It's kind of a meme within the photography community though. People will spend many thousands of dollars on a camera that's supposedly "the best" (pick your fave reasons, ideally as obscure as possible) and then not actually shoot with it. Looking at yall, Leica fans.
There's a saying about how typical people use their audio system to listen to music, but audiophiles use music to listen to their audio system. An equivalent should be made for photography.
The sad part of this narrative is that Linux Desktop can be a thing, mostly because other options have gotten worse/enshittified vs Linux Desktop itself has gotten better (It has, but it is probably not the reason of the rise.)
His memoir "Hit Refresh" [1] was a reasonably interesting read, so
I hoped at least a bit of personality. But this reads more like an internal memo from CEO to the ranks vs personal notes (It can actually aim to public version of their internal memo.)
The CLI tools are the backends and they're talking about the desktop frontend aka GUI. These frontends depends on the CLI. It's essentially an API of the system in this world.
I personally welcome this change as the current GUI is indeed a bit confusing.
I believe even in Japan Lua is more popular because of the reasons mentioned in other threads. When I worked at a game studio there Lua was the script engine of the choice, mostly because other companies are also using it and there was a tribal knowledge of the language.
Mruby was a good attempt but I don't think they have become a competitive options.
I feel these review stuff is more like a side / pass time to him. Look at nanochat for example. My impression is that these are the thongs he spends most of his energy still.
After all,l he's been a "influencer" for a long time, starting from the "software 2.0" essay.
- "Thinking" is Gemini 3 Flash with higher "thinking_level"
- Prop is Gemini 3 Pro. It doesn't mention "thinking_level" but I assume it is set to high-ish.
Oh it's good old tokenization vs for-LLM tokenizations like sentence piece or tiktoken. We shouldn't forget there are non-ML simple things like this one which doesn't ask you to buy more GPUs.
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