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If you're using Windows you're likely not the audience. Which is fine.

Not really; not without understanding what am I missing. Why does Linux need a "multiplexer for all work," while Windows either already has one, doesn't need one, or couldn't use one?

A Multiplexer let's you run multiple terminals in one window, this is a new one. WindowsOS does not get as nice of tools as Linux generally.

After using a tiling WM, it feels like this is a window manager job. It even works for non-terminal applications.

Multiplexer works without any WM installed, which is nice.

Except you don't need a multiplexer for that. Essentially all modern terminals have tabs. Many have split-screen. Even windows ships with a half-decent terminal with tabs and multiple panes by default now!

A multiplexer's job is to do the whole multiple tabs/panes/windows thing independently of the terminal itself, but (a) the UX for eg. tmux is so much worse than that of a good terminal UI, and (b) you only need that if you plan on connecting remotely (see my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108483).


Staples. I have a broken Canon now and before had a broken HP. Both were dirty cheap. I imagine how much the environment suffers from broken printers alone.

I am not buying a new one. Only going to stores to print.


You basically described Canonical's hiring process !


No only sat scores but specifically they ask for the percentile band of your high school maths and hard sciences scores.

Not even kidding. I’ve been in a staff level+ role at 3 of the 5 faang. Applied to canonical because their products are interesting. I’m ~30 years past high school and i get hit with ‘what are your high school maths scores’. I answered the online form honestly and got a rejection email immediately on send. Phew!

Not at all kidding on that and there’s screenshots of the literally insane questions they ask online.


lol I know, I applied for them around 4-5 years ago and thought it was a joke... I did the first part which was some gimmic IQ tests and then I had to write an essay (which I didn't) !


question bank ?! lol, no wonder people complain about being performative.

If you have nothing to talk about, cancel it


Really depends on the team etc. I don't think every team needs to have 1-1, certainly not weekly as a mandate.

The best cultures I worked at didn't have 1-1 series by default


No. Because the investment to get into the game is too big and takes too long. The ones who can create the silicon are already oversubscribed.


How do you make it without AI ? Are you parsing through millions of pages yourself ?


The LLM results are presented confidently and succinctly in a way that is designed to tell you “yes” OR, it not applicable, it just mashes together statements (which often leads to a response that contradicts itself one sentence later). That’s not the same as your vetting search results.

Well before Google screwed it all up there used to be some correlation between top hits and what you were looking for. SEO has muddied the waters for many years now and it’s never been truly “merit based” or “objective” or whatever we want to call it, but generally speaking, the first results were the best by default.


That hasn't been my experience. It has been working really well for what I need.

SEO optimization totally ruined google search for me for the past few years


>that hasn’t been my experience

Ok, but it’s been mine. And clearly I’m not alone.

I feel like at this point any discussion about LLM’s has an implied “my experience” because LLM’s are super inconsistent due to not being refined tools at all. I’m sure your experience has been different, just like my experience has been different. I imagine you’ll want to chalk it up to operator error, but it sure seems like a lot of people have variations of my experience. If so many people are operating it wrong, then maybe the tool is poorly designed.

Understand that I use LLM’s pretty frequently. I am not “anti-AI.” I’ve used production tools incorporating machine learning for years now. But LLM’s simply aren’t the bespoke tools that these companies want you to believe, and they are definitely not a suitable replacement for search. It’s simply too inconsistent and will hallucinate answers. Google search didn't make up answers, it presented indexed sources that you ver in real time which I find to be a far superior way to do research. I don’t like having to guess when an LLM is just making shit up as it asserts something with simulated extreme confidence. Not only that, you can take a correct answer from a LLM and just start saying “know that is not right,” and it will start apologizing to you and generating other answers. That is a huge problem! I shouldn’t be able to “convince it” to give me a different answer.

Yes SEO made things objectively worse. Doesn’t mean we need to add another layer of issues on top of that.


No, you engage in what appears to be the lost art of media literacy and abrogate high quality sources.


Right, so I have to do manual work going over 10000000 of results ? Or trusting SEO / google algorthm instead ?


No... When did you start using the internet?


great question, probably around 1998 ! How is it relevant to 2026 ?


You seemed confused about how to use a search engine combined with media literacy, thinking you'd have to parse 10,000 results.


I don't disagree with you, but google search has gone so downhill that I had stopped using it before they moved to the AI approach, which is actually pretty decent.


"Next 5y" doesn't apply to AI factories


They are until they aren't. My grandmother had a puncture and almost died


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