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Probably not, given that "terrific" was almost certainly used sarcastically here.

“that code” refers to the body of the loop. Unless the loop is unrolled, yes, there is a branch to exit the loop. But then that doesn’t matter because the whole goal at the beginni…

IIUC 1) It isn’t a matter of literally “pasting into a terminal” (with the terminal emulator shoveling bytes into the TUI’s stdin), rather it’s “a TUI key-binding tells TUI app to …

I've had an upper endoscopy and a colonoscopy, both the same day, and both without anesthesia. If they didn't take a biopsy, it likely shouldn't have been too traumatic, consciousl…

I agree on the commit messages not being ideal, though a bit of by-hand rewording goes a long way. Recently let Claude Code handle some commit history clean up: split a couple comm…

> Do you believe what teachers told you in school? Yes? Nope. At least, not without proof. That would, IMO, be kinda crazy. We could argue semantics - maybe “stupid” would be a bet…

That seems like an odd way to interpret what they wrote. Imagine old school machinists saying to a CNC machinist “Ha! See, maybe you don’t jog the axes manually, but you still have…

People vary in their ability to differentiate colors and sounds. I’d be curious how you’d do on a hue test: https://www.xrite.com/hue-test For me, each colored square is plainly, o…

Slack requires shift+enter to create a new-line, while in JIRA shift+enter creates a new-line instead of new paragraph, creates all sorts of confusing layout issues, and because th…

Nah, I think it’s pretty clear. It would look like a terminal emulator. Just like how Electron looks like a bunch of browser widgets - because it’s literally a single-web-app brows…

I had a colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy (thankfully not in that order) without sedation. Had it done in D.C. My doc looked at me like I was crazy when I asked if it coul…

Not at all. Some things are fundamentally unsafe. mmap is inherently unsafe, but that doesn’t mean a library for it shouldn’t exist. If you’re thinking of higher level libraries, i…

I think they are likely referring to doubly linked lists in Rust, specifically. See, for example: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…

https://bablr.org/ > The next-gen LR parser framework for creating elegant and efficient language tools > BABLR is a new kind of thing that does not quite fit into any category of …

> Any self respecting engineer should recognize that these tools and models only serve to lower the value of your labor. Depends on what the aim of your labor is. Is it typing on a…

Vertical CNC mills and CNC lathes are, obviously, different machines with different use cases. But if you compare within the categories, the designs are almost all conceptually the…

Or you already know all of the details, and you don’t want typing to be the bottleneck to getting things done.

https://vimhelp.org/motion.txt.html#%7B { [count] paragraphs backward. exclusive motion. } [count] paragraphs forward. exclusive motion.

Do you take issue with companies stating that they (the company) built something, instead of stating that their employees built something? Should the architects and senior develope…

Let me rephrase GP into (I hope) a more useful analogy. — actually, here’s the whole analogous exchange: “A rectangle is an equal-sided rectangle (i.e. “square”) though. That’s wha…

You read it that way because that’s the sensible way to read it. Everyone suggesting you missed the plot is in turn making a rather large logical leap.

> These issues would still exist. I just explained why these issues don't apply to the LLM writing and invoking code: again, this is because code can apply successive transformatio…

> Okay....now what function calls or libraries should the API use to write that code? Whatever the most popular library is which provides a client to whatever "thing" (locally runn…

What whoknowsidont is trying to say (IIUC): the models aren't trained on particular MCP use. Yes, the models "know" what MCP is. But the point is that they don't necessarily have M…

> but those that I have used (GitHub, [...]) > Most MCP severs don't sit in between the LLM and the API endpoints [...] Your first example certainly isn't an example of that: https…