leidenfrost

Yes, but BI is not a good example of industry.

It's like Software, its value is to be a complement and/or an abstraction of existing businesses. All of that sits on the very basics of the essence of civilization, which is how much things we can get off the soil and what how quickly and effective we can transform it.

Not to be anti-tech, but every new advancement, no matter how next-level, has to sell more of the same goods and services people have been using since the dawn of civilization, and those goods and services need to solve the mundane problems people have been getting since millenia.

We don't even need a standard for reasoning levels.

Just accept whatever the provider names as "medium" and compare the accuracy between models vs the time it takes to complete a task.

Why not just, like, ask Claude about it?

"Hey Claude I want to create a fanmade Game Boy game, give me recommendation of tools, libraries and workflows for it" and boom.

You can use AI to learn stuff, instead of just using it as a Pokemon.

I was thinking on going back to Mate. Now I can happily vibe code any Gnome2 Plugin I want.

Worst case the code sucks but it's fine if I keep them for myself.

GNOME 2 used to mimic Classic Mac OS UI, plus it was super customizable and easy to create extensions for.

Peperridge Farm remembers.

Someone should implement this as a mod for RTX No Man Sky

I personally don't mind cloud LLMs as long as I'm aware of what's being sent to the internet.

I was thinking that it's a new thing for our field for such products only to be available behind a paid service. Before LLMs, there was always a local version of a product that worked just fine but with less capacity. Say, amazon vs local kubernetes, or CGI machines at Disney vs local Blender.

But on many other fields is normal for that to happen. Blacksmiths don't usually have a small steel furnace in their homes. Nurses don't buy a personal version of a CT Scanner to practice at home.

But that's a discussion for another time I guess.

I don't buy into the AGI commercial hype, and I treat LLMs as nothing more than pseudo-random text generators.

It just happens that at certain size the flow of words look a lot like "reasoning" because of the emergence phenomena (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence). But they do not have a theory of mind, they can't visualize and they do not have a sense of purpose.

Agents are not people.

> then why bring it to life?

Like many things in life, the answer is just "because I want to" and "because I can". Not everything has to be a linear progression or a level-up mechanic like a mmorpg.

Sometimes you want to create something out of creativity and you like seeing it done. The same way a painter wants to create something, not to show off skills, not to linearly progress onto something, but because they like making something out of nothing.

You can say the same for building computers. You didn't actually "built" a computer from the ground up. You just bought the pre-made hardware and plugged it in the places that are made to be easily pluggable.

Everything in tech is about standing in the shoulders of what came before.

Not for me. I do like having an agent at my disposition that accelerates the way into making those little experiments a reality. A sloppy reality? Maybe. But It's just tinkering, there's no other use case for this outside of saying "So this can be done, huh? Okay time to go to for a walk".

While it's totally respectable to treat your code as your personal zen garden, I like the idea of having a highway where I can make reality anything that comes from my imagination, and also having time for family, friends, work and exercising out of sedentarism.

AFAIK Charles III is the monarch both for UK and Canada.

Doesn't this mean that Canada is, in a certain degree, dependent of UK?

In regards to the site, all of them follow almost the same templates.

Once you see a few, it becomes obvious

IMHO people expected a Pi that offered similar performance as a Mac M1 but with Linux as first class citizen

Still, it's a tool.

Even if your tool learns to talk and to make decisions, it's still a tool, not a person. You're the person and the one responsible for the decisions you make based on your tools.

Going back from the analogy, the problem is that we conflated software <engineers> with "coders". A lot of people thought their job was to create code, we gave them a tool to generate a lot of code fast, and they truly think that "more code" = "more good"

I have a hard time finding a good battery.

I bought an internal and external battery and the external one quickly started bloating.

Try Plop Boot Manager: https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html

It can boot from a floppy or from a CD drive, and it lets you chainload into a live usb even on old computers.

I used it to boot from CD from a floppy in an old Pentium MMX and it worked great (although slow, of course)

It's tacky, but not the end of the world.

It remins me of some gnome themes from 2005-2009.

I'd choose that a thousand times over an ad filled start menu

The real culprit is the International Division of Labour.

Some countries sell primary goods and other countries manufacture them.

