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by dwb 7mo ago
If you change the words in a sentence then it changes its meaning.
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by dwb 7mo ago
I’m not talking about which humans decide the purpose of the system, or even which humans engineer the system once designed at a higher level. I’m worried about leaving crucial decisions and understanding to LLMs, with humans just stepping
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by dwb 7mo ago
Yeah, agree. Either that or this idea of not reviewing the code at all takes hold, abdicating human engineering responsibility to the machines, until some big stupid disaster or when it’s Too Late.
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by dwb 7mo ago
What is this obsession with specifications? For a start it’s certainly not fair to assume an LLM has translated it into correct code, even if there is one reasonable way to do so, and there probably isn’t. I like a good, well-targeted spec
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by dwb 8mo ago
I have an iPad and a desktop Mac, no laptop. I like that the more serious stuff stays in one room.
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by dwb 8mo ago
Can you give some examples of uses of "fascism" where it is merely referring to "bad people that I don't like", and not one of the many instances of fascism in the world today? If you're unfamiliar with the det
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by dwb 8mo ago
Fab show, great memories! Thanks for the laughs Rob, RIP.
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by dwb 8mo ago
Agree, and I love how concise, yet persuasive and practical this proposal is.
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by dwb 8mo ago
The source of a web page is parsed to form DOM and accessibility trees. The character stream of a TUI can’t be parsed into anything similar because it is not given in a formal language that can express those structures.
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by dwb 8mo ago
Ok, and how does it look when you want to read or edit the “classes”?
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by dwb 8mo ago
Yeah, I sympathise. This is another angle on the sorry state of affairs we find ourselves in.
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by dwb 8mo ago
I found this which is by far the closet to what I’m on about. Imagine this but with inline UI controls too (keyboard-controllable, natch), probably based on Nushell (I like Nushell), and maybe an “alternate display mode” type thing for UIs
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by dwb 8mo ago
I’m happy to give up a lot; I’m not tied to fully-native-looking UIs for the types of things I’m talking about. Totally get that lowest common denominators will feel native nowhere. I just think it’s possible to do a lot better than the cur
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by dwb 8mo ago
I agree except about the TUI coolness factor. There really is a lot that’s appealing about TUIs, I agree on that with the other commenters here. I want a better synthesis than what we have.
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by dwb 8mo ago
I agree about the constraints. My ideal solution would also impose harsh constraints, but would also add just enough structure. I’m also frustrated by each app reinventing the same thing slightly differently.
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by dwb 8mo ago
Yes!
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by dwb 8mo ago
No. The browser structures the page in both a DOM tree and an accessibility tree.
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by dwb 8mo ago
Not even close. Apple UIs - despite recent graphical howlers - have excellent accessibility APIs and are regularly praised by people that track such things. I’ve recently been building a macOS app and the UI testing is also based off it. Th
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by dwb 8mo ago
Funnily, Emacs is getting closer to what I’m after (it’s my main editor). > That's not necessarily bad. Not everything has to be open ended. I think it is necessarily bad and everything should be open ended. Bad in the sense of low
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by dwb 8mo ago
I’m definitely not advocating more little electron apps, and I’m totally with you on TUI’s benefits. I’m bemoaning the lack of imagination that has ended us up here and not in a situation where we can have, say, a small, low-footprint appli
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by dwb 8mo ago
Did you reply to the correct post? Can’t see how it follows from mine.
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by dwb 8mo ago
I’m not just talking about screen readers, though they are important. I mean “accessible” more generally. Yes you could build a specific UI for each kind of user, but that seems far less likely to cover as many uses as building one UI that
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by dwb 8mo ago
Sure, I said I understand why people build them. I’ve used a lot of them. And yes with the tools we have you’re right, but I’m more lamenting the wonky, kind of archaic, unintegrated, only-semi-composable toolset that we have. No fundamenta
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by dwb 8mo ago
I think TUIs-that-want-to-be-GUIs (as opposed to terminal commands just outputting plain text) are sad. Mainly because they’re largely inaccessible. They flatten the structure of a UI under a character stream. You’re forced to use it exactl
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by dwb 8mo ago
It becomes moderately better than nothing when “everyone” (not even close to everyone) does it. And there are some decisions (taking fewer/no flights, no fossil-fueled car, etc) that are a lot more effective than others. Personally I t
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by dwb 8mo ago
Your tastes are your own, and there is an argument for just filling the window, but you won’t find a typographic authority that advocates setting body text much wider than that (and I would agree with them).
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by dwb 8mo ago
I believe it was actually meant to be haranguing https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/harangui...
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by dwb 8mo ago
I’ve not met anyone who defines “work” like that.
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by dwb 8mo ago
> Work brings dignity and purpose to people’s lives. Speak for yourself! For me, and in my experience many others, work is a necessary evil. I’ve experienced more indignities in the workplace than anywhere else (though fortunately not as
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by dwb 8mo ago
Get some empathy and awareness. I’m not from the US either but I am against fascist thugs occupying cities. It’s not difficult.

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