominent tech leaders act like assholes or scammers: Zuck, Altman, Kalanick, Musk, and even "do no evil" Google has changed to "do no evil, unless you can make a lot of money doing it".

so it doesn't give people confidence that the tech industry is doing anything that benefits the average person; mostly they're just looking to make as much $$ as possible and screw everything else, including our planet's future. basically Gordon Gekko's of the 21st Century.

well, whatdoyouknow, maybe our apartment's water was indeed heated by solar and I just had no idea :)

I regularly see this making the rounds that "you can see your doctor in the US right away whereas in <socialist healthcare country of your choice> you have to wait months!"

I call BS. I have a great healthcare plan and appointments with my PCP are weeks out if at all; I was lucky to find some other random PCP who was available for a Telehealth consult only. Our kid has a rare disability that requires lots of different doctors, and we have to book literally months in advance for consults.

My (now retired) parents live in Ireland and get better healthcare than we do in the US.

yeah, it's the way of the world these days

but what's surprising is the speed at which we collectively "forgot" that we are facing an potentially existential crisis. it wasn't long ago that Google had its emissions mitigation progress in the footer of its home page, it's been replaced with a "use our AI" link

When I lived in Beijing, the apartment buildings I lived in usually had solar hot water

was that recently? I lived there from 2011-2017 and solar power was virtually unheard of, much less powering any buildings. But yeah, China is that kind of place that the city decides when you get heating in your apartment (Nov 15 IIRC, so early Nov could be _really_ cold inside; we wore our coats).