Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

Post by lenkite » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 3:05 AM UTC

TheRoque wrote: post #130

emodendroket wrote: post #110

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PowerShell is completely suitable. People are just used to bash and don’t feel the incentive to switch, especially with Windows becoming less relevant outside of desktop development.

Powershell feels like it's not built to be used in a practical way, unlike Unix tools that have been built and used by and for developers, which then feels nice because they are actually used a lot, and feel good to use. Like, to set an env variable permanently, you either have to go through 5 GUI interfaces, or use this PS command: [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable ("INCLUDE", $env:INCLUDE, [System.EnvironmentVa…

    [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable($name, $value, "User")

    Set-Item HKCU:\Environment\MY_VAR "some value"

    function setenv($name, $value) {
       [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable($name, $value, "User")
    }

    setenv MY_VAR "some value"

Post by anomaly_ » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 3:20 AM UTC

taurath wrote: post #96

daedrdev wrote: post #73

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Education is not just a funding issues. Policy choices, like making it impossible for students to fail which means they have no incentive to learn anything, can be more impactful.

But holy shit is it also a funding issue when teachers make nothing.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 3:28 AM UTC

michaelmrose wrote: post #131

throwawaylaptop wrote: post #122

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I date a lot of teachers. My last one was in the San Ramon (CA) Valley School district, she makes about $90k a year at 34 years old. Talking to her basically makes me want to homeschool my kids to make sure someone like her isn't their teacher. Paying teachers more won't do ANYTHING until we become a lot more selective about who gets to become and stay a teacher. It can't be like most government jobs where getting it…

There is so much wrong with this. You cannot judge the class of teachers based on a small sample of your taste in women. You didn't actually communicate anything materially wrong with her. You listed a high income area to make us think teachers are overpaid but we have no insight by default into median income in the area or her qualifications. Lastly its entirely impossible to attract better candidates without more m…

Post by cma » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 3:39 AM UTC

emodendroket wrote: post #110

timschmidt wrote: post #27

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Unix CLI utilities have been all text for 50 years. Arguably that is why they are still relevant. Attempts to impose structured data on the paradigm like those in PowerShell have their adherents and can be powerful, but fail when the data doesn't fit the structure. We see similar tendency toward the most general interfaces in "operator mode" and similar the-AI-uses-the-mouse-and-keyboard schemes. It's entirely possib…

PowerShell is completely suitable. People are just used to bash and don’t feel the incentive to switch, especially with Windows becoming less relevant outside of desktop development.

Post by lifthrasiir » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 3:53 AM UTC

AdieuToLogic wrote: post #129

srmatto wrote: post #62

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Here's an old blog post that explores that topic at least with one specific example: https://www.loper-os.org/?p=861 The gist is that keyboards are optimized for ease of use but that there could be other designs which would be harder to learn but might be more efficient.

>> There's a reason keyboards haven't changed much since the 1860s when typewriters were invented. > The gist is that keyboards are optimized for ease of use but that there could be other designs which would be harder to learn but might be more efficient. Here's a relevant trivia question; assuming a person has two hands with five digits each, what is the largest number they can count to using only same? Answer: (2 *…