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Re:Herdr has released native app on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:38AM (#50313488)
this new herdr app is actually very close to emacs in philosophy. Instead of the C core and lisp runtime herdr has GPUI (rust gpu accelerated UI drawing) and herdr-core which is the agent daemon. There's some vocabulary for spaces tabs panes agents, and js sits on top to define UI/UX. Very little is hard coded, and default app functionality is implemented in the same way that users can customize, and changes hotreload without restart. Almost everything seems to be just js/json just like most emacs is just elisp.
Re:Herdr has released native app on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:28AM (#50313454)
Different philosophies. herdr has defined a few core primitives (machine -> space -> tab -> pane -> terminal) and lets you customize all the ui around it. Among all the ADEs I've used this is most reminiscent of emacs.

Orca is a bit heavy in asking you to define projects / worktrees up front. Anything you do, even quick edits starts with a worktree. Projects get their own modal and file browser before you start working. Herdr just lets you cd, mkdir, get going. But it's also worktree aware and organizes them under your repo when you do create them.

Re:Herdr has released native app on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:42PM (#50299253)
Have you tried moshi? It’s Herdr aware.

Tui-in-guis like orca are nice mostly because of sensible keybinds without prefix or leader

Re:JetBrains Thinkrail on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:10PM (#50238263)
IDE's are also "just" text editing + code intelligence + project metadata + keybinds... we've had decades of iteration on them because good interfaces take time and effort to mature
Re:What's Earth's dominant species by mass? on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:36AM (#49989528)
Yep pus is what animal bodies excrete in response to some infections -- there's no reason to think standalone viruses would naturally summon pus.
Re:Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @04:24AM (#49519429)
Same, the ASCII interface is an eternal classic to me, the updated graphics try harder and achieve less (just my opinion).
Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain on Friday July 24, 2026 @12:12AM (#49031157)
If they're so valuable, maybe you could spare a thought of thanks that the previous owners passed them onto posterity, whatever the condition. If you don't like the condition, feel free to continue your search. Getting heated over their use of their own property isn't very philosophical of you.
Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 on Saturday June 27, 2026 @01:34AM (#48695460)
That's just vanilla regulation. Yes it tends to create market inefficiencies, by definition. Capture entails industry corrupting and directing regulatory bodies.
Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 on Saturday June 27, 2026 @01:33AM (#48695457)
I think this is plain old regulation, not regulatory capture. For it to be the latter we'd need evidence than it was the incumbents who designed this oversight which they then asked the white house to rubber stamp.
Re:No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass on Friday June 26, 2026 @12:45AM (#48682419)
This straw man doesn't merit falsification. Nobody claims wealth alone gives political power. Wealth applies leverage to all endeavors, but political ends still require strategy and operationalization. It's just a lot easier with a couple trillion dollars, vs. a single individual vote once every couple of years.
Re:No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass on Friday June 26, 2026 @12:39AM (#48682391)
> you start or fund a think tank that writes policy proposals, or a media organization that advocates your views

Or you run "money primaries", financially filtering the menu of candidates before democratic voting. Or you pay/lobby for (non-democratic) judicial appointments, which is a strategy that's been openly pursued since 1971: https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/blog/powell-memo.pdf

Nobody is forcing anyone to place bets they can't back, isn't this a personal responsibility issue?

edit: to be clear, if companies are committing fraud in their marketing, that should be prosecuted or if regulations around misleading marketing are weak, that should be legislated of course.

Re:Siri AI on Monday June 08, 2026 @08:20PM (#48454414)
A family member lost years of irreplaceable photos and paid apps due to account lock, and doing this across two countries they were legitimately residing in triggered it.
Re:Make macOS consistently bad (unironically) on Friday March 27, 2026 @08:03PM (#47550020)
Also went from one click to two clicks
Wonder why he was only charged with contempt, rather than defrauding investors?
Re:Reversing memory loss via gut-brain communication on Friday March 13, 2026 @09:42AM (#47364359)
Your nervous system extends over your entire body, the brain doesn't live in a firewalled jar.
Re:Fixing retail with land value capture on Sunday February 15, 2026 @09:12PM (#47030117)
Yeah not disputing that, just saying it's definitionally wrong to say land "is not the means of production".
Re:MMAcevedo aka Lena by qntm on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:30AM (#46999936)
This is a sad take, and a misunderstanding of what art is. Tech and tools go "obsolete". Literature poses questions to humans, and the value of art remains to be experienced by future readers, whatever branch of the tech tree we happen to occupy. I don't begrudge Clarke or Vonnegut or Asimov their dated sci-fi premises, because prediction isn't the point.

The role of speculative fiction isn't to accurately predict what future tech will be, or become obsolete.

Re:Fixing retail with land value capture on Friday February 13, 2026 @12:15AM (#46999181)
Land (or in modern terms, location value) has been seen as a means of production along with labor and capital since Adam Smith.
My bad, went down rabbit hole and got my writers/links confused.
The 2020 adaptation of ZeroZeroZero, mentioned in this article, is one of the best crime shows I've ever seen, with basically zero buzz. Pretty interesting reading the reason for the authenticity.
Re:Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon on Friday January 30, 2026 @10:08PM (#46832967)
The weird cousin of "This time it's different": "That time was different"
Re:Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @02:11AM (#46776486)
Yes, but rent seeking isn't even capitalism in theory.
Re:Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @02:06AM (#46776456)
I'm not sure what definition of capitalism you're running with, but as early as Adam Smith, the importance of competition free from monopoly and rent seeking was central to the mainstream definition.
Re:Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @02:04AM (#46776437)
Using power to tilt the playing field is the logical outcome of all political systems, not just capitalism.

> capture the market, and become the sole dominant force in that market and use your position to then pull up the ladder behind you and cement your position

This is worth discussing in detail. Becoming dominant by providing a better thing, or investing more capital, is not tilting the playing field, it's winning the game. Getting government protected monopolies, special tax write-offs, subsidies, exclusive grants is. Uber and Facebook are not anticompetitive just because they are dominant, they are anticompetitive to the extent that they specifically use their dominance to influence politics.

Re:Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @01:56AM (#46776392)
> Survival of the fittest and efficient marketplace

Rent seeking is an Econ 101 example of market inefficiency.

> what's the other option, rent seeking is socialism?

Rent seeking is rent seeking. It is a form of corruption, via regulatory capture. It is a way in which any political system can fail, not limited to an ideology like "socialism" or "capitalism".

Re:Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:15AM (#46668992)
This is misuse of language. Rent seeking is anti-competitive by definition. The current system, as far as it encourages and rewards rent seeking, is anti-capitalist.
Re:Andrej Karpathy – AGI is still a decade away on Saturday October 18, 2025 @12:41PM (#45628604)
Just like human atoms have been repurposed to make other things.
Re:A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @02:32AM (#45036110)
Let's flip the hypothetical -- if someone googles for suicide info and scrolls past the hotline info and ends up killing themselves anyway, should google be on the hook?
Could be, but there is another app that does the same thing faster so there must be some optimizations available.

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