Anyone who's worked around systems in that category knows that the fact that they're replacing floppies is more scary than the fact that they're still using floppies.

Yes, the system is old and warty, but we know it. It's old Jim the warthog.

I thought humanity had stopped manufacturing floppy disks.

But yes, the dread of the inevitable bug filled replacement for Jim the Warthog is very real.

Wow. It works for him and it works for me. I'm forever grateful for what he's done and I feel this bashing is totally undeserved. Kitty and Calibre are two of my favorite software thingies ever.

I don't think it's undeserved at all. If you followed Kovid's interactions with users over the years you would quickly see he has a cosmically inflated ego and a god complex, and can only speak in absolutes while simultaneously mocking you for daring to even ask a question. He publicly berates and abuses people even much more than Torvalds does.

And I specifically avoid all software from both of those people precisely because of their attitudes towards others.

I'm not asking anyone else to do the same, I know it's a wildly unpopular opinion and people will attack me for it.

But boycotts in general wouldn't exist if everyone could separate the art from the artist.

Everyone: There is nothing more annoying than this beeping and flashing screen.

JonnieCache: Hold my beer.

(brilliant work btw)

> I mostly steered and made calls, bought the domain name, etc.

Correct move on handling the financial aspect yourself. I asked my mine to do everything but forgot to give it some dough. It sorted it all out but ended up with $6.3B on its account and I think it might have done something dodgy.

It’s all good, just tell Anthropic that you’ve invested $6.3B in them, and in return, they get $6.3B of your product over the next 10 years.

It’s what all the other companies are doing!

If you owe the bank $10k, that's a you problem.

If you owe the bank $10Mil, that's the banks problem.

If you steal $10Bil from the bank, the government bails out the bank and now it's everyone's problem.

Wow, I've often wished I had a tool like this. Thanks!

Since most people do click-and-run most of the time (based on decades long research, n=1), I'll just add paste the link for more examples: https://ivankovic.github.io/omnidiff/showcase/content.html

And this: https://ivankovic.github.io/omnidiff/showcase/index.html?cas...

Weird smear.

There are over 10,000 taxing jurisdictions in the US, so good luck with even trying to figure how many different taxes.

> Tears apart your weak reasoning until only truth remains

I've done that to myself quite some times when writing a very detailed report on an issue. Back in the day of stackoverflow (godbless and godspeed, glad Joel made it out and sorry for the investors) you had to be detailed to maximize on your initial viewers.

I think the idea is the same with the rubber duck debugging method although I've never tried it myself.

In a small defence to webview/tauri, it's pretty smooth and fast, and multi platform free of charge. I'd have done this in Tauri too, but that's just my voice. But I otherwise totally agree with you.

Wow, this is brilliant, thanks for sharing it! I've had pretty much this app way down on my TODO list for the last 20 years. I was planning a Linux and violin support too.

One of my methods for my pet projects is just to wait for someone else to do it, worked this time :)

I might chuck this into Claude when I have tokens to spare and see how it'll do with my feature request. Are there any specific apple silicone limitations you can remember? I'll send you a PR if you're interested?

The Mac only parts are in https://github.com/dsmurrell/onkey/tree/main/src-tauri/nativ.... I believe that Linux would need PipeWire and MPRIS in their place.

> One of my methods for my pet projects is just to wait for someone else to do it, worked this time :)

Happy to be of service!

PRs welcome.

I've recently asked claude to be concise in writing documents. It's brilliant for me. You get things like:

   force-off  # pull the plug

No faffing around.

It may not be verbose, but it's still faffing around by using an idiom

Yes, I think the appropriate thing to do here would have been

   force-off  # force off

All the brilliance of the original, but also no inappropriate idioms.

Idioms can be much more dense than otherwise.

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra