Had? Ukraine still has the option to capitulate and give up its territory, what kind of argument is that? Separatists who take up arms are a fair target, they are the ones violently changing the status quo. When both sides kill civilians in a war started by one side, that side's further escalation is not at all justified by "killing ppl of donbass", so let's not manipulatively paint a "both sides" picture as if there isn't a huge difference
go for the cli approach makes sense. the no-builtin-agent choice is smart - keeps it lean. do you support streaming output, and how do you handle the tool-calling loop. do you just output the function call json and let the user decide what to do next, or is there some automation there
I've found the best way for me to wield it is the tool to build tools. I would have never in a million years been able to code. But I've used it to replace things I was paying hefty monthly subscriptions for....
So I'm not actually being more productive, but I've cut my costs significantly to do the same things I could do before.
> I don't really see how we've decided that anonymous porn isn't blatantly public indecency
That one seems pretty obvious. The point of public indecency laws is so that your family can go to McDonald's and not encounter some couple fornicating on the table. Whereas if you go to a private house where someone lives with a reputation for not being very selective about who they take their clothes off in front of, that's not a public establishment.
A privately owned PC connecting to a privately owned server is a private connection, not a public place. It's something you get by going there. You're not required to go to the frat house.
> Don’t get me wrong, I use these tools daily. That being said I’m having a very hard time finding where the productivity gains are.
So why are you using the tools? Personal curiosity? Workplace mandate?
I've made measurably more and faster progress on both professional and personal projects since adopting these tools. Sometimes assisted is less productive than unassisted, but the net gain is pretty obvious to me.
> I do get the sense that many atheists not only reject God & the afterlife but actually don't want there to be a God or an afterlife.
I feel that eternity in Heaven would actually be Hell, because nothing would matter. No danger, no failure, no challenge, no goals, no purpose. What gives life meaning are mortality, limitations, beginnings and endings, progress.
I recently watched the film "Eternity" on Apple TV, starring Elizabeth Olsen, in which everyone after they die has to choose their own form of afterlife and then stick with it forever. All I could think about was how bored I would eventually get.
user@ubuntu-server:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 25.10
Release: 25.10
Codename: questing
user@ubuntu-server:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu-server 6.17.0-7-generic #7-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Oct 18 10:10:29 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux
user@ubuntu-server:~$ getent ahosts us.archive.ubuntu.com
91.189.91.82 STREAM us.archive.ubuntu.com
91.189.91.82 DGRAM
91.189.91.82 RAW
91.189.91.81 STREAM
91.189.91.81 DGRAM
91.189.91.81 RAW
91.189.91.83 STREAM
91.189.91.83 DGRAM
91.189.91.83 RAW
2620:2d:4002:1::102 STREAM
2620:2d:4002:1::102 DGRAM
2620:2d:4002:1::102 RAW
2620:2d:4002:1::101 STREAM
2620:2d:4002:1::101 DGRAM
2620:2d:4002:1::101 RAW
2620:2d:4002:1::103 STREAM
2620:2d:4002:1::103 DGRAM
2620:2d:4002:1::103 RAW
user@ubuntu-server:~$ ip --oneline link | grep -v lo: | awk '{ print $2 }'
enp0s3:
user@ubuntu-server:~$ ip addr | grep inet6
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
inet6 fe80::5054:98ff:fe00:64a9/64 scope link proto kernel_ll
user@ubuntu-server:~$ fgrep -r -e us.archive /etc/apt/
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources:URIs: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
user@ubuntu-server:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing InRelease
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing-security InRelease [136 kB]
<snip>
Get:43 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing-security/multiverse amd64 c-n-f Metadata [252 B]
Fetched 2,602 kB in 3s (968 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
The IPv6 packet capture running during all that reveals that it never tried to reach out over v6 (but that my multicast group querier is happily running):
I even manually ran unattended-upgrade, which looks to have succeeded. Other than unanswered router solicitations and multicast group query membership chatter, there continued to be no IPv6 communication at all, and none of the messages you reported appeared either in /var/log/syslog or on the terminal.
Have you read any pop neuroscience book? There are common experiences that can be generated by one or another kind of brain-wrong. You sort of acknowledged this already when you mentioned DMT. If you poke somebody in specific parts of the brain you can get illusions of changing size, shadowy figures, mirth, and other delightful errors. We also interpret things very eagerly, like the "night hag" phenomenon where being unable to sense one's own breathing turns into an illusion of something sitting on your chest. That's another worldwide cross-cultural concept, by the way, but there is no night hag, there's just human physiology.
So, bright lights and tunnels. Shared human visual neurological glitches. Heard of "tunnel vision"? That's a real medical condition, which can be caused by blood loss, adrenaline, or low oxygen.
I don't know are we sure about that? I remember helping users unable to open a spreadsheet that grew too big in excel. Was working fine on openoffice (libreoffice wasn't yet a thing).
It seems to have been at least slightly improved, but youtube video summaries suffered from this to an almost comical degree not long ago. The AI voice is already pretty recognizable and stilted, then you constrain it to avoid saying anything negative or spoilery about the video, and (presumably) don't let it remember past output. No surprise its extremely repetitive. For humans you're at least getting different people's voices, on different days, who remember that they just wrote about how the last one was a "unique look highlighting the importance of design".
> TL;DR: just ask your agent to summarize this post for you.
Holy shit - why don’t they produce an AI summary and plonk it in there for everyone to use? The energy savings across all people who’ll read the summary would be staggering!
Partially a contracting real economy following overhiring early in the decade, partially trying to discipline labor, partially a pretty profound disconnect from both market pressures and concrete metrics that comes from a business model more centered around stock value and funding raises than revenue per se
Recent events make it quite clear that this time it is going to be different.
It was like you described earlier. Last year and this year it is basically cumulating over multiple countries.
Swiss people are very upset with what is going on with their military spending in US. I do believe they will be serious about all other purchases from US.
Typical bad management decisions that came home to roost. It’s a lot easier to say “AI productivity improvements” than for the CEO to say “I’m cleaning up terrible performance on my part and a lot of bad business decisions.”
RAM throughput and RAM footprint are only weakly related. The throughput is more affected by the cache locality of access patterns than by footprint. A program with a 50MB footprint could put more pressure on the RAM bus than one with a 5GB footprint.
I don’t like the tools personally, and find the reversion of any sort of interface to a chat interface a huge loss to UI - but for the love of all things holy why are using them if they don’t provide any benefit?
