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by rgoulter 4mo ago
I recalled Google says "AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses", and wondered why it wasn't in the screenshot. I see it's because you need to click the "show more"/expand button to see that discla
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by rgoulter 4mo ago
SKG aren't going for a maximalist "if you publish an online game, it must 100% work forever". Unfortunately, it seems it's not so easy to find a clear mission statement. I see their main point as: it should still be poss
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by rgoulter 4mo ago
I do wish that Emacs was more popular with LLM technologies. LLMs are powerful at dealing with text. And Emacs is highly extensible and typically text-oriented. Already I see people say that LLMs much Emacs much easier to use (since you can
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by rgoulter 4mo ago
That's an apt term. Or more to the point: 'mode error' is exactly what the upthread comment is complaining about with the Caps Lock key.
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by rgoulter 4mo ago
> I've switched to programmable ergo keyboards where there's a whole slew of options The best part of these kinds of keyboards is they provide each thumb two keys each. That allows for the keyboards to be much more expressive,
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by rgoulter 4mo ago
Sort of. The downside from the 'state' from Caps Lock is you have to keep track of whether it's active or not. Whereas with layers, typically a layer will only be active if you're holding down some kind of "activate
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by rgoulter 4mo ago
> If I'm gonna be reviewing all day... I think the point is: Pre-LLM: 1. think, 2. write code & check, 3. review. LLM: 1. think, 2. write prompt, <LLM writes code quickly>, 3. review. If the thing that you enjoy about prog
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by rgoulter 4mo ago
> But LLMs don’t seem particularly good at inventing new ways to code (or write, or…). It’s literally all derivative. I think the key part is how much thought goes into something. Optimistically, LLMs are good at taking unstructured inpu
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by rgoulter 4mo ago
Seems to me LLMs have changed some things. I'm not sure how it's best put, but it used to be: - Seeing code (or a blogpost or whatever) was a result from effort where thought had gone into it. The writer paid effort so the reader
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by rgoulter 5mo ago
Opposite in which sense? I guess this is all about rudeness from being too lazy. My understanding is 'lmgtfy' is a response to a lazy request for help. Someone's asking for help, but it seems like they could have helped thems
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by rgoulter 5mo ago
I think it's worth elaborating. Loosely, LLMs give plausible responses. And LLMs are really good at writing confident-sounding responses. LLM output is as if someone is replying with the sole purpose of appearing helpful and knowledgea
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by rgoulter 5mo ago
I think the Peacock servers are what you're looking for. https://thepeacockproject.org/
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by rgoulter 5mo ago
> I think you're allowed to play a few courses still. But the career mode, which is why I originally bought the game, was completely turned off. Mind you that career mode had zero Internet needed features. I suspect this is the same
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by rgoulter 5mo ago
The post talks about it as a good thing. "With LLMs you can just make your own". I read dogleash's comment as emphasising the bad parts of that. If everyone's just sharing their half-baked slop, it becomes harder for peo
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by rgoulter 5mo ago
> What matters are the ideas, the observation that “yeah, you can do that, and it’ll work well”. > > For the kinds of software I’m talking about, you want the prompts more than you want the source code. Right. In a broad sense, pro
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by rgoulter 5mo ago
> What’s the future look like here? For practically no effort, you were able to customise free software to your liking. That's a surprising and really cool dynamic. Is your "about an hour of ... using Codex 5.5" really som
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by rgoulter 5mo ago
The command line shell has that benefit of piping text between programs. TUIs are runnable from the command line shell. -- So you can get many of the benefits of a GUI (e.g. discoverability) while sticking close to the terminal where you&#x
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by rgoulter 5mo ago
I wouldn't have assumed a TUI is accessible just because it's on the terminal. I guess the author encounters people who do. I am surprised, though, that something like "turning off the cursor" enhances the accessibility.
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by rgoulter 5mo ago
Grok is an amusing example, for various reasons. I'm glad it exists. I think you're referencing the "mecha-hitler" controversy. In which case, it's really funny: seems that Grok saw many media reports amplifying &qu
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by rgoulter 6mo ago
I thought lisps were all functional programming, and lack sum types and pattern matching? In which case, what's the term for the "proper sum types and pattern matching" flavour of things?
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by rgoulter 6mo ago
My understanding of the context is the author is no longer using Emacs, and is very excited about the productivity from AI. My experience with LLM technologies is it does make generating the code a really quick part. It may be reasonable to
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by rgoulter 6mo ago
There are all kinds of mechanical keyboards. Not every one is going to suit everyone's tastes. > plus what's with the stripped down layouts? The most common kind of 'squished down' is because it's "small lik
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by rgoulter 6mo ago
> All those tech guys getting the PCB Way sponsorship really don’t know business do they. Eh. For a hobbyist it's pretty neat. I don't expect to be extracting a lot of value from hobbyist PCB designs. That some PCB manufacturer
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by rgoulter 6mo ago
I read "out of box" as meaning "has sensible defaults, can be used 'out of the box' without configuration". I've never seen it used to mean "preinstalled on most systems". Although e.g. people li
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by rgoulter 6mo ago
My first instinct reading an article (especially one about LLMs) is to scroll down to see the structure.. Anyway. Do people get the impression that LLMs are worse at frontend than not? I'd think it's same with other LLM uses: you
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by rgoulter 6mo ago
I like the quote about how different programming languages give you tools to think in different ways. I get the impression languages like k are a good example of this. (That C code looks as dense/concise as k).
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by rgoulter 6mo ago
OP's post features he wants "that isn't absolutely crowded that I could meaningfully contribute to." I could read that as: wanting to do something interesting that others would benefit from. Though, I don't really t
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by rgoulter 7mo ago
I reckon if you asked fountain pen enthusiasts whether they'd prefer to type or to use a cheap ballpoint pen, I bet they'd agree with your assessment.
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by rgoulter 7mo ago
> Then there's "Flakes" which I never quite understood Flakes do 2 things: 1. Declaration of the inputs and outputs of some Nix codebase. 2. Pinning the versions of this input sources. The dependency pinning is similar to
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by rgoulter 7mo ago
For a single machine? Yeah, NixOS' cost surely outweighs the benefits if you're not familiar with Nix. Using Nix for per-project development dependencies is quite good. It's nice to be able to return to a project & not ha

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