It's market manipulation. You get a chase going (panic buying) by those that are short (need to buy memory in the future). Run up the price on those shorts and squeeze them out as they chase price higher, meanwhile you bought in low and can distribute out your supply when you see fit, or run it up higher until everyone is wrecked. If I were the memory makers I wouldn't want to cede control to openai, you'd rather have a healthy, steady ecosystem than a rigged market that people don't want to be involved in.
I’m giving the Asus Proart P16 a try, if I was trying for maximum battery life I’d probably avoid the discrete gpu (e.g. a zenbook or similar). I am not a full time road warrior so battery life is important, but not absolutely critical. There may be some options out with better battery life, but I haven’t been focused on this metric too closely.
I just don’t want to be sidetracked by overly aggressive and pushy decisions by my OS vendor anymore. I’ve been happy with the stability of my Debian/Ubuntu systems for getting work done. I have been using apple laptops for 10+ years, and I still like their build quality, but I don’t like the direction macOS (or Windows) is heading.
I don’t find it very gendered, my sister and I used to do this often, like young wolf pups, we’d jostle and play for the upper hand.
I have women friends who will play like this with me. It can reveal insights that neither of us were clear on without the other bringing it to light.
Of course it can be one sided too, and it turns into bullying. I think context matters and even if you’re being bullied, it’s still revealing if you are able to see beyond the emotion. You’re not your looks, your body, your mind, your bank account, your friend group, etc… Your worth is beyond these things. I hope you find that someday!
> it can be one sided too, and it turns into bullying
That's pretty insightful. I've had some friends I would tease and some I would never tease. People are different and relationships change over time. There's no one way to be with everybody all the time.
I've developed a system that checks out a git repo into a docker compose container, tells claude to read a feature story, then implement it with --dangerously-skip-permissions turned on within the container. It work well enough.
I think it's another workflow, that might suit your needs, but I think the real magic continues to be in the model. Similarly, I'm sure Claudia adds some nice window dressing.
Eventually folks will settle in on some local maxima for interaction and software development with LLMs. Who know what it will look like? It'd be nice if whatever comes next bumps the industry out of the current scrum and sprint style workflows, if only to break folks out of the theatrics of these software personas and rituals.
Sunsets with no land in sight. Sunsets framing the land. Sunrises with no land in sight. Sunrises framing the land. Thunder and lightning rolling up one side of an island in the distance, putting on a show.
Dark skies and the stars.
The peace and tranquility of quiet places with just nature and you. Until the sod over the hill turns on their generator.
Fresh fish.
The feel of sea spray, wind in the ears, the connection to your boat, knowing if things are right just by the feel and sound.
And that's just from doing non-ocean-crossing sailing.
It’s a great movie here are a few of my favorite quotes from Jerome, a genetically engineered superbaby.
“Jerome Morrow was never meant to be one step down on the podium.”
Jerome Eugene Morrow:
You're flying today, aren't you? Look at what a mess you're in. Come on. I have your samples ready.
Vincent Freeman:
I don't need any samples where I'm going.
Jerome:
You might when you get back. [shows freezer with a large stockpile of his specimen samples] Everything you need to last you two lifetimes.
Vincent Freeman:
Why have you done all this?
Jerome:
So Jerome will always be here when you need him.
Vincent:
Where are you going?
Jerome:
I'm traveling too.
Vincent:
I don't know how to thank you.
Jerome:
I got the better end of the deal. I only lent you my body. You lent me your dream. [gives Vincent a folded piece of paper] Not until you're upstairs.
My first boss at the uni would tease me about my Emacs usage, saying, “It’s an operating system with a text editor tacked on.” I just smiled and loaded up a game of snakes within my Emacs buffer and carried on hacking.
He's not wrong though - Emacs was meant to replace the MIT lisp-machine/symbolics interface and it does a magnificent work of it.
The things that Emacs allows one to accomplish is quite insane, though, as with all lisp-projects, it also seems to suffer from the "Lisp curse" (which is fine IMO).
The standard "great OS, needs decent editor" quip is just that -- a quip. If you look at the actual history of Emacs, you will see that the it was originally a collection of TECO macros. The first Lisp version was written by Dick Greenblatt for Multics -- it was not intended to be an operating system in its own right. The Lisp machines had Emacs versions of their own -- called EINE, ZWEI, and Zmacs. So Emacs was well-established on multiple operating systems before GNU Emacs even came along. You could say that the GNU system as a whole is intended to be a successor to ITS and the Lisp machine OS, but Stallman deliberately chose Unix as a basis because he wanted GNU to be popular and Unix was already widespread in 1983-1984.
In fact, GNU Emacs didn't even get some of its more powerful UI features until the 90s, after Lucid Emacs/XEmacs was developed by Lucid Inc. as a component of their Energize IDE -- they found GNU Emacs at the time to be inadequate from a UI standpoint, so they forked it and added the bits they needed. Most of those were implemented back into GNU Emacs, despite that Stallman thought that, for the most part, they weren't needed.
So no, Emacs wasn't designed to be a software Lisp-machine workstation. It just sort of slowly morphed into one over time.
Why do you trust that they will actually wait 90 days to run the same playbook? There’s nothing stopping Trump from reneging on his 90 day tariff pause.
