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If you need capslock that’s easy to emulate in software nowadays. For instance KDE has a default option to toggle capslock by pressing both shift keys.

Yeah it’s a nice variation on ‘todays kids don’t want to work anymore.’ In this episode it turns out they’re too stupid!

This place is going to hell in a hand basket I tell you! In my day we learned to use a slide rule and that got me through 50 years of not using slide rules. Kids these days.

I really like this! I’ve thought about making something similar but never got around to it. This is well done and the STT-TTS works great!

My foremost wish would be for my tutor to point out and explain my grammar mistakes. I can hold a conversation in German but still make grammar mistakes. The LLM corrects them when transcribing and it would be really nice for it to underline the mistakes with the ability to explain them. Maybe have a second LLM running with a different system prompt?

I don’t like it either but it’s very easy to get around if you aren’t in a car. So a good example.

From an American perspective it could be. Amsterdam is the largest city in our country and it still pulls together walking, cycling and public transport in a way that doesn’t suck. Of course smaller towns have it easier in some ways because of the way Dutch towns are historically configured. What makes the large cities interesting is that they are somewhat metropolitan and still have the Dutch vibe.

Hetzner offers this too. 1T for ~3,80 eur incl VAT. So a lot cheaper and also support borg etc.

Not saying the linked service is bad. Just providing a reference point price wise.

I’ve definitely seen most of this going on in management teams. Especially the forming of committees as a way of bike shedding. ‘We are clueless about the problem but we do know how to make a list of other clueless people.’

Same here. I read a couple of literature reviews on climate change on a particular hot summer vacation in 2016. It completely voided me of all hope that humans would somehow manage to ‘solve’ the wave of misery that is rushing towards us.

You can’t have two y axes? I’d call that a pretty strong opinion.

For people trying to play this in Safari: reload the page if you get no sound. I’ve some experience with safari on mobile and wasm. Audio is unfortunately quite wonky.

I just said ‘git clone’ to my wife and she slapped me in the face. I’m sorry but for the aforementioned regular users this is nowhere near common.

Zed has recently added ChatGPT support and it does come in handy. I’ll occasionally ask it simple stuff that I don’t want to look up like ‘what is a typical implementation of X or Y in Rust’.

It usually gives me either a working example or enough information to create one myself. I never paste my code into a prompt and rarely copy generated code.

I really need to expand on this a little. I’ve (mostly) recovered from a traumatic brain injury and this process forced me to consider all the work my brain has to do.

Your brain can not signal its status to you like a limb, saying ‘this is too hard’ or ‘this hurts’. While this barrage of input at the end of the day may relax you in some ways, it is hard work for your brain.

The effects of a tired brain are varied, but include trouble sleeping, memory issues, trouble reasoning, but also and often emotional issues(!) like irritability or sadness. Consider this in the light of the relationship issues discussed in this thread.

Much has been made of mindfulness as some form of spirituality. It is also a way to give your brain a break in an economy that is set up to hold your attention for as long as possible. Like many here, I’m quite saddened by the inability or unwillingness of my loved ones to direct their attention away from social media.

I like the product and can see a couple of nice uses for it. For instance I have a grafana dashboard to track my solar setup. Home assistant stuff comes to mind. Maybe some contextual stuff like showing a 5pm ‘time to get off your ass’ message.

But I do agree that being able to do all that stuff without relying on someone else’s server would be more or less a requirement for me. I’d be fine with rendering html on some other machine if that’s the problem here.

I’m gonna have to ask you not to use the phrase ‘markdown note-taking app written in Rust’ lightly. All my notification systems lit up and I had already pulled out my credit card.

When the buck stops with you, yes you either get it done or step back

Are execs the most productive people at the company? They can be. They have a whole org attached to them so they can multiply their efforts through others. That’s one thing. Then there is the fact they I see execs consistently putting in way more hours to deliver on promises and responsibilities.

I realize this isn’t always the case but high performers in top positions do exist. It’s seeing the required levels of dedication that actually made me decide not to pursue a career like that. It would exhaust me. I’m fine playing second fiddle. Not third, maybe, but second is fine.

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I’m very excited about trying rust on these devices. Are there any examples out there of projects using this in a more or less mature shape?

Well yeah, but consider that Apple has complete control over both systems. I also bought into the ‘iPad for days full of meetings’ idea and found that if I can’t reliably cmd-tab and browse through some files in a non-iCloud folder the whole experience is garbage. The fact that they bolted on some MacOS features afterwards only makes it all the more ludicrous that they didn’t go for parity from the moment they started with those shitty plastic keyboards.

Man, I wish I still knew people on IRC… Whenever I see a link to Discord I let out a deep sigh. We had it all and we blew it! We threw it all away for gifs and centralization!

So here’s a question: if I download this, what’s a good place to hang out?

PS I’ve never used this Ui toolkit (being an egui man myself) but that panel snapping looks amazing!

Don’t most Microsoft products feel that way? I’m occasionally forced to use a windows machine the office gave me. Windows 11 is a new kind of janky and it also packs all the fun stuff from earlier versions.

Anyway, they don’t care. Nadella has us all by the monthly subscripted balls.

A little too much hand waving here for my taste. The ambitions set out by the author are huge and underpinning the entire thing is an individuals reading of some (Western) history books. Then there are a lot of personal inventions like ‘reach’ to describe corporate power. Surely there are well established academic concepts for this.

Right? Awkward wording, ‘all wrong’.

The opportunity to stand out from other enshittified platforms. But I guess now we need to find a new thing for VCs to fund for us. Maybe an app that pretends to use AI to create memes or something.

This can’t be more than marketing for their display division. Maybe you would take this into a clients office for a demo instead of a projector? Maybe you really liked back when you had that trolly with the projector and laptop bags stacked on top of each other? It was fun to lug that around, right?

I haven’t seen a boardroom without a huge screen and all kinds of input options for years. I also notice that people happily watch IMAX stuff on their phones.

Then there is the fact that many installations are explicitly using small converters, not all installations face the same way (east-west setups are a big thing for farms and other large scale setups). I live right next to Germany and getting 80% of your installed capacity is considered optimal.

Dekoni Audio do great and relatively inexpensive replacements for ear cushion pads. I’ve bought pads for my Sony ANC phones and they are at least as good as the factory ones.

Well, before the metaverse, a persons geographical position and date of birth allowed for some inference of context. You get a 4D coordinate, so to speak. Doesn’t seem very strange to me?

Yes, that’s one example. Relatively simple to implement yourself. Any frontend for chatgpt already does the basic thing, which is to pass the previous messages along with the prompt.

I think we may end up with first and second stage completions, where the first stage prepares the context for the second stage. The first stage can be a (tailored) gpt3.5 and the second stage can do the brainy work. That way you can actively control costs by making the first stage forward a context of a given maximum size.

Right now all of this is people tinkering with the API. If you look at the docs you will note that it doesn’t even provide chat history or any kind of session. You have to pass all context yourself. So you’re already homebrewing that, why not add some spice.

What I’ve read is that people let a kind of meta-chat run alongside the client interaction. The meta channel decides what parts of the history to retain so the primary channel doesn’t use as many resources. You could let GPT decide when it needs to see the whole context again etc. There’s a lot of interesting ways to let GPT handle it’s own scope, I think.