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I genuinely believe that doing this is a terrible idea, as long as the underlying idea is good and the writing is decent. Good ideas are good ideas, and the more they are spread the better.

You're doing a different thing. The killer feature of Markdown isn't code and (my beloved) nerd stuff.

It's that it can be a Microsoft Word, etc., killer.

Not a new idea, but a REALLY GOOD ONE.

I'd settle for a first class terminal+file manager combo setup, like where both are respected equally. Dolphin can kind of do it one way, geany the other?

I truly and genuinely do not understand why you'd do something like this not open source? You definitely lose popularity and participation, and today, you almost definitely also lose money.

As someone who's kept a journal since high-school -- I genuinely don't understand your comment here? Which is to say, yes -- keeping the journal has prevented me from doing too much of exactly what you're warning against?

I suppose my thinking was that they were going to try to sell this to -- maybe not even the general public -- but to someone like me, pretty well versed in tech but not ultra deep in the game, that price point is still waaaay too high.

Perhaps I'm missing it and it's almost a sort of, no really we're just building this for ourselves?

It is everything to do with Apple. Everything.

It started with the Ipod and the weird mp3 system, to the Ipad not shipping with a real file manager and is all so very obviously deliberate.

Oh, I never have. I'm speaking truly as a consumer. I do not doubt your numbers.

But -- your response really gives me a "what were they thinking?" vibe. Like, I have multiple raspberry pis and a flipper zero etc.

And just coming from a consumer of stuff like this POV -- I could MAYBE go as high as 300-350, and that's really pushing it.

I love people making little things like this and so one hates to throw rocks from the sidelines.

But I literally laughed out loud, HARD, at the price.

No. They will not. And this is why we have law.

There's this thing that people often do, even within the law itself, that's just like "well, you can fix everything by just writing it correctly the first time."

And this will always feel retroactively correct and never workable in practice.

NO.

Because, as I say repeatedly:

Smart contracts ARE NOT CONTRACTS. Count them in the worst named things in computing.

A contract is a legal agreement that is mostly about stipulations on what to do if things go wrong.

A so-called "smart contract" is doubly bad named -- because it's just a stupid, irrevocable, unchangeable, piece of code. Imagine an ATM with the controls welded shut.

I agree that "is the category real or not" is not as important as "are people helped by this."

And I'm increasingly of the opinion that on balance, people are not helped; I feel like concepts like ADHD, "neurodivergence," -- and even autism are terms whose present looseness cause more problems than they solve.

Neither of your wants are realistic or sensible, at least in the way I think you're presenting them?

The first is equivalent to "I don't want my operating system to be used to program viruses."

The second is "I don't want vendors to include marketing in their product."

As a black man, I can't help but think of the whole Chris Brown thing here. Yes, I personally found what he did disgusting, and if everyone else obviously felt that way, I would keep that up.

But no -- I know too many Black women who have -- I suppose -- chosen forgiveness. Too many intelligent humans that I know or know of, are good with this for me to say "No, ladies, you are wrong."

It's about as fun, and as realistic, as imagining magical ponies and people with superpowers?

This is such an incredibly naive and absurd vision; we've already proven that humans are very often very bad at implementing other humans' good ideas. There's nothing that AI is likely to bring that will improve this discernment.

Real hard to not think-

"This is a job for a CLI/terminal, which is absolutely a million times easier to learn today, thanks to AI."

Feels like MCP is still a product of -- well, "AI as a product" brain, which I have no love or use for. Give EVERYONE ALL the tools.

This strikes me as a very silly question?

Because they can. There's no meaningful way to prevent them from doing so.

That's wildly impractical advice for many.

Just use Firefox, or Chromium if you must.

This feels like trying to do "Hacker News, without 'the Internet.'"

Sure. Now, how to deal with the entirely plausible situation where there needs not be any separation between the developer and the customer at all, thanks to AI.

Oh, so "programmers" really ARE losing the plot.

You kids don't get it, it's not about the tokens, it's about the principle of the thing. No self-respecting real programmer would accept the loss of even a few tokens over programmatic efficiency and cleverness.

"Without explanation"

I mean, sure, it would probably be embarrassing to have to say "because this was extremely stupid and nonsensical and entirely due to the weird hangups of the present guy in charge."

Once again, all models are wrong, some are useful.

I suppose this one "fails" because of "granularity?"

I'm personally getting more comfortable with the "kabillion dimensional space" one. Even before the rise of this AI thing I'd gotten comfortable with (teaching in a very generalized way) the concept of matrix/vector math as doing this sort of thing.

Start with the math required to calculate "what the building on the screen looks like" when you're playing a video game.

Then I jump to...dating websites. You give it "dimensions" like height, weight, religion, sexual preference, music preference, whether you like long walks on the beach, whatever -- then you can calculate how "close" two people are to one another.

From there, tokens and a kabillion directions.

This is pretty much the new Sony rootkit, no? And disconcerting, because nothing was done to Sony for that deliberate release of harmful code.

Am I missing something? Unless you have infinity money, would it not be very stupid to pay for "precise greps?"

At the risk of being all "I am very smart..."

It seems like it would be a mistake to say things like "it was for science and not religion" or vice versa. Additionally, also seems like it would be very hard to say "it was definitely not for eclipses," given the difficulty in proving the negative? Like, maybe it was and it just didn't work right.

What you're slightly more realistically looking for here is for publicly available data to have a Fair Use exemption for certain uses, which is certainly something worth discussing.

A genuine question, does anyone here actually use KDE Connect as a daily driver to actually keep in touch with people? I would love to but, for example, when I'm on a university campus the possibility of keeping those two devices connected appears difficult if not impossible. I keep looking into both Bluetooth and/or the VPN route every once in a while, but it ends up not working and I give up. Something I'm missing, perhaps?

It seems absurdly naive to rely on "oh, the cloud AI of the future will definitely be as open and priced the same way it is right now."

And not "Hey, these companies have a history of giving you something nice now, and rugpulling you either in quality or price later."

Your "absolutely" seems silly.

To go a bit broader -- has anyone else developed something like the following reaction: When I see reviews of anything that points at taking shots at one of the big boys, and the reaction is dismissive and negative -- I immediately doubt that reaction?

Like my near first instinct is "oh, you've scared high-industry big money players like Apple, such that they feel the need to put this down, I'm now curious that this thing might be -- and actually probably is -- pretty good? I will read further."