Joann Fabrics had decent foot traffic and the margins were good. My kid and I averaged probably 3 trips a month.

They sold a whole lot more than fabric.

It is a fun problem to play with, but it turns out you can use anything. I use a directory per recipient and throw anything I want in there. Works fine, LLMs are 1000x more flexible than any human mind.

The ESP32 pre-RISCV ISA is from Tensilica, this IP they purchased.

To be clear and towards the OP's comment about ESP32 ISA -- Xtensa isn't really a self contained architecture, it can be customized (extended) by the vendor. The ISA can be extended for these customizations. ESP32 is one customization of it.

It was only opaquely supported by GCC, no LLVM, so no Rust.

It is a cool design, but it was a major PITA for awhile. Xtensa is parametric so every instance of a cpu has a custom instruction set.

Heh. Yep. Reverse engineering firmware for a custom xtensa cpu is also a lot of “fun” (and also fun).

Does that include HN?

Absolutely lol - as a human in tech; I like to try and live like it is 1999 - and the 1999 where I wasn’t inside writing Perl but 1999 like when I was outside roller blading, skateboarding, bmxing, before I had a cell phone.

A very aggressive noprocrast could certainly get you there!

How long until Claude has noprocrast?

What does that mean exactly, how do you see that manifesting itself? Would we even be aware of these networks, sounds like email

Not email; social networking. Symmetrical just means the relationship is the same from both sides. Imagine a two-way "friendship" relationship (old-school Facebook) vs. a one-way "following" relationship (more recent Facebook, Insta, Twitter, etc.).

A followers graph is much more stable. You can have 1m followers but you can't have 1m friends

The friendship link on the site would need to go both ways. Request and accept. There is no concept of “Follow”.

In addition, I’d say limit the number of “friends” a person can have. Maybe cap it at 200 (Dunbar's number plus a little extra). This eliminates celebrity, news, and meme accounts. It also eliminates people playing the silly game of seeing who can get the most followers or bragging about follower counts.

These are your actual friends, who also consider you a friend. Even if a celebrity were to join, the site would be useful for sharing with actual friends, not their fans or casual acquaintances.

Facebook started out similarly, but I don’t think it ever had a friend cap. I remember some sorority girls try to get me to make a Facebook account around 2004/5, because they had a contest to see who could get the most friends. I thought this was stupid and said no. Since this happened almost instantly after launch, I think those friend limits are important to make people use it for actual friends and not a popularity contest. Facebook went the opposite way, leaned into it, and created the Follow option. It was all downhill from there.

I now code for fun with AI because it can handle the boring parts. 80% of anything is mostly drudge. And while we can’t subsist on frosting alone, having assistant that can keep you in the zone is very rewarding.

Three major iterations from now this whole conversation will be quaint and everyone will have always thought this.

I am curious about how both of you think Jetbrains is dropping the ball so much that you are no longer buying the tool.

You are still using it but no longer getting updates?

I use free RustRover for my open source work. I have not purchased a (new) license for my commercial work, because I haven't been getting as much value as it since my flow has switched to primarily agentic.

Mainly, they're pushing Junie and it just isn't that good or compelling, when faced off against the competition.

The key thing for me is that I think they had an opportunity here to really rethink how LLMs could interact with an editor since they potentially controlled both the editor and the LLM interaction. But they just implemented another chat-based interaction model with some bells and whistles, and also were late getting it out really, and what they delivered seemed a bit meh.

I was hoping for something that worked more closely inside the editing process, inline in the code, not just completions and then an agentic log alongside.

I also don't like that I can't seem to get it to work with 3rd party LLM providers, really. It seems to allow specifying an OpenAI API compatible endpoint, but it's janky and doesn't seem to allow me to refresh and manage the list of models properly?

It just still seems half-baked.

I love Opus and I am a heavy CC user now, but I don't like that Claude Code is taking me out of my IDE, away from hands on with the code, and out of my editing process.And I don't like how it tries to take over and how weak its review flow is. I end up almost always with surprises during my review process, despite my finding the quality of its code and analysis quite good. To me there was a real chance here for a company like JetBrains to show its worth in applying AI in a more sensible way than Anthropic has.

VSCode and Zed have no appeal to me though. I've mostly gone back to emacs.

In the meantime, their IDEs themselves feel a bit stalled in terms of advancement. And they've always suffered from performance problems since I started using them over 20 ago.

> I have not purchased a (new) license for my commercial work, because I haven't been getting as much value as it since my flow has switched to primarily agentic.

I still buy a personal Ultimate license because I want to see them succeed even if like 80% of my time is spent either in a CLI or Visual Studio Code (for quicker startup and edits), a bit unfortunate that Fleet never got to be really good but oh well.

Also wish Fleet took off, not a fan of installing a new IDE for every separate repo that's in a different language

Over the last two decades I've given them quite a bit a money on personal subscriptions, and indirectly a lot more through employer purchases on my behalf.

I dislike VSCode very much, but I do think the foundational pieces of the JetBrain's IDEs are starting to show their age.

I've done some testing before and many of the new Jetbrains internal plugins cause memory leaks which really lags down my IDE...

If context disambiguates, then you have to use attention which is even more resource intensive.

You want to be as state free as possible. Your tokenizer should match your vocab and be unambiguous. I think your goal is sound, but golfing for the wrong metric.

I’ll give you $1000 to run Mongo.

Relying on implementation behavior is the perfect way to introduce a hidden in plain site vulnerability.

Most of C++ programs written before P0593R6 depended on implementation behaviour, and were graciously allowed to not be undefined behaviour just 5 years ago. C++ as a language standard is mostly irrelevant, what one should care about is what the compiler authors consider valid code.

Using pragmas, attributes and optimisation guarantees is the point of implementation-defined behaviour in the first place.

The Linux kernel extensively uses gcc extensions. That doesn't inherently make it insecure.

You have to rely on implementation for anything to do with what happens to memory after it is freed, or really almost anything to do with actual bytes in RAM.