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by pphysch 2y ago
It all depends of one is using it scientifically, i.e. having a hypothesis for the generated code before it exists, so that you can evaluate it. When used scientifically, coding copilots boost productivity AND skills.
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by pphysch 2y ago
If you aren't in a rush, it's worth learning and the implementation won't be too big.
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by pphysch 2y ago
The vast majority of work this script does is over the network, which your choice of language will do little to speed up (latency-wise).
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by pphysch 2y ago
Yes
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by pphysch 2y ago
> The biggest reason is geopolitics: If escalated confrontation happens with China If escalated confrontation happens with China, and that is massive IF that is dependent on insanely belligerent action from the West like giving nukes to
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by pphysch 2y ago
One of the first things that was emphasized in a recent "Management 101" seminar (taught by a HR grunt) was that effective "management" consists of 3 roles: - Management - Leadership - Coaching It seems that Graham wasn&
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by pphysch 2y ago
I don't see this as an argument for Linux as much as an argument for being fluent in shell/CLI.
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by pphysch 2y ago
The broader story here, which the article totally omits, is that the CIA is responsible for fueling and arming extremist groups such as ISIS as a means to take down "enemy regimes" in the region like Syria and Iran, in the wake of
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by pphysch 2y ago
Like Talos Linux? Don't you need the full Linux kernel to run arbitrary Linux containers?
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by pphysch 2y ago
This particular article was likely co-produced by the CIA itself as a sort of puff piece. "Look how awesome and brave our James Bond supersoldiers are. But also they struggle too!!!" Random journos don't get this kind of acce
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by pphysch 2y ago
Nice. A real SVG sparkline would use polyline or path, though. Not much point in using Unicode glyphs.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Reddit's value proposition (to shareholders) is astroturfing, for ads and other propaganda. Send us your message and we will make it look organic and popular. That's the service. There's no other way to make boatloads of mone
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by pphysch 2y ago
Beyond Unicode, it should be possible to define a Web Component that generates SVG on-the-fly from a datasource. Imagine: <sparkline src="an image or csv"\> One cool thing about SVG is it can inherit styles from you
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by pphysch 2y ago
I think the slide left/right for sidebar is a nice UX, as long as the user knows about it, and as long as you don't go beyond 1 main + 2 sidebars. Discord mobile app used to have it for both left and right sidebars, and then a whi
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by pphysch 2y ago
Google has been productizing AI for a while now. 2021 Pixels have the Tensor SoC which was explicitly marketed as an AI chip. Chatbots weren't part of the equation back then, but offline image translation, magic eraser, etc certainly w
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by pphysch 2y ago
> You can't market your way into billions of sales over such a long period while a superior product exists at a lower price sold literally right next to it. Of course you can! This is the point of marketing! You don't need to m
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by pphysch 2y ago
Why?
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by pphysch 2y ago
Comparing the established markets that Apple operates in to AI/ML gold-rush (what even is the product??) is quite a stretch.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Apple doesn't necessarily making the best hardware or software, but they are definitely the best at branding and public relations.
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by pphysch 2y ago
The law is not necessarily broken, but enforcement is.
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by pphysch 2y ago
If you look at the aggregate of The Economist's "reporting" on China, the GPs comment is correct. One could even argue they are a Chinese asset because they mislead Western investors so fantastically and consistently on basic
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by pphysch 2y ago
"flat text" meaning ASCII/UTF encoded streams of bits/bytes... It's all 0s and 1s under the hood, and encodings make that much nicer to deal with without excessive abstraction. Give me UNIX everything-is-a-file &#x2
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by pphysch 2y ago
The browsers are already running anything via custom WASM interpreters, like Pyodide for Python.
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by pphysch 2y ago
>> Strict types are a great way to paint yourself into a corner. > I've never really understood this stance. It's all code. It's not like you can't change it later. Try maintaining a poorly designed relational d
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by pphysch 2y ago
You can offline transpile anything to JS to later run in the browser, TS isn't special in this way. With PyScript you can see and modify the actual code in your browser, just like vanilla JS.
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by pphysch 2y ago
The browser doesn't support TS though. The browser does support Python via PyScript/pyodide/etc. You can't run TS in the browser unless you jump through the same hoops that PyScript is.
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by pphysch 2y ago
PyScript is a platform for using Python in the browser to build actual applications.
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by pphysch 2y ago
> The way I describe the Apple Watch to people is that you can definitely live your life without it but the little conveniences add up. For a Garmin-style watch, the convenience of only needing a ~30min charge once or twice a month is pr
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by pphysch 2y ago
Good
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by pphysch 2y ago
> Our really smart engineer working over time built amazing custom infrastructure > They quit and no one knows how it works Either the infrastructure wasn't "amazing" in the first place or clueless management is looking

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