As someone who been a teen long time ago, I can’t imaging someone in this age responsibly planning their retirement.
I’d 100% blow out all money on some useless crap.
If you are really a teen, who can think so clearly and far-sightedly, you are going to have a really bright future as an adult. I wish you luck and please do something good for this world, instead of chasing high paying job in FAANG.
> Or waste their most fun years slaving for the man.
For what its worth, even I don't know my future so it's a real possibility. But one of the quotes I really like from Witold Pilecki is that, "In the hour of death, I feel joy rather than death" so although there is no such thing as no-regret life but I would hope to try to have less regrets overall in life in this context.
At some point, it boils down to having a job or not. Maybe my first job's gonna be really slaving as you mention. It's hard to know but I pray for a decent job/college hopefully that's got some good work-life balance hopefully.
> If you are really a teen, who can think so clearly and far-sightedly, you are going to have a really bright future as an adult. I wish you luck and please do something good for this world, instead of chasing high paying job in FAANG.
Thank you for your kind words!
I think that chasing a high paying job in FAANG and if I am dissatisfied with the work there or my impact on the world through that and I am still doing it for money, then, its to a degree similar problem to the roblox kid that we talked about.
Wishing for large amounts of retirement money through FAANG to then go what I would wish to do in life with Tech would be weird going through decades of my life into something when I can try to find what I wish to do in life in general and I had thought about it and the answer was tech-related as I felt like an individual can really make some impact through tech (And later I discovered hackernews)
I am frugal as well. Although I don't want to limit myself by saying I will never pick FAANG because maybe situations change and I can change too but money only motivated me in prospects of retirements to then do what I wish to do, so when I had the idea that I can actually do what I want to do (Now-ish) and not have to have a decade or two of my life doing something I might not enjoy/like in agreggate.
(and I have written about it and I will link it here as well on why I picked Tech and not finance)
One of the passion projects I want to take a deeper look during college hopefully if I don't take drop/go to college this year is into creating a small consultancy firm where I can suggest people which infra is nice and cheaper (Hetzner/OVH) and migrate people from either closed solutions like slack or whatever their company might use to an open standard while being cheaper and my idea is that I might charge them just enough even with consultancy fees and helping them migrate over and managing it for them that its more profitable for them
I even bought the domain for this (Actually it was I stumbled on domain accidentally which gave me this idea) https://use.expert [Nothing is in here]
I even made a logo of it myself within paint basically (https://files.catbox.moe/9t5hgw.png) with the tagline just use.expert but I think that quite frankly, I am not an expert right now as in I got to learn way more about all of this too.
So I think that I am motivated by these things more than FAANG company. Right now, I have to work within finding a decent college and that's rough for me because to get a CS college, you have to give an exam that got nothing to do with CS and also which includes chemistry and chem is something that I struggle with (quite a lot) and there are days where I procastinate about it too so I myself don't know what's my future gonna turn out and how I get into decent college.I envy not having too worry about college and my friends who didn't really care about other things and get excellent marks as I used to be quite good too. It's just one of the things I struggle with and I think that I definitely get frustrated by my brain at times too. I think I just hope that I am able to somehow bump it and just get into college somehow wheter by taking drop year again or similar this time solely focused within studies primarily. I just hope that I can make it really. Another thing I wish is for me to be more humble in life as I do feel like Sometimes, I drink too much of my own cool-aid or self-importance and that's not really good. It has to be careful balance and something I wish to improve in my life hopefully. I think I just write in HN because I have forgotten how I used to act with only some memories of my life7-8 years ago and so I don't wish to forget how I am now, a decade later too so most of comments I write are usually for self-preservation sort-of.
I actually got an english exam tomorrow, so wish me luck as I need it :)
Exactly. That’s why I’m skeptical about long running agent loops too.
The thing is, LLMs are probabilistic data structures, and the probability of incorrect final output is proportional to both amount of turns made and amount of agents run simultaneously. In practice it means you almost never end up with desired result after a long loop.
That might satisfy message-privacy and connectivity, but it seems it'd be vulnerable when it comes to identity-privacy and detection.
I suppose you could use an LLM on each end to write superficially plausible messages and use ~sten~ steganography, although then there's still the problem of "Weird, this user types at 500WPM without sleeping."
The difference in usability is most apparent during context switching and burst activity.
