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I'm really interested in PlayBook and what Ink & Switch are doing. I wish more of their work was out in the open so it would be easier to try out.

Tools are not value neutral. Tools shape the user

sounds like you should go move there!

Oh, yeah I get what you mean. I think I've seen the one you want, it might be CMD+arrow key.

These keyboard shortcuts are also used in emacs; I'm not sure if that's the source of their inclusion in MacOS or if they have a common ancestor between them.

What's the difference between "just after the most recent newline" and the start of the line?

Yeah, I feel that in my bones. They've started down this road, and I don't know they'll be able to turn back.

Does ctrl+a not work for you? ctrl+a and ctrl+e work for me across every app I use on my Mac.

Yeah, macOS is in a difficult position because some paradigms it's just had forever, and changing them would be unintuitive to established users even though they're not intuitive for a newcomer.

For me, I always felt like the dragging an app into a folder is pretty intuitive. I feel like it follows the unix "everything is a file" philosophy; installing is just putting the app file somewhere on your computer.

But everything else I pretty much agree with you.

I don't love it, I wish it was more handicapped

Obviously all browsers rely on direction from the user. But they also typically rely on instructions from the browser maker's servers. Traditionally, you get all of those instructions in a single download that's been pre-packaged (the browser program itself). But if part of the browser's logic requires more computational resources than most consumers have, what's the problem with "outsourcing" that bit to Perplexity's servers?

As a consumer, I don't think it's very prudent to trust a company with that kind of access to your data, but it doesn't seem materially different from the kind of trust you have to give to Chrome.

I know it feels like they're different, but I think that at its core, they're the same.

When you say I am "manually controlling the site", that actually means I run a program on my computer that makes requests to the site, chooses how to display the content provided by the site, and then gives me control mechanisms (e.g. clicking, scrolling) to interact with that content.

An "agentic workflow" does the same thing. It's a computer program that I run that makes requests to the site, chooses how to display the content provided, and then gives me control mechanisms (e.g. typing text) to interact with the content.

I'm not trying to be pedantic here. I really think that the two aren't that different.

I think I get it. Like they'd have standing to sue if I tried to hack their website, or change the price of items or something.

What do you mean?

Yeah, in this case I believe I do mean the merits rather than "standing".

Really, what do you find different about it?

I'm naive on the law around this, but it seems like Amazon.com shouldn't have standing here. What Perplexity does, from my perspective, is essentially the same as when I allow Firefox, Chrome, or Safari (or any other browser software) to see my credentials and access Amazon's website on my behalf.

I find that this is pretty different from how I prompt. I feel like AI use for greenfield projects is different from long-established codebases.

Have you tried `pi`? What do you think of it?

I actually disagree, I think the problem is that heavy-handed companies have been dictating choices to us and our children, in contradiction to existing laws, and people are finally saying enough, these companies need to follow the laws.

I mean, that is the nature of marriage. You both shoulder burdens for each other

I don't follow that "Most Qualified" would mean 95% of jobs going to foreigners. I get that the U.S. is 4-5% of the world's population, but if I live in San Antonio, Texas, the pool of plumbers for my house must also live in San Antonio, Texas, meaning that 99.9+% of the world is not remotely qualified for the job.

I think the weekend could cover the beginning and the end, just like a bookend can be at the beginning or end of the book shelf

It's creepy

COVID was accidentally released from a lab.

That statement was censored as "objectively false", but our best information says it's probably true, and it was probably true then, too. Censorship is a dangerous walk. I totally agree with you that harmful misinformation is a problem, and that we have a duty of care. The problem is "who fact-checks the fact checkers?", and what happens when political leaders can request certain topics "fact checked".

Do you have children? Because I've never heard a parent think that way

This is exactly what I was wondering, thank you! They kept saying 11 states already have this, but I couldn't figure out which 11.

> I wanted the information and I have no way of getting at it without investing my own time and effort in going to your website.

I think you've hit the nail on the head here. I think that's a big reason why people want to ban bots.

My 70 year old grandpa just cancelled his satellite TV in favor of streaming :)

Those are all the things that replace broadcast TV

I think this is trying to do something similar to exe.dev, but not doing it as well