@dreamsofcode_io Not to mention, you can just malloc() and write 2GB of 1’s to be on par with electron, so you’re not giving up anything
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TUIs make a lot of sense in developer tools.
Not because they are superior (debatable), but because they keep you in the terminal which is (for better or worse) the ultimate developer environment.
It’s simple, scriptable, remotely accessible, and enforces good practices (text based output).
David Cramer@zeeg
TUIs are not good sorry yall a CLI is a utility, and situational. this should not be confused with stuffing a full interactive GUI into a low capability platform. "lets ignore all the great UI technology of the last 20 years and build some caveman shit"
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@icanvardar Ask an elderly person if they'd rather type in what they want the computer to do, or figure out an inconsistent mess of inscrutable "optimized" GUIs to do it.
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@benhylak TUI's point out how broken GUI window managers are, windows are made for a narrow range of sizes, layout is always wrong for task at hand and assume one app is running, waste screen space with padding and widgets, devs think 2GB for a text input screen makes sense...
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david is both right and wrong.
a TUI is, from every technological perspective, fundamentally worse. there's 0 technological advantage.
yet, claude code cli has a better ui than their app (and codex for that matter)
so... why?
David Cramer@zeeg
TUIs are not good sorry yall a CLI is a utility, and situational. this should not be confused with stuffing a full interactive GUI into a low capability platform. "lets ignore all the great UI technology of the last 20 years and build some caveman shit"
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Oh how I wish the Codex app was native. It's so slow lately... Why can they not just make Codex rewrite it in Swift?
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@icanvardar GUIs are a train wreck, little impossible bars get your mouse over to resize windows, windows layouts never match the use case, file names truncated, never able to use your whole screen, inconsistent icons, buried menus… horror show for the elderly too.
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i like using tui like a caveman but he's right
using tui is basically ignoring 20 years of ui progress and choosing to live in the stone age of interfaces
David Cramer@zeeg
TUIs are not good sorry yall a CLI is a utility, and situational. this should not be confused with stuffing a full interactive GUI into a low capability platform. "lets ignore all the great UI technology of the last 20 years and build some caveman shit"
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@beffjezos The greater the potential for creating prosperity the more people will protest it
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The Alamada airfield could be a neo-Shenzhen SEZ for SF Bay Area.
Could be a 30% GDP growth impact on USA if truly deregulated.
Pablo Antonio@PabloPeniche
@stefanoscalia The abandoned airbase is 2,600 acres and is federal land.
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@microsofterses @ClintRutkas @Niels9001 I've been conditioned to think that new software has to be slower to be better, this is confusing me.
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Es una vergüenza el hate que buena parte de la comunidad tech está lanzando sobre Microsoft a raíz del anuncio del nuevo cuadro de Ejecutar 😑
El equipo encargado formado por gente como @clintrutkas y @Niels9001 ha compartido que ahora el tiempo que tarda en mostrarse el nuevo Ejecutar es de 94ms, mejor que los 103ms del Ejecutar actual.
Esto ha desatado una oleada de críticas por parte de usuarios que consideran ese tiempo injustificadamente desmesurado. Ex-empleados de MS y gente de otras compañías también se han sentido legitimados para criticar.
¿Qué se supone que estamos criticando? ¡Han renovado una interfaz legacy con un diseño moderno, feature parity, algunas mejoras de calidad de vida e incluso con un rendimiento ligeramente superior!
¿Qué sentido tiene que esté todo el mundo llevándose las manos a la cabeza con los 94ms? ¿Por qué no se quejaban antes de los 103ms? La interfaz se muestra al instante. Todo este es ridículo.
Supongo que meterse con Microsoft actualmente son interacciones gratis.
Mucho ánimo al equipo encargado. Habéis hecho un gran trabajo. Seguid así 👏🏼
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@ClintRutkas @fgrub3r Can I assume ~\ will work universally in Windows going forward?
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@fgrub3r And a few neat additions like icons and ~\ for home dir, just like terminal
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Updating surfaces is tricky. We did the Run dialog.
devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/th…
❤️ Terminal and PowerToys team.
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@WindowsLatest It's just going to show me a picture of a run dialog box that won't be ready for input right?
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Microsoft confirms Windows Run dialog is getting a modern look on Windows 11!
- Modern design: A refreshed look that matches Fluent Design and Windows 11, with dark mode support.
- Faster than before: Perf was top-of-mind when rewriting Run, and with a **94ms median time-to-show time it’s faster than ever before.
- Quick user directory access: You can now type ~\ to jump to your user directory, then keep navigating just like you would from the command line.
The modern Run dialog is slowly rolling out in current Insider builds of Windows as an opt-in feature, ensuring we are collecting your feedback.
To enable the new Run dialog, you’ll need to:
- Be on Windows Insider Experimental Channel.
- Enable to Settings -> System -> Advanced and toggle on the new experience with the “Run Dialog” option at the top of the screen.
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TUIs are not good sorry yall
a CLI is a utility, and situational. this should not be confused with stuffing a full interactive GUI into a low capability platform.
"lets ignore all the great UI technology of the last 20 years and build some caveman shit"
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Ok can someone explain to me how the physics of getting rid of the heat work out if I can't circulate air or liquids?
Peter H. Diamandis, MD@PeterDiamandis
Sundar Pichai just said data centers in space will be "the new normal" within a decade. @elonmusk has been saying this for years. When the CEO of Google starts agreeing with Elon, pay attention. The orbital compute era is closer than you think.
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@pmddomingos What are the chances they drafted the legislation using AI and will be using AI in the study?
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In solidarity with the IRGC, Seattle bombs itself back to the Stone Age. council.seattle.gov/2026/04/30/cou…
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@peterwildeford He's going to force everyone to work for a living, bad man.
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@karthikponna19 Reading and implementing PDF spec for 13 years.
It was hard earned.
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@cmuratori Hey it's better than 2+ seconds for a right-click menu to show up in Explorer. I'm shocked they suddenly care about performance.
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Just want to make sure I'm reading this right: Microsoft rewrote the run dialog with performance "top-of-mind", and the best they could manage to do when putting up a single text box was 10fps?
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@TylerJnstn many current jobs will go away
i think we will find a lot of new ones, though they may look very different
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I honestly miss the Sam Altman that used to call out his peers for downplaying this risk.
Sam Altman@sama
i think a lot of people are going to be busier (and hopefully more fulfilled) than ever, and jobs doomerism is likely long-term wrong. though of course there will be disruption/significant transition as we switch to new jobs, the jobs of the future may look v different, etc.
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@TimSweeneyEpic Super walled gardens are still walled gardens, I thought the future was no walls? theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
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Super apps are the future.
Apple blocks them.
DOJ v Apple is challenging that.
Lucas Shaw@Lucas_Shaw
New Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro wants the company to create a super app, uniting its films, TV shows, parks passes, games and merchandise within Disney+. His predecessor talked about this for years. Can D'Amaro finally get it done? New with @tgbuckley bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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My mom just told me she paid for ChatGPT
This shouldn't be legal
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