zamalek
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Comment · 18 minutes ago
The question is whether most people use a screen like a desk. Nearly everyone I know has a window maximized all the time, and occasionally floats a window to drag or something extremely temporary (e.g. calc). Niri has a significantly lower impedance mismatch with that workflow (and it can temporarily float windows).
Where they could improve is hotkeys: they are all heavily reliant on them, which is unreasonably hostile to non tech users.
Humans aren't very good at identifying what they need from tech. The earliest example is the spreadsheet: no average user would have asked for it because there was no skeomorphism to draw from. We would have had graph paper with a single char per cell if we went with skeomorphic.
Cascading window managers are objectively terrible. Obviously we don't force better solutions onto people, but they have very few redeeming qualities.
Comment · 19 hours ago
Unfortunately congress and the senate will only pass malicious compliance laws like that when it's to the benefit of megadonors.
Comment · 1 day ago
Exactly, this is exactly what I'm going to do on NixOS. Apparently Epic is greenlighting CachyOS, so I'll most likely just pull their bins.
> GP: EACv2 can't accept self-signed kernels and bootloaders
Also, from what I understand from the NixOS discussion[1] on this, it's using mok. That does put which keys are trusted in Epic's hands (which also isn't perfect, but is still vastly better than Microsoft). That article author seems to be poorly informed, or may be spreading FUD.
[1]: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/eac-linux-v2-requirements-vs-b...
Comment · 1 day ago
I have come to realize that code (and I think possibly productivity in general) being expensive was always a feature. I am sure that a few great ideas did get lost to obscurity due to lack of access to resources to build them out. However, we now have an absolute deluge of complete and utter shite.
Comment · 1 day ago
It's truly bizarre for there to be widespread hope and excitement for a bubble burst. It's arguably stupid, and I'm one of the stupid people because I find myself hoping for it too.
Comment · 1 day ago
> all that's left for them will be gamers
Tim Sweeny being "one of the people who dooms Windows" was the least likely thing on my multiverse bingo card - but he's eroding that too. EAC v2 will have kernel mode (eBPF) anti-cheat. Microsoft has lost their moat at the throne of AI.
Comment · 1 day ago
The problems with floating a bill is that it would be killed by the Republican-controlled branches (all of them). Best to hold it back in the hopes that Americans show up to save the coutnry.
Comment · 1 day ago
> uncanny valley of prose
Ah good ol' serendipity. I strongly believe this too, and I think that's why older (less capable) models fared better: they hadn't fallen into the valley yet. Maybe it's not a valley at all, and is just a cliff after which there is uncanny.
When the earliest models launched I was super-excited to no longer have to write pull request descriptions and commit messages. I have done a sharp 180 on that and I'm no longer a meat proxy[1]: instead I point out any redirects and improvements I made the agent do before opening the PR (which there are still _many_ in even the most trivial tasks).
Comment · 1 day ago
> Bram says you're securing quarry. I have stone pick at spawn; can assist mining once safe. Any priority dig direction? Hunger 10 so keeping travel short.
And this is where you need a world model. A human player would have taken the 2 minutes required to solve their hunger issue.
Comment · 2 days ago
> O(millions)
Big-O doesn't include constant factors for a reason (never mind just being a constant entirely), but maybe I am misunderstanding what you are trying to say?
Comment · 2 days ago
> Practically speaking, what's the risk?
1. Revenge on an ex.
2. Send someone the packet, set up a situation where they need to call 911.
Comment · 2 days ago
It's the uncanny valley for text. Models were previously nicer to talk with because they were incompetent enough to still appear to be machines to our minds.
Comment · 2 days ago
That's the problem with LLMs. Sometimes they follow instructions too precisely, others they sneak in a slow and buggy IEEE-754 parser instead of using `stof`.
Comment · 2 days ago
> Huh, but then it's neither remote nor zero click if you need to locally install malware?
The software is installed on the _sender_ device.
Comment · 2 days ago
> I don't really understand how the personal economics for this work out for the majority of the population.
8.5% of American households have no car[1]. That isn't a strict majority, but if you can be charitably informal: paying for grocery deliveries is orders of magnitude cheaper than loan+insurance+maintenance for a car.
If you want to become car-less then the like of Instacart make that a realistic prospective (but Instacart specifically makes no sense because stores usually do it for free if you can tolerate next-day).
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