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If you are like me (same vim, python, no LLM, no autocompletion, no syntax highlighting noise), LSP will make you a better developer: it makes navigating the codebase MUCH easier, including stdlib and 3rd party dependencies.

As a result, you don't lose flow and end up reading considerably more code than you would have otherwise.

Re:(Recommendation Systems and Search) × LLMs on Sunday March 23, 2025 @06:41AM (#43452088)
> Spotify saw a 9% increase in exploratory intent queries, a 30% rise in maximum query length per user, and a 10% increase in average query length—this suggests the query recommendation updates helped users express more complex intents

To me it's not clear that it should be interpreted as an improvement: what I read in this summary is that users had to search more and to enter longer queries to get to what they needed.

Re:Third Time: a better way to work (2022) on Saturday May 18, 2024 @01:00PM (#40400347)
After reading the title I was hoping to find something about third time, same as third space: time that's neither work nor rest. That would be something!
also https://github.com/umap-project/umap/ found it quite handy for personal needs: importing geojson, curating info via custom properties, visualizing it using map marker tooltip templates, exporting gpx and using it in OsmAnd on my phone
Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @08:24AM (#37927616)
Streaming is very different from radio: https://thebaffler.com/downstream/big-mood-machine-pelly When I pay for music I don't want harvesting of my listening habits to be part of the price.
Re:The Opt Out Project on Saturday June 10, 2023 @09:01AM (#36270092)
personal (as opposed to corporate) computing
Re:Programming breakthroughs we need on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @11:15AM (#32497489)
Re:Ask HN: What do you use to build auth? on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @02:23PM (#31923877)
also password policies, account takeover detection/prevention, user device/session list management