Tallain

Very cool, I like this a lot. Will be giving it a try!

It's a real shame they got rid of target display mode. But then people would hold onto iMacs even longer.

Today, you can use software like Luna or Duet, or native screen sharing to control an iMac from another Mac (or vice versa). I have a 2019 iMac, bought for pennies and upgraded after to max out; way better value than buying the display on its own or a comparable monitor alone. The screen quality is just great.

I use it both as a daily driver and as a "thin client" for all my other machines with the software above.

Hot dog I love to be wrong. They've got plenty at $25/TB there, too.

A terabyte is no longer $20, unfortunately.

Sure! Send me an email, my name on gmail.

I also built something similar to solve this, but more aimed at inspecting the impact of changes to a concept - think a vertical slice or domain, or even a feature. Often the same thing might be referred to by similar, but slightly different names, or separate pieces of the codebase might not immediately look related when they do share dependencies. So symbols, phrases, and words are attached to concepts for either LLM-based or user-based querying via MCP.

An indexer crawls the codebase and maps slices of code to concepts, then groups related concepts. You can inspect a concept to see things related to it, or ask about the impact of a change and see second-order changes required - things not so easy to see that are related by basic symbol linking (although it does use symbol linking - it heavily relies on Roslyn, since it's all C# focused).

It also returns confidence scores with everything, which adjust based on a dozen or so factors like whether the user defined the concept or the concept was auto-generated during the code crawl. Low confidence score === fall back to grep.

It was a super fun project and ended up being very useful, as much for people as the LLM. But, I'm not convinced it is materially better than grep in some ways and just haven't had the time to really focus on improving it.

Sounds like you fundamentally misunderstand the thing people have against using AI for these pursuits. If your imagination or capability needed LLMs in order to unlock their full potential (as in, if you waited until AI removed the barriers between a beginner and their future craft), maybe your potential wasn't that great to begin with. And all you're doing is producing things closer to the median, instead of somewhere toward one end of a bell curve.

I don't know if this is aimed at me or not. I don't use this workflow; in fact I'm pretty bog-standard in many of the ways I use my computers. In any case, I don't see how expecting to be able to bring up a context menu is in any way esoteric. We're in a thread about navigating GUIs using a keyboard. On many keyboards there's literally a key dedicated to opening a context menu, and on most OSs there's a pretty standard shortcut to do it as well, which is what GP was talking about and what sibling comments discuss being added more recently in MacOS. So, again, not very esoteric.

I also don't see how trying to emphasize empathy toward users translates to hubris. But sounds like you've got a bone to pick, so keep picking I guess.

In this case it's not a context menu, it's just a menu. User experience is degraded, see GP's case. There is an expectation and a common paradigm which is intentionally ignored because the OS developers thought they knew better than the users.

This reminds me of frequent conversations with other developers when presented with a bug report. "That's not a bug, it's working as intended." The intention is wrong, then -- the bug is in the design, not the code, but it's still a bug.

A few years back I threw Mint plus this theme on my old Thinkpad T430s. My intent was to use it for one thing and one thing only: writing. The theme helped me trick myself into thinking the machine was unusable for anything else.

This just in: multiple factors can contribute to the same result. Shocking!

It sounds like you haven't touched (or heard of?) any of the recent DOOM games.

I've driven from Mukdahan to Kanchanaburi to Trang provinces so my experience is not centered around the major cities at all. I don't know what poor luck or exotic adventures you may have had, but I never once struggled to find a bathroom.

For the most part, yes, but I've gone much longer stretches without seeing a gas station in the US. To be fair, there's also no point in building gas stations at regular intervals in the desert or the many other long stretches of nothing across much of the country.