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you would be amazed at the amount of middle managers who keep failing upwards in organizations like Amazon


Happens in the Govt too. I think it's pretty common that if you can "sell a story" you're in a better spot than simply doing well at the job.


That's literally the current president


I think he might be the greatest person at failing up who has ever lived. It has to be some kind of savant-like skill.

After this he’ll probably become the literal king of the world.


I think he might be the greatest person at failing up who has ever lived.

Went bankrupt six times and is still hailed by his followers as an economic genius. Few people can pull that off.


I think what is hard to understand for people is how you can go bankrupt six times and still have loads of assets and money. How does that work?


Back in the 80's and 90's he was pretty well known for noting that if you owe a bank enough money, it is in the bank's interest not to let you fail.

My guess is that it also helps to owe lots of money to lots of banks at the same time. That way when one goes after you, the others will help you out or risk losing their money, too.


Married 4 times, still seen as a saint


Buried his wife on his property alone to get tax breaks as a cemetery for mar a lago


That was not mar a Lago but in New Jersey


All you need is to pretend to be successful

( And produce a show "the apprentice" to also pretend to be successful)

He's pretty lucky that he needed to pretend to be successful to at least let his name lease as a brand.

Basically the only thing that worked out in business.


He's going for number 7 it seems


That certainly seems what he believes he will be.


https://josemunoz.dev


"Git is too hard" is never a good argument to promote the use of a different tool. I use git on the terminal exclusively, never had an issue amending a commit or rebasing a branch, or even dealing with conflict resolution most of the time I just use one of the automatic strategies.


> "Git is too hard" is never a good argument to promote the use of a different tool.

Really? Pointing out that a tool is difficult to use seems like an excellent argument to promote the use of a different (supposedly simpler) tool.

Specifically in the case of git, I'm glad it was not difficult for you, but it is undeniable that it is a very difficult tool for many people to learn.


I worked with SVN and I hated it, merging branches and dealing with conflict resolution on SVN was like getting stepped on the balls


For me the killer feature was distributed version control.

When I was an intern at GenericCorpo we had days we couldn't work because SVN was down. WTF was that?


I used to work at Amazon, 3-day RTO was not nice but tolerable, 5-day RTO made half of our senior staff leave. my commute to the office wasn't so bad, but my friends had to drive 1+ hours to the office and then pay $26/day for parking which you only get 50% reimbursed.

Amazon touts "frugality" as one of their core tenets but its hard to reconcile frugality with all the expenses of going to the office.


what does "retrofitting" git implies? I am confused by the agent-specific systems bit.


There is no examples or documentation on `CustomLLM` the README file has examples on `SystemLLM` and `OpenaiLLM` but there's no way for us to know if we need to bring in guff files, ollama, hugginface, etc.


I’ve added documentation on creating new LLM integrations in SwiftAI [https://github.com/mi12labs/SwiftAI/blob/main/Docs/Guides/cu...]. We also have a proof-of-concept using MLX-optimized models from Hugging Face [https://huggingface.co/mlx-community], which we’ll release once it’s ready.


We added an experimental support for MLX see README [https://github.com/mi12labs/SwiftAI/?tab=readme-ov-file#loca...]. We also added an chat demo where you can interact with 20+ models [https://github.com/mi12labs/SwiftAI/tree/main/Examples/ChatA...]


Great work! does the CLI support clipboard operations like MacOS' `pbcopy` and `pbpaste` ? I've added it to my stars to keep and eye on the project, GTK4 and wayland support makes it rather futureproof IMO


There's wl-clipboard for this, has wl-copy and wl-paste commands. I've been using it on sway for years.


For Wayland I just use this:

        alias pbcopy='xsel --clipboard --input'
        alias pbpaste='xsel --clipboard --output'
I used to do the same thing on Xorg with xclip I think

Switching between macOS for job and linux for everything else, I’ve honestly never realized any difference.


I'm confused; xsel, as you might imagine from the name, is very specifically a program for manipulating the X11 selection and clipboard. So it does work on Xorg, but I'm very confused that it would work in any meaningful capacity on Wayland. Are you somehow using Xwayland?


I run KDE usually so I imagine it's xwayland.


It would be nice if you could pipe to it like pbcopy, with each invocation creating a new entry, and add support for automatically expiring old entries.


that is a thing that started under Nadella's leadership, during the 90s it was a different story.


Those two "PowerShell"s are not the same. For the sake of cross platform deployment, they moved away from the original a lot -though they managed to support many things in time. The old and original one was released in 2006,IIRC, so it didn't exist in 90s.


linux compat would've been nice


already exists, xsel and xclip does that, iirc.


clippy is a bit different from these - rather than requiring manual flags for MIME types, it automatically detects the content type. The idea is to make the CLI's copy/paste feel as intuitive as the GUI's.

I might tackle Linux (and Windows) at some point, but contributions are definitely welcome!


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