> But Microsoft is slick, so it’s always possible they won’t work forever.

That's a very gentle framing. Maybe Microsoft should spend less time being "slick".

> We have people who can still do maths well after the introduction of the calculator.

Arithmetics is a very, very small subset of math.

I got 4/5 human. #3 - I chose AI, it was very close.

I noticed something-humans will use words precisely and loosely at the same time. AI will seem like it’s precise but a lot of the wording it uses can be cut or replaced by something else without losing much meaning.

FYI, a good chunk of the article was LLM-ified.

It’s vibe-coded, too. Pass.

As someone who is leaning into this vibe coding thing recently, kind of interested to know the sentiment here. What was the tell? Like can you give line numbers or some reference. Feel like 100% certified organic code is a pretty high bar going forward.

1) Good luck using anything in a few years.

2) Of course it's vibe coded, it's made for vibe coders.

Then don’t follow them. That’s just encouraging their politics. I mean, vote with your follow.

I'm not saying I disagree with their politics, I just don't want to read it. But the same would apply even if I did disagree - you're just promoting further division.

"Promoting further division" sounds like a reasonable thing to strive to prevent, but I think the paradox of tolerance applies here.

For example, DHH was a brilliant programmer who created Rails. I say was, because now he is a self-admitted white nationalist. I no longer care about his technical work or opinions, because if he has ventured so off-course so as to convince himself that white nationalism is worth supporting, I must necessarily question his judgment on technical matters as well. To tolerate his white nationalism and continue to promote and condone his work would be helping to further the spread of white nationalism, which I find abhorrent and unacceptable in any form.

Trying to prevent further division is completely reasonable when you're talking about opinions like "we should have lower taxes" or "we should spend more money on schools." It is not reasonable when your political opponent literally wants to do genocide.

The trouble is, where do you draw those hard lines? I have many friends for whom pretty much any discussion of trans issues is tantamount to discussing whether genocide is ok. There is one set of acceptable viewpoints and anything else is "transphobic".

I'm not sure what you mean by "discussion of trans issues" in this context. Most of the trans people I know are happy to discuss the issues and hardships they face as long as you aren't throwing slurs their way, so your phrasing is a bit confusing.

As I said in my first post, wanting to exterminate people of a certain ethnic group is certainly over the line for me. Similarly, openly expressing support for the fascist paramilitary force who are murdering people in the streets of my country is also over the line. These don't seem too troublesome for me.

I have an easier solution: just don’t use X.

It does not have anything worth following, and useful content is minimal.

For me, neovim with a few utility scripts cover about 95% of my use-cases in Obsidian... linking is a tiny bit overrated.

yazi is great, I’ve had it around for a while… integrates well with neovim and other shell tools.

- false (you have to opt in)

- false (it depends on the app)

- depends on your cloud settings

- if you opt in, yes

- well if your storage is full, you kind of need to know

- they do, it's called time machine. you need a local disk for that.

I'm not sure if you even use any Apple products. I recently reset my iPhone and started from scratch (because of another system storage bloat issue) and THOSE WERE THE DEFAULTS, I HAD TO TURN EVERYTHING OFF MANUALLY. It didn't even ask.

> time machine

Oh great, let's get a dedicated, proprietary device just to store MY binary blobs. I'm not even sure if Timemachine supports exactly the features offered by iCloud. I cannot for example, browse photos backed up in Timemachine in the Photos app just like with iCloud.

> Oh great, let's get a dedicated, proprietary device just to store MY binary blobs.

Time Machine is (was?) mostly a macOS Sparse Bundle folder accessed over SMB. Many consumer NASes support Time Machine.