> As someone who is a huge IDE fan, I vastly prefer the experience from Codex CLI compared to having that built into my IDE, which I customize for my general purposes
Fascinating.
As a person who *loathes VS Code* and prefers terminal text editors, I find Cursor great!
Maybe because that I have zero desire to customize/leverage Cursor/VS Code.
Neat. Cursor can do what it wants with it, and I can just lean into that...
I was pleasantly surprised recently when planning to "upgrade" a light web app to be portable between SQLite and DuckDB, and the LLM I was working with really made the case that SQLite is better if concurrent operations were to occur.
It's the only way to be sure it's not being trained on.
Most people never come up with any truly novel ideas to code. That's fine. There's no point in those people not submitting their projects to LLM providers.
This lack of creativity is so prevalent, that many people believe that it is not possible to come up with new ideas (variants: it's all been tried before; or: it would inevitably be tried by someone else anyway; or: people will copy anyway).
Some people do come up with new stuff, though. And (sometimes) they don't want to be trained on. That is the main edge IMO, for running local models.
In a word: competition.
Note, this is distinct from fearing copying by humans (or agents) with LLMs at their disposal. This is about not seeding patterns more directly into the code being trained on.
Most people would say, forget that, just move fast and gain dominance. And they might not be wrong. Time may tell. But the reason can still stand as a compelling motivation, at least theoretically.
Tangential: IANAL, but I imagine there's some kind of parallel concept around code/concept "property ownership". If you literally send your code to a 3P LLM, I'm guessing they have rights to it and some otherwise handwavy (quasi important) IP ownership might become suspect. We are possibly in a post-IP world (for some decades now depending on who's talking), but not everybody agrees on that currently, AFAICT.
There are guarantees from several providers that they don’t train on, or even retain, a copy of your data. You are right they could be lying, but some are big enough that would be catastrophic to them from a liability point of view.
Re:creative competition - that’s interesting. I open source much of my creative work so I guess that’s never been a concern of mine.
So here uv installs the Python version wanted. But it's just a venv. And we pip install using requirements.txt, like normal, within that venv.
Someone, please tell me what's wrong with this. To me, this seems much less complicated that some uv-centric .toml config file, plus some uv-centric commands for more kinds of actions.
The greatest thing about Graphviz is indeed the dot language. A nice thing about using dot is that the graph definition is *portable among all applications that support dot*.
Dot is such a simple and readable format (particularly if using the basic features). Thus, it can make a ton of sense to define graphs in strict dot, even if you will be rendering with another tool than Graphviz.
These days, there are other popular options, too -- Mermaid, etc, as TFA indicates. Nonetheless, Graphviz/dot will remain for the long haul, IMO, because dot is so, so good.
So, you need Graphviz for its syntax definitions primarily, and because it is a standard that could be recognized/run anywhere.
Based on a cursory look, keywords can include "smartphone-only internet users" and "large-screen computer ownership".
The American Community Survey asks questions related to that (income, computing devices). Comparing states, the poorer the residents of a state, the smaller the percent of households with regular computers ("large-screen computer ownership"), per "Computer Ownership and the Digital Divide" (Mihaylova and Whitacre, 2025) [0, 1, 2].
Also, Pew runs surveys on income and device usage ("smartphone-only"). Again, the lower the income, the higher the proportion that is smartphone-only [3, 4].
I tried very hard to get it to work, but I simply couldn't get it to connect with my Stalwart instance over JMAP. I do have the permissive CORS and end-points and proxy-protocol seemingly working with my test HTTPS requests, and I also successfully got JMAP to work with the Mailtemi app, but no luck yet with Cypht[0].
Yeah that is kind of issue had me flintch when thinking of using stalwart. As much as it is so nice to install it as a server and ideologies behind it. Looks like gonna just stick with wildduck for now. Just don't like to hedge our email bets on mongodb community edition.
I do have to hand it to the developer though. This is some serious longterm commitment to an open standard that has simply never taken off beyond one company (Fastmail). Current JMAP implementation is pretty much nonexistent, and I am back to using IMAP/WebDAV with Roundcube and plugins with Stalwart. To me, this is an exercise in patience and waiting for an eventual payoff that may or may not come in the next two years. Having followed the project closely for over a year and gone through a few upgrades and followed the community, I'm still optimistic and happy to be along for the ride.
> best case scenario is walkable neighborhoods with lots of little tasty restaurants at affordable prices around the corner from everybody.
