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by klibertp 4y ago
That's completely backwards. Pets don't have to work. Try to convince my cat to do something useful. I'd switch places with him in heartbeat if could. If an AI, or anybody else for that matter, offers to make me their pet wit
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by klibertp 4y ago
> How, exactly, is providing Jetbrains and Neovim support "re-centralizing everything"? Bait and switch. If it's good enough that Neovim users can't live without it, pulling the plug from Neovim support will result in
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by klibertp 4y ago
Yeah, but then they made PowerShell, which was at the time seriously the most advanced shell and shell scripting language out there. PS got pretty mixed reactions because it was different than BASH, but the idea of typed pipes of objects in
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by klibertp 4y ago
Just like with a junior coder who, when asked about something they don't know, says whatever in hopes it's close enough to the real answer. If the conversation is over Slack and you don't have out-of-band information, like wh
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by klibertp 4y ago
Wouldn't the skill in using the tool matter? GH Copilot, so far, has been kind of meh for me - the instances where it produces something actually useful, even after giving it lots of hints, were pretty rare until now. But, two or three
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by klibertp 4y ago
Well, I logged out and learned that "ChatGPT is at capacity right now" and therefore doesn't work. At all. At least for me. Can we call that an improvement too, I wonder? :)
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by klibertp 4y ago
> whatever arbitrary goal it thinks it was given [...] abilities of a superintelligent entity Don't these two phrases contradict each other? Why would a super-intelligent entity need to be given a goal? The old argument that we&#x27
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by klibertp 4y ago
Yeah, I'm sorry, I couldn't recall the exact wording of that comment, and I definitely didn't mean this in a negative sense. It's been decades since I read the essays and many years since I spotted his comment here on HN
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by klibertp 4y ago
I'd think that large families, clans, or tribes of the past and present, worked it out pretty well. If it's too much for 2 people, then it might be just right for 5 or 7. That would require those people to live together, and we ca
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by klibertp 4y ago
This and some other essays from Ran Prieur had a huge impact on me when I first read them. The idea of "dropping out" of the rat race is nothing new, but his writing and his take on it was strangely persuasive. If I remember corre
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by klibertp 4y ago
That's not quite true for original Vim. The developer experience for writing plugins is incomparable; VimL lacks good ways of abstracting and composing behavior, while Emacs Lisp gives you just about everything a modern language should
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by klibertp 4y ago
But that's exactly what I'm saying? Do you believe such professionals to hit the nail on the head on the first try at the prompt? If it's complex enough, even mastery won't shield you from the need to experiment, and dis
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by klibertp 4y ago
I think you fail to account for cultural differences. The "face scanning for toilet paper" may be unacceptable to you, but if it means no more vandalized public toilets, then there are bound to exist societies which would deem it
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by klibertp 4y ago
Half an hour trying to force one of the models to spit a manga-style picture of a character... with correct number of arms and legs. No successes so far. It's frankly disgusting most of the time, prob due to uncanny valley-like effect
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by klibertp 4y ago
It's not that clear-cut. Humans can empathize, to the point where observing someone getting hurt flares similar neural response to the one in the hurt person. Sufficiently vivid imagination in conjunction with a lot of research can giv
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by klibertp 4y ago
Yes. The IT revolution that promised equal access to all of the world's information was first ignored and we - tech people - were left alone, to dream of our tech-crypto-quantum utopia. Then normal people joined, transforming the Inter
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by klibertp 4y ago
Cutting the supply of money will kill the clickbait content alright but it will also kill vast swathes of "content, full stop". Somebody has to pay for hosting no matter what, and if I'm entertaining an idea of writing a fant
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by klibertp 4y ago
Elixir has different goals than Erlang - it aims to be general purpose, while Erlang is clearly a DSL, though the D there is kind of huge. Erlang may be a better source of knowledge of OTP because it lacks distractions and doesn't hide
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by klibertp 4y ago
Unless you're very lucky, it's going to be showing the wrong time. I don't think I ever had a power outage precisely on 00:00. Blinking is actually a nice reminder that you should not look at that clock to check the time. In
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by klibertp 4y ago
Well, it's a fact that all that technology is incredibly brittle. Systems lack resilience, error recovery, and accessible debuggability, and when something breaks, there's a high chance it'll have disastrous effects. It'
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by klibertp 4y ago
Well, news outlets are perfectly comfortable with saying that this or that COVID policy "killed" millions and will kill even more... If only the British instituted lockdowns, quarantine, and mass testing for diseases, the Native A
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by klibertp 4y ago
> This doesn't always work The problem is with when it doesn't work: when it's the least convenient and the most irritating. For popular content it doesn't matter if you forget a precise word used there, you'll g
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by klibertp 4y ago
Well, the "get rich fast" things should be regulated as you say. The problem begins when such schemes become "get rich at all", with nothing in terms of viable alternative. The best way to deal with it is not to make peo
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by klibertp 4y ago
> What are they gonna do Personally, I'm using Haxe with its Lua backend. While wrapping Lua APIs is a pain, and some dynamic patterns are hard to represent directly, Haxe provides a lot of the things that Lua lacks: a gradual stati
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by klibertp 4y ago
> They're both basically just ergonomic issues Yes! Prefixing names as a way of emulating namespaces generally works well enough. We could get modules support the same way JS used to have them, ie. as hashes of closures. Or we could
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by klibertp 4y ago
Really? (Didn't have the time to listen to the talk.) I'd like to know if it was somehow measured, ie. how much of the Elisp code is still not adjusted to use lexical scoping and how much of such code would break by switching to l
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by klibertp 4y ago
> ELisp is a terrible programming language. Why do you think so? My main gripe is the lack of namespaces and proper modules, but there are many languages in Top 10 on TIOBE that share this problem. The only other problem is a clunky, dec
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by klibertp 4y ago
Wiki says that some companies agree[1] that "123456" and "qwerty" are the most popular. "password" seems to generally be in the top 10. What's interesting on these lists is the presence of Dragon and Monke
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by klibertp 4y ago
Nope. That's not what the GP means. I'm not sure how it works currently with PHP, but what was meant was a long-running process that can change its behavior/be updated by evaluating new code without ever being restarted. Thin
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by klibertp 4y ago
Locks: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Mu... Semaphores are not there, my mistake; I was thinking about: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual

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