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Re: AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, ice rinks

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Post by fragmede »

xingped wrote: post #11
tdeck wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I immediately thought of SSH but you're right. That's far too complicated for the next crop of AI synergy experts.

You joke, but even 8-9yrs ago, I had at least one new junior join my team who couldn't even tell or fathom the difference between whether they were on their own laptop or on the server when using the terminal. It was a constant problem where they were trying to run commands on the wrong computer. I don't have much hope anything has improved since then.

The Debian package molly-guard was first released in 2006. 20 years ago!

Re: AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, ice rinks

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Post by fragmede »

vidarh wrote: post #20
lifestyleguru wrote: post #18

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I'll need access to your webcam. I don't really believe in "The Cloud".

Hey, if there's a market for people watching me sit at my desk and stare at my screens for $25/month, you're welcome to. It will be very boring.

Have you heard of http://twitch.tv?

> Twitch made an estimated $1.8 billion revenue in 2024 and had an average of 2.37 million concurrent viewers.

Re: AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, ice rinks

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Post by cobalt60 »

deadfoxygrandpa wrote: post #14
teitoklien wrote: post #13

I literally have a custom built command lid-toggle on lid-toggle off lid-toggle toggle that allows me to switch the behaviour for laptop lid close , to behave the way i want it to, So i can close my laptop, keep it in my bag, with my headphones on and talk to claude code while its coding stuff , albeit it runs a bit warm inside my bag, but it works just fine. I run a custom setup on linux to make it all happen Why wo…

dude you can stop using the computer sometimes. its gonna be ok. take a break.

You dont need to worry about them

Re: AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, ice rinks

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Post by lazide »

jaapz wrote: post #16
globular-toast wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't need to be a "coder", just a vaguely competent computer user. It's really sad you've got people who just don't feel in control of their computers at all and would resort to not closing the lid.

Or they just dont want to spend time figuring out how to do that because they are busy with something else Naah, they are probably dumb as hell!

To be fair, they are almost certainly dumb as hell regardless of if they spend time figuring this out or not.

Re: AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, ice rinks

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Post by kgwxd »

Lots of comments on here about turning off the lid close behavior but, last time I tried that on Windows, a long time ago, because I was using vnc from my main desktop, the thing ran horribly slow because it did some other "power saving" junk on the video card. Is that still an issue?

I currently have 3 laptops opened all the way flat, and standing in a folder rack (because they take up an awkward amount of space open the normal way), that i remote into for various jobs. Can I close them these days without a major hit to basic performance? Of course i'd have to open them to turn them on anyway, so that'd be annoying.

Re: AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, ice rinks

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Post by coffeefirst »

tdeck wrote: post #5

I'm confused, if AI told are making these people more efficient, why do they need to use them to do "work" every waking moment?

The AI Bros definition of efficiency is about how efficiently you burn tokens to make number go up.

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Post by vidarh »

fragmede wrote: post #32
vidarh wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, if there's a market for people watching me sit at my desk and stare at my screens for $25/month, you're welcome to. It will be very boring.

Have you heard of http://twitch.tv ? > Twitch made an estimated $1.8 billion revenue in 2024 and had an average of 2.37 million concurrent viewers.

Somehow I doubt I'd make much. I may have an ego, but not one big enough to think enough people would watch me ignore them... But maybe I should try.

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Post by ekjhgkejhgk »

jnakano89 wrote: post #12

Engineers solving "my agent stops when I close my lid" by physically holding the lid open is the funniest possible local optimum. Amphetamine app fixes the lid problem. Claude's /remote-control command also helps. The two together cost zero dollars and one minute of setup.

These aren't engineers they're influencers. And your solution doesn't convey any status. I promise you that this either already is or soon will be understood even by the normies as a status signal.

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

jnakano89 wrote: post #12

Engineers solving "my agent stops when I close my lid" by physically holding the lid open is the funniest possible local optimum. Amphetamine app fixes the lid problem. Claude's /remote-control command also helps. The two together cost zero dollars and one minute of setup.

It also costs the slightest bit of ambition and independent problem solving.

We should have foreseen that were breeding a population that can't independently solve problems when it became so ubiquitous for people to ask questions online that could be answered instantly with even the compromised 2020s state of search engines.

Dependence on LLMs could be the natural extension of that culture.

Re: AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, ice rinks

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Post by toasty228 »

jnakano89 wrote: post #12

Engineers solving "my agent stops when I close my lid" by physically holding the lid open is the funniest possible local optimum. Amphetamine app fixes the lid problem. Claude's /remote-control command also helps. The two together cost zero dollars and one minute of setup.

There are people who go YEARS with smoke alarms chirping every 5 minutes, I stopped being impress at what people are willing to put up with, even if a 30s google search would solve their problem, the sky is the limit
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