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Finda <https://keminglabs.com/finda/> is the best file search I've seen for macOS. (Incidentally, it has an Electron UI.)

Doesn't seem to be updated for Tahoe yet, and even the Sequoia version isn't notarized, so it's not really clear if it has a future.


An AI editor, a competitor to Cursor but written from scratch and not a VS Code fork. They recently announced a funding round from Sequoia. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961172


I don't understand why people say X is a competitor to Cursor, which is built on Visual Studio Code, when GitHub Copilot came out first, and is... built on Visual Studio Code.

It also didn't start out as a competitor to either.


It wasn't an AI editor for a long time


Yup. Their big design goal seemed to just be "speed" for a majority of development. That's it.


Even without any AI stuff, it's a fantastic editor for its speed.


Someone posted this in the other zed thread but it looks on par with VS Code in speed according to these results:

https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/112146684329230663


Depends how you measure it. At least my battery lasts hour longer when using Zed and when comparing to VSCode. Also, the link is almost 1,5 years old.


This may be the case, but as a Helsinki resident I am always surprised when visiting either Stockholm or Tallinn, because their drivers always seem more likely to honor zebra crossings than drivers in Helsinki.


I don't know about German law, but in Finnish law you can only appeal to the trial period if you have an acceptable reason related to the trial period. For example, if the employee isn't performing well, that is a legal reason to annul the work agreement during the trial period. But selling the business to investors or having financial difficulties because of the economy are not acceptable reasons, since they are not related to the specific recently-hired employee.

It cuts both ways: the employee can walk out during the trial period for reasons such as feeling like they didn't fit in, or the work being different from what they imagined. But if they merely find a better-paying job elsewhere, they cannot invoke the trial period but have to give notice in the usual way.


Why the number 2,280? What keeps you from adding peasants until your projectile travels at 0.99c?


It's worse, if I follow the logic, the projectile will travel any distance in 6s, so long as you have enough peasants.

I don't know what the D&D5 rules are on relativistic time dilation, I guess these would perhaps need to be invoked.


Yeah, the whole thing gets messy in an interesting way.

- if the rod travels across 7 light seconds in a round, the only way to avoid breaking relativity is if the 6 seconds the round takes are measured in the frame of reference of the rod

- that would mean that from the frame of reference of the rest of the people/monsters/edgy antiheroes/misunderstood blob creatures, the rod’s “turn” took 7 seconds.

All characters in the D&D universe are accustomed to a reality where each round takes 6 seconds, and everyone - in synchrony - is able to perform an integer number of tasks that fit within that timespan. Rounds begin and end simultaneously for everyone involved in combat. How disturbing would it be for such beings to see those laws broken?


Perhaps time is quantized and to the outside observer, the action takes 12 seconds?


Given how grid-based combat works, I'm not even sure that D&D exists in a Euclidean-adjacent space time.


I demand at least a semblance of pythagorean distances for this reason; (N+M/2 is close enough for the distances involved in combat). The 5e default of diagonal moves being equal to grid-aligned moves is significantly more painful to my brain than dividing by two is.


Nothing in any of the D&D universes suggests that it follows the same physical laws as ours, and many, many things say otherwise.


I'm guessing to get a nice, round number of two miles:

> At the start of combat, the chain of events is initiated and that wooden rod is carried two miles in 6 seconds which means it had to accelerate to the speed of 1900 miles per hour. This is due in part that a medium creature (which human peasants categorize as) takes up a one-by-one 5 foot square. Multiply that space times 2,280, and you easily get a line that spans two miles.

As far as why two miles, specifically? I don't know. Wizards can cast Meteor Swarm out from a range of one mile, so maybe there's something that can counter-act this nonsense from a range of 1.9?


...also, why does it have to be a ladder? Where does the ladder come from? And why can't you have all 2280 peasants just do a normal attack to do 2280d6 (or whatever) damage?


>What keeps you from adding peasants until your projectile travels at 0.99c?

Yeah so, I did have a group in a setting with fusion torches, deliberately accelerate a large mass to a decent percentage of the speed of light, aimed at a planet, just to commit genocide.


These custom earplugs are the most comfortable I've ever worn:

https://www.elacin.com/your-perfect-fit/leisure/relax-sleep/


Nice. Which model do you use? And do they sell them in the U.S.? Not that I would mind making a trip overseas and getting away from the insanity here for a little while, but it adds to the cost.


I have the "Relax & Sleep" pair. I got mine from a Finnish reseller, and thought they were a global company but they seem to list only European locations. I believe thomann.de delivers to the U.S., but that's little help since the point of these would be to get them made individually.

I would assume that your local audiologist or music instrument store will know what the U.S. equivalent to these is. It seems to me that Elacin's biggest market is musicians who want a comfortable pair of earplugs with a flat frequency response.


These are the most comfortable earplugs I've used:

https://www.elacin.com/your-perfect-fit/leisure/relax-sleep/

Currently I use Ozlo Sleepbuds which are not quite as comfortable and a little finicky to operate, but I like the masking noise.


curl wttr.in


Not a full solution, but one thing I've learned not to do is tell Cursor "you got that wrong, fix it like this". Instead, I go back to the previous prompt and click "Restore Checkpoint", edit the prompt and possibly the Cursor rules to steer it in the right direction.

When the model has the wrong solution in its context, it will use it when generating new code, and my feeling is that it doesn't handle the idea of "negative example" very well. Instead, delete the bad code and give it positive examples of the right approach.


You probably mean the USAMO 2025 paper. They updated their comparison with Gemini 2.5 Pro, which did get a nontrivial score. That Gemini version was released five days after USAMO, so while it's not entirely impossible for the data to be in its training set, it would seem kind of unlikely.

https://x.com/mbalunovic/status/1907436704790651166


The claim is that these models are training on data which include the problems and explanations. The fact that the first model trained after the public release of the questions (and crowdsourced answers) performs best is not a counter example, but is expected and supported by the claim.


The same timing is actually suspicious. And it would not be the first time something like this happened.


I was noodling with Gemini 2.5 Pro a couple days ago and it was convinced Donald Trump didn’t win the 2024 election and that he conceded to Kamala Harris so I’m not entirely sure how much weight I’d put behind it.


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