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rc1··on Attention is all you have
Why should kids put away their toys first?

Isn’t it more optimal, from the perspective of play, to have them spread out?

I can see the argument that if you clear your desk, you’ll be more inclined to draw because you have the space. But if I didn’t impose that value, they wouldn’t necessarily draw. They’d just play with something else.

I don’t track my fuel usage. I did once. Economically, I don’t need to. The car tells me my MPG anyway, literally, if I care to look.

Accounts are harder to track now, with fewer physical assets and more renting and subscriptions.

The point you make seems to be that rigidity in the system would bring value. But I think the values people have often exist outside the system. The system is imposing an idea of what is worth tracking or organising in the first place.

Oddly, I think LLMs are quite intentional in their current incarnation. You start with an empty input box, state a curiosity, and go looking for information. There’s very little imposed structure around what you should care about.

That changes once OpenAI et al. start tracking what you do and recommending what you should be looking at before you’ve even formed the intention yourself.

rc1··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker
Thank you! I didn’t know what it was. The downvotes suggest I should have.
rc1··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker
You know, I did read it. Without the full context, it isn’t entirely clear. I have looked again, and don’t feel it is wrong to come away unsure.
rc1··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
Anyway to know this is real?
rc1··on I Want a Wife (1971) [pdf]
Where I live, no Dad is being praised for changing a diaper. And golf clubs suffer.
rc1··on GPT-6 Astra Generally Available
Quite hidden in the mobile app at least. I had to click thinking. The slider goes 5.6 Instant, 5.6 Medium, 5.6 High, 5.6 Extra High, and the surprise 6 Pro
rc1··on NASA: Fill in a name, and you can have an exclusive coordinate in the universe
We should dice up time instead.
rc1··on Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
I think you miss the point and value add. The always on computer isn’t to run the client only, it is to run all the things a user would normally. The laptop becomes a terminal for a computer that can do anything your laptop can. If you don’t have the need or desire for that, then yes, use a rpi or whatever.
rc1··on Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
The article implies the demand is for running locally. I’m not convinced, at least with a mac minis. Most people I know and myself buy the mini as it is always on, easy to setup, and isolated from my main computer which is a laptop. The mini is driving the use of the $20/month subscriptions.
rc1··on Incident with Github.com [resolved]
Value is that it holds so much code.
rc1··on GPT‑Live
Ciao.
rc1··on Comparing Fable and 10 other LLMs on refactoring a LangGraph god node
It’s an opt in service. Not the UK as a whole blocked.
rc1··on CursorBench 3.1
> I'm pretty baffled by their choice of axes

To put their own model out in front?

rc1··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
Does it matter if they are not concrete? Concrete takes a long time to set.

Why make a product and not sell it baffles me. Especially when others are rapidly making products.

rc1··on We're pausing the Agent SDK credit change (Anthropic)
Does this mean opencode will be allowed or it is different?
rc1··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
A green card is literally not a visa in US Law.

In other contexts, it literally is.

rc1··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
Show your working / explain your math?
rc1··on Claude Code Cheat Sheet
This. TUIs are not the correct paradigm for agentic operations. They are too constrained, and too linear.
rc1··on 8th Wall is now open source
> Available via XR engine binary only

Is on the binary available or is the source available? It is disingenuous to say it’s open source if that’s the case. How could this be supported into the future?

Hope I am wrong.

rc1··on Show HN: MCP server ONLY app for personal finances
Before writing it off..

> Passage is built by the founding engineers behind Plaid one of the most trusted financial platforms in the world that powers apps like Venmo, Coinbase, Robinhood, Acorns, and more.

rc1··on How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
> The whole thing cost about $1,100 in tokens.

I like this is called out.

rc1··on Writing code is cheap now
> any time our instinct says "don't build that, it's not worth the time" fire off a prompt anyway, in an asynchronous agent session where the worst that can happen is you check ten minutes later and find that it wasn't worth the tokens.

They are right about new habits needed. And this is where everyone should start. Sometimes a quick prompt has killed 5 hours of meetings to discuss if it were worth it.

rc1··on Why is Claude an Electron app?
You missed my point. Electron apps are incongruent to native OS apps.

Electron apps look the same on each platform therefore they are consistent.

The meta point is the effort required to be consistent with the OS.

You listed MacOS only apps, emphasising the point.

To do a per OS consistent experience is N times the effort.

rc1··on Why is Claude an Electron app?
> have inconsistent style

You mean incongruent styles? As in, incongruent to the host OS.

There is no doubt electron apps allow the style to be consistent across platforms.

rc1··on Why is Claude an Electron app?
Well put. What world are folks living in where it wouldn’t be the obvious choice.

Code is not the cost. Engineers are. Bugs come from hindsight not foresight. Let’s divide resources between OSs. Let all diverge.

> They are often laggy or unresponsive. They don’t integrate well with OS features.

> (These last two issues can be addressed by smart development and OS-specific code, but they rarely are. The benefits of Electron (one codebase, many platforms, it’s just web!) don’t incentivize optimizations outside of HTML/JS/CSS land

Give stats. Often, rarely. What apps? I’d say rarely, often. People code bad native UIs too, or get constrained in features.

Claude offer a CLI tool. Like what product manager would say no to electron in that situation.

This article makes no sense in context. The author surely gets that.

rc1··on Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism
Isn’t it still? Antidotally, I work with lots of creators who still prefer it because of its subjective qualities.
rc1··on Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]
How long until this can be run on consumer grade hardware or a domestic electricity supply I wonder.

Anyone have a projection?

rc1··on It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)
The Oracle Org Chart by Manu Cornet springs to mind reading this: https://www.globalnerdy.com/2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big...
rc1··on How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house
Cursor opened in config/ + HomeAssistant MCP is exceptionally good. I have blundered along with Home Assistant over the years, but it lit up with the above setup for me the other day.

For giggles, I had it set all the lights into a disco.

Next, we vibed a markdown file containing a to-do list of all my upstairs lights that are abstractly named by the different integrations. I put an x against a name and it turned the light off.

Once I identified it, I wrote a better name next to it. It updated the system.

We vibed dashboards and routines.

The problem with Home Assistant is that once it works, you don't touch it for a year and are back to square one with the layers of concepts. But I am left satisfied knowing I have backed up the conversation/context that we can pick up next year or whenever again.

A memorable computer experience.

rc1··on Mistral 3 family of models released
If Europe isn’t a continent, on what continent are the EU member states sitting on?
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