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My dream keyboard, if only it could split down the middle for ergonomics :(

Still a few great ones hanging around, like WBER in Rochester: https://wber.org/

I suppose that's also a good point!

Interestingly LLMs are extremely bad at chess position _images_. I have to imagine if you give it positions in text it'd be pretty great but when I was learning chess and pasting i…

I'm coming back to Django after a decade of experience with it post-0.96 and having moved to Next.js a few years ago. Going from 1,700 dependencies to 65 total with Django + Wagtai…

If you build a house from scratch but you didn't mill the lumber, did you build it from scratch? If you make a pizza from scratch but you used canned sauce was it from scratch? Wha…

Agree with pretty much everything you wrote here, I guess with the addendum that LLMs can be a part of the learning experience you're describing. It's as easy as telling the LLM "d…

"I mostly don't look at the crap coming out." This is pretty much my point. I use LLMs to code _and_ to learn. I read everything that comes out. Half of it is wrong or incomplete. …

The latter.

I feel I've upskilled in so many directions (not just "ability to prompt LLMs") since going all in on LLM coding. So many tools, techniques, systems, and new areas of research I'd …

Ah, thanks! Looks like that was long enough ago that my submission didn't auto-redirect me to the existing conversation (which was what I was trying to do, haha).

You should definitely watch Maniac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniac_(miniseries)

I wouldn't let an LLM touch my business's books with a 10 foot pole.

s/haptics/feel

Yeah I think I have the original, and reading this again seems like these new ones are more "touch sensitive". It's a neat idea if they can nail the haptics.

Pretty neat. I have the Clicks keyboard and I just wish the keys weren't so stiff. Too hard to type on, sadly.

I don't know. I would argue that driving experience and reliability are still very much going to be things in the electric car market. I'm an EV9 owner and we have issues w/ the su…

Yep. I certainly wanted an R1S, but ended up in an EV9 due to CarPlay plus huge lease incentives. No regrets, and will probably get another after this lease is up.

Meanwhile, the only thing people really want from Rivian is CarPlay / Android Auto support, lol.

It's funny you mention that because the first thing I thought when viewing this page was "is this a loading state? why is everything grey?".