Lowkey how I version number personal mini-projects and small things I roll out for my team.
I guess more like:
x… “huge new feature, scope expansion, or cool shit.”
.x. “small feature, or fixing a serious bug”
…x “testing something. Didn’t work. Try again +1.”
I’m not ashamed it didn’t work. I swear!
Going backwards in Tim makes complete sense. You just don’t morge enough to understand.
That edit had confused so many users over the years. They think they are signing away rights to their copyrighted work by agreeing to the platform’s EULA, but the terms granting them license to freely store and distribute your work? That’s literally what you want their service to do because you’re posting it with the intention of the platform showing it to others!
Granted, companies are using user data for other purposes too, so that’s a problem, but I’ve seen so so many posts over the last couple decades of people complaining about EULAs that describe core site functions…
This is giving me illegal number vibes. Like, if an arbitrary calculation returns an illegal number that you store, are you holding illegal information?
(The parallel to this case is that if a statistical word prediction machine generates copyrighted text, does that make distribution of that text copyright violation?)
I don’t know the answer to either question, btw, but I thought it was interesting.
The open menu key. It’s the one I remap to Compose (for special characters, like Comp±-- to get —).
But 144 is better than 100, for the exact same reason that 12 is better than 10?
There’s a reason measured angles go to 360ths, then subdivided by 60 or even by 60 again.
100 is as terrible a base as 10, and you run into it all the time if you’re designing something in metric; you can’t divide by 3 evenly.
Echoing that I’m really tempted to get this as a work phone. It would be great to turn my work phone off at the end of the day and not see it.
My work is great about boundaries, too; I want this for my challenges cycling out of “work mode” to be present for my family (and myself, for that matter).
I’d be very, very nervous about using AI for a project that big.
One of the biggest issues with AI, when it “works”, is that it’s incredibly hard to catch its errors. We have layers of cognitive biases around content that appears “written well” is most likely authoritative.
That means LLMs sound very authoritative, since correct structure is something LLMs are very good at. LLMs can write text that uses advanced vocabulary and complex sentence structure correctly. Similarly, it can write well laid out code with detailed comments and include an explanation for how and why the code works.
It all looks really convincing. It takes significant attention and effort to critically analyze LLM output to notice the errors it makes, and it’s very easy to forget that the LLM is categorically incapable of understanding your prompt or its output—LLMs don’t understand anything! They’re just advanced word (token) prediction machines.
So, on a project the scale of refactoring the entire Windows codebase, with pressures to do the work quickly, the results are very predictable. They are going to introduce a lot of errors. And end up with incompatible spaghetti code that’s incredibly inefficient.
(Somewhat technical example: Anyone who’s studied algorithms/computer science knows how easy it is to write functional code that scale terribly because of missing a small logical step that makes one factor of code operate in linear time instead of logarithmic time. Multiply that by a few other factors in the same function and your code balloons from n or log(n) time to n² or even n³ time.)
We’re witnessing the beginning of the end of Microsoft as an OS company.
Exactly. Similarly for Office/Teams/SharePoint/(Enterprise) OneDrive. I need those apps to work or Linux is a non-starter. If people could install them and they “just worked”, that removes a massive barrier to getting people to switch.
Thankfully, they work great in a VM, and the web versions of the apps are good enough for like 90% of my workflows. So I made the switch easily enough… But I’m not recommending the switch to any of my (less techy) co-workers.
It’s fun doing half a workflow in my Windows VM and the other half in Linux, snapping Windows to half the screen, or forcing Linux windows “always on top” over Windows. Copying and pasting back and forth between the two.
We’re living in the future.
(FWIW: my Windows install is running ReviOS, so most of the bullshit’s ripped out.)
I’m almost exactly in the same boat, except even at my desk I want wireless. I often turn my camera off and get up to make coffee or go pee in big meetings. It’s great. Even when I’m presenting things, it’s usually only at a specific time, and I can still talk when I’m away from my desk (flip-to-mute microphones are great.)
