I'm probably not the target audience, but it's an intriguing idea for a product.

However you have no privacy policy or about page. I don't think I'd want to use a remote tool without one, otherwise how do I know you're not going to run away with my idea?

Thank you for the reality check! You’re absolutely right. As a solo creator, I initially focused on the core logic, but trust is the most important feature. I’ve just added a formal Privacy Policy and Terms

I thought this response was a piss-take, but it's actually OP.

I have nothing against AI-coded projects, but please do the bare minimum of filtering when interacting with people.

It feels weird to be talking direct to LLM.

What kind of sandwiches are you eating? 800 calories is a ridiculously large sandwich.

Even Tesco's bacon & egg triple is only 550 : https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/260422235

I'm struggling to find anything I'd describe as a sandwich come close to 800 calories.

Footlong Spicy Italian at Subway ($10 sandwich) is 1320 cals.

EDIT: the trend holds pretty well at the footlong size (which is a big sandwich). 18/26 sandwiches they offer are >1000 calories.

A foot-long sub is not "just a sandwich", it's a meal for 2.

Secondly, I can't see how you can get to 1320 calories for a footlong italian going by this: https://www.subway.com/en-gb/-/media/emea/europe/uk/nutritio...

Even counting footlong bread + footlong Italian Sub it only comes to ~1100.

And as it makes clear, a footlong is 2 6" servings, it's disingenuous to pretend that's a sandwich.

Fair enough, but so is 800cal/h exercise. And I'd rather overestimate the intake.

Yes, this is why I generally still use "ask for permission" prompts.

As tedious as it is a lot of the time ( And I wish there was an in-between "allow this session" not just allow once or "allow all" ), it's invaluable to catch when the model has tried to fix the problem in entirely the wrong project.

Working on a monolithic code-base with several hundred library projects, it's essential that it doesn't start digging in the wrong place.

It's better than it used to be, but the failure mode for going wrong can be extreme, I've come back to 20+ minutes of it going around in circles frustrating itself because of a wrong meaning ascribed to an instruction.

fwiw there are more granular controls, where you can for example allow/deny specific bash commands, read or write access to specific files, using a glob syntax:

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings#permission-settings

You can configure it at the project level

Yes, those permissions stick with the project in the settings file. I'd like those same permissions, but configurable per-session / context.

oh man the going-in-circles thing - that's the worst because you don't even know how long to let it run before you realize it's stuck. I've had similar issues where it misunderstands scope and starts making changes that cascade in ways it can't track. the 'allow this session' idea is actually really good - would be useful to have more granular control like that. honestly this is why I end up breaking work into smaller chunks and doing more prompt-response cycles rather than letting it run autonomously, but that obviously defeats the purpose of having an agent do the work

I often wonder this myself, this really should be a standard by now.

I can't speak for the status quo, but for at least the first ~5 years (so until 3 years ago when I last attempted to use it), the JS implementation of Fluent was a mess. Constant issues with incomplete API, wrong TS typings (which at that point were external) and build/bundling issues to the point where we opted for a homebrew solution.

I imagine that I probably wasn't the only one driven away by that (and I gave it many attempts!).

We are targeting MF2.0 for inclusion in JavaEcript stdlib (ECMA-402). And later maybe with its own format into DOM for DOM L10n.

The standard is, for better or worse, gettext; it's good enough that any attempt to replace it runs into the problem that people can't agree on how much better an alternative needs to be to be worth migrating to; so you get a constant churn that so far hasn't seen any clear winner.

Feels like it's That XKCD page; there were standards like gettext, then web development came along and a load of people (...present company included) rediscovered localization and pluralization through trial, error, half-building one's own localization library, then the JS world reinvented it, etc etc etc.

I imagine it must be very tempting to take that bag while old reddit is still usable.

Thank you for not doing so.

No, fortunately in my case it's not tempting at all.

It's easy to see how many people in less advantaged positions would end up selling out, though.

As much as I used to love Sublime, the version switching caught me out which burned me a bit, even if admittedly my v2 key lasted an unreasonable time through the version 3 beta, but I don't want to risk buying a v4 key without a clear roadmap of when they might switch to version 5.

They changed how that works. Licenses are no longer tied to version, you get 3 years of updates no matter what the version is.

It’s $99 for something that is almost 5 years old at that point.

Wow that's a hit of nostalgia, I'd completely forgotten about metapad, but I loved it back in the day.

And it's hard to believe now, but yes, support for Ctrl+S to save file was a notable feature because notepad itself didn't support that back then.

Oh wow, yes I remember now, I used to type `Alt+F` and then `S` immediately because Notepad didn't support `Ctrl+S` back then. Thanks for giving me nostalgia!

I've still got the very fast muscle memory of "Alt-F S", I used to do it habitually in Word and Excel. Still do it occasionally, then having to then undo whatever it does now (luckily it's usually nothing), but sometimes it leaves the Alt press 'open' so the next letter I press does something unpredictable.

The menu should be closeable with escape according to IBM CUA IIRC

I always did ALT-F4 Y (but I think it is S now) because I like to live dangerously.

You can Ctrl+shift+v to paste plain text in windows.

In some cases. In others, the application does whatever it wants.

And funnily enough, Office for Mac doesn’t allow you to do this, or at least it didn’t used to. I think I may’ve just noticed that it’s started working.

Doesn’t work for me. The absolute most infuriating thing is that copying text out of OneNote pastes as AN IMAGE. The only way around this is sanitizing the text in a notepad on the host machine itself.

> application does whatever it wants

Obsidian has a mildly infuriating default of opening previews with ctrl shift v keys instead of pasting with no formatting.

It's worth noting that technically London uses GMT for 5 months and BST for 7 months.

The GMT offset is zero, but it's important to note the difference especially when configuring servers to avoid nasty daylight savings surprises kicking in at at end of March.

There has been talk of moving to a +1 offset all year round for lighter evenings in winter, albeit at the cost of some very dark morning, but given we couldn't even manage Metrication without people still complaining 20 years later, I can't see it ever happening.

I think you mean complaining about metrication 50 years later :-)

The counterpoint is that without the metric system how could we make snarky comments on US-based woodworking videos?

I was specifically thinking of the "Metric Martyrs" who were jailed over refusing to display weights and measures in metric.

The law requiring metric didn't actually come into force until 2000, these cases were early 2000s. Note that the law to this day still allows for imperial measurements to also be displayed, but they wanted to display in solely imperial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Martyrs

The situation another 20 years later is rosier, even the boomers have spent most their adulthood with metric, and they're dying off now.

> There has been talk of moving to a +1 offset all year round for lighter evenings in winter, albeit at the cost of some very dark morning

Why not just offset the office and opening etc hours by +1?

Because society and culture doesn't work like that.

You can't will a culture of closing up at 4pm during GMT and 5pm during BST. That's just even more confusing.

The talk was +1 offset in clocks all year around, in effect dropping DST and changing the timezone.

Also a lot of places and services have different hours during different seasons.

the obvious solution is to move it by .5 the whole year round.

It's also images, videos and message boards.

And screen sharing, like actually good screen sharing unlike Microsoft teams That is a huge feature for many people

What's wrong with Microsoft teams screen sharing?

Only one participant can stream in a call. An arbitrary restriction that I just dont understand. You also can't properly full screen when you're viewing a screen share, for whatever reason....

It's also a UI that makes covert (bot) advertising basically useless. Any form of communication that is not one-on-one-real-time has a bad UI and is heavily deprioritized.