it's Broicism; Modern self-help for dudes that think enjoying sex is feminine and washing your bung is homoerotic. The primary consumer is unlikely to read the entirety of The Meditations and prefers short, punchy aphorisms they can memorize.

I remember reading or hearing that if we follow taxonomnic rules from the ground up, humans would be classified as hagfish (don't quote me on that, I have a terrible memory)

We've not made much progress on this front since Plato's featherless biped.

win8 is the latest version of windows I've used (for about a week before I installed linux, ironically enough. I'm using that laptop right now lol) and I do not remember it being a good experience. Why you would recreate it is beyond me but I think it's neat that folks are doing stuff like this.

Now, if someone wants to recreate win95, I might be interested

> Now, if someone wants to recreate win95

You can try Chicago95 [1], but it's only a XFCE theme. If you want more than a theme, there's SerenityOS [2] but it isn't suitable for daily use (yet)

[1] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 [2] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity

I'd like a DE/theme that aims to do what the Win2k shell did. File explorer, basic window management, app switching, app launching. Back before every single UI widget had to integrate 47 types of OS feature-of-this-year's-product-cycle functionality.

Chicago95 isn't far off looks-wise. Something slightly more polished than Xfce, but way less than the behemoth that KDE is. I really feel like the modern basic desktop UI was pretty close to complete in 2002-2005, and the moment we tried to make your contacts list available for use in every single application we fell onto a slippery slope from which we have never recovered.

If food keeps going up, it might get there but in the affluent west we run on our stomachs and as long as most of the middle class can still afford bread there won't be enough of a mass mobilization to affect any meaningful change.

I can't say I'm the biggest fan of the financial apparatus in general but it is more than a little heartening to see someone in the federal government with a spine for once.

He's one of very few adults left at that level.

It might be childish, but I think the “act like an adult” (or not) is a good way to frame the bad behavior that’s been so present lately.

It encapsulates so much of how I want to describe things.

Selfish behavior - this adult is just a child who didn’t learn to share.

Mean and vindictive behavior - didn’t learn to empathize as a kid

Lying? You’re still a child. Grow up and then join the adults.

Very apt for the current moment.

Adults push back on aggressors when necessary. Children cower behind the adults.

you mean for not cutting interest rates, right?

We could be building chatbot clones of Cicero or Samuel Pepys or even an asshole-genius like Feynman.

But that's all too good for us, we don't deserve goo things; we get dead pedophile bankers instead.

I think the absurdity is the whole point.

Likely, but it's just as absurd to think you'd get anything of value out of talking to a chatbot simulation of a genius. You'd do a better job of assigning yourself the problem of taking the voice of a vibrant historical persona...

butt aren't you getting enough goo things during breakfast?

> Samuel Pepys

Mr. hazer con ella?

Characters like that are available through system prompts on any LLM. Unfortunately I find the tone of the prose doesn't change much from one author to another, it's still very chatgptlike, but sprinkles in references to the topics the author might go on about.

Also there's not really evidence epstein was a banker, no one knows who was financing his operation or why millionaires would add to his portfolio without any expectation of returns, since, the money was never actually invested in anything

Obviously, you can't build something as complex as a modern operating system without intention, and therefore an "agenda" but I have a feeling you know what OP was getting at.

I also know that the impulse to be a pedant is strong because I fight it every day, ha!

ed makes a lot more sense if you remember they were printing everything to paper rather than using a glass tty when it was first developed

Is that the same Dmitry that got the linux kernal to run on an atmega?

also on 3 8 pin chips. I listened to interview with him and he decided to wait 10 years to give competition a chance then try to do it on raw transistors or vaccuum tubes

The scary part is I believe he would do it, too

I think the point is that a subjective experience, without accompanying data, is useless for making any factual claims wrt both ghosts and reported productivity-boosts from LLM usage.

Getting photos of ghosts is one thing, but productivity increases are omething that we should be able to quantify at some level to demonstrate the efficacy of these tools.

That's a silly thing to request from random people in the comments of an HN thread though ha