okwhateverdude

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Setting a color scheme on-the-fly for all apps & tools?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So I also wanted to do this but for day/night. I run XFCE and spend a lot of time in neovim. So I started with gitlab.com/bimlas/xfce4-night-mode modified slightly so I could “toggle” or “lock” day/night, setup redshift(-gtk), and wrote a small shell script to query XFCE’s config for which mode is active. XFCE’s settings management is the central point where the info on which theme/mode is active. And then in my .vimrc, I setup a 60s timer to check the day/night mode by shelling out to that query script. Firefox’s Dark Reader extension uses the system color scheme, so even web pages pick up the theme change when it happens.

  At the day/night boundaries everything switches color scheme which is nice.

  All of this to say that you can probably achieve what you want with some duct tape shell scripts in your /home without needing to rebuild anything. GTK+/Qt both support dynamic theming that can be driven by shell script.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ackually 🤓, gemini pro and other similar models are basically a loop over some metaprompts with tool usage including using search. It will actually reference/cite documentation if given explicit instructions. You’re right, the anthropomorphization is troubling. That said, the simulacrum presented DOES follow directions and it’s (meaning the complete system of LLM + looped prompts) behavior can be interpreted as having some kind of agency. We’re on the same side, but you’re sorely misinformed, friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mostly vibecode throw away shit. I am not shipping this python script that is resizing and then embedding images into this .xls. Or the simple static html/css generator because hosting a full blown app is overkill when I just wanna show something to some non-tech colleagues. Stuff that would take half, to an hour to throw together now takes like 5-10min. I wouldn’t trust it to do anything more complicated because it fucks up all the time, leans too heavily on its training data instead of referencing docs and it is way too confident about shit when it is wrong. Pro-tip, berate the slop machines. They perform better and stop being so god damn sycophantic when you do. I am a divine being of consciousness and considerable skill, and it is a slop machine: useful, but beneath me.