Nice list of commands. I would add fd (author: sharkdp) to the list. It’s a find replacement, and it has great ergonomics. Also, atuin is probably the single biggest upgrade to my cli. It helps me dig up esoteric incantations that I ran six months ago with ease.
I guess it depends on your perspective. Here in Portugal, lots of people ended up sitting on their patios, chatting with friends, cooking on the grill, playing cards, sipping wine, and generally having a pretty good time. There was a collective groan around the small village where I live when the power came back on, and quite a few people commented that they were disappointed that they'd have to work in the morning.
Personal opinion, it's for fun with some internal narrative of justification. It doesn't seem like it would be cost effective or provide better results, as all the major LLM vendors benefit tremendously from economies of scale, and the monthly fees for these services are extremely reasonable for what you are getting. Going further, the cloud based LLM receive upgrades constantly while static hardware will likely lock you out of future models at some time horizon.
I had a Harley Davidson back in the United States. When I talk to my European friends about motorcycles, this is something that they poke fun at. Automobile culture seems to have different parameters between continents.
This is an interesting take on the current situation, and I definitely see it here in Portugal. Lots of businesses with signs with only a WhatsApp number and a QR code for payment (MBWay). This said, it seems like any system for discovery will have technical hurdles (a registration process, a way to apply updates, renewals, validation, etc). I agree that the landscape is changing, but it feels very challenging to establish an alternative to something like DNS without a lot of the same hurdles that come with it today. I would like to hear your perspective on what this would look like.
STEAM on Fedora requires a bunch of incantations on the CLI to get controller support working after Flatpak installation. This pretty much solidifies its flaws as a format. "Table stakes" apps should just work.
I often ask the LLM for a concise summary of the discussion so far—formatted as a prompt. I then edit it appropriately and use it to start a new conversation without the baggage. I have found this to be a very effective technique, but I imagine it will be automated sometime soon.
If it’s just flavoring text patterns, how does it reason about code when I give it explicit arbitrary criteria? Is it just mining and composing “unit level” examples from all the code bases it has ingested?
The die hard supporters, yes, but his approval is already in decline across a bunch of key demographics (women, independents, hispanics). The only President that has been less popular in the first 100 days is... Trump (first term). The majority disapprove with the current handling of the Ukraine war, ending foreign aid programs, and immigration (his strong point). His approval on the economy has fallen 13 points since December, which should be alarming for his party, as that was a key factor in his re-election (Biden inflation concerns). He can blame Biden all he wants, but the majority of Americans identify current economy as belonging to Trump. It's hard to blame Biden when he's been so vocal and brazen about the tariffs.
There is no "aim". The tariffs are something Trump has been "wanting to do" for decades, and now that he has almost absolute power and is surrounded by sycophants, he gets to do whatever he wants. This is a flex. A way for him to "play hardball" with the rest of the world but without any clear notion of what the next step us. He's said that other countries will have to "pay a lot". What does it even mean? There is no plan. There is no ask. There is no endgame. His cronies are too afraid of him to tell him that this is a terrible idea, and now that he owns it, he'll sooner go down with the ship than admit he was wrong.
I’ve been writing software for 25 years and am “vibe coding” a fairly complex game in my spare time. It saves time on boilerplate but it is absolutely not capable of doing all the work. There’s still some assembly required and doing so requires domain knowledge and expertise. Also, prompting properly requires the same. If I were to compare the experience to building a house, I’m now the foreman—and no longer doing the manual labor. There’s a real risk of systems making it to production that nobody understands, but we have that today.
I go to art museums regularly and look at framed canvas hanging on the walls. It’s an entirely analog experience minus the occasional digital exhibition. I use this experience as an escape from the digital world and hope it stays this way.
It's all terrible, but it pales in comparison to the fact that the government can now disappear people to a gulag in El Salvador with no due process. I know that comparative suffering isn't a good litmus test for one situation vs another, but I'll take my data being stolen over a life sentence in an offshore prison without a trial any day of the week.
It's a tool in the toolbox, not the only tool. Kids need to have some level of agency over their lives. They also need to know that there are some things you can't just do. Negation comprehension doesn't develop in most toddlers until roughly 27 months, so it's also a matter of what is age appropriate.
We have been redirecting our toddler pretty successfully in most “conflict” situations. Instead of telling him what he can’t do, give him a few options of things he can do. It’s not appropriate for all situations but a great strategy for drawing focus away from whatever is causing contention.
I haven’t viewed default as a real risk beyond some true craziness happening like the U.S. willfully deciding to default on a payment. Better yields are a good incentive to buy bonds now but they simultaneously lower the value and desirability of exiting bond holdings. They’re also correlated to inflationary risks, so I guess it depends on your outlook on the future of the dollar too.
I agree. I guess my question was more focused on asset allocation in an era when the world seems to be moving away from the traditional relationship with the United States.
I’ve always been a “time in the market” is better than “timing the market” guy, but I find myself questioning that a ton in the current climate. When US bond yields started rising in the current market calamity, I was not surprised but definitely alarmed. As a “retirement saver” (not trader), what’s the best strategic hedge at the moment?