I don't know. I do not like Jack Dorey's involvement. Not a big fan of his.
I'd rather use Briar (https://briarproject.org/)
There's also Berty https://berty.tech/features/
Readit Newsolejorgenb commented on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/furcyd
I feel like "simplicity" is often fetishized to the point of counter-productivity.
Show me anything that either Blow or Muratori are doing that couldn't be done in an existing language or framework.
People laugh at games with thousand-case switch statements or if/else chains but they shipped and the end user doesn't care about logarithmic complexity. And most of the time it doesn't even matter. What fails with games more often than not is the design, not the code. What features in Jai make it superior to C++ for writing games specifically? Or does it, like Typescript for JS, only exist because of extreme antipathy towards C++?
Time is a resource too, and arguably a far more valuable one for developers than LOC or memory or what have you.
> Or does it, like Typescript for JS, only exist because of extreme antipathy towards C++?
Typescript exist because people want a type-checked language.
olejorgenb commented on Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? · Posted by u/ferguess_k
The laptops waking up in the backpack until the thermal security triggers or the battery is empty is a Microsoft Windows thing.
Not really - my Dell Precision (Ubuntu Certified even) frequently have problems going to sleep. To be fair - technically it doesn't wake up in the backpack - it fails to sleep in the first place. But if you don't pay attention you wont notice the failure so I'd say that's very close to just as bad.
Not sure why am getting in the middle of this but I need to point out that you are not even correct for Linux.
Linux rather famously has avoided the GPL3 and is distributed under a modified GPL2. This license allows binary blob modules. We are all very familiar with this.
As a result, the kernel that matches your description above that ships in the highest volume is Linux by a massive margin. Can you run a fully open source Linux kernel on your Android phone? Probably not. You do not have the drivers. You may not pass the security checks.
Do companies like Broadcomm “collaborate” on Linux even in the PC or Mac space? Not really.
On the other side, companies that use FreeBSD do actually contribute a lot of code. This includes Netflix most famously but even Sony gives back.
The vast majority of vendors that use Linux embedded never contribute a single line of code (like 80% or more at least - maybe 98%). Very few of them even make the kernel code they use available. I worked in video surveillance where every video recorder and camera in the entire industry is Linux based at this point. Almost none of them distribute source code.
But even the story behind the GPL or not is wrong in the real world.
You get great industry players like Valve that contribute a lot of code. And guess what, a lot of that code is licensed permissively. And a lot of other companies continue to Mesa, Wayland, Xorg, pipewire, and other parts of the stack that are permissively licensed. The level of contribution has nothing to do with the GPL.
How about other important projects? There are more big companies contributing to LLVM/Clang (permissive) than there are to GCC (GPL).
In fact, the GPL often discourages collaboration. Apple is a great example of a company that will not contribute to even the GPL projects that they rely on. But they do contribute a fair bit of Open Source code permisssively. And they are not even one of the “good guys” in Open Source.
This comment is pure ideological mythology.
A real life case where someone try to force a vendor to release the kernel source code: https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
And then toggle between that and the AI agent? Zed is a workbench that lets you put two, and only two, tools on your "workbench" to either side of your text workspace. I want to put more tools on my benchtop.
> And then toggle between that and the AI agent?
Yes
- Do you want to split a dock vertically?
- Do you want to open the panels inside an editor split?
- Do you want to detach the panels as separate windows? (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/17618)
I like Zed. I pay for pro. I like the integrated agent stuff (though my usage model has changed a bit after 5 months of use).
I'm happy that others can type in each others' space, but this post reveals a tension here. They are building a tool for building the tool, and their own team. I think that's cool, but at a 2-3 person shop heavy polyglotted across 4 OSes and 5+ programming languages, this is not what I really need.
What I'm looking for is a snappy tool (check) that lets me explore, understand, modify code at a next level (marginal). And I want it to not only be snappy by virtue of execution efficiency, but cognitive load. I want the less-is-more experience. I don't need it to do Swift, Kotlin, or Python, because there are bespoke IDEs for each of those that focus on the environments where I deploy them best. What I mostly want from Zed is the ability to see the outline panel at the same time as the directory panel, and to separate the search outline from the file structure outline. I spent too much time toggling views in Zed.
> What I mostly want from Zed is the ability to see the outline panel at the same time as the directory panel
You can do this now by moving one of them to the right dock (right-click the toggle-button)
olejorgenb commented on Mergiraf: Syntax-Aware Merging for Git lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/Velocifyer
Max Brunsfeld in fact, yep. He went along to Zed from the Atom team.
But curiously Zed hasn't been very interested in Tree-sitter. They don't seem to see it as having much strategic value to their company, which is odd because lots of other people do see it as a valuable platform. You have Tweag building code formatting on it, you had GitHub building stack graphs on it, you have Merigraph. You even have sone really "out there" stuff like the Software Evolution Library!
They use it quite a bit in Zed though. What do you count as "not very interested"?
How is Linux support?
From the review section:
Nikos Q: Linux Desktop support? A: Hi,
Linux is not officially supported but can absolutely work with the Beyond 2. I'd suggest joining the Bigscreen Beyond Discord server for more information
Thanks By Bigscreen Support Team
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Rant: they have disabled selected text for the reviews for some inexplicable reason.
In a very simple way: because the image can be fed directly into the network without first having to transform the text into a series of tokens as we do now.
But the tweet itself is kinda an answer to the question you're asking.
How is it materially different from using each char (or each byte) as the token?
It makes some sense, yeah. There's also precedent, in google scanning massive amounts of books, but not reproducing them. Most of our current copyright laws deal with reproductions. That's a no-no. It gets murky on the rest. Nvda's argument here is that they're not reproducing the works, they're not providing the works for other people, they're "scanning the books and computing some statistics over the entire set". Kinda similar to Google. Kinda not.
I don't see how they get around "procuring them" from 3rd party dubious sources, but oh well. The only certain thing is that our current laws didn't cover this, and probably now it's too late.
Yeah, isn't this what Anthropic was found guilty off?