equalsione

If I said, “I want a setup that is usable for an agentic coding workflow, and it MUST be local”, what’s the smallest/cheapest option right now?

It’s _technically_ possible to get agents running on all kinds of setups but there seems to be an (undefined) floor for useful setups.

A lot of the stories people have about getting setups running on relatively low end hardware turn out to have huge compromises or run into issues on anything but trivial cases. I’ve found it hard to find a consensus. Or maybe I just don’t like the multiple thousand dollar price tags people are suggesting…

People are living longer after retirement (over 10 years longer since the 1970s) and birth rates have fallen. Expenditure surpasses income eventually. There are other factors but that seems to be the main issue.

Given the generally high regard that the US has for service people - military, police, emergency services etc - it always puzzled me that Trump was never held to account (in a political, rather than legal sense) for the harm caused.

Is there a reason why this has been glossed over? I thought that would surely be a red line for many of his supporters.

Just bear in mind that dictatorships tend to have broad (and arbitrary) definitions of "pre-dicatatorship ruling classes" that could include you, your loved ones, your friends, etc...

It would result in fewer units, but you could introduce "courtyards" that would act as corridors of light. It would depend on the depth of the building. You could potentially do it over two or more stories.

Alternatively sacrificing the central core of the buildings to act as light tunnel might work. Or give the deeper units over to utilities, communal areas, etc

A good architect could transform these buildings into pleasant and useful spaces. It just requires a willingness to try. Check out the youtube channel like @nevertoosmall or @kirstendirksen - I'm sure there are many others that explore topics like this.

> Tech companies are still performing mass lay-offs, even with a tech bubble in full force. > Many organisations are also resorting to employee-hostile strategies to increase employee churn, such as forced Return-To-Office policies.

Would generally agree and it’s been discussed a lot but apart from “because they can” I haven’t heard a really compelling reason why. I’m not convinced by the claims about AI taking jobs (yet). So what’s going on?

Growing up, my parents didn't have encouragement or patience in their emotional toolkit. You were expected to do everything perfectly - homework, writing a letter, any kind of planning, even sweeping the floor or washing dishes - and if you struggled in any way you were berated at length.

Many decades later even mundane things can be a battle - ringing a doctor to ask for an appointment, or a provider to query a bill, filling in forms and so on. Most of my procrastination stems from my experiences back them. It is easier in my mind to defer action than to risk the imagined verbal abuse. I'd imagine a fair share of non-ADHD related organisational issues can be traced to similar experiences.

Just like you can't out-train a bad diet, you can't out-live a shitty childhood.

This is a “when you think about it” argument. As in “humans are just tubes, when you think about it”.

Technical debt is a thorny issue already. Arguments like this don’t help.

One option is standalone CarPlay and Android Auto head units - search for carpuride or Atoto for examples. There’s other manufacturers as well. I recall seeing model specific replacement head units for the pop up type display you describe but can’t find them now

Perhaps the parent comment is indirectly referring to the Margaret Atwood quote:

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”