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If we make a distinction between CLI apps and TUI apps, my interpretation is that the article was specifically talking about the latter. By a CLI app (with the emphasis on command …

Prompts like this feel like it's using the wrong abstraction. The "obvious" thing to do with something like this would be to generate some code that generates the image and then ru…

Exactly - it very likely was trained on it. I tried this with Opus 4.6. I turned off web searches and other tool calls, and asked it to list some filenames it remembers being in th…

With anything like this, I would love to look at the raw data to get an intuitive feel for the phenomenon. For example, the word "surpass" was used 1.47 times per million in the pr…

Yeah. I can believe that this will improve in the future, and this is a technology preview and all. But my takeaway from the video is that it is still too vibey for me to trust it.…

I think there exists a separate skill for classifying problems by difficulty, apart from being able to solve them. This skill can be developed from both directions by learning whic…

This is more of an interpreter than a compiler, but if you look at the "Arithmetic example with semantics" [1] linked on Ohm's GitHub page, you can see how Ohm can be simultaneousl…

For "similar to tree-sitter but js-only", Lezer might be an even closer match: https://lezer.codemirror.net/ I have used both Ohm and Lezer - for different use cases - and have bee…

If the minimum wage is increased $4, the competing explanations seem to be: 1. Change in unemployment is normally distributed with mean 0% and standard deviation 0.606%. 2. Change …

> When most mathematicians say something like "X is true", what they mean is "X can be proved from the axioms of set theory". I'm just one mathematician, but I certainly don't mean…

I kind of agree that it's possible to slightly overstate the declarativeness argument. Functional-style JavaScript is not that declarative. Not in the way SQL is. But also, writing…

Not all functional programming idioms work in all languages. On my computer, the article's imperative range(6000) took 0.05 ms and the "functional" range(6000) took 400 ms. The who…

The way I understood [1] is that even a trivial app (such as a clipboard URL logger) will take longer than 2 hours once you start adding the polish . I don't think that can be refu…

This. I’ve been a Backblaze customer for years. I’m not a backup enthusiast. To me it’s a problem I want to solve and forget about. If I needed to save money on utilities, I’d prob…

Yeah, I suppose this would be acceptable in this instance. But it still repeats x and y, and if x and y were complicated expressions instead of just simple variables, I wouldn't wa…

How about relation chaining, such as with inequalities? Is there some nice S-expression notation for, say, "0 < x ≤ y < 1"? In many programming languages you would have to write "0…

There's a lot of information, data, and software out there that is available to download for free. Yes there are hosting costs, but there are also people and organizations that are…

Indeed. The author's appreciation of Lisp is well known. If he really is convinced by this abstract argument, it would have been nice to know what other weird languages besides Lis…

This is making me wonder if the experience is intentionally so bleak. It reminds me of how nowadays when I do an incognito Google search on my phone, I need three taps just to acce…

I wouldn't say it makes "little sense". Just like we can talk about the year 776 BC even though no one at the time called it that, we can extend the Gregorian calendar backwards to…

Or: "If there is any evidence of a crime on my phone, it was probably planted there by a version of Cellebrite that got infected with a virus when you scanned someone else's phone …

The article says that "it should be pretty straightforward for law enforcement to disprove an accusation about the Cellebrite machine", because they can perform the same extraction…

I might be misunderstanding you, but if you're referring to things such as ζ(2)=π²/6, then that doesn't strike me as a good example of "nothing to do with circles" and "in those pl…

I've always interpreted "under-promise and over-deliver" as being about keeping your promises despite future unknowns. The simplest example I can think of: If you think some task w…

But it’s not enough to steal a blank YubiKey from the office storage room. You would have to steal some specific person’s activated YubiKey, and that person will notice it if they …