Looks like prior years can be caught up with:

> Companies with capitalized domestic R&D expenses from 2022–2024 can elect a catch-up deduction, which could significantly improve cash flow for firms engaged in innovation.

Yes! in the old MS-DOS days (circa 286?), it was quicker in terms of cycles to do:

  xor ax, ax

Than:

  mov ax, 0h

Via Scoop:

  scoop bucket add extras
  scoop install extras/zed

It works really well on Windows, haven't had any problems, nor with any extensions.

So interesting that you use diffs for undo/redo! Ingenious!

That was most "dumb" and simple yet fast approach to get it done. Other ways of implementing it are more time consuming. I've saved a lot of time on it. Like "one day" and it was done.

> >My brother for example built a thing with Microsoft copilot that helped automate more in his manufacturing facility (used to be paper).

> I have harped on this endlessly as a non-programmer working a non-tech job, with 7 "vibe-coded" programs now being used daily by people at my company.

Aren't AI coding agent(s) just the next iteration of democratizing app development? This has happened before with Microsoft Access (even Visual Basic), or going back further FoxPro, dBase & Clipper etc? With all of these tools, non-programmers had been able to create apps to help them with their businesses.

This has never happened before. There has never been a plain English programming language.

      Public Class Form1
       Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        MessageBox.Show("Hello, World!")
       End Sub
     End Class

Becomes

"Make a message box pop up on the screen that says Hello World!"

From what I understand, what he built was a copilot assisted Access app. He would have not had the time nor skillset without the copilot thing. And they don't have the budget for a bespoke app.

This is really incredible, the esp32 examples are really straightforward compared to the C versions of the same. The Erlang actor model makes this much easier!

... if they can nail the OTA updates and hot-loading of code!

We have most of the groundwork done for OTA updates. We should have some APIs together in the near future. Hot-loading will be more work, but that should be possible after OTA is ready.

Any chance of a port to the Raspberry Pi Pico 2? It has 520K of ram iirc. The original Pico had half that.

The problem is that move-out happens in May, but move-in happens in late Aug/early Sept. So there's lots of useful stuff being discarded in May (beds, desks, bookcases, in-window A/C units etc) that would likely be in demand in Sept but have long been sent to the landfill by then.

Yeah, maybe the University could have thrift stores come in at the end of May and collect stuff they think they could sell to incoming students in the fall?

I kicked what looked like an empty card board box, and found two laptops w/ chargers, Retail $1800, Wiped their hard disks, updated all the software, put student software on it, and gave them away to other students.

I found literally a full bedroom of oak furniture, bed, a dresser, a desk, a bedside table, and an armoure... I could not get the armoure on my pickup truck, but I moved out all my old stuff, and moved in the oak, and oiled it all up, ( it had not been cared for well, so it soaked up all the oil, after a few treatments, it was grand.

Literally every university town, Berkeley, SF State, Cal State Chico... has yard sales in the late spring, and resales in the early fall, and a literal cottage industry of people who make money reselling, and armies of people who drive those neibourhoods late a night picking up everything they think they can resell - Its why all those mattresses are left.

It makes me happy that at least some of this stuff is getting saved. All the resources and labor being put into these things should not be going to waste.

Another example of Randall Munroe's prescience:

https://xkcd.com/538/

Although this is the one I'm really worried about:

https://www.xkcd.com/2203/

On the contrary, a meteor (or better yet an ELE) is long overdue.

You should talk to the folks at Warp, this plus Warp would be pretty interesting.

The link in the README.md to "local-mode quickstart" seems broken.

Do you mean at the top of the README or somewhere else? The link at the top seems to be working for me.

In the table showing the hosting options lower down in the README, the 3rd row is titled "Self-hosted/Local Mode", but the link in "Follow the *local-mode quickstart* to get started." goes to a GH 404 page.

I see—fixed it, thanks!