jt2190
Joined 17 years ago
Joined 17 years ago
> To put it another way: if the problem (if there is one--see further comments below) can be solved by the people who do have skin in the game working things out among themselves, the labels "reformer" and "conservative" don't even come into play. You just have people who have to find some way of working together, doing it.
… where you’ve hand-waved away the debate within the group about whether to do something or not.
Edit: Re-reading… are you saying there’s a third group?
Redefining the context to include a nebulous group of people “with no skin in the game”… Why should we exclude a “conservative” who has no skin in the game from this group, but include a “reformer” who also does not?
Where “works” is defined as “we’re seeing a lot of very obvious problems but we have faith they’ll work themselves out over time without any intervention”, and the opposite is “we’re seeing a lot of very obvious problems and we think a change is necessary”. Note that the thing under debate has problems and it is not obvious to everyone that it “works”. The conservative says “let’s wait and see” and the reformer says “we must change this now”.
> There’s a big market (egg producers selling eggs to supermarkets etc.), and there’s a small market (egg producers selling extra eggs to each other on an electronic exchange). The price in the small market determines the price in the big market. Participants in the small market are also participants in the big market. You can spend a little money in the small market to move the price, which can make you a lot of money in the big market.
“Egg LIBOR was also manipulated” (Paywalled) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-07-01/egg...
Edit: His testimony concludes:
> This is not a debate about rejecting technology. It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works.
> Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them.
> Federal policy can restore balance by demanding evidence, protecting children’s developmental needs, and ensuring that innovation serves learning rather than attention capture.
> Our responsibility is not to maximize screen exposure, but to maximize the cognitive capacity and long-term flourishing of the next generation.
[1] Written Testimony, Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, PhD, MEd, Neuroscientist and Educator Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation https://www.commerce.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/doc...
curl -fsSL https://junie.jetbrains.com/install.sh | bash
To automatically install the local model after the CLI is installed, you run with th --local-model flag: curl -fsSL https://junie.jetbrains.com/install.sh | bash -s -- --local-model
There is a note in the bash script [2] that the local model needs MacOS for some reason: install_local_model() {
echo ""
log "Junie is installed. Setting up the local model..."
if ! curl -fsSL "$LOCAL_MODEL_URL" | bash; then
# The local model is an optional extra on top of a finished Junie install,
# and it is the part most likely to be refused -- it needs macOS 26 on an
# Apple M5 or newer with 40 GB of RAM. Whatever went wrong here, Junie itself
# is installed, so say so plainly instead of leaving the run looking failed.
echo ""
log_error "The local model setup did not complete."
log "Junie itself is installed and ready to use -- run: junie"
log "To try the local model again: curl -fsSL $LOCAL_MODEL_URL | bash"
exit 1
fi
}
But the GitHub repo README for "local" [3] does have instructions for Linux though, and makes it seem like the --local flag will work. As a hardy Linux hacker, you should probably just try it and see what happens.Edit: Interestingly, I got Junie CLI on my M4 Mac but did NOT get the local model installed, which t looks like iwas going to me Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-4bit. (Needs a M5 GPU apparently.)
I did start Junie and it prompted me to connect to a local model, successfully detected Ollama and connected to that.
[1] https://github.com/JetBrains/junie [2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JetBrains/junie/refs/heads... [3] https://github.com/JetBrains/junie/tree/main/local
> Fully local: Nothing leaves the machine
> Offline
> Free to use: No card, no subscription, no credits. [1]
https://junie.jetbrains.com/local
I’ll definitely give this a try.
[1] Best as I can tell, the “local” version is the same as “CLI”, and “CLI” simply means using a cloud model, which you have to pay for. It also looks like JetBrains is hosting some models in their cloud which are free to use until December.
Another challenge is getting developers to stop assuming they know what the code does without reading it! Having AI “fact check” various documents against the source will help immensely.