chrisguilbeau

I've bought several iMacs (2008, 2012, 2014, 2020) Anyway, it is frustrating once they aren't supported anymore. I think they are overbuilt, they are built to last forever but designed to be obsolete in 7 years. ChromeFlex has saved a few from recycling at our house (A chromebook with a retina display seems like such a waste)

I suggest spending a bit more and getting a mac mini and a studio display instead (Equally well built but can be used almost forever). If you could only (easily) use them as monitors once they went out of support...

When I saw this I thought of the old PSION computer that would keep your state no matter where you were in the thing.

Go to contacts add a new item, type a few letters, Go to word processor, type a few letters, go back to contacts and it's right where you left it, go back to WP, same thing. I think this would be a great tool for that idea where every single things is sticky.

I always think about video game UI's when I read the skeuomorphic design arugments. I suspect video games use them, at the very least, because they are delightful and fun; which, in my opinion, is a good reason to do something anywhere.

I will say that a long time ago I installed enlightenment and after about 10 minutes the burning windows felt like they were getting in the way, so I guess, like everything, there should be balance.

With everything changing it's great to hear others have the same workflow. I added a snapshot step so I'm doing

plan, generate step 1, review, snapshot, generate step 2, review, snapshot...

That way I have a chance to diff with the previous iteration and clean up comments, modify skills, etc. also if it bonks on a step I'm one snapshot away from trying again...

Is there a place people share their workflows other than HN comments?

I live near a 3d printed neighborhood in Georgetown, TX. We would have bought one if they'd had more than 3 bedroom floorplans. They are concrete and stay cool in the summer, they also all have solar panels...

Everyone I've talked to says they are wierd looking like the movie set of Edward Scissorhands or something, but it's mainly because they didn't leave old growth trees so every tree is < 5 years old (maybe for the printer to have room to move around?) and they are very very similar. People also don't like the concrete factor.

I don't know if it counts as successful but if we'd had fewer kids I'd be in one right now!

LLM: wrt frst 100fizzbuzz

I spent three months with my family in Japan (Feb-Apr). We were in Osaka and used trains exclusively, just working remotely, homeschooling, living life with a few day/weekend trips. This captures for me the simple, clean, engineered beauty of being in a Japanese city. I just sat an watched for a while feeling like I was back there. Having the easy to learn characters above the traditional ones is also super nice. Amazing.

Being able to hover over the characters and see the phonetics would be a nice bonus for us beginners.

I live in rural VT, 600 person town in national forest. Tons of us have EVs because you don’t have to drive down the mountain for gas and they drive great in the snow and mud.

All I’m saying is that starting FSD from park in my driveway and having it drive to my destination with my hands on my legs and then having it park itself when it gets there seems reasonable to call “full self driving” to me. I pay for the subscription and I would continue paying if it never got any better. I do live in a rural state, so maybe that’s why it works so well.

Mine drove me from my house to the airport without my ever touching the steering wheel so what exactly do you mean?

I'm a developer that primarily uses gh copilot for python dev. I find it pretty useful as an intelligent auto-completer that understands our project's style, and unusual decorators we use.

What tools would you tell a copilot dev to try? For example, I have a $20/mo ChatGPT account and asking it to write code or even fix things hasn't worked very well. What am I missing?

I'll add my experience to the mix. I was in Thailand in the early 2000s and we were eating at a night market and I heard a song that sounded like something by the Beatles or another 60s band. I started looking for what it might have been when I got back to the states a year later; did it say doctor Jones? Friends and google were no help. Anyway, 20 years later I asked ChatGPT and it come back with "New York Mining Disaster 1941" by the Bee Gees... Simply incredible. I suppose there will be fewer of these decade long searches now!

Late to the party, but I have a script called zbeep that takes command and args as arguments. Makes a sound before starting execution and has success and fail sounds. It’s great for those 5-10 min processes. For long stuff I have a similar zslack command.