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Try this prompt: Create a detailed step by step plan to implement a boilerplate Zephyr project skeleton for Pi Pico with configured st7789 SPI display drivers

Ask Opus or Gemini 2.5 Pro to write a plan. Then ask the other to critique it and fix mistakes. Then ask Sonnet to implement

Many things require one to reject self-imposed boundaries. For example[1]:

> There's a story that, IIRC, was told by Brian Enos, where he was practicing timed drills with the goal of practicing until he could complete a specific task at or under his usual time. He was having a hard time hitting his normal time and was annoyed at himself because he was slower than usual and kept at it until he hit his target, at which point he realized he misremembered the target and was accidentally targeting a new personal best time that was better than he thought was possible. While it's too simple to say that we can achieve anything if we put our minds to it, almost none of us are operating at anywhere near our capacity and what we think we can achieve is often a major limiting factor.

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Art is nothing like shooting. My first instinct looking at Guernica is that I also feel nothing, but one can limit oneself and say: if I feel nothing initially, I will feel nothing at all. If you prime yourself to be open to an experience of putting yourself into the shoes of the author, you might start feeling something.

[1]: https://danluu.com/culture/

Why do you care to connect with another human? Try to feel his emotions, what he tried to express? If you see no value in that, there's no discussion to have, honestly. For most people I know there's value in connecting with others and emphasizing with their emotions

It feels deeply wrong to put Kahneman in the same list as Socrates, Aristotle, and Bacon.

Thank you for the link - I'm familiar with the commenting rules. I just don't think that people follow the spirit of those rules.

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Also, I don't seem to be able to login - stuck at "Syncing to this device."

The link to your blog doesn't seem to work

Okay, propaganda, sure. Propaganda is a different argument - it compromises the quality of search - and I will happily agree with you. I want to emphasize, that the claim was: using Yandex through Kagi is supporting war criminals. Which war criminals? Which war crimes is Yandex complicit in? I plainly do not accept that propaganda === war crimes.

Is Yandex directly complicit in war crimes?

By "Luddite," you mean "resist progress, therefore bad." Progress is not inherently bad. Luddites didn't say it is; this blog post doesn't say it is either. We are currently rushing forward with implementing AI everywhere, as much as possible, and what these posts (thinking about Xe Iaso) urge you to think about is how this new revolutionary technology affects us, society, the people who will be displaced by it. If it will yield a disproportionate amount of misery, then we should oppose it on the moral grounds. There's no guarantee of ASI heaven or hell, so it's merely prudent to think about the repercussions. We didn't think - damn, we couldn't even approach imagining - all of the repercussions of replacing traditional agriculture with industrial agriculture, of the industrial revolution, of the internet, so maybe, with technology this powerful, it would be sensible to think about the repercussions before we upend the social order once again.

We adapted, that's why the pesticide industry is so big. I'm not a great agriculture expert, but from my understanding it's an uphill battle against nature and we are winning for now.

You are missing the point. The point isn't that the legacy methods of agriculture are unequivocally better. They have their downsides, some of the downsides are pretty severe. The point is that abolishing traditional farming in favour of industrial agriculture yielded unforeseen costs, the ones that were never even hypothesized when we started scaling agriculture. Now with AI and agents, we'll reap those unforeseen costs again. The profits will go into the pockets of the owners, the unforeseen costs (which include the costs of switching from one system to another) will become the society's burden to bear, as it was with industrial-scale agriculture.

You are not making an argument you think you are making. We switched from one set of problems to another set of problems that didn't exist before industrial agriculture: soil erosion, pest explosion, entire harvests wiped out by disease because genetic uniformity, which means one pathogen can destroy everything - think Irish potato famine but now it's scientific and modern.

The mess of traditional farming - with its scattered plots, mixed crops, and local varieties adapted to every microclimate - was too complicated to tax and control, so they (that Xe talks about, *they*, the ones who stand to profit) bulldozed millennia of accumulated agricultural wisdom and replaced it with neat geometric fields of single crops that any bureaucrat could count from his desk. This wasn't just an ecological disaster waiting to happen (and it did happen - you not knowing about it doesn't mean that it didn't; maybe in the end you'll notice when our last species of corn dies out), it was also an epistemic catastrophe, a murder of local knowledge that understood why you plant these three things together here but those two things there, replacing it with the kind of simplified, one-size-fits-all stupidity that makes perfect sense in a government report and absolutely none in actual soil where actual plants have to actually grow.

Anyway, I recommend Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott.

$600,000 after inflation

Links?

Seems overly dramatic

Skill issue on your part

This makes Vlad look much better than the poster thinks. It's ridiculous that the poster is dishing out, but when Vlad offers discussion (not even criticism!) they are like "oh no, I'm just a little nobody getting HARASSED by a powerful and might CEO". They can't take even the mildest disagreement, let alone criticism.

People need to stop posting this blog post as if it's something incriminating, or even negative. I'm sure if GDPR is violated, Kagi will sort it out with their lawyers, but as of now I don't see what exactly are we worrying about. For me it's neither GDPR nor Vlad's "appalling" behaviour and if it's neither, this whole blog is utterly useless

I see this kind of off-hand rage bait comments on every Kagi post and it just grinds my gears so much. If you are going to say something inflammatory, at least elaborate or don’t leave those comments in the first place

I agree that Haidt is a poor champion for the cause.

He’s popular because we are seeing something real happening to our kids and Haidt is the only person who is trying to describe whatever’s going on. We agree with the conclusions because we see it in our own kids, not because of the “moral panic”. It’s a shame he gets there in such a sloppy way, but he’s describing a real phenomenon.

I, as a parent, do not need articles and longitudinal studies and double blind peer reviewed studies to tell me that the thing I can observe with my own eyes is real.

I'd appreciate an in-depth write-up about deficiencies you found in Node and how Erlang fixes them

I mean, if I'm having fun and I'm productive, why do I have to justify my setup? But if I would, I'd say that VSCode didn't support all of the Vim functionality, so I started using NeoVim and to avoid managing multiple terminal windows I use tmux.

> it still baffles me how bad the alternatives still are

Kagi

Long time Swish user - I think it's pretty good, unlike other solutions I tried

> It's OK to realize that the path you're on doesn't fit you and isn't going to make you happy, and to chose to get off that path and pick another one that will fit you better. Really! It's OK!

Up to a certain age it's totally possible. Having commitments and people depending on you decreases this possibility that to a great extent.

The same Raivo that was sold to some shady dev who proceeded to delete all of the OTPs that I had in the app?

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1d3zqvv/raivo_auth...

How is this tool different from https://quip.com/? I don't see any features that set it aside except "Conclude" button.

After reading the author's article and the emails, the only thing I'm convinced is that the author has an axe to grind and Vlad comes off as entirely normal and reasonable.

Most of the examples are web dev, but some are from iOS and Android.