I have several sets of wired headphones I used to love. I’d buy several sets at once so I already had a replacement when they inevitably broke But I literally can’t remember the last time I used a pair of wired headphones. I only miss 3.5mm on my phone for plugging into my car’s aux port.
Which you’re going to rip as .flac and .mp3 and share/upload somewhere for preservation, right?
Thanks for making this. I haven’t tried it yet, but I think this would be great for playing a lot of more complex games cooperatively with my kiddos, like effectively adding back the “split roles” multiplayer of Cook, Serve, Delicious 1 to later titles in the series (one player controlling tickets, the other controlling cooking.)
I don’t think all Boomers are bad. Lots care about the climate, and (sadly) many younger people don’t care about the climate, too. Hence why I clarified:
a Boomer who doesn’t give a shit about the looming climate apocalypse.
The reason it matters they’re a Boomer is because anyone younger is going to be facing the reality of climate change regardless of what they care about.
I think you missed the bit that makes this sort of maybe make a tiny lick of sense: you use this to write code that you evaluate against tests, and put a maximum iterations counter in to make sure it doesn’t go infinite.
Yes, this is still going to melt the planet just a little bit faster every time it’s used. Yes, it’s most likely to completely fail and, even in cases where it eventually succeeds, it would likely have been orders of magnitude more compute efficient to vibe code it the usual way of actually, like, vibing the code. (Is that what re-prompting is called for vibe coding?)
But it could maybe, kinda, sometimes work. If you squint your eyes. And you’re a Boomer who doesn’t give a shit about the looming climate apocalypse.
Fuck Teams. The buggiest, most crash prone mess I’ve even been forced to use. They keep bolting on new, unnecessary “features” that only selectively work on some of their “supported” platforms.
I’ve copied and pasted other people’s Bookmarklets before. ;)
I’ve had a couple decades of eclectic, self-directed tech learning. There’s no money for technology in education, so I’m always kludging things together, and there’s nobody at any school I’ve ever worked at who can teach me much, so I need to figure shit out myself.
It’d have been nice to be a junior to a greybeard for a few years, but I’ve made it work.
Just FYI, ReviOS is a playbook (set of system changes) that strips all the crap out of Windows 11 while still being almost entirely functional (I believe it disables automatic driver downloads, but it still gets Windows security updates.) I use it in my VM.
It’s super easy—install Windows 11, run the ReviOS playbook, then a Ninite to install all the essentials (including Classic Shell I think? Although I prefer one called something like Start Back.)
I know enough to parse the code, especially with the comments. It was a logical algorithm, it worked, and it was just for reformatting a page to print cleanly, so there was basically no risk if it didn’t work. I code for work, I just don’t know JavaScript syntax or functions.
Anyway, I was impressed it actually worked. I’m an AI skeptic, which is why I thought it was noteworthy to get well documented, clean, functional code from vibe coding—even in such a trivial context as swapping a head tag and removing script tags.
I actually got really clean, well commented code from Copilot earlier this week.
I have no experience with JavaScript to speak of, but realized a Bookmarklet would be a perfect solution for reformatting a particular web app for printing. I already had a head replacement with CSS to do all the formatting, and I was using a RegEx to strip all script tags.
Anyway, I asked Copilot to write the Bookmarklet to replace the header, with full contents explaining the training behind the code, and an explanation of how the script functions below. When I got an error, I asked if to fix the error and or identified that Bookmarklets work better as single lines, so it fixed it. Then I added the requirement about replacing scripts, and it did that too, but for commented and a clean one-line version.
The one-live versions even up getting truncated, so I need to copy/paste from earlier (correct) endings, but otherwise it was an incredibly smooth experience.
I spent longer writing the guide for how to use it than the time it took to vibe code it and test it. I was super impressed.
(Granted, that’s a pretty easy coding task…)
I think “contextual awareness” would fit better, and AI Believers preach that it’s great already. Any errors in LLM output are because the prompt wasn’t fondled enough/correctly, not because of any fundamental incapacity in word prediction machines completing logical reasoning tasks. Or something.