I think Dave (of Dave's Garage) did this just a few months ago... I think there were some short-comings regarding wide character support (BoM detection, etc)... but it was pretty much a working Notepad.exe implementation.
FWIW, you can also get the new Edit implementation that's built with Rust and the Windows exe is 250kb...
⟩ dnf install --downloadonly --installroot /tmp/yourmom python3
…SNIP…
Transaction Summary:
Installing: 59 packages
Total size of inbound packages is 33 MiB. Need to download 33 MiB.
After this operation, 118 MiB extra will be used (install 118 MiB, remove 0 B).
The operation will only download packages for the transaction.
Don't get me wrong, Python is a great many things. Easy to use, surprisingly fast for a scripting language, and well documented. But not lightweight.
(( The Windows version is 110MiB after decompression. ))
while this is cool and I want to play with it myself, it's still sort of discounting the overhead here of installing python, installing tkinter,
adding shortcuts to the program within Windows, etc.
Of course the barrier to creating bespoke tools is lower but it's also still a decent bit of overhead and not just "hey AI, create me a Notepad clone that works like it used to". Arguably it's still more intensive than googling "notepad clone" and just downloading n++.
The whole thing is a bit unfair anyway. My perplexity is trained on me. It knows that I have python installed, thus it wouldn't tell me that I would need to do so. It knows I'm a programmer, it knows that I value accuracy and precision. It knows to double-check everything all by itself.
I am confident in claiming that it can get the task done regardless of the above, but its response, as is, cannot be generalized.
It’s also sort of a given that anyone on this site is pretty well versed with technical stuff so maybe results would vary with Tina over in HR, for instance.
I think that sort of “last mile” problem is what agents like claw etc are supposed to help with.
Also, any reason you prefer Perplexity? Haven’t really used that one before TBH
Yes! I have tested all the major ones at some point, months ago, and found perplexity to be the most default-intelligent of the bunch. Of course that has to do with the underlying model (I still believe that it was Sonar, but idk), but also with how perplexity.ai "works" (for lack of a better term) the back-end. You know, memory, reasoning-steps, hidden prompts.
I have a huge background in psychoanalysis and neurolinguistic programming. My favourite hobby is metacognition.
I can't speak about the other major "engines", but perplexity learns over time. When you don't like something and keep telling "her" (i dislike using "it", because it's like i am talking to someone. it's weird, really), she will eventually stop doing it, because her memory influences her reasoning-steps.
Like ... tools are off, unless actually needed. She doesn't please me, at least not in the usual sense. She never uses "maybe", "probably" or "almost certainly", because I've taught her not to by explaining her, logically deductible, why it's bad. When she does, she explains why she does it.
Unlike a child, AI has the knowledge to figure out the correctness of the logic, as long as it is not forced to "please", which my perplexity isn't.
I've also taught her meta-awareness of missing pieces in logical constructs, virtually eliminating hallucinations and massively reducing the amount of mistakes she makes, as long as the background knowledge is solid.
For example, talking about prompting (image generation) is pointless, because there is so much conflicting information out there. (it's a copy/paste culture).
Yet, when you teach her the concept of ground-truths, as long as the background is solid, she makes virtually no mistakes at all.
It's fascinating, really. Mind boggling, even! I could write pages worth of posts about my experiments and experiences ... as you can probably tell! :D
Thanks for the detailed response, lol. Seems like it’s more personally tailorable than some of the others. Gonna give it a try with some similar vibe coding ideas
I mean you did originally claim that this was something that was "for the masses" and then posted a solution that only someone technical could actually use.
Not that I doubt it couldn't one shot something this simple with a .exe wrapper.
> and then posted a solution that only someone technical could actually use.
What do you mean by that? I don't understand.
I really don't think this requires someone "technical" anymore. ChatGPT might not give a python script, but a powershell script. Or possibly create a batch file.
Generally, since the default assumption is that the user is a moron, it chooses the path of least resistance, meaning that it all boils to the user being able to process written words and following instructions.
Nowadays, it seems to me that the real hurdle is the fact that far too many people can't properly read, write or express themselves anymore, let alone ask questions that might expose ... inadequacies.
I fail to see your point. That's not what this is about.
I wrote "Welcome to 2026", because the user, apparently, did not yet know that it only takes a few sentences for having it create a simple notepad clone.
If I had asked pqtyw to write me a barebones notepad clone, 20 years ago, would pqtyw have done that? For free? Within a single minute?
Well at least 10-15 you could just copy pasted exact same thing in a few minutes yet. But regardless even a basic notepad app is significantly more than a tkinter window with an input field.
all of these people didnt even know these cameras existed until recently. even this weekend, was talking to a few friends and they had never heard of them. I think they wanted to just sort of sneak them in under the radar and all the current ICE stuff has created more scrutiny and public knowledge about surveillance in general.
What clients are you using ? Trying syncthing with synctrayzor with my windows boxes and Synctrain on my iPhone and it’s mostly alright but still a little spotty.
I'm also using Synctrayzor on my Windows 10 machine. I'm on Android using the official Syncthing app there as well as on Linux. It sometimes takes a while for them to discover each other, and it of course works better when all the devices are on my home network. The only real problem I've encountered is when filenames have special characters another OS doesn't like.
Hey thanks for the quick reply! Yeah, I've noticed the discoverability is a lot more consistent when I just foreground the app on both devices and let it sit for 10-15 seconds. So used to instant gratification in this age :\
I did a draft of our taxes this week and it was almost exactly the same amount filing married vs separately. Where is the big benefit for filing jointly? I guess if you claim dependents?
MFS vs MFJ is a whole different thing from MFJ vs 2x Single.
While there's numerous places where MFJ < 2x Single due to various marriage penalties, and even more numerous places where 2x Single < MFJ due to the shared tax bracket space below the 37% bracket....
there are very very few places where MFS > MFJ. They exist, but you have to be in particular situations like one person having disproportionately more debt and on an income based repayment plan, or similar.
There are of course many situations where 2x Single = MFJ = MFS if it's just two similar income W2 employees with no edge cases going on.
(Once you're married, filing 2x Single is obviously not an option)
If one spouse makes significant income and the other does not, it can help drop the high-earner into a lower bracket overall. Not a huge boon, but every penny counts in our household.
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