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by wrasee 2y ago
That's not at all what i meant, but it doesn't matter.
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by wrasee 2y ago
No, they’re inverted prisons.
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by wrasee 2y ago
> trivially easy That’s the problem. It is trivially easy, 99% of the time. But that misses the entire point of the article. If I got 99% on an exam I’d say that was trivially easy. But making one mistake in a hundred is not ok when i
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by wrasee 2y ago
A metamaxim?
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by wrasee 2y ago
Take a look at Lottie. https://lottie.github.io/
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by wrasee 2y ago
For me what’s important is that you are able to communicate effectively. If you use language tools, other tools or even a real personal assistant if you effectively communicate the point that ultimately is yours in the making I expect that
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by wrasee 2y ago
But also perhaps not conflating “success” with morally positive outcomes. Being efficient at destroying the planet is to successfully destroy the planet. I think the original point was precisely to separate the concepts that make something
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by wrasee 2y ago
Yes exactly. My hunch is to remember that in `auto [to, ec] = std::to_chars(p, last, 42)` the two names `to` and `ec` are not "real" variables/objects, but names bound to parts of the object returned to by `std::to_chars`.
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by wrasee 2y ago
Yes ok. And legacy code might be a good example where grep works well, if it's fair to argue a greater propensity for things like preprocessors, older languages and custom builds that may not play as well with semantic-level tools, let
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by wrasee 2y ago
Did you consider Neovim? You get the benefit of vim while also being able to mix in as much LSP tooling as you like. The tradeoff is that it takes some time to set up, although that is getting easier. That won’t make LSP go any faster tho
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by wrasee 2y ago
Because - and more so for the maintainers/managers of those projects - being able to communicate effectively is part of what it means to run a successful project? That may even mean that you have to hold yourself to a higher standard t
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by wrasee 2y ago
Thanks for this. It seems you got that I misunderstood. I've clarified my point in another reply. Also agree that if this is a question that keeps coming up a much better response would be to simply explain your reasoning once in an
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by wrasee 2y ago
Yes ok, I did read the thread but didn't get the reference. I wouldn't say it's "quite remarkable", more simply that I misunderstood. My apologies. But I stand by the broader point that I do not think his attitude
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by wrasee 2y ago
But he didn't "just" say no: > If it's so easy, why are you not doing it? Talk is cheap. > I'll be waiting for your patch. Surely you're not as lazy and incompetent as the existing volunteer developers. I
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by wrasee 2y ago
But the risk/reward is the same regardless of the frame of reference. It's the difference in the perceived risk between gaining $10 and not loosing $10, even when the odds are the same. And we know that while rationally its the
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by wrasee 2y ago
Imagine if LLMs didn't exist, tech companies hadn't massively invested in compute and money was put elsewhere, perhaps dividends. In that world, a tech company could arbitrarily invest in multibillion dollar high performance compu
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by wrasee 2y ago
Because Apple: Something either just works or it’s not a thing. They don’t do ‘maybe works’.
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by wrasee 2y ago
From the announcement > Support for additional languages, browsers, and platforms will be expanded over time. This is a beta. You have to start somewhere.
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by wrasee 2y ago
Yes i suppose it is. Good point! But there's something very personal about their approach that couldn't scale to a wider audience, almost by definition. When you present something to even a precise demographic, but an anonymous
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by wrasee 2y ago
I have a hunch that one of the reasons it may have worked where it did is because they tapped very quickly into the ego of the executive they were targetting. Even the outside of box came with a picture with their (nicely stylized) face on
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by wrasee 2y ago
Right. Given we have so few data points at least GPT 5 will offer a completely new one. That will actually be new information.
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by wrasee 2y ago
Same. It was only when I got to reading the user manual that I see what I feel could be the first sentence of their website > Nickel is a generic configuration language. > Its purpose is to automate the generation of static configurat
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by wrasee 2y ago
I think it was a dig at OpenAI
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by wrasee 2y ago
Your link just asks me for a login, which of course I don’t have. I’ve not heard of Ed before. I am interested but the “see how it works” section doesn’t really tell you how it works. As is the trend, it seems you have to sign up first.
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by wrasee 2y ago
Yet the way git is used is still similar. Both lead with ‘git’ in their name, both append a pithy three letter suffix to ‘git’ that both describe some kind of space where people meet to do stuff. Surely that’s more than just coincidence.
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by wrasee 2y ago
This is the first thing I noticed. Using ‘bc’ and ‘sed’ for integer comparison seems quite odd. But then they chose this for their front page example, the one that everyone will see, so I assumed this was to demonstrate something clever I
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by wrasee 2y ago
Did you watch the announcement event where on introducing the ad John Ternus made the same pun?
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by wrasee 2y ago
It’s only from your comment that I realise that this was posted by the author, seems reasonable that should at least be acknowledged.
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by wrasee 2y ago
I’m pretty sure that I have been programmed. By my parents, by my friends, my education, my environment. Change any of those things in a significant way and I’m sure I would be a different person now. I love the idea that I am an autonomo
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by wrasee 2y ago
I would much rather live in a world with a balance of power than one with a concentration of one. It’s by no means a given that a more even distribution of power leads to war or China ‘replacing the US’ as the only one. But an attitude whe

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