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Surprising seems like they'd favor Manus

Amazon seems to have a service for everything, one time I saw they had satellite ground station as a service

I think America in general is moving to a service based economy where you don’t own anything anymore. Everything from cars (lease) to homes (rentals) to electronics to insurance etc comes at a monthly cost. This kind of model works when the central government is trusted (or at least perceived to be trusted) to keep the wheel churning. I think the current government took some of the power back from big tech and people didn’t like it. Very interesting because the whole argument was private companies having too much power. Now the argument is government having too much power.

You only now just think this? The writing has been on the wall for quite some time. Especially as you move down in age cohort.

Yes even the WEF has been planning for this for a decade with their "you will own nothing but you will be happy" indoctrination.

At some point government and companies will be merging into one.

People at my company don't even lock their computer when they walk away from their desk. Which yeah it's in a controlled environment but still.

My work has a “donuts” slack channel for this. You find an unlocked computer you post “donuts on me!” Social pressure says they buy the office donuts.

Still get a few a week, but at least it’s public and amusing.

This would be borderline illegal in most countries. Not very enforcable, sure, but illegal.

We used to flip display upside down in display options, which also reverses the mouse. We'd then lock the PC and disconnect the keyboard. After they figured out the keyboard had been pulled they often couldn't work out why their screen was upside down...

Just in time for the suckerpinch video

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Trying to make agent clients on low end laptops like a Celeron 900, not a C++/GTK developer so was trying to do it with python, been brutal trying to build python wheels on the single core 900mhz cpu, might look into compiling on a stronger PC or just committing to C++/GTK. I was able to get it to work on an intel 270.

Python gets pretty heavy for old hardware. Once you hit your MVP you may want to look at compiled languages for better single-threaded perf.

Yeah I don't think I have a choice for the Celeron M 900MHz case. I mean it was cool for me to just let it run overnight to build the temporalio wheel but other deps have been failing so I think I'll commit and use C++/GTK.

I could look at cross compiling too for the wheel to be available. I also do want to get better at C++ so would be good to practice.

Edit: to be clear I failed to make the temporalio wheel, something about maturin/rust related dep.

I've been using golang for a lot of single-binary stuff. I rather enjoy the language and it is pretty simple to reason about.

C++ sounds like... fun? For various definitions of 'fun'. At least you'll have a compiler chain that can target the OS/HW combo you're running.

Do you have a blog or something that you post updates on?

This is technically a burner hn account but I have a github account. I'm kind of all over the place projects wise one of those start a dozen finish 1 type of people.

Golang to me is a lot easier to learn than Rust and I had fancied it before. Although it's one of those things if you don't use it often... lose it. C++ I use it some for my hobby robotics projects and most recently I was working with ESP-IDF/bluetooth stack and that was all C/C++. I am more of a scripted language person eg. JavaScript/Python are my main languages.

For the old computer talk above this is the project, can see I did make an agent client (although a poor one) using Tkinter since the ASUS 1005HA was able to compile the python wheels (although it took a few hours).

I'm also going to use a local LLM I have a 4070 so I can run like Llama-3-8B through llama.cpp

https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/agent-gui

Lumia 920 for me, obsolete but I keep one around

Funny I'm working with intel 686 right now brutal to get stuff to build eg. rust/cargo related (missing deps but mostly the hardware, slow). Recently trying to fix this maturin problem I ran into. But it is cool the backwards compatibility of python 3.11 to 32bit with debian 12

The CPU I'm working with is Celeron M 900MHz single core no HT struggling to build wheels for python (several hours)

It's great Python is/was well supported on i686. Node on the other hand almost immediately started requiring SSE2 even in the earliest versions. Have not found success with Node + Pentium III yet, maybe need to build an earlier version myself.

I got it to work on Intel 270 but that has HT and 1.6GHz still slow (hours to build wheels) specifically temporalio and cryptography.

Yeah node is usually my go to love JS

Where are we at with the rat brain CPUs

We keep losing people to the sewers..some in the organization are speculating they might be building a human brain CPU to retaliate. Progress is slow.

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