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the problem of that setup is that it will run out of context pretty quick. So for coding agent it will limit your workflow very fast.

Grok has one of the best reasoning and halucination benchmark scores.

>the only people who use Grok are essentially Elon’s fanboy club

that's not true, Grok compelling feature is it's capabilities, performance and price. You only get comparable prices with GPT-5.4 mini or Gemini Flash. Also Grok Voice and images are pretty good.

I think at this point they don't want to be at the same level as Opus or GPT, they found their niche.

Thats grok build, which is pretty nice and has compatibility with Claude Code. They just need better models, that will be released soon.

OpenAI mentioned already that it's ok to use Codex with Openclaw.

If they would ask 10 bucks a month for good servers without cheaters I wouldn't have a problem. But 100 bucks after they lied about EOD and bring the same thing all over again and not improving the game its just shooting themselves in the foot.

I finally want to get more physical activity and find time for me.

I agree with everything the Author said and I do have Firefox installed for those reasons although my main Browser is Brave (Win/Linux) and Safari (Mac). Nowadays Firefox is as good as the Chromium alternatives, there is no doubt on that.

The question is: What would it take for the majority of the Internet users (enterprise, users with low literacy, Developers, Powerusers, etc...) to switch to Firefox ?

15 years ago it was clear. Firefox was vastly superior to IE. Nowadays is not vastly superior to the competition, in fact, I cannot think of any major compelling reasons which would make all those groups of users to change.

As for me, I used Firefox before it was Firefox or Mozilla and I do plan to join the cause and use Firefox in 2024.

I buy from time to time the German Managazine C'T and i cannot hide the fact that lot's of information in the Magazine i already absorbed from one way or the other. In this day and age of internet, people get easily information through different channels (social media, websites, chat, etc...)

I find the Magazine and the writers very professional but I cannot say it's worth for me to buy the Magazine nowadays.

UK voted to leave the European Union. UK remains in Europe Continent obviously.

My advice:

- Take some time off

- Talk to your family and ask them to help you.

- Take care of your health. Sleep, have quality time for your self.

- To exercise.

- Don't take all these advices very personal or serious. It depends from person to person, usually someone who cares about you is the one who can give you the best advice.

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses".

He is right on this one. Pretty much in every discussion about Programming Languages people write how good Rust is and complain about how bad C++ is but the reality is, C++ it's one of the most used languages in the world.

This quote could be a very harsh reply to Rust vs C++.

iCloud+ for me as part of Apple One. Works as expected although the spam filters are not as good as with Gmail.

May I ask whats is your use for ChatGPT Plus ?

ChatGPT is no doubt amazing but so far I havent found a use case for paying Premium.

- Apple One (because i use all the services, including the custom domains)

- Netflix (combined with Apple TV Plus and Youtube it's basically our TV time)

- ProtonVPN (I always like to have a VPN just in case, i got a good deal last year on Black Friday)

- X (It's still my mostly used Social Network for the good and for the Bad. So far it's in part worth it the price i pay for the service).

- Ivory (I used Mastodon constantly for around 6 months and Ivory subscription was totally worth.)

- Amazon Prime (We use it to buy lots of stuff during the year, so far its worth it for the amount of services Amazon provides. Could be a better value as it once was)

I think about subscribing to Youtube Premium and eventually when it's worth it ChatGPT Plus.

Who cares ? Apple at this point as like infinite money. Plus they need to integrate more and more AI to improve their products. They already have the Hardware, now they need the SW and AI to make use of them. Same deal regarding the Apple Online Services.

if your .emacs has 10 LOC it makes it definitely easy. My .emacs is ±360 LOC.

i tried Doom Emacs and the first thing that turned me down was the VI bindings, which i disabled right after install. But yeah it does the whole configuration nightmare more easy to maintain.

I love Emacs (it was my main editor in the last 20 years) but i can't justify anymore to use it due to lack of modern feature, ease of use and maintenance of the .emacs files. Maybe i'm getting too old to constant exercise my memory or to tinker configuration files. Nowadays i just use VSCode and occasionally nvim.

