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by ezst 1y ago
> Signal is approved for government use [Ref. needed]
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by ezst 1y ago
Call me an idiot, but I still gladly take Swing and javafx over JS and monstrosities like react. The state of Qt is also very good. Web won because the distribution model is easier on the user, and because managers thought UX designers woul
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by ezst 1y ago
This has nothing to do with Unicode and everything to do with input methods, of which there are a variety. Some methods are indeed shape-based like you suggest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_input_method#Shape-b
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by ezst 2y ago
> Regardless, though, it's open source Some major bits and pieces of the base editor are, but little of what makes vscode into a usable productive tool (namely, the refined extensions and LSP implementations around it, i.e. what use
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by ezst 2y ago
https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ ; I'll just leave this here.
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by ezst 2y ago
Dsub & forks should do just that
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by ezst 2y ago
My question would then be, what do you think needs "evolving"? This space hasn't seen transformative changes in decades, with ample time to converge towards effective paradigms and implementations. Stability would be pretty m
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by ezst 2y ago
Of course it has everything to do with antitrust. Imagine for a second that, instead of 1 Google, there are tens of thousands of alternatives. Offering good customer support becomes once again a competitive advantage. No sane customer think
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by ezst 2y ago
Not OP, AI may or may not, this is to be seen, but LLMs of today certainly won't.
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by ezst 2y ago
I'm sure this is a thing, what I'm not so sure about is how much that generalises beyond the HN/tech-workers bubble (I don't think "people" in OP's comment is as broad and numerous as they think it is).
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by ezst 2y ago
As much as you may make fun of my anecdotal observation, your comment doesn't add anything of value, in particular to substantiate that "people [are] becoming addicted to LLMs". I stand behind my comment that the vast majorit
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by ezst 2y ago
For many, this stuff is mostly about copilot being shoved down everyone's throats via ms office obnoxious ads and distractions, and I haven't yet heard of anyone liking it or perceiving it as an improvement. We are now years into
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by ezst 2y ago
The AI providers already write the code, on the whole crazy promise that humans need not to care/read about it. I'm not sure that it changes anything at that point to add one weak level of indirection. You are already compromised.
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by ezst 2y ago
"Funny" how that reminisces of the whole blockchain discussion. If the need is fully satisfied by a "boring" and cost-effective "facts" database, why would an adequate engineer push for (blockchain/)LLM in
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by ezst 2y ago
Again someone mistaking LLMs with knowledge bases. Must be a day finishing in `y`
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by ezst 2y ago
IIRC they take it more kindly than the French to have their public services be run by corporations
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by ezst 2y ago
Apparently, part of the answer is "because of Elon Musk", after it became clear that the whole hyperloop fuss was a conspiracy to funnel money out of the ongoing Californian fast rail projects, which he was perceiving as a threat
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by ezst 2y ago
> Because you can’t have America and France at the same time! Why not? That could look something like Denmark, or the Netherlands ...
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by ezst 2y ago
Don't worry, Republicans are hard at work making the USA a pariah state and turning away the educated migrants who've been behind most of the innovation and research of past decades.
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by ezst 2y ago
> LeCun consistently states LLMs are not the right path yet LLMs are still the main flagship model they are shipping. I really don't see what's controversial about this. If that's to mean that LLMs are inherently flawed&#x
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by ezst 2y ago
What you see here is entirely about "corporations selling their souls to the highest outside bidders", who do you even think benefits from all this if not the oligarchs?
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by ezst 2y ago
See, that's what a 2-parties system does to one's brain. Trump can be bad, and many other things can be bad at the same time, without causation. If that's enough to distract from the bigger picture, you do not qualify as a vo
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by ezst 2y ago
> "Does all software work like shit now?", because I swear, this is not just Apple. Software in general feels more bugged as a new norm. I think this is just the result of an optimizing game placing profit above all else (inclu
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by ezst 2y ago
Bar the multiplayer aspect, I recommend TriliumNext in the same space, whose sync story is quite neat and enables patterns where replication happens over a swarm of devices, enabling strong resiliency (and it's fully open source)
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by ezst 2y ago
I doubt diffusion algorithms are a good fit for the kind of real time computer vision processing that self driving cars depend upon, do you have good sources for that? About writing assistance, based on our office/copilot recent rollou
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by ezst 2y ago
(and since this is met with downvotes, I will substantiate the last part by saying that people employing "woke" effortlessly like it's a real and casual word, tend to be exposed to it a lot while not realising that it is a ca
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by ezst 2y ago
Have you tried TriliumNext? It doesn't have collaboration for editing but sharing is built in, It lets you structure your notes in a way that's reminiscent of object oriented programming (you've got templates to define types,
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by ezst 2y ago
Count me as a biiig proponent and user of TriliumNext, it's in my mind and experience the most capable note taking and organising app there is, but I don't think I nor any of its developers would call it a "Notion alternative
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by ezst 2y ago
It may or may not die within few years (I'm placing my bets on the optimistic side), if it delivers value today, and the alternative is a cost prohibitive walled garden unsuitable for sensitive data, then it's well worth it cost i
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by ezst 2y ago
They are the modern age robbers barrons, money coming before a sense of morals, ethics or patriotism is all the signalling there is here. Oh, and it sounds like your information bubble isn't the healthiest.

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