marekful

Superb mini essay, BS philosophy... I'ts not that there's so much in between these two extremes, but that model we need is completely outside of it.

We desperately look for ways to force ourselves to stay focused. What that tells me is that we don't like our jobs. What it shows is that our work culture is toxic. The job should be interesting and even exciting enough that staying focuesed is the base line. We should be forcing ourselves to take a break from it. Of course, it's small wonder in a society where 85% of the jobs is just an alibi to produce the numbers that the establishment of free market demands, and where we don't do 95% of the jobs that we should be doing to future proof a liveable civilisation.

Looking out the window with hot mug of latte in hand while mild melody plays in background. Sounds like focused, not distracted :)

I think LLMs are the great filter of software engineers. They can do a lot reasonable well, but they lack the ability to be an overarching architect of complex projects (and it's my conviction that they can never achieve that).

Only the best humans with insight, intuition and pattern recognition and application in non trivial scenarios can fill that gap.

Source Hut has been around for 6-7-ish years (https://sr.ht). A rather different approach to Git, closer to its original intentions. No PRs in the classical sense, just email patches (that's how the Linux kernel is developed to date). You can do most things though that you can on GitHub using tools and CLI.

This is so awesome! Every city and town should follow suite. Then live TV, streaming and internet platforms. No forced advertisements at all, the entire industry should move into an on-demand model. Do you know why? BECAUSE NOBODY F***G WANTS THEM, and they or forced down our throat by the ton every freaking day!

This would be good, because the entire industry would shrink to a few percent of its current size, and, let's be honest, who wouldn't be glad that they don't have to a job any more that didn't make any sense whatsoever but in exchange it frustrated millions of people on a daily basis? If all those people now become a useful member of our societies then we are one step ahead.

What made you think we'd ever need AI tokens as much as we do bandwidth, or that they are even comparable.

Bandwidth is abstract, it's information flow. LLMs are a specialised tool, they are based on noise and randomness, and thus are inherently imperfect.

We could have guaranteed the elimination of famine world-wide for 100 years from the resources we wasted on the AI infrastructure in the last 5 years. Shame on us.

There's usefulness in LLMs but not that much. They are definitely not the future.

The world has enough of everything in abundance to create a global civilisation without any major problems. There's only one problem standing in the way: we can't regulate ourselves. We can't achieve equal distribution of resources because we can't stop bigotry and greed. AI can do exactly nothing about this.

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Dude must have misplaced his pills... That has always been Linux. Period. Windows is the trusted platform for unwarranted data collection and unwanted ads. Undeniably. Also, for people who never knew anything else, and so haven't grown up yet for the task.

Maybe don't monetise the demo video because I will watch exactly zero adverts in order to get closer to your product, thanks!

Awesome! I accumulated 9 shames in the last 2 years working on a medium sized TypeScript project. I tried your tool which encouraged me to take another look at them, and now I have 0 shames.

Is that developer right to also dislike you for wanting master? Where does that lead? Conventions aren't based on feelings, and you should have none towards them. Everything has a reason, and reasons can be compared and weighed. Main is shorter, for one,, I like that, and also newer, master being the legacy convention. What are your arguments?

What do you expect to achieve as a business? Assuming you live in a country with fractional reserve banking, free market and "wild west" capitalism, your options are dire. Be selfish, ruthless, lack all empathy, be corrupt, cheat and steal. You cheat more you win more. Are you great at exploiting other people and looking the other way? How about being dishonest and deceitful? Then you have excellent prospects. Ah, wait, you want a decent _and_ honest business that self sustains and doesn't kneel to disgraceful, corrupt giants? Good luck with that.

Looks neat, could be the keyboard that makes me try / switch to split design, unless...

Did you release it without an option for ISO layout, and you thought that was OK? Not for Europe...

It's a message from aliens. In a nutshell, it says that all efforts to keep humanity alive are futile, and good luck for our self destruction. They say it's not entirely but mostly because of Windows. If you look carefully, there are some intergalactic phone numbers hidden in the script. I guess it's for desperate measures, just in case someone wants to be saved.

Accept all cookies or pay $5 a month, and even if I pay up, you will still show ads, really, Guardian? This must be the new low of enshittification. Wouldn't read your crap if you paid me $5 a month...

8GB RAM? Lol. Apple thinks we're in 2010. But in a world where RAM is $200+ per GB, nothing surprises you any more. Tim Cook, when you are in hell and burn in the fire of greed, I'll be there to rip your heart out, and feed it to my dogs.

It should be rather disappointing that when I enter the 11th working hour of the day, the KeyCloak session expires anyway. Who wants to always work less than 10 hours?

The problem with AI is that it's not intelligent but we desperately want it to be Super AGI, so we can stay dumb. AI will be a great everyday concept seamlessly integrating into our societies once we start using it right. Currently, it gives us more slop than good, and it became the main driver behind the enshittification of the internet...

Great idea with lots of use cases, but overpriced and seems excessively greedy. No demo account? No free trial? Not event signup without committing to a recurring sub? 25 VMs for $20/mo as a minimum? How about 2 VMs for $2 with free trial?

This sentence suggests that one couldn't have dropped the www back in the "early web days", which is BS. Having it or not bears no significance whatsoever, now or then. It was a marketing BS, no one remembers, no one cares...

There are some questions, too. Can I track my boss if he can track me? Can I install a key-logger on the CFO's laptop? Why not? They just want to see where I am, and I just want to see what key they hit...

Nothing legal prevents them from trying but if you block the tracking then your not in the wrong, and if you prove they tracked you in your lunch break and after work, you might have a good chance at winning in court for invasion of privacy.

It's so pathetic that people actually put up with this. There are so many ways to stop that tracking from working and no, your boss doesn't have the right to track you.

Microsoft again copies something from Apple, this time 20 years late. They should downgrade themselves to toy category instead of playing with power toys. The last thing they did well was computer mice.

"What if personal AI served society?"

What if society praised the sacredness of life, and served people in a dignified life from birth to death?