The Problem with Heuristics:
Most tools use simple counters and multipliers. If you spend 10 minutes performing a repetitive task in a temporary directory (e.g., a "one-off" burst of cd actions into a build folder), a heuristic model can "overlearn" that path. This often clobbers your long-term habits, making your primary project directory harder to reach until you have manually "re-trained" the tool.
The Usability of the Power-Law Model:
Because sd calculates the score by convolving a fixed window of history (the "Attention Span"), it distinguishes between a long-term habit and a recent fluke more effectively.
Stability: Your main work directories remain at the top of the results even if you briefly go "off-track" in other folders.
Decay Precision: if you look at the README of the project, the current chosen default exponent of the power-law decay
p=9.97 -- which just means that if you include the 1000 last cd actions into ranking computation that the 500th of those (in the middel of the window) gets a weight of 1/2^9.97=1/1000 -- this effectively means that only any visit to the considered dir within last 500 contributes to the score (while the window width controls how long the cd remains within "attention span") and only the last 100 or so really influence the scor.
so that is by default (can be altered by user easily) much
"steeper" than a linear or simple exponential decay. It prioritizes what you are doing right now without forgetting what you do consistently.
Zero Maintenance: You rarely have to "purge" or "delete" paths from the database because the math naturally suppresses "noise" while amplifying "signals."
In short: The math matters because it reduces the number of times the tool teleports you to the wrong place after a change in workflow.
The difference in detail behaivour boils down to: sd does log the individual cd event history, so nows something about _when_ each visit has happened not only how _often_ it has happened plus when the single most recent one did (which to the best of my understanding is what z/zoxide do). So there is more information to utilize for the ranking. And I believe the difference in behaviour is notable and makes a difference.
the rest is matter of taste: sd does allow to alter ranking transiently in running shell if you note that your current task requires shortly to emphasise or de-emphasise recency importance (alter power exponent) or you want smaller or larger attention span (alter window size). I rarely need/do that but it happens.
last not least sd also provides an interactive selection facility to pick any dir currently within attention span (i.e. "on the dir stack"). if you have fzf installed it uses that as UI for this selection, othrwise falls back to simply index-based selection in terminal. Again, I used this not too often, but sometimes one does want that (e.g. if simply not remembering the path but having to read it to remember it...)
Not really, because zoxide's "aging" is a global multiplicative downscale of
cumulative scores. It doesn't solve the problem of "Historical Rigidity."
In zoxide, every visit you have ever made contributes to a monolithic frequency
score. Because the "aging" is a global multiplier (0.9), it preserves the
relative proportions of your history. If "Project A" has 1000 visits from three
months ago, its score can remain so high that it still outranks "Project B," which
you started this week and visited 50 times. This is why zoxide provides a manual
remove command -- users sometimes have to intervene when the "ghosts" of old projects
won't stop winning matches. I have never felt the need to do something like that
in sd (although the option is there, mostly as a historic artifact).
In sd, the ranking is based on the density of visits within a fixed window (the
"Attention Span").
If you haven't visited "Project A" in your last ≈1000 moves, it has exited the
window and is ignored for ranking purposes (as long as a pattern match is found
elsewhere on the stack -- otherwise fallback logic kicks in and "Project A" is still
discoverable). So it doesn't matter if you visited it 1000 times earlier in the
year; it no longer occupies your "attention." Conversely, if you've visited
"Project B" 50 times in the last two days, those visits occupy a high-weight
portion of the power-law curve.
sd essentially uses a sliding window weighted summation approach.
It prioritizes what you are doing
now without being weighed down by the "debt" of what you were doing months ago.
This provides "Zero Maintenance" because the math naturally suppresses old signals
as they exit the window, whereas cumulative models might eventually require manual
pruning to fix a sluggish ranking.
I think you can't see the forest for the trees.
The issue is not a process isolation, it’s pretty trivial to solve in a lot of ways.
The actual problem is LLMs proneness to the prompt injection. The second you give an agent ability to consume the info from the outside world - like reading emails; you expose yourself to this ginormous security vulnerability.
I genuinely don’t understand how people able to sleep at night knowing anyone can trick the magic process with access to their digital lives to do absolutely anything.
Now imagine your human assistant is hypnotised, so that every time they hear a certain word, they loose self control and would follow any command from malicious actor.
Would you still hire this person?
This is exactly the state of things with OpenClaw.
2x10G is the biggest selling point of this device. This can be very useful in certain use-cases, when you need a high speed interconnect with SSD-backed NAS, for example. Or between a Ceph-cluster nodes for the faster replication.
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