But it turns out it's the manufacturing industry the one that trickles wealth the most, raises salaries and improves education overall.

China knew this. And used all its non-democratic powers to make their country a manufacturing superpower.

A country that only extracts natural resources can't hold a numerous population. And if it does, a big % of them is doomed to a life of misery.

I have macOS shortcuts hot branded in my brain.

I'd prefer to adopt a few of these programs than having to configure i3 and use ctrl for everything

The solution for that is to decide which period do you want to build support for.

Trying to be binary-compatible with Tahoe may not be worth it. But you could make a distro binary-compatible with Snow Leopard.

Or better, make it compatible with Ventura apps without the bloat of MacOS Ventura.

That could give new life to old Macs. It can also give a PC a MacOS-like environment without having to deal with Hackintosh.

I interpreted it as: if you include all hobbies and games made by humans in history, I'm pretty sure most of them involve a set of cards made of paper, some others involving wooden figurines (chess, checkers) or even drawing on dirt with a stick.

A computer is many, many orders of magnitude more complex and expensive than that.

This isn't said with the intention to demonize expensive hobbies if no one is harmed because of it.

But I do sometimes wonder if my hobbies are too dependent of a power plug. Even reading, which I do with a e-reader.

The most absurd part is that you totally can access the home banking from your desktop PC with Linux, without any need of hardware attestation.

Suddenly it's mandatory because the device is a phone?

I agree with you on the Windows side.

Linux is different. Decades of being tied to x86 made the OS way more coupled with the processor family than one might think.

Decades of bugfixes, optimizations and workarounds were made assuming a standard BIOS and ACPI standards.

Specially on the desktop side.

That, and the fact that SoC vendors are decades behind on driver quality. They remind me of the NDiswrapper era.

Also, a personal theory I have is that have unfair expectations with ARM Linux. Back then, when x86 Linux had similar compatibility problems, there was nothing to be compared with, so people just accepted that Linux was going to be a pain and that was it.

Now the bar is higher. People expect Linux to work the way it does in x86, in 2025.

And manpower in FOSS is always limited.

I found a video of a n64 port in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjG6_UY0ou4

Sometimes it does change and when that happens is for the worse.

Some developers suddenly realize that X system is old, and then they try to redo it from zero.

And when they do that, they throw decades of feature development down the drain:

- Xorg: Was Wayland worth the 10+ years of manpower needed to catch up?

- Synaptics: Now we have libinput, less configurable and with way fewer features

- Gnome: Something that happens when the devs think "If Apple can, then we can too" but without the money to invest in good UX (Gnome2 had actual UX research done by Sun)

- Systemd: I'll concede that nobody liked SystemV. But we also had OpenRC and strangely got ignored.

Sometimes "developercracy" is terrible, and we spend years arguing if Rust or Not, instead of trying to make good software

Question, why are you glad you didnt go for the PostmarketOS route? Do you think it's not worth it? Or that android is better in any way?

Just curious

Liquid glass looks like some freeware teenager icon pack from gnome-look.org

And we would have laughed at it.

Insulin control is about managing hunger more than a direct cause for weight.

You don't even need to do keto or wacky "just meat" diets to handle insulin. Protein consumption prevents insulin spikes for around 1-2 hours after eating. Also, proteins and fats slow down digestion.

Turns out, the good old Mediterranean diet is spot-on for a healthy lifestyle.

But it's not.

What you're referring to, is the basic concept of thermodynamic calorie in/calorie out. Yes, you can "just" reduce food and lose weight if you hit deficit numbers.

But if you don't do it correctly, you'll feel like trash, you'll suffer bad cravings, and put yourself in a stressful mental situation for days, possibly putting your job at risk.

You have to:

- Eat less than what you're already eating

- But enough to nourish yourself so you keep being in good shape for your work and hobbies

- Manage hunger

- Make the change sustainable so you can keep doing it for the rest of your life.

It's specially hard when your work is entirely sedentary, you live alone and, ironically, when you have a salary that let's you order food every day.

A lot of people don't have it hard. Maybe because they have someone cooking for them at home, because they meal prep the entire week, or because their work is so physically intensive they can just wing it and burn everything with what they need to do for a living anyway.