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As someone with non-ascii and non-latin-1 characters in my surname, I can tell you that the ascii->utf8 migration still hasn’t finished.

Naturally. And the editors, typesetters, designers, proof readers, etc. should get paid for their work. It is just a question of ownership and power imbalance. The problem with the…

Sure and the incremental compiler work is genuinely amazing. I was objecting purely to the notion that this new crop of systems languages is “designed from day one” around LSP, whi…

Are they though? * Rust was designed before even vscode was released * Zig, Odin, JAI are all designed by people that don’t use LSP and don’t like it * Don’t know about Carbon, but…

ngl, a lot of the times, an in-memory “database” that gets backed up to a file is perfectly reasonable. Even consumer devices have dozens of gigabytes of RAM. What percentile of ap…

Isn’t that basically emacs with evil mode?

Fair enough :) It was very much an exaggeration. But, I do wonder how far would “dumb” text editing go in this scenario. And, more importantly, whether it wouldn’t be faster overal…

Yes, the 80% claim comes from comparing 9 tests converted by both the conversion tool and humans and comparing the quality - “80% of the content within these files was accurately c…

The conversion is between two testing libraries for React. Not to be too cynical (this sort of works seems to me like a pretty good niche for llms), but I don’t think I’d be that f…

You can file a suit against anybody for anything. If it’s obviously without merit, it’s likely to get dismissed pretty quickly. But there’s nothing stopping you from filing it.

I don’t think the specifics of the placement matter all that much. I’m a happy nvim user with a dvorak layout. Only ‘h’ is on the home row, but it’s not a problem. The issue with n…

Incredibly enough, you can also talk to people in person. Does wonders.

From my experience, the best performing companies foster a culture of ownership. Owning the features/products you work on, the team you work with, and, to some extent, the company …

I think it’s pretty clear the comment was referring to the partition of the sudetenland, which Poland was absolutely a (albeit minor) participant in. But thank you for linking the …

I don’t know how much this is bias on my part, but sending weapons to Gaza feels more equivalent to arming anti-russian partisans in the alternate reality where the march on Kyiv w…

Perhaps, but recognizing clickbait should be within the grasp of everybody, even if they aren’t experts on the subject matter. Maybe that’s where an LLM would fit - evaluating the …

It’s not a disorder if it’s not sufficiently disruptive :-) There are no absolutes in psychology.

Unless the GPT would be responsible for setting up the incentive structures, you’d end up with the same monotonous clickbait. The problem are people who give bad (science) reportin…

Why not? What’s the point of the state paying for higher education? I’d say encouraging social mobility and making more people into high value creators.

Wouldn’t consider it a real alternative, but you increase/decrease indentation in insert mode with ^t/^d

This is potentially a false equivalency. If storing passwords in a notebook is a common enough pattern, they become something a thief might start looking for. I don’t have the stat…

As is usually the case, it depends. Macros for “reducing boilerplate” or other syntactic reasons are poorly justified. While the resulting code might look cleaner, it’s often much …

This is a genuinely terrifying vision of the future. Already things like prices may differ based one’s location. Adding content writing AI to the mix is positively dystopian.

Would that I could. Not many 4+k 32” screens around (even 5k 27” is a tough ask)

I have a 32” 4k monitor and on macOS fonts are blurry. Readable, but notably worse than on linux with X and the basic hiDPI settings from ArchWiki (with fractional scaling in both …