I agree, I think the problem is the seamless integration, where it renders only the application against the macOS environment. I'd much prefer something more like the cocoa-way example where there's a window that has its own background, and the applications run inside that. Not sure if Xquartz supports running a compositor or windowing manager.

XQuartz used to support rooted mode. I played with an early version back in the PowerPC era, and ran a regular desktop with WindowMaker and everything, using software from MacPorts. It was kind of a "parallel universe", as XQuartz would take over the whole screen in rooted mode and you had to switch between it and the Mac desktop, but it looked and functioned like a typical Linux or Unix desktop of the early 2000s.

I tried that a few times back in the day, but I found it so jarring & ugly against the macOS GUI. The problem was that it was rendering the application alone, for a seamless integration. I don't remember if there was even an option to run a compositor or window manager such that you had a proper window with it's own background and the linux apps show up inside that (like the cocoa-way example).

The problem is when the environment is already optimized for car use, when everything is massively spread out. Hard to get people to stop using cars when infra for walking is an afterthought.

Phoenix is uninhabitable precisely because it's entirely optimized for car life from what I heard? (i.e. massively spread out, no walkability, etc)

It's car optimized because the 110F weather makes it un-walkable in the first place. When I lived in a walkable city, I would prefer to walk 30 minutes than drive. When I lived in Phoenix, I did not want to spend more than 30 seconds outside in the summer.

how's the tree situation though? 110F + lots of huge trees = a lot more tolerable. trees cool shit down big time.

It's a desert so trees can't survive without irrigation. Since water is scarce as well, there aren't enough trees to cover the vast low density area.

You can always start small and over decades grow the area. After all that is how cities like Copenhagen and Amsterdam became bike friendly, not just a few years, but decades of work.

What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_cinnabari or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilopsis?

I suspect they were mostly referring to it being uninhabitable due to the extreme heat and duration of 100ºF+ days.

A dry 100F is fine weather. I’ll take that over a midwestern winter any day.

100F days are fine, cakewalks, even, especially with misters + shade. We had 70+ days of 110°F two years ago, and over 20 days 115°F+. They are not the same. Those days are unbearable nightmare fuel, and worse, they turn into insanely miserable nights where the low temperature rarely dips below 95°. It is absolutely awful, dry or not.

Ultimately he's pointing out the scope of the changes is significantly different. It's nothing like before when you could've kept up by learning new programming languages and frameworks.

Where we're going, programming languages and frameworks are rapidly losing relevance.

Ultimately it's still the same thing - problem solving in specific domains.

Languages and frameworks and libraries and IDEs and agent systems are all - in the end - just some new tooling, they were always the lower-hanging fruit. Cool, fancy, do novel magic, open paths previously unknown or thought impractical or unrealistic, but still - it's just some new ideas and instruments and ways how to use those efficiently - all to write programs that match our needs and fulfill our expectations, making things happen.

Nothing about underlying principles of software engineering had changed - some methods became more feasible, ML got really hot (and very rightfully so), but overall software projects are still software projects. Just recently I've looked at some machine-assisted software development courses and it was just the same good old "use your head, try your best to do things right or bad things happen, and here are the important gotchas of the day that you're best to constantly stay mindful about" material, just with "the machine can very rapidly produce code now, but it's not your code until you comprehend it" flavor, followed with a showcase of capabilities and features of newest tools on the market.

In my understanding, the eternal hustle still stays the same: find a passion, get into something, keep up with others, continuously learn new stuff, try to think something of your own and share, try to produce valuable things that others are willing to pay for, repeat until you can't anymore. Current state of "AI" doesn't disrupt this at all. Although it pushes the tempo up, and the times are stressful even without it.

A couple other comments warned of bird poop danger. But the smart entrepreneur will add a drive thru car wash next to the parking lot.

I'm curious how grindfinity's/geniecrate's calculation is made for the fitting problem.

I'm very interested in seeing some combination of LLM / genetic algorithms to generate optimized furniture placement in rooms, or even designing entire houses from a set of rules/first principles etc.

except the big AI companies are pushing stuff designed for people to run on their personal computers, like Claude Cowork.

Since the site itself doesn't really have a title, I probably would've went with something like "jai - filesystem containment for AI agents"

It'd get mighty dusty under there after awhile, best to keep it where you can see it so it doesn't get into trouble.