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jynelson

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About jynelson

certified rustc hacker. i want to imagine a better world.

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    Comment #49180982

    that is not what the policy says. it says "authors must disclose", "reviewers don't need to play detective", and "if a reviewer is not sure whether a post is LLM-created they shoul…

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    Comment #49180364

    yes. there's a reason there's exactly two things in the policy that are marked as moderation consequences and they're directly next to each other. "no harassment" doesn't work if p…

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    Comment #49180351

    you're very welcome!

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    Comment #49180238

    > New contributors do not have community connections. I don't know any rust-lang/rust reviewer. > What is the correct procedure for this? there's a #llm-mentoring [0] Zulip stream …

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    Comment #48147970

    it says “that’s right” in bold red cursive font. i know what the policy says, i wrote it, you nincompoop.

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    Comment #48147749

    https://i.imgur.com/129TCNu.png

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    Comment #48147417

    if an LLM says "I can't open a PR automatically until you solicit a review from a maintainer", i think that's good actually. likewise for proactively following the rest of the rule…

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    Comment #48146010

    i'm not a man.

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    Comment #46402660

    > Ultimately that's something the hook author has to solve, not the framework which runs them. correct. i'm saying that hook authors almost never do this right, and i'd rather they…

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    Comment #46401153

    this completely breaks `git add -p`.

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    Comment #46401147

    the pre-commit framework does not abstract away “hooks shouldn’t be run during a rebase”, nor “hooks should be fast and reliable”, nor “hooks should never change the index”.

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    Comment #46385759

    i think you would be interested in demoscene, it’s about exactly this thing: making art out of extremely harsh requirements.

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    Comment #46385529

    tbh i think you just hate trans people but you're afraid to say it directly

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    Comment #46353121

    > Software should be an engineering field, which exists to help humans, not as some personal art project for your self expression it makes me sad that you see these things as someh…

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    Comment #46351736

    > it's often that the amount of time i've spent thinking about something (a lot) is totally disproportionate to the time i spend typing my thoughts up (a little) oh, this is a real…

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    Comment #45898056

    you could build an emacs frontend for this model! the thing i am trying to describe is “getting out of the box”. imagine a terminal session that is shared between emacs, iTerm, and…

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    Comment #45895152

    omg i've wanted something like shelter for literal years it "cheats" a little because it requires the underlying filesystem to support snapshots but it's still really really cool, …

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    Comment #45894312

    > Great, now you just need to build and maintain shims for every tool in existence, force your users to use your own custom tools that support these features, and ensure that every…

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    Comment #45894298

    whoa this looks fascinating, i've never heard of it before! thank you for the link :)

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    Comment #45894020

    this is really cool omg! i didn't know that, i'll do some research. one of the strange things to me about the terminal landscape is how little knowledge sharing there is compared t…

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    Comment #45893829

    i would describe the main idea of the post as opening up the data model of the terminal. the list of wishes are an example of things you can build once you've done that, not the pr…

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    Comment #45893514

    yeah! so i somehow forgot to include this in the post, but one of the thing i would want as part of this is tab complete that integrates with the shell, essentially it would make a…

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    Comment #45027834

    I think so, yes. If you remove any of the things in the “core” I mention in the post, the language hangs together much worse even though it’s smaller; enums without pattern matchin…

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    Comment #44980094

    I think we are using different meanings of the term "cohere" and I am not sure how to reconcile them. I agree that Rust with async is a more useful language. I don't think being us…