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Lots of praise for Pi in this thread, so I'll offer up a diverging opinion. Given all the hype, I was a bit underwhelmed by Pi. It definitely has some good ideas around customizati…

You can do that in Copilot in VSCode. There’s a fork icon before every message that creates a new session from that point. The relationships are not maintained in a tree though (no…

Ah, ok. Visibility into subagents makes perfect sense. From the "reddit-style" description I was imagining something where the user was conversing non-linearly with the agent at di…

Can you go more in depth on why LLM conversations should branch reddit-style? That doesn't seem immediately clear to me, and I'd be afraid that the different branches would step on…

What do you use for hosting the PWAs?

Jevons paradox starts with some resource being used more efficiently. A classic example could be coal. The first steam engines used a ton of coal, but over time more efficient stea…

From the article: > Jevons Paradox: when something gets cheaper, you tend to use more of it, not less. That's a butchering of Jevons paradox. What's stated is not a paradox, but a …

Sorry if this is a basic question, but what's you workflow for feeding the papers into the LLM and getting the implementation done? The coding agents that I've used are not able to…

I completely agree with the points in this article and have come to the same conclusion after using languages that default to unary curried functions. > I'd also love to hear if yo…

> Local-first was the first kind of app. Way up into the 2000s, you'd use your local excel/word/etc, and the sync mechanism was calling your file annual_accounts_final_v3_amend_v5_…

I never understood why people are so keen to do that in TypeScript. With that definition a `UserID` can still be silently "coerced" to a `string` everywhere. So you only get halfwa…

Yes, absolutely. I did programming competitions back in high-school (around 10 years ago) and common folklore was that back in the days knowing dynamic programming could win you a …

> I guess Google’s years of experience led to the conclusion that, for software development to scale, a simple type system, GC, and wicked fast compilation speed are more important…

> A quick Google search with "flutter setstate is not refreshing" reveals a struggle that you will face quite often when running Flutter. It sounds like an easy fix, but the nature…

How often do you break your phone that you've save sooo much? Mine is at least 2 years older (I got it 2 years before the Fairphone 4 was released) and I've spend 0$ dollars repair…

RAID is not backup, but in some circumstances it's better than a backup. If you don't have RAID and your disk dies you need to replace it ASAP and you've lost all changes since you…

I was a bit confused by the remark that comptime is referentially transparent. I'm familiar with the term as it's used in functional programming to mean that an expression can be r…

This is honestly really cool! I've heard praises about Zig's comptime without really understanding what makes it tick. It initially sounds like Rust's constant evaluation which is …

> I'm not very familiar with these relations, but shouldn't function returns be covariant? `String => Cat` is a subtype of `String => Animal`? You're right :) I mixed up covariance…

> Wait, if I recall correctly, covariance has long been established as a mistake. Perhaps you're just missing some words here, but, just for clarity: it doesn't make any sense to s…

Correct me if I'm wrong, but neither vertical tabs nor tab groups are fully ready and shipped. From a quick search, it seems that you need to make edits in `about:config` to enable…

My understanding is that it will be much harder as ARM is way less standardized than the Intel x86 platform. This is something that Linus Thorvalds has talked about in the past [1]…

Absolutely. I did a little bit of iOS development at some point and was genuinely shocked by how bad the documentation was and by how often WWDC videos was the best documentation a…