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Oh you're right, it's moved to codeberg. I've updated my original post. Lots of projects moving off of github recently, because Microsoft. In my experience crinklyfly is very active in maintaining the repo, so hopefully this will continue on codeberg.

I've been using it through wine for two years now, using this repo.

It works surprisingly well, sometimes there's some flickering, but not enough to prevent me from working. It gets a bit slow to react on big assemblies, though that might also be the case on windows. logging in is a pain, luckily that's only every 1-2 months (you need to log in on the homepage, copy the login id and run a cli command with the id, within the 30 seconds before the id expires. Usually takes me 2-3 tries because i forget it after 2 months). it not seeing linux drives and having to copy files from/to wine's drive_c is a bit annoying.

but overall it's good enough, haven't booted the windows partition in those two years and I'm willing to deal with this to be windows free. But if i had to use it professionally as a daily driver, that would probably be different.

I did have to reinstall it twice in the two year period, though.

You can find a cleaned up version here

Someone over on lobste.rs has deobfuscated it, code can be found here

This is one of the big issues i have in my job. I'm on a dev team but a majority of the people around here are research data scientists. And a shitty 1000 line python script with zero regard for quality, that only really produces a bar chart as output and is never used again after 6 months is all they ever work with. And LLMs are amazing for that. But these data scientists don't seem to understand that not all software is like that. So it's really hard to have a real conversation about it.

And wouldn't you know it, these are some of the same kind of people building this stuff and pushing the vibe coding narrative.

Like, some art house, descent into madness type movie? Would probably do well at the film festivals.

Even for that, 4 legs like the robot dogs is easier/more stable. Plus purpose built robots that don't need to move are generally cheaper and make more sense, like a dishwasher.

and ten 500 bucks purpose built robots are cheaper than one 20-50k humanoid robot that does tasks slowly and needs a human remote operator for most of them

and 'revved up'

Oh my teeth hurt
Oh my tee-eeth hurt
It's got to be my teeth hurt

• Led Zeppelin

Denmark and Norway. Not sure what he wants with the Netherlands, though.

Uhm, should probably mention that MMT is a relatively fringe theory not supported by most mainstream economists. Saying "there's nothing controversial here" seems more than a bit disingenous…

In a way, LLMs have already taken my job as a software engineer. It's not that they can do my job better than me. But they suck all the joy out of the field, they expose the almost religious culture around efficiency and velocity in the field (no, i don't want to be 5% faster to make the boss richer and feel miserable doing it) and how little my peers care about craft and quality. Also why do those fucks have to lap up every new technofacist oligarchy thing with such enthusiasm, it pisses me off.

so it's not that it does my job, but that it showed me how much i disdain this field now.

I'm thinking of switching to something (cnc) machining/cad related, both skills i taught myself and love , but i don't know what kind of position could be suitable given my dev knowledge and lack of formal training. Plus i wouldn't want to do the operator kind of work where all you do is put stock in the cnc machine and execute someone elses CAM, that seems too close to using LLMs in spirit. I do want and like creative work and tinkering.

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and I'm lucky enough to work for a university, so good work life balance, job security, pension, mostly meaningful work. Ironically enough in the AI field… But that makes considering to switch even harder. I could easily and comfortably coast along and feel discontent for many years to come.