According to the written history, pre-1906 San Francisco had basically that.
It seems that the normal middle-class could afford high-quality, delicious food at restaurants, multiple times per week, due to the abundance of local ingredients and overall economic conditions.
So, how to get that quality and relative pricing today?
Excerpts from "The City That Was: A Requiem of Old San Francisco" by Will Irwin (free eBook, [0], free audiobook [1], HTML version at [2]):
> San Francisco was famous for its restaurants and cafes.
> they gave the best fare on earth, for the price, at a dollar, seventy-five cents, a half a dollar, or even fifteen cents.
> a public restaurant where there was served the best dollar dinner on earth
> The eating was usually better than the surroundings. Meals that were marvels were served in tumbledown little hotels.
> A number of causes contributed to this. The country all about produced everything that a cook needs and that in abundance—the bay was an almost untapped fishing pound, the fruit farms came up to the very edge of the town, and the surrounding country produced in abundance fine meats, game, all cereals and all vegetables.
[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3314
[1] https://librivox.org/san-francisco-before-and-after-the-earthquake-by-william-henry-irwin/
[2] https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3314/pg3314-images.html
A starting point would be actually having enough housing, so workers don't automatically need wages that can absorb the overhead of commuting an hour both ways just to make burgers.
Adjusted for income, those prices would be $15-$100 today. That seems in the right ballpark to me. I can get a pretty great dinner for $100/plate, especially if I don't need it to be in a fancy restaurant atmosphere.
That's what I thought at first, after trying one inflation calculator: $30 for a decent meal, sure, and double that maybe for a pretty tasty meal, is pretty available. (Even then, I think ingredient purity and true preparation aptitude could be pretty suspect, especially at the lower end.)
BUT, TRYING AGAIN: Some inflation calculators do not go back to 1900. But looking further, $0.15 to $1.00 in 1900 would be $5.67 to $38.57 in 2025 dollars, according to https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/
I do wonder if there are discontinuities in inflation calculators for the times before the great fires in each city. Setting that aside, and assuming https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1900?amount=0.15 is accurate, 15 cents in 1900 would be $5.64 in 2025 AFAICT at the moment.
It would be very hard to find a decent sandwich for $5.67 just about anywhere in the USA, much less a multi-course, local, fresh, gourmet meal.
I think it's the general availability of these kinds of pure foods, and their accessibility all about town, prepared to near perfection, even accessible to the poor, that stands out in the Old San Francisco description. To wit:
> ...Hotel de France. This restaurant stood on California street...a big ramshackle house, which had been a mansion of the gold days. Louis, the proprietor, was a Frenchman...his accent was as thick as his peasant soups. The patrons were Frenchmen of the poorer class, or young and poor clerks and journalists who had discovered the delights...
> First ...was the soup mentioned before—thick and clean and good. Next, ...a course of fish—sole, rock cod, flounders or smelt—with a good French sauce. The third course was meat. This came on en bloc; the waiter dropped in the centre of each table a big roast or boiled joint together with a mustard pot and two big dishes of vegetables. Each guest manned the carving knife in turn and helped himself to his satisfaction. After that, ...a big bowl of excellent salad.... For beverage, there stood by each plate a perfectly cylindrical pint glass filled with new, watered claret. The meal closed with "fruit in season"—all that the guest cared to eat....the price was fifteen cents!
> If one wanted black coffee he paid five cents extra...a beer glass full of it. ...he threw in wine and charged extra for after-dinner coffee...
> Adulterated food at that price? Not a bit of it! The olive oil in the salad was pure, California product—why adulterate when he could get it so cheaply? The wine, too, was above reproach.... Every autumn, he brought tons and tons of cheap Mission grapes, ...The fruit was small, and inferior, but fresh...wished his guests would eat nothing but fruit, it came so cheap...
Anecdotally, this is consistent with what I have personally observed in dozens of countries, where the low end cost of eating out is about the same as and hour of work.
I used census data to come up with my guesstimate [0]. In 1905, the largest share of men were making $10-15 per week. Women and children less, of course.
The 2025 equivalent seems to be about $1330 per week. So in [very] round numbers it looks like about 100x.
Fascinating.
As a person who *loathes VS Code* and prefers terminal text editors, I find Cursor great!
Maybe because that I have zero desire to customize/leverage Cursor/VS Code.
Neat. Cursor can do what it wants with it, and I can just lean into that...
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