savory_pancake

I think A/B testing may have value in selecting a specific path preferred by 85% of users, but it seems like alienating the remaining 15% doesn't feel great.

95% of users might not want the double-textbox, but 5% might, and some might want to use it someday.

I think, make enough of these decisions, and there's bound to be mounting friction for users with different preferences navigating your app.

Ideally, the app should offer a way for the user to intuitively configure the app to their own liking.

In the words of Edsger Dijkstra, "Projects promoting programming in 'natural language' are intrinsically doomed to fail." I think for something as bespoke as a search engine, a DSL that accepts quotes, logical operators, and specific terms definitely allows for far greater specificity than natural language can (at least in an equivalent amount of text).

I think the two-tiered input-output approach you propose makes sense. Allowing users to inspect and mutate lower-level languages allows the user to make modifications as needed. I think it's very much in the spirit of free software.

But then again, for text-based search specifically (search engines, notes, etc.), I think there is some value in querying the LLM directly, as it is able to fuzzy search by inspecting its weights. This results in a lesser degree of specificity, which allows for more false positives, but can maybe capture similar words (i.e., synonyms / typos / tenses) or higher-level semantic concepts.

Maybe they're just two different search algorithms, and the user should be able to choose between them.

Thanks for linking the article, I found it very interesting.

Valid, but I’m unsure if mouse use needs to be mutually exclusive with a tiling window manager, and would like to suggest that all tiling managers are not necessarily made equal.

Niri for example, tiles but additionally introduces an infinite horizontal space, where you can slide between different windows like they’re on a film strip. The slide into view works with a mouse, and you can easily setup mouse bindings to move and reset windows. I think it’s better than just a stock floating windows manager because it feels easier for me to navigate an infinitely wide left-right and up-down space as opposed to an infinitely deep space into and out of the screen.

This is interesting to me: for some reason I had in my mind that Nietzsche may have been in poor health but was at least somewhat well known in his time.

There’s always Van Gogh and Starry Night to think about as well.

It really feels like all the open-source projects are getting more and more capable. I recently went back to fedora linux on my desktop and the nvidia support is so much better on there than it was even a year or two ago. Hyprland is such a smooth wm that wasn't around even a few years ago. I've been using wgpu for cross-platform GPU rendering, but I've heard about SDL3's recent official release, and I really want to try out those GPU rendering capabilities. What a time to be alive.