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by garyrob 2y ago
I agree. Rye is working great for me. I wanted a Python cargo, and Rye has achieved that from my perspective so far.
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by garyrob 2y ago
I wrote a ton of Pascal on Concurrent DOS (multiuser CP/M variant) using Wordstar in the 1980s... so today, instead of nano when I need to pull up an editor for some basic terminal editing, I pull up JOE's Wordstar mode (jstar) ju
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by garyrob 2y ago
I couldn't agree more. I won't buy a car that won't let me bring my usual podcasts, music, etc. via CarPlay. We should all vote with out wallets.
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by garyrob 2y ago
An update to my own comment, above. After absorbing other comments, I no longer think it's a reasonable possibility that Apple has purchased Bartender. I think we have to assume it's likely to be a malicious actor. There could eve
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by garyrob 2y ago
Given the proximity of this development to WWDC, it seems like there's a chance Apple has acquired Bartender and has incorporated its functionality into the next MacOS release.
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by garyrob 2y ago
Excellent! Thanks!
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by garyrob 2y ago
My biggest need is for an ebook reader. What abilities does it have in that area? Having trouble finding info on that on the web site.
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by garyrob 2y ago
I find your harshness, in response to a purely positive and informative comment, to be terribly arrogant and annoying, like someone pretending to be as smart as a smart 15 year old.
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by garyrob 2y ago
Walking is truly great, but it's not uniquely magical. Most of my best ideas have come on long drives. I believe that driving has a lot of the aspects of walking that lead to the ability to have ideas. The activities themselves (the ne
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Will A.I. Ever Live Up to Its Hype?(nytimes.com)
6 points by garyrob 2y ago|3 comments
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by garyrob 2y ago
Arguably, we are now entering the Trough of Disillusionment phase of the hype cycle.
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by garyrob 2y ago
Even in NY State, Hudson River Valley, I've seen them with real color. They're different each time.
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by garyrob 2y ago
So far, I'm impressed. It seems to be significantly better than GPT-4 at accessing current online documentation and forming answers that use it effectively. I've been asking it to do so, and it has.
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by garyrob 2y ago
It would be nice to be able to make an executable version of an Elvish script that could be installed and run without having to install Elvish separately. So this executable would have to contain the Elvish interpreter. Is that doable?
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by garyrob 2y ago
Ooookay. You are the world's greatest expert in film-making. Thank you.
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by garyrob 2y ago
> but I can’t see how it’s defendable Perhaps the key here is what YOU don't see, not the merit of the film. 2001 was ranked the 6th greatest movie of all time in the Sight and Sound poll, which is probably the world's most res
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by garyrob 2y ago
IIRC Raskin kept on trying to take some sort of partial credit for the Mac over the years, but the actual Mac that was made had pretty much nothing to do with his initial concept.
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by garyrob 2y ago
The database couldn't be used anymore! Pretty severe corruption.
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by garyrob 2y ago
Could be; but it never happened to me with MySQL! Maybe it depends on on how far back in the day you go...? :)
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by garyrob 2y ago
I remember, waaaaay back in the early days of PostgeSQL, I was using it for project and it crashed in a way that corrupted our data. There was no hardware problem; it was just a database crash. (This was quite some time ago. I don't re
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by garyrob 2y ago
I want to give some advice: Don't judge it by its first few episodes. When I first checked it out, the basic setup seemed rather inane and I stopped watching. Then, a couple years later, I needed something to watch during long exercise
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What's the best Linux for remote desktop?
2 points by garyrob 2y ago|2 comments
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by garyrob 2y ago
I got that prompt on all my apple devices a couple days ago. I just clicked Cancel on every one. The prompts stopped coming and everything seems to still work. I don't know whether there will be some ongoing problem with my AppleID tha
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How I store my reference information
2 points by garyrob 2y ago|1 comments
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by garyrob 2y ago
Here's a link to the language itself. Hasn't been updated in a couple years, unfortunately. Maybe getting some attention here could help. The README says: "wax is currently experimental, so there might be bugs as well as aspe
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by garyrob 2y ago
Me too. I think it was on HN.
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by garyrob 2y ago
I like Rye but missed virtualenvwrapper's workon. So I made one: https://www.garyrobinson.net/2024/04/bourbon-like-virtualenv...
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by garyrob 2y ago
The problem I have with BIAB is my songs often have very specific fingerpicking parts. BIAB can't easily do the same picking as far as I can tell. (Or maybe at all?) So I'm thinking an AI like the one in the OP may be able to pick
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by garyrob 2y ago
Songwriting is songwriting. You make it special by making a great song. You make a demo. You can get a song published if it sounds decent and is a great song. Publishers are influenced by the production quality, but they aren't idiots.
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by garyrob 2y ago
It could, but I want it to be even easier and with better results! I think AI has that potential. I am absolutely sure it does, in fact, and that some AI product will obsolete Band In A Box within the next decade. Maybe within the next year

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