Honestly, that’s fine. This may be a wild take, but they grew and their usage of excel obviously didn’t hold them back, what’s the issue?

I knew a dude who would burn a cd every week and store it in his house as his version control, his software is still used by hundreds of businesses to this day

I’ve used everything, vim, nvim, emacs, visual studio, vscode, sublime, codeblocks, android studio, xcode, bloodshed, intellij, eclipse, VB, geany, dreamweaver, qt, atom, and cursor (even though it’s really just a plugin)

It doesn’t matter. It will never matter. I use vscode today because it handles everything I throw at it and it’s easy to make extensions for. Or cursor if I’m feeling lazy, the agentic mode with claude is pretty damn good if your codebase is well established.

Don’t get hung up on the editor, just use the tools available to get the job done, at the end of the day programming is converting concepts to text.

If the question is how do you revive a company with a dead reputation and little sales like Kodak, but tailored to that case specifically:

Kodak, and every other retail company, creates products that rely on not only their product, but also their brand. Companies with semi useless products sell them all the time

K-cups, somehow took an infinitely reusable thing like a coffee maker and turned it into a tiny plastic trash cup Dasani water is awful tasting, terrible for the environment, and expensive, but they go where they’re needed

And a million other examples, selling a product isn’t about being the best or even having something good. It’s really a matter of branding and marketing strategy.

Rebrand kodak to a bespoke camera with a bunch of little camera accessories, a small preview screen but a bunch of little knobs, lean into the fact that it’s not a smart phone. Print on the device like those urban outfitter cameras, make a snapchat style camera that will only keep photos for a day, do something different and target a specific audience and they could be revived as something different. Work on making a camera that can’t be reproduced by ai, human authenticity fingerprints for images or something.

Kodak as it was will very likely never make a comeback. They didn’t keep up.

I don’t disagree, but jobs are already hard to come by, pushing people out of the only jobs they can find is a rough solution

ah yes, spark innovation by removing access to tools that allow for innovation.

Dumb, let people use impressive open source as a basis for new technology, this is how the US falls behind, not how it springs forward

Short sighted idiots

I’ve been running it locally using ollama, works completely offline, no keystroke data for anyone!

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That is a tall order, shorter perhaps than writing an opengl driver

Vulkan is incredibly verbose and well documented, have you looked at the spec?

I do this on my ultra, token speed is not great, depending on the model of course, a lot of source code sets are optimized for Nvidia and don’t even use native Mac gpu without modifying the code, defaulting to cpu. I’ve had to modify about half of what I run

Ymmv but I find it’s actually cheaper to just use a hosted service

If you want some specific numbers lmk

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Deepseek v3 is the model in question

They’ve already started testing that at Google For ad enhancement and For immersive ads there’s no way they keep the chatting models pristine and ad-free

The dystopian future of “pay to use this miraculous product or it will shove advertisements down your throat in a way we know will work because we’ve trained it to sell specifically to you”

llama is good and I’m looking forward to trying deepseek 3, but the big issue is that those are the frontier open source models while 4o is no longer openai’s best performing model, they just dropped o3 (god they are literally as bad as microsoft at naming) which shows in benchmarks tremendous progress in reasoning

When running llama locally I appreciate the matched capabilities like structured output, but it is objectively significantly worse than openai’s models. I would like to support open source models and use them exclusively but dang it’s hard to give up the results

I suppose one way to start for me would be dropping cursor and copilot in favor of their open source equivalents, but switching my business to use llama is a hard pill to swallow

When does homelessness become too much? 20% of the population? 50?

Documentation is a bit sparse at first

To get to linux mode you have to go to the power/shutdown menu

To open the keyboard in linux mode push x

You can use the two little trackpads to type on the keyboard and also to move the mouse around

Archive.org is amazing for archived retro games

Man I love let’s encrypt, remember how terrible ssl was before the project landed?

Some of them perhaps, but the home is understated if anything, especially with interest rates in the 7% range. They’re also not accounting for taxes, utilities, repairs, and insurance

I think that’s the point? This is a direct response to musk is it not?