wtetzner

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by wtetzner 6mo ago
Right, but the whole point of this thread is that the advantage Windows has is that it comes pre-installed.
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by wtetzner 6mo ago
I'm not sure I understand what your point is... Without Windows they probably would have been written for whatever else was most popular instead.
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by wtetzner 7mo ago
If it came pre-installed I don't see what the difference would be. Many people don't know how to do anything other than launch certain applications on Windows either.
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by wtetzner 7mo ago
Some of which run better on Linux than Windows.
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by wtetzner 7mo ago
It's not though, unless the new feature and existing features continue to exist as disjoint things. If the new feature subsumes the old ones, then you've reduced the number of features in the language.
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by wtetzner 7mo ago
Can you explain how this is relevant here?
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by wtetzner 7mo ago
I think there's still value in generic AST-level operations. Like expand selection and shrink selection. Or select around the current node vs select inside (whatever that means for the current node type).
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by wtetzner 7mo ago
We've had clear, legible printer icons for decades.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Especially now that they've made RAM so expensive.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be easy to understand what studies are actually demonstrating, based on how often you see people making giant leaps to conclusions that don't really follow from study results.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> It is not something that helps anything at all physically. That's a pretty strong claim to make.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Regardless of "health benefits", the phrase "you can feel" seems pretty relevant when it comes to what someone finds comfortable.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> they've done a grand job of royally fucking up the colors of whatever's on screen. Pretty sure that's the point?
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> Why does Rust standard library use libc? Because that's the stable public interface provided by pretty much every OS except Linux. On Linux, if you don't want to depend on the OS-supplied libc, you can use musl.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I don't think GP is arguing that's the best way to design an OS, just that interfacing with non-Linux Unixes is best done via libc, because that's the stable public interface.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
This is a very flawed analogy.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Since when do we measure productivity by lines of code?
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Has AI generated any wealth?
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I read past your first sentence, but ASCII is used by non English speaking countries for many things. Source code, for one.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> The very fact that UTF-8 itself discouraged from using the BOM is just so alien to me. Adding a BOM makes it incompatible with ASCII, which is one of the benefits of using UTF-8.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> All you need is a current Chromium based browser mostly. Google Docs works fine for me in Firefox as well.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I remember one of the Orcs in Warcraft II would yell "Stop poking me!"
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I think a lot of people have a fear of AI coding because they're worried that we will move from a world where nobody understands how the whole system works, to a world where nobody knows how any of it works.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
This sounds fantastic for running local "unit"/integration tests.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Yes, LLMs are more like offline code generators that can't be reliably re-run. So the very first step of producing the code is "easy", but after that you have lost that ease, and have to read and maintain the larger generated
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Except that the GP didn't claim that AI had no value?
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
This feels like a strawman. Most criticisms of AI for coding are about how overblown the claimed benefits are, not that there are no benefits.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Yeah, it's addictive in a way similar to scrolling social media shorts or playing a slot machine.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I haven't seen any evidence yet that using AI is improving developer performance, just a bunch of people who "feel" like it does.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Not to mention how hard it is to actually get what you want out of it. The image might be pretty, and kinda sorta what you asked for. But if you need something specific, trying to get AI to generate it is like pulling teeth.

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