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I have a number of 3d printed peripherals, including two Ploopy devices. Nothing seems out of the ordinary to me quality wise.

Right, because x + " " + y is more clear than of simply f"{x} {y}".

Been using python for longer than 10 years and immediately started using f-strings when I could. It takes almost no time to understand the basics.

I’ve used it daily almost since it was released without any real issues. But I generally do not run too many extensions or probably push the limits of my browsers.

For me, Orion’s vertical tabs are the best out of the box of all the browsers I’ve tried since I prefer their arbitrary nesting.

Huh, I’ve never once had a problem with multiple monitors and macs over the last 15 years. But at most I’m running two monitors.

It’s a pretty literal description of what he did. If techbro bosses don’t want to get butthurt over being called out for douchey behaviour, maybe they shouldn’t engage in douchey behaviour?

Almost none of these tech leaders deserve their station except by virtue of luck or often borderline sociopathic tendencies. To flaunt it so egregiously is a bit over the top.

Or maybe there’s just not that many good studies, period?

A lot of them barely rise above the level of collected anecdote, nor explore long term or more elusive factors (such as cross-system entropy). They’re also targeting an area that is fairly difficult to measure and control for.

A substance can have pharmacological effects and still not be recommended for therapeutic use. As a hyperbolic example, suppose a substance relieved all pain for 1% of the population but caused death in everyone else. Even with a highly precise screening process this substance likely would not be administered in medicinal contexts.

2016 already puts one far into the AI explosion. The current hype cycle, with LLMs as a service at the forefront, arguably makes python less relevant than in it was in the mid 2010’s. The current crop of “AI Engineers” can use whatever languages they want for the most part. In 2016 most practitioners were leveraging a lot more of the standard scientific computing frameworks afforded by python.

You think you are “nailing it” but also lack the background to even determine whether that is the case. I can assure you, there’s likely some fundamental flaws in what you’re vibing.

Just think about the type of code these things are trained on and the fact you’re clearly some random non-specialist.

I’ve always maintained my own configs for (neo)vim. The only area where I prefer vimscript is with certain incantations for which there are no lua-based alternatives. And those are increasingly rare.

Authoring plugins is a lot more attractive in lua, imho.

The existence of a repeat or “magic” key is one of the more interesting developments alternative keyboard layouts designs. The use case is slightly different of course.

But as an extremely heavy user of vim repeat and macros for the last two decades, it strikes me as a wee bit audacious to so completely dismiss its utility.

What’s the dev experience actually like for serious Lua? I’ve only used it for some basic neovim configuration. The dynamicism and lack of type hinting in Python that was the norm when I started having to review professional code, after transitioning from pure mathematics, was a major cognitive blocker for me. With a math paper I could typically skim the first few pages to map the author’s particular symbology (if non-standard) and know exactly what was being expressed. I could never do that with untyped code.

As a mathematician and also someone who has programmed for quite awhile I think any programmatic formalism will fail at inculcating the underlying understating. My bias of course is that I learned mathematical concepts via academic papers.

I just feel that the overhead code presents is massive, since it often does not adhere to any semblance of style. I say say this as someone who has had to parse through other’s mathematical papers that were deemed incomprehensible. Code is 10x worse since there are virtually no standards with regards to comprehensibility.

Just an anecdote but I was with my young child in GG park not too long ago and perhaps 50 meters from the artierial road encountered a homeless guy brandishing an axe. This in in a spot that routinely fields families.

Despite my familiarity with Lua, my mind originally went to the Yuan-ti.

I encounter some bogus undocumented password constraints probably half the time I create an account. Usually it is a maximal length requirement that is not mentioned in the error message.

Don’t defend these idiotic practices.

I’d caution against trying to project too much.

The portability is almost equivalent to the form factor itself, in many cases.

To the point you’re responding to, I can actually think of numerous scenarios where my phone is the preferred device to “send texts.” This activity is not simply the single dimension of “length.”

Your intuition is right. One would say “will have to bake their own bread at home”.

Do you have any stats to support this is some “huge movement” relative to whatever is considered standard practice? I ask this as an honest question since I’d never heard of the phenomenon, but am not steeped in OSS dev work by any means.

It’s a bit more nuanced. An individual practitioner might not have malicious intent, but the industry itself could largely be fraudulent. Take for example a well meaning physic or purveyor of some pseudoscientific medical modality. The very existence and promotion of ineffective alternatives scams society as a whole, since the general public and by extension free markets are notoriously terrible at evaluating efficacy.

This depends heavily on your workflow. For example I use vim almost exclusively for editing files, and drop back into the shell to use external tools (e.g., git, linters, formatters, debuggers, file tree manipulation, etc.) So my terminal emulator is already the main application. For this workflow the lack of a dedicated GUI is almost immaterial.

Scientific progress almost always presents as series of iterations, not punctuated breakthroughs. Moreover, many significant advances appear nearly simultaneously. This tends to suggest a measured progress, though obviously still largely unpredictable at any scale.

I don’t see why AGI would follow a different course, one where we are “just some breakthrough away”. Especially not given the current state of the field.

Personally I’d wager neuromorphic computing is the prime candidate to yield AGI.

I have the opposite experience with ligatures owning to years reading academic mathematics papers before coding seriously. I can still parse semantically dense symbology significantly faster than most code (even with years of experience) to the point where code seems almost comically inefficient. That said, I know many programmers take the implicit context intrinsic to mathematics symbology as often times an inexplicable cognitive load.

So “has died” is such a diversion. He was killed.

This is literally the type of confirmation bias people use to justify taking supplements that have no plausible mechanism of working. Congratulations.

For good reason. Fucking troll.

“Leach out so well”. Sounds like you never read the studies around how it leaches, lol.

It’s exceeding easy to cook eggs on stainless steel or cast iron. If it’s a compelling reason to stick to Teflon this implies to me you’ve never bothered to spend 5 minutes learning to cook eggs on these substrates.

Fivetran is so massively overpriced for the service they provide.

Damn near unusable of mobile. Cool.