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two/3 things of my own (experience):

- Find a friend to be your senses.

- With time, places change people. Other way happens noticeably only while coming in - or switching on.

- People should feel good when writing the software, otherwise it does not come out. And respectively, on the other side - when using the software.

in a way, i have moved these on a meta level too.. doing stuff (software or hardware or soulware) so *others* have fun. Or better, take others learn howto do this. Esp. if they do not notice my participation. Now that's meta-fun :)

walk me site. See if u wanna connect. Beware, you can step on a change..


i know what you mean. i am die-hard DIY but that does not pay bills.

And also.. i have been asking myself alternative question..

Who do you plan to work with?

s/plan/imagine/ but still where do u find those..


so... anyone who's not native english, reading all these overpuffed texts, is cooked? The nuances are most times lost on me

And even if the style is (or isn't) LLM'ish, it does not say/help if the (even-filtered) content makes sense / is correct or is BS

Style does matter, sure..

https://hbr.org/1982/05/what-do-you-mean-you-dont-like-my-st...


partially related..

the Minotaur is one of the main "characters" in Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov.

https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Sorrow-Georgi-Gospodinov/dp/1...

https://losangelesreview.org/book-review-the-physics-of-sorr...


sounds like the bitter-lesson on a meta level - discarding not only the way humans represent knowledge, but also the way humans store/collect/look-for knowledge..

write-once read-never?

something that was not perl ;)

in ~2005 i lead a team to build horse-betting terminals for Singapore, and there server could only understand CORBA. So.. i modelled the needed protocol in python, which generated a set of specific python files - one per domain - which then generated the needed C folders-of-files. Like 500 lines of models -> 5000 lines 2nd level -> 50000 lines C at bottom. Never read that (once the pattern was established and working).

But - but - it was 1000% controllable and repeatable. Unlike current fancy "generators"..


the important word is "scared".

if the incentive / whiff / hint from-the-top is "those not using AI are out"... there's no stopping that..


Agreed... I'm not at the top.

That's not what was implied by that comment, at least the way I read it. You mention the CEO did the same thing. If the CEO is pushing AI and the employees feel like their job is at risk if they resist change, then they are going to use AI as a means of self-preservation.

what happened to Sailfish? the successor of meego et-al

It is finnish, anyone knows how are they going?

i used that for 2 years, it's linux+kde bottom to top, a terminal + shell is a builtin, though only supporting 5+ years old Sony phones got tiresome.

Still.. it seems the only one that's usable enough apart of the duopoly. May have to switch to it again.


The portions of SailfishOS specific to it including the user interface and application layer are nearly entirely closed source, unlike the open source Android Open Source Project (AOSP). SailfishOS has far worse privacy, security, functionality and usability than the Android Open Source Project. It isn't possible to make a fork improving it due to it not being open source like AOSP.

You can run desktop apps on GrapheneOS including on a desktop monitor via the desktop mode with free form windows. There's support for non-native apps via hardware-based virtualization. These features are experimental but already work pretty well.


There's a new Jolla Phone in pre-marketing phase right now (almost 9000 phones have been pre-ordered so far). First device deliveries are scheduled for this summer and this should easily be the new benchmark for officially supported SailfishOS devices.

The situation with Sony Xperia devices is not great, the best experience is still on the X10III (from 2021 I think) and there are significant issues with the support of 10 IV and V generation devices (a free beta release is available for those as well).

It seems that recently there has been quite a lot of buzz in the Sailfish community compared to the past few years. In the public repos there are some interesting contributions like xdg-shell support for Lipstick, which looks set to enable compiling many previously unavailable Linux apps natively if that will actually be integrated in an upcoming OS version.



They have been underfunded for a decade now, with some unfortunate consequences - the web browser is based on Gecko 91.


Jolla mishandled the funds they got for the tablets, it went bankrupt and bought up by a company connected to the Russian state. Jolla lied a lot during these events and tried to hide what happened, and I don't think that's an acceptable thing to do when the main selling point of your product is privacy and trust. AFAIK they recently got bankrupted again and bought by the original owners, but it's hard to rebuild trust.


> The same applies more generally, to all sorts of tools, frameworks, and platforms

yep. When everyone and their dog tells LLM to generate stuff in whatever way LLM knows best, not bothering even reading the output, any new thing is doomed into invisibility and oblivion. So no need of new tool/language-like-things anymore.

Unless someone pickpoints some XYZ and makes artificial ecosystem around it and feeds that into training-next-LLM. Which isn't happening without a major (possibly adversarial) need.

Or, wait until next wave of AI (6th? 8th?) actually combines analytical with generative, making context part of the training, and looping over those..



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