Well if you have the build automated, you can simply use a markdown editor and commit the file into git. It's not like an experience like Wordpress but i would say it's not that bad.

i think so because on Twitter you can always get some randomness due to the algorithm and someone might reply if your Tweet appeared on the "For You" tab. On Mastodon this "randomness" has way less probablity to happen unless you use hashtags and someone finds the Toot through the hashtag.

Quality of interactions apart, the randomness of Twitter is one of the things i miss on Mastodon.

I really have a problem with Discord how to choose a discussion, find a link and stay on topic. I see Discord as a modern IRC tbh but far from Reddit. Perhaps im using Discord in the wrong way. May i ask which type of communities do you follow in Discord ?

I'm thinking about doing something similar, hows your experience with Gentoo currently on Desktop.

plus /r/programming is pretty much dead, i guess people moved here.

How to start ? Just install a Linux distro and start using it as your default OS. You will learn a lot and soon learn its flaws.

My social media experience nowadays:

- Twitter post-Musk: most of the interesting people i followed moved to Mastodon and stopped posting interesting content on Twitter. Plus App and Site went slower, same old trolls and Musk now is the center of attentions. No removed, since i go there once in a while to read what the Crypto community has to speculate.

- Facebook: I refuse to use, i have absolute no interest to see content from "friends" in that form. I used FB groups a while ago but the read format was horrible. I only keep the account because its the only way to keep somekind of contact to old co-workers.

- Whatsapp: I do use, for some friends. I like it. I miss general content infomation, therefore i use more Mastodon or Instagram.

- Tiktok: The recommendation engine is brilliant. Its like an addition, but i barely use it due to Privacy reasons. Also i have no interest to post any content on Tiktok.

- Signal: I use to contact my family. Apple Messages as well.

- Reddit: I go to some subreddits to keep me informed about some hobbies, but i take the information and comments with a huge grain of salt. My experience tells me Reddit cannot be used for serious exchange of information.

- Instagram: I use it for some hobbies, I was able to find interesting content but the Experience itself Meta wants to provide to the users is bad. Ads everything, useless suggestions often show and lack of identity. What does Meta want to do with Instagram ? Does it have an identity right now ? Does it want to be Tiktok, the old photos based Instagram, Facebook replacement or what else ? Also i hate the fact its difficult to access external links and the comments system.

- Youtube: its ok, it is what it always is. The amount of Ads its annoying, maybe I need to pay premium at some point in time.

- Linkedin: Its horrible in everyway. I have an account to check some old colleagues.

- Discord: I don't like the concept, its difficult to keep track of information and its too chaotic. I use it to keep up with some friends for Gaming. Its also fun to interact with Bots.

- Pinterest: my wife loves it, but i never found a use for it.

- Mastodon: is the only Social Network i can safely say i have been having a very good experience. The Apps are great, most of the interesting users from Twitter are now on Mastodon, descentralized, Privacy friendly, no Ads, no Algorithm to sell you ads.

Bonus:

- HN: I like it, moderation works great! Lots of interesting content! :)

So yeah, social media in 2023 its not a good experience. It seems everybody wants to exploit something out of their users and fight for their time. In addition they are breaking search engines because the average user posts content on social networks instead of open websites which could be seached from Search Engines.

Do you have a dual boot ?

I love Emacs. I did a ton of things with it:

- Organizer - git client - search tool - rough notes - Terminal - file management - Code editor!

Pretty much everything.

But sometime ago I realized I was adding so many customized code lines to my .emacs to reassemble the modern editors that it made me think I was using it wrong. Then I decided to take a break and start using Neovim, which imo borrows some nice stuff from EMacs like the Terminal and the lua interface.

I used it for many years without issues, give WSL a try, it even works in graphical mode.

I tried Doom but I didn’t liked the fact Vi keybindings where enabled by default and the workflow tries to mimic modern Neovim setups. As an old an old Emacs user it felt atrocious to me.