Interestingly, when you're typing in Notion I didn't see any em dashes. Is there some post-processing happening that's converting the hyphens to em dashes? e.g. the following paragraph appeared to have just regular hyphens when you typed on the Loom video:

          <p className="text-[17px] leading-[1.75] tracking-[-0.1px]">
            The difference is subtle but significant. Apache is a web server &mdash; it can host and
            run any web application, for example one written in PHP. Whereas WordPress sits a layer
            above; in fact it typically runs on Apache. What makes it a better analogy for the
            "agentic workload" is what you do with it &mdash; or rather, who and how uses it.
          </p>

I think this has been around for a while, if it's the same thing I'm thinking of. It started out as an opinionated fork of Django, but appears to have now been rebranded to jump on the agent hype-train. Not sure if I'm in the minority, but I'm now less interested in this given its focus on agents.

Nice. And this should be fully supported on Linux too, I hope.

It only supports CUDA on Linux.

Yep, I remember downloading a beta version of what would be eventually released as Windows Server 2003. The beta version was called Windows .Net Server 2003.

I had some books that referred to it as .NET Server printed before the name change. In the long history of terrible Microsoft names, this was a rare case where they were able to right the ship.

So this is just a "similar" CMS to WordPress in that it has themes and plugins, and you can publish pages, posts, tags, categories, etc. But there are lots of similar CMS out there, and this one isn't "compatible" with WordPress since you obviously can't just take a WordPress theme or plugin and install it in your EmDash site. So I don't even know why the focus on WordPress here - this is just yet another CMS that offers similar features.

WordPress is the most popular CMS, and, at any moment in time, especially lately, there are a lot of people looking for a "WP alternative". I agree that it's not actually compatible, but it seems they tried to make it similar just enough to be able to use the word without 100% lying and attract people that way.

Nobody is looking for wp alternatives, if they were they would have moved long ago, as there are tens of similar CMS's that were supposed to be much "better" on paper yet never took of like octobercms,gravcms,ghost,netlify,wagtails,etc

Wagtail is fantastic. Pretty much the go to Python-based CMS to use these days.

I've been a long time Fira Code user, but recently switched to Maple - I love it. Mostly because of the "single storey" `a`, but that's just a personal preference of mine.

Fira Code does have a "single storey" a. You can activate it by passing the "cv01" feature flag to your text editor of choice. (If the text editor supports otf font features)

For more info: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/How-to-enable-stylis...

Thanks for the tip! I really need to look into these feature flags some more to understand how they work. I noticed that the Inter font has similar flags too.

I hope it goes bust soon. I need to buy some RAM and an SSD for my PC...

Except the price of personal computing is skyrocketing due to the build out of these data centres! I'd love to build a personal computer to run local models, but it's just not affordable any more.

It will be, after the bubble bursts and it will be surprisingly cheap.

And you want to add an unreliable, non-deterministic LLM into the flow too?

That doesn't justify what's going on here. Why is Microsoft endorsing the use of pirated materials.

The dataset is actually at Kaggle tho, but agree, they shouldn't use it as an example.

The file being hosted by another company doesn't change the fact that Microsoft is encouraging us to download and use it.

I think Microsoft employees should be smart enough to figure that "a globally beloved collection of seven books" (their words) is probably not free to use.

> Why is Microsoft endorsing the use of generative AI

ftfy