M series mac's are my dream c++ development machines. Just this week I was investigating some potential bugs in Qt's javascript engine and I was recompiling it from source across multiple tags to bisect. On my i9 mac I would compile Qt overnight, on my m3 pro it takes about 10 minutes, on battery, silently. Truly remarkable.
I've tried Affinity. Unfortunately a literal lifetime of photoshop has made it basically impossible to switch. It's like getting into a car and all the buttons are rearranged and behave different.
The jokes on me. I pirated photoshop way back in the day. Now I have no choice but to shell out a subscription.
I like Affinity Photo a lot, and it's what I use, but Photoshop is definitely the more powerful program. Affinity still doesn't even have an auto-select.
Interesting synchronicity of seeing this article. I just had an optometrist appointment this morning and my glasses prescription updated/renewed. The only medication I am on is Ozempic for weight management, ~8 months, lost ~40 lbs so far. My old prescription was -1.75 / -1.0 (about 5 years ago), and my new one is -0.5, -0.5. My optometrist said it was unusual but likely due to having blood glucose under control as it changes the blood pressure and shape of your eyes slightly.
How old are you? I'm almost 50 and in the last year my long distance vision has improved however I need stronger reading glasses and find it tricky to do closeup work. I was on mounjaro between Feb and Sep this year.
Shokz OpenSwim Pro. Waited for years for these to come out. The jump from 4GB -> 32GB sounds great, until I found out that whatever decoder chip they are using doesnt support folders. So you are expected to put 32gb of mp3's on the device (since bluetooth doesnt work under water when swimming), and then navigate file by file. Insanity.
Lots of room for skin types to play here, I found that Astra blades were the least likely to nick and cause irritation. If I am in a rush I can even use them dry (with the grain only!).
Very interesting to see if they are successful, and/or if this type of maintainer load reducing could be adapted to something like ubuntu/debian where maintaining packages is quite time consuming.
The value of Debian/Ubuntu is that there are people vetting and packaging and testing software. If you remove that and have AI do it, there isn't much left.
This agent isn't claiming to displace that work; more like act as the contribution equivalent of Tier 1 Support in a customer-service setting (where the actual project maintainers would then be Tier 2 Support).
Such agents would mostly provide guidance to jumping through the hoops necessary to get your PR in a state where it's mergeable according to the project's contribution guidelines — removing the need for humans to be that guide. (In other words, they'd act as a "compiler for your PR" that you could iterate on, with good English-language error messages. IMHO something that should already exist locally — but git has no local reified concept of PRs, so this is hard.)
But I would expect that in almost every case, the project's human maintainers would still eventually step in to review the PR, after the bot seems happy with it.
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Mind you, in theory, for a particular set of limited-scope (but frequently occurring) problems, Tier 1 Support agents are usually empowered to solve those problems directly for a customer. And likewise, there could potentially be a set of limited-scope contribution types that a Tier 1 Project Contribution Auditor would be able to directly approve. Things like, say, fixing typos in doc comments (gated by the bot determining that the diff increases semantic validity of the text by some weird LLM "parseability" metric.)
Appears to be a replacement for gdm that is console based (picking and launching your graphical desktop environment). A neat idea, I don't think this has been done before.
Debian is rock solid platform, I never have to tinker once they are setup. Depending on the speakers and what location I use USB dacs and speaker amps(these have gotten SO good in the last 5 years, topping, smsl etc). All of the pieces are interchangeable , flexible, and reusable.
