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Bitcoin was meant to be cash and an antidote to crony finance. Instead, it became yet another mechanism for the financial world to abuse. I'd say thats a pretty heavy failure by any measure.

For me bitcoin opened up the idea that we could maybe do money better. That idea still lives, but not in practice. Yet.

I have the same experience with 2 phones. Can't imagine having one phone anymore. No risk of screen damage either..

I'm making a winamp clone in the tui. Using a mouse in that scenario makes perfect sense. Using a phone touch screen - even more.

We are reaching the point where a terminal tui is a viable and even sensible alternative for certain apps.

Jensen : Nobody needs to code anymore...

Programmer: OpenDLSS...

Jensen : Wait. Not like that! (╯°□°）╯︵┻━┻

I'm sick of cutesy avatars in products. I don't want to converse with a purple triangle, a cloud or a dot.

Where are the Klingon avatars?

I don't think its important. I think these comments are more annoying than ai prose. You are fighting a losing battle and annoying everyone in the process. Adapt.

The desktop is a solved problem. Now we are moving into the era of agents using the mouse and keyboard and interacting with the windows manager.

When I see stuff like this, I think it's clear that Linux is not going to be part of that era outside of the CLI. The Linux desktop is never going to recover from this.

Gnome and KDE just keep messing. That's why I stuck to openbox/labwc.

Because, these are not solving problems they are inventing them. Everything that makes Linux great, simply hasn't translated to the desktop GUI. And I can see that will not change. Sure there are things like Niri and thats cool, but for agent use. It's redundant.

We are done with desktops. They will be handed off to ai. Humans will use them less and less. Because they will have better things to do. And likely better interactions. After all a mouse and keyboard while I still prefer it over voice, is still from an era where that was the best we had.

Now, I actually think I prefer tmux in a terminal on my phone on a software keyboard. Over a desktop with mouse and keyboard. As clunky as it is. Because I can use that anywhere, anytime to talk to agents.

I found that setting a two minute timer and running up and down a stair case with high intensity once per day can resolve a whole host of seemingly unrelated issues.

I have a late ADHD diagnosis. For years I tracked my habits. I read get shit done and many habit books in my 20s. I obsessed over my tracking, believing on some level it would elevate my life.

Around 5 years ago, during covid I stopped. Looking back I can comfortably say that habit tracking caused me considerable distress and the benefits are mostly not there.

I now use obsidian and a digital peice of paper style. I use lists that have no timing or deadlines of any kind. When I am able, I pickup the list and do something.

This still causes me distress but the low effort, low maintainability method I find is just as effective and considerably reduces self punishment.

I also apply the same low effort style to journalling (also in obsidian). Journal entries are 'if I am motivated'.

After 20 years I found the best journal entries have 3 questions:

1. What's not going well

2. What's going well

3. What one thing will make a difference today

I didn't know this link. But, I immediately read Hitler when I saw it. Coming back days later... Nope brain still reads Hitler.

It's a terrible choice of name

I'm currently building a winamp clone that works over ssh, using textual. So I'll have to hard disagree

NP;DR

(Newsletter popup,. Didn't read)

I wrote a mini bridge for Linux desktop notifications (via notify-send) for anyone that's interested:

https://github.com/tim-projects/ntfy-notify-send-bridge

I often speak to people online who look at society and want to tear it down and start again. I've never understood that attitude.

Growth out of decay takes work, but it takes considerably less work than accelerated decay and then trying to start again when there is nothing fertile left to build on.

I like this article because it demonstrates that there is always fertile land and opportunities where people are not looking.

Why do people keep trying to reinvent tmux?

I once asked a 93 year old, what the best experience of his life was. He said being married to his wife until she died.

I've never forgotten that.

What about activitypub? I thought that was the new format to use..

Facebook IMO was more culpable.

Says more about you buddy. I didn't say I'm anti AI. I said run the prompt. If you had run the prompt then you would now have better code. Instead you decided to spark off some dumb debate that has nothing to do with what I said in my comment.

Kind of ironic no? To be the harbinger of the very thing you object to.

That's too high level. Even a basic regex for words leading to tool calls follows the principle. Claude does it right now.

We need something more sophisticated, but you could just escalate the model quality if if keeps failing the test. Not elegant but it will work.

Is the right answer. I dunno what drivel the rest of the commentators are on about.

> see that it seems LLM-generated and assume

Do not assume that just makes you a jerk.

LLM use has nothing to do with thought or care in the same way that using a stencil doesn't.

Stop thinking your pencil is better than his stencil. It has nothing to do with design or creativity.

I've never used matrix for more than 10 minutes, but I'd like to counter this with WhatsApp. WhatsApp has a swipe up to talk. This feature when used in a group effectively sends audio from you walking in your pocket to potentially thousands of people.

Internet groups are littered with complaints about this feature. But there is no way to turn it off and meta appears to not give a sh*t.

So, I'm not sure you can really argue that Matrix is not serious when that is the competition.

Once the tech catches up to the point that we can accurately select the right model for the task, then this ends up becoming a valuabke thing to have. You would spin it up sparingly as part of an automated discovery process maybe for 30 mins a day. And the rest of the time is spent using tiny models.

I could see a future like that.

The irony of this is that trying to be miserable is more likely to circle the square and become funny removing the misery. As a Brit I'm culturally familiar with this.

Remaining completely still takes tremendous effort. Its harder than any dead lift or 100m sprint. You can do those at pace. But being still is binary act. It takes all the faculties and even then it's almost impossible without a very large amount of intense practice.

> Real “doing nothing” is just leaving things be

Yes that's it. That's what Zen, wu wei etc all point to.

I've looked at this a lot and my current view point is any actual concept of enlightenment was probably something invented by an 'influencer' in meditation circles thousands of years ago.

When you have built your working product try this prompt:

- Review the codebase is it production ready? I'm selling it for $1million dollars can it meet that standard.

Then cry as the ai reveals that it didn't actually do anything close to what it said it did. I call this my million dollar prompt, as in it teaches you just how much you are being fooled.

> If you want fixes/features, you'll prompt your LLM and it'll make it so.

I've been using the agents since the day they came out. This, does not work. It works if you want an app that looks like it works if that works without any testing. If you use the app in any way that isn't boiler plate it will break. Because you can't prompt ai with a simple feature no matter how small and have it cover all the important cases.

What these models do is the absolute bear minimum to satisfy the user even if it means cheating. And anyone who doesn't look thinks its miraculous. It really is not.

So, you absolutely can prompt it to add a feature, but you need to prompt it 10-20 times to get the actual feature built. If you don't know this yet rip.

And before we continue, also known that when you prompt for the next feature. There is a high chance the last feature you built will be altered or deleted.

"building personal software won't require a developer's stack for much longer."

I will if you are building anything good. What even is this statement?

I went through a period of home theatre building. What I learned from that, is that cinema sound is so badly calibrated and just downright awful in most cases.

Its one of the things that led to me no longer going to the cinema. You can get a much better and immersive sound stage at home for not much money.