piekvorst

8 ms·

91.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
How can one trust a dishonest, manipulative person?
92.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
Knowing Greek, Latin, and Plato is very useful for a philosopher of his times. I’m far from being a fan of Mill’s contributions but he aligned himself well with the western history of philosophy. But if you imply that philosophy as such isn
93.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
I agree and I think it’s a nice explanation that fundamentality (characteristics upon which everything depends or would not be possible) is contextual.
94.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
You can learn JavaScript and code for life. You can’t learn React and code for life. Yeah, JavaScript is an illusion (to be exact, a concept). But it’s the one that we accept as fundamental. People need fundamentals to rely upon.
95.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
Ads (at least in the classical pre-AI sense) are by orders of magnitude better than preventive laws
96.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
The way English uses this vast vocabulary is beautiful.
97.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
When I have this problem, I catenate two outputs: man curl |grep -e -L man curl This way, I have all the matches at hand. When I pick the one I need, I select the line and search for it, finding the next occurrence in the full
98.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
In other words, a free system is inevitably ruled by hypocrites, while in dictatorships they are rejected that opportunity. This is another variant of “in democracy, people cannot rule because they’re stupid.” Statists, failing to admit the
99.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
I don’t deny that the current state of the U.S. is unfortunate, even irrational. It has been this way for a very long time. Freedom is the foundational root, not the current fruit. And it’s a testament to freedom that she could withstand fo
100.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
I didn’t want to say that a ban on infinite scrolling is a literal censorship. Sorry if I made that impression. I thought that if one thinks that it’s right to violate property rights, the form of the violation is only a matter of time. Tod
101.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
This is what any anti-intellectual perceives about the other side of the conflict: monstrous brute, having no other means to enforce his power except through force. In fact, this attitude reflects primarily his own psycho-epistemology.
102.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
I think that at least one thing from the least is feasible.
103.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
I have started using Arch in 2016 and it was stable back then. Are you describing an earlier era?
104.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
Censorship comes
105.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
I have recently switched from 7 Plus to 16e. Now I make typos all the time. I still do not know who I should blame primarily, my muscle memory or Apple.
106.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
I can relate. I enjoy the feeling of being free to close any window because it takes so little effort to bring it back. So, during a day, I close around a hundred of windows. And it really helps to not think about accumulated junk. The tric
107.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
Isn’t vi good enough?
108.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
For my workflow, yes I don’t think it’s a severe security vulnerability. The same thing can happen with $home/bin.
109.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
What's illegal about intentionally making money for being addictive? "Unfair"? Maybe. But not illegal.
110.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
That’s impressive. I don’t object to the fact that they make humans phenomenally productive. But “they code and think” makes me cringe. Maybe I’m confusing lexicon differences for philosophic battles.
111.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
I think it can solve about any leetcode problem. I don’t think it can build an enterprise-grade system. It can be trained on an exiting one but these systems are not closed and no past knowledge seems to predict the future. That’s not very
112.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
It can code in an autocomplete sense. In the serious sense, if we don’t distinguish between code and thought, it can’t. Observe that modern coding agents rely heavily on heuristics. LLM excels at training datasets, at analyzing existing kno
113.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
> Chief among all changes is that machines can code and think quite well now. They can’t and never will.
114.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
Yet another nail
115.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
I think that regular black-and-white /bin/diff is solid for that kind of job. I use it all the time. I have seen people being mad about reading its output but I think that this attitude is unfounded.
116.
by piekvorst 9mo ago
“Despicable” is by an order of magnitude softer word compared to “Apple can legally take your salary” Sure, Apple is greedy. But it doesn’t deserve what is usually assumed: legal persecution.
117.
by piekvorst 9mo ago
People are beginning to realize that prompt is a bottleneck and design problem, that traditional workarounds (history, aliases, complex autocomplete) don’t work. But running scripts in a traditional way, full file, from the top to the botto
118.
by piekvorst 9mo ago
Although I don't use dwm and tmux anymore, tmux keyboard control is nasty and some uniformity is always a good idea.
119.
by piekvorst 9mo ago
No prominent writer has ever said that writing came easy to them. I think it’s not wrong to feel this way.
120.
by piekvorst 9mo ago
It’s also runnable (scripts), clickable (urls), and context-dependent, which makes it a nice UI.

More ›