Thank you for that story and thank you for your contribution. I remember Live Mesh vividly and admit I found parts of it awkward. The functionality I used the most and thought was far ahead of its time was the ability to use Remote Desktop with any computer in the mesh. I often controlled my home computer from work.
While it was technically possible to use a dynamic dns + insecurely forward the RDP ports, LM mostly just worked(tm). It's possible to do this today as securely with something like Tailscale but Live Mesh included all of the batteries and none of the headache. RIP Live Mesh. Thanks again
If you're going for just grammar and spelling, Grammarly has been around for ages and doesn't try to rewrite everything. I'm a native speaker and I don't trust any LLM to retain my style because diffing paragraphs or reworking sections is tedious as hell. I'm reeeeeally lazy and the only workflow I am tempted to do is a rough draft from an LLM, a full rewrite from me, and something like Grammarly for small mistakes. Anything over a single iteration feels like pulling teeth because it's never as subtle as you tell it to be. It truly feels like giving a typewriter to monkeys.
Not to detract from what seems like an intricate project, but peon-ping (https://www.peonping.com/) has a ton of voice packs now and one of them is Mr Meeseeks. My only issue with it so far is that it's not easy to mix per-project and global voices. It usually takes trying to install from zero and there is an approach I've found using symlinks. It has come quite a long way and having some kind of audio cue has been a game changer.
Ah ah, peon-ping! My brother configured his AI assistant (a dedicated Mac Mini + its own eSIM / Telegram channel) so that it's using Warcraft 2 and 3 sound files when given work: "work work" / "your wish is my command" / etc. I don't remember them all but we played those games a lot.
Back in the days we modded Warcraft 2 with a mix of voices from the english, italian ("la machina volante!") and german voices.
ah the peon voices are perfect for this, work work / jobs done map suspiciously well onto agent states. your brothers setup is the part i want to hear more about though, a dedicated mac mini with its own esim and telegram channel is further than most people take it. does it just sit on his desk or did he stash it somewhere it can never be unplugged?
I can’t exactly tell if we’re saying the same thing but my thought was a flag to switch between the 1.2 way for faster startup and the earlier approach for longer running processes. The trade off is added complexity in identifying your binary usage patterns and keeping both methods in the tooling.
These kind of changes may not be breaking in a technical sense but it’s very unexpected behavior if you’re one to notice patterns like file sizes changing in such a significant way over time. An answer of “stick with v1.1x indefinitely if you want the old behavior” only feels like a very temporary answer.
Just so I clearly understand, if I have a lot of files and directories in say /repositories or /projects and go to upgrade, there’s a chance I won’t have that any more because I mistakenly treated it like any other *nix filesystem? That’s... not disconcerting in the least.
I’d be interested in something like this as well. I have a discombobulated list of apps and attempted strategies to take notes and can’t seem to stick to something simple.
The official docs for Elixir or Phoenix framework go a long way. One thing that sticks out above the rest for me is Elixir koans[0]. They’re extremely rudimentary but I think the project showcases Elixir’s hot reloading if I’m not mistaken and it’s very fluid. Other follow along courses may have taken this approach but I was extremely impressed by how everything fits together.
I think the biggest to a hurdle is the fact that there is no stdlib so nothing unused has to be shaken out. I think that’s a low barrier now though with more than adequate tooling. Another comment mentions a different stdlib for server vs browser but that’s also not a terribly hard problem.
I think a good first pass would come from studying analytics from npm. What are the most used packages? The most stable? I know lodash makes a lot of sense but there’s also underscore. I think the biggest hurdles are really political over technology as everyone has been so entrenched now that a one-size-fits-all stdlib would be hard. Not impossible, just hard. I do wish someone were working on it and I hate to say it but Google probably has the most skin in the game with v8 and Chrome yet I don’t really trust them not to abandon it. So who else is there? It wouldn’t be a very ‘sexy project’ either but still seems worth it to at least try.
Rockstar Claw is fixed via the ‘Standard FPS’ setting with toggle to run. You click the left thumbstick once to jog and twice to sprint just like FPS games like COD. Pulling fully in a direction sprints and just barely touching it walks. I liked the change but it felt weird and I worried that I would just run off every cliff I came to.
It's hard to gauge its looks as unfamiliar with TS as I am but would the equivalent without the spread operator look any better?
I call code like this 'clever' as it uses the language constructs to get usually a very optimal end result at the behest of being harder for n00bs like myself to parse.
I do wonder what a prettier version of this would look like. It certainly wouldn't be this concise but would it be better or harder to follow? I'm okay with something like this if it solves a very specific problem I hardly see. If my entire code base is littered with this? No thanks. Yea eventually it'd be second nature but I'd rather it be more verbose and slightly easier to unpack than this tightly packed.
While it was technically possible to use a dynamic dns + insecurely forward the RDP ports, LM mostly just worked(tm). It's possible to do this today as securely with something like Tailscale but Live Mesh included all of the batteries and none of the headache. RIP Live Mesh. Thanks again
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