I conceptually agree that managing windows should be the task of... the window manager, but at the same time it's easier and lower friction to both develop inside of an app and get some user to test new features
Exactly. I agree that the OS/window manager is the “proper” layer in theory.
In practice, building it as an app makes experimentation much easier: cross-platform, lower friction to try, no need to replace your current WM, and we can iterate on workspace-specific features like terminals, browser panels, agents, Cmd+K search, worktrees, docking/tabs/splits, etc.
> * Videogames (i.e. the tutorial). For very similar reasons to the above ;)
Oftentimes it's less jarring to have an invisible tutorial though (a level made to exploit the new gameplay element / feature). But it depends on what you want the user to learn and the type of videogame; I don't mind a guided tour in more strategic games (RTS, turn by turn RPG, ...).
Not OP but I think you have the right intuition in making a difference between using the app / contribute to the app. You may want to read https://diataxis.fr/ which elaborate on this idea and add another dimension (action / cognition) to this.
Have you reread what was produced by Claude Code before publishing ? This thing in one of the first paragraph jumps out:
> you end up with about 44 terabytes — roughly what fits on a single hard drive
No normal person would think that 44 TB is a usual hard drive size (I don't think it even exists ? 32TB seems the max in my retailer of choice). I don't think it's wrong per se to use LLM to produce cool visualization, but this lack of proof reading doesn't inspire confidence (especially since the 44TB is displayed proheminently with a different color).
Maybe Karpathy used an LLM too. The 44 TB number, happens to match exactly the currently largest available drives sold for Enterprise by Seagate, not 40 TB, not 50 TB but 44 TB...coincidence ? - [1]
I agreed when I read your comment, but that turned out to be almost directly from the video https://youtu.be/7xTGNNLPyMI
From around the 2:20 mark he says:
“[…] actually ends up being only about 44 TB of disk space. You can get a USB stick for like a TB very easily, or I think this could fit on a single hard drive almost today”
So it’s just slightly altered from what was said in the original video. And the LLM rewritten version of it also says “roughly” where he said “almost”, and I guess 44 TB is pretty roughly or pretty almost 32 TB. Although I’d still personally probably put it as “can fit on a pair of decently sized hard drives today” (for example across two 24 TB drives).
Regardless, it’s close enough to what was said in the source video that it’s not something the LLM just made up out of nowhere.
That thing is like 10,000 bucks. That's not what I'd call a consumer hard drive. In fact there's already another one with 245TB. But you probably won't see these outside datacenters for a while.
Hard drives are currently scarce due to market factors, so it's not surprising that 32TB is the biggest in your local retailer, but 40tb+ ssds were a little more widely available a year or two ago.
Still obviously crazy to consider that any kind of "average" or common size, but certainly not outrageous, especially for someone working in that field.
Even if those things are true, no reasonable person who knows what they're talking about, and who writes for an wider audience would say something like "you end up with about 44 terabytes — roughly what fits on a single hard drive" though.
What you comment currently states, is basically "It's possible" which yeah, I guess I said too. But doesn't seem you said something like "no reasonable person would say something like that", which for me was the main point of my comment...
> Same with emulation, really; had that not been developed, I doubt Nintendo would care about their back catalogue.
I agree with the previous point (no WoW classic without private server), I'm a bit more doubtful about Nintendo. They did remakes before it was cool (see: Super Mario All Stars), and the Super Nintendo -> Gameboy Advance pipeline was well received.
Not quite: it's a collab between both ETHZ (Zürich, German speaking) and EPFL (Lausanne, French speaking). According to the website, the actual hardware is distributed all over the country (including in the Italian part).
Capture One express Fujifilm was discontinued and folded in into the regular Capture One. The out of box processing of raf is still top notch (at least for my x-t3). There's a subscription-less option.
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