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Sorta happy. The current version felt very much like a handout to banks.
We are in a good place. Very favorable administration that doesn't want to prosecute....with lots of friendly state laws.
Personally, I find Cursor getting less useful. The models themselves (probably not cursors direct fault) seems to be getting stupider? (is that possible).
Cursor itself seems to be massively rate-limiting queries such that simple request make you wait now ~30 secs before seeing a response.
I hope things like Cline / Roo (open source implementations for VSCode) take over and render all these "custom AI IDEs" as non-needed.
I'm unconvinced there is a giant market for AR glasses.
Perhaps eventually.... or maybe not....maybe people are happy to just check their phone every so often.
Kinda like "3D TV", that was something the industry tried to push for 30+ years and it never caught on....because people are ok (and maybe prefer) 2D TV watching...
I'm not a developer, but I hack on various things.
But my take on the various models avail on Cursor are:
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Claude-3.5 is the most laser focused: If you ask it "help me write this function to do ABC" - it will write a function to do ABC.
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Claude-3.7 if you ask it "help me write this function to do ABC" - it will write the function to do ABC, and then also cleanup some old stale comments, improve functionX to work the same way that ABC works, and edit a totally different file that needed ABC function to use that.
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Gemini-2.5 A happy medium between the two. Tends to write very good code (I assume they trained it on google corps whole code corpus). Seems best at understanding a complete codebase...
I sometimes switch between them based on my need....like if I really just want to optimize a function I may choose Claude-3.5 because the "laser focus" keeps it from doing too many other changes.
Yes, I think thats the "mind worm" aspect of projects like Gridfinity. It provides a common format to create stackable organizers.
You print a "grid base" and then then anything else you print will automatically "stack" into that common base.
So, as you say, you print custom containers for exactly the space you need.
Desk organization stuff
Be careful exploring Gridfinity. Its sort like a mind-worm....sorta becomes the solution to every problem. You will soon start trying to organize your wife's spice cabinet with gridfinity storage bins.
Something Else:
SOFT FORK - P2PK TXNS MUST PAY 50% MINING FEE.
This sort of splits the difference between "let them have them" and "air drop to miners"
Regardless of whats done, we would need to give holders at least 4 years advance notice before enacting anything.
flip out when the stock market crashes
Yep. Its interesting watching the Mainstreet vs Wallstreet dynamic playout. Mainstreet (ie. middle-class) is still largely supporting the tariffs as they realize their only hope is to get meaningful jobs again.
Mainstreet knows that even if the stock market goes up 4x over the next 20 years, that basically doesn't represent any gain to them. Their just going to get inflation with lower job opportunities.
The corporate press is screaming about "tariffs will be paid by consumer" and they are largely correct. However, they don't mention the other side. We are basically in a situation of do you rather: (a) Inflation with lower job opportunities or (b) Inflation with higher job opportunities.
Mainstreet would prefer to pay $20/doz eggs and earn $30/hr....over the status quo which is $20/doz eggs and earn $12/hr + crushing student loan debt + high home prices.
Lets assume a libertarian paradise. I have 20M slaves to work in my factories. Further, I have lots of marginal land, so I don't really care about environmental damage.
We are trading partners and you thankfully adhere to a free trade ideology. My factories are able to undercut yours by 50%. But, for good measure I add a tax to any goods you produce that are sold in my territory. Also for extra good measure, I fund various "political" campaigns to that are aimed at your territories....in essence they promote environmental + labor rights concepts...the goal is to agitate your public to favor strict regulation of environmental and labor issues....thus ensuring that my 50% advantage is permanent.
Over the last 40 years, I've basically captured your entire manufacturing base.
Your move.
Lets assume a libertarian paradise. I am the owner of several million acres that is adjacent to your million acres.
We don't have "citizens" but instead the people living on our land are more like "clients". They pay various fees for services we provide and generally this works pretty good.
Obviously security and protection are one of those services....however for whatever reason.... you allow unvetted people to enter your land. Upon realizing this, I concoct a plan: Whenever I have a habitual criminal in my area, I pay them a stipend, provide them travel, and escort them to your side of the border. Since I have "vetting process" for the people I allow on my land, those criminals are not allowed to return.
Its a good solution for me since its the most cost effective way for me to "export my criminals" to you. Sucks for you and the clients that live on your land as now they are going to experience more property / violent crime.
You should probably be sued by your clients....Ideally you should go out of business....
Personally, I would rather stock market fall by 80% (including bitcoin) and wind up with a country that can actually start building things again vs another 30 years of same fake financial system.
The current system is not sustainable anyway. We have been heading into a crash one way or another, its better that the crash happen in conjunction with an attempt to re-privatize the economy + rebuild manufacturing base.
I don't doubt that these names are the most prevalent in "blue areas" of the country. But I'm not sure it follows that there is strong political affinity for democrat platform.
I seriously doubt the parents of young Muhammad / Yusef / Moshe are out there voting for transgender story hour.
"The Triffin Dilemma" (in article form with bonus political agitation)
However, if you chart out other major currencies relative strength against the dollar on a 10Y chart, EUR/GBT/CNY are basically flat, most all others have lost ground against USD over 10 years.
The one prominent standout is RUB. Which he is right, that the stupid unworkable sanctions led to forced demand of the RUB, which is helping Russia win the war.
it does everything that the Fed does by creating money as a way to scale US debt. The only thing it doesn't do is have the authority to set interest rates within a set of private banking institutions.
Yes. The next step in stablecoin wars are going to be interest payments. This will radically radically reshape the global currency market.
- Tether buys $100M in US Treasuries
- Treasuries pay tether 4.5% interest
- Tether pays 2% interest to USDT holders and keeps 2.5% for operating income
- USDT holder gets 2% interest automatically in wallet in monthly/daily increments
This will destroy most other national currencies.
- Hyper-dollarization
- Hyper-bitcoinization
Look for HP800 G3. Those regularly go for $50-75 USD and usually includes 8GB of RAM.
For example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/316138776400