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This is one of the things Combobulate [0] tries to solve by using the output of tree-sitter. Simple breadcrumbs are easy enough to do (your cursor has a clear parental lineage) but…

I love RSS but what I love more than RSS are people who blog about stuff: high concept stuff, day-to-day stuff and just what they did yesterday. I wish people would blog more like …

I think it should look like this: https://www.dreamcoder.ai/ A smart, tiling window manager with workspaces and a great tool harness. An everything app, if you may; bring the termi…

Yeah but my idea was more about mobiles handing out quests or answering simple questions maybe about what they do. the dungeon gpt thing was a bit more organic.

I miss MUDs. My old MUD went through a rename, a fork, and what have you --- but it's limping on, though with few playing it. The cost of hosting these things are so cheap today th…

That's lovely. I look forward to seeing your autoconf and GNU Make replacement in MAUDE SYSTEM.

So you don't like using programming languages as config languages, so you: 1. Use a declarative-style format for config, which is fine, I guess; 2. ... and when that inevitably fai…

Your... solution to bad ETL data is to go "let's keep it this way"? You can already "store whatever you want" in a serious database that respects types by default. It's called a bl…

That's just another word for priority queueing.

Who would trust the classifiers, though? I would not. A team of professionals will trust a gateway they built themselves -- by an AI, most likely, as that is boring work -- that wo…

I find the value of someone steering an AI session to be practically nil for nearly everything. Nobody wonders out loud how a senior developer arrives at the result he does without…

Because SAX parsing is a thing, and the visitor pattern makes it easy to elide searches in sub-trees if an attribute does not match. So if name == "foobar" then read; else ignore. …

XML is unfairly maligned. Yes, people bought into it too much 26 years ago, but then you would too if you had to maintain someone else's massive packed struct dumped into a file an…

But people do 3d print frames for drones and gliders. It's undoubtedly worse than carbon fibre, I guess, but I found it interesting enough to share that you can buy especially ligh…

The same way other databases do it. With join mechanics and proper query planning. You're confusing functionality with implementation.

Fair --- but I feel my criticism stands. It's awful. Don't get me started on 80% of all deployment uses of neo4j...

They're a cool feature but honestly a bit tricky to use well, IMHO. And be careful with PII lingering in a temporal void somewhere for a long time :-)

These things exist to eliminate the risk of ever serving stale information from a materialised view. I.e., their benefit is political/reputational as much as they are technical in …

I mean I don't disagree with you, but they did just add a graph database feature, which is about as orthogonal to relational database design as you can get.

The graph database feature looks interesting, but I wonder... SELECT customer_name FROM GRAPH_TABLE (myshop MATCH (c IS customers)-[IS customer_orders]->(o IS orders WHERE o.ordere…

Oh no doubt. I'm no drone expert!

You know you're doing a great job, OP, when the peanut gallery here has nothing more substantial to add than to critique your em-dashes; greek-latin root word mix-ups despite the c…

Because numa topology is an optimisation problem with a wide solution space, and that its configuration and setup depends on the amount of physical cpus and cores; how the RAM is c…

This is a really cool project. And it's so small, too, when you consider what it unlocks and the opportunities it creates. Really awesome!