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I can't pretend to know how things work internally, but I would expect it to be involved in model updates.

Every time claude code runs tests or builds after a change, it's collecting training data.

I too enjoy the charm TUI libraries, and have been using them to build a settlers of Catan game[0]. And some features are really cool, like different colors depending on dark/light theme.

They have a bunch of functions that concatenate strings, which may not be very efficient compared to using string.builders, but I haven't yet had performance problems.

However I haven't had such a great experience with AI, IMO they're bad at ASCII art.

[0] https://sr.ht/~vicho/el_poblador/

From the Readme

I made some progress with hyprland using a set of Guile bindings I developed called hypripc, but I found that Hyprland isn’t as stable as Sway.

The HN crowd probably knows that understanding maths concepts is a very rewarding experience. It is also very useful for $Nth grade, because it allows you to apply the principles to different problems than the ones you've seen solved.

However, if you try teaching a "bad at maths" kid how to solve a quadratic equation, explaining how to factorize and why it works is a bad strategy. They _prefer_ using the formula IME. They don't want to understand the concepts, they want to pass their exams, and rote memorizing the formula is a faster/more reliable way to do it.

I'll admit that maybe I'm just a bad teacher. After all, I'm not a teacher, I'm a CS grad who has done some teaching.

But think of the average class, with 40 students. The teacher needs all of them to learn to perform some tasks. He'll choose the one-size-fits all solution, even if it's less beautiful, less motivating for the kids that find maths to be fun.

I'm not saying we should go back to having schools for "gifted kids". They have well-documented problems, and I'm not at all qualified to pick one side of the tradeoff. All I'm saying is that boring biology classes are there for a reason, not just teachers without passion.

Wanting someone who will stay for the long haul makes sense, but it leaves me as an unemployed engineer with two options:

- Stay unemployed until I find a job that seems interesting enough to work there for years. Apply, get rejected because companies don't like hiring unemployed people.

- Get a job that I don't like, then be constantly on the lookout for an opportunity to leave. Get rejected because I haven't been on my job for long enough.

What should I do?

Is VSCode really all that "controlled by Microsoft"?

Yep. VSCode "core" is open source, but many of the official extensions aren't (Python, C#, Live Share, Dev Containers IIRC). Besides, accessing the extension marketplace from a non-official vscode build is against their terms of service, meaning forks like vscodium don't have easy access to most extensions.

hard to imagine an "AI girlfriend" that could be similarly short-term and bring positive changes.

Feeling lonely has negative consequences, there's a famous study comparing it to smoking cigarettes. Lonely people can get fixated on that feeling. Mitigating it may help people look for other hobbies, that they kept putting off because they were so focused on their need of a girlfriend.

Hell, a realistic enough "woman AI" (not "girlfriend AI") could make you lose the fear of flirting, be useful as practice, to have more confidence when you have a real date.

the most profitable way to run such a product is not to help, it's to eat up as much user time as possible

If you charge per-month (like OP), it's more profitable is to eat up less time.

Talent and experience are not the same thing, and I would say experience is a lot more correlated to demand of talent than to supply of it. More demand means more opportunities to get experience.

I believe that's not what they're saying. It's signing hardware, like a camera that signs every picture you take, so not even you can tamper with it without invalidating that signature. Naively, then, a signed picture would be proof that it was a real picture taken of a real thing. What GP is saying is that people would inevitably get the keys from the cameras, and then the whole thing would be pointless.

They already listed foveated rendering in the features (which I believe is what you're describing). It use the graphics performance budget efficiently, but it can't physically add more pixels.

It's really cool technology anyway, and according to PSVR2 reviews, it seems to work well.

Highway inevitability is a fallacy. They could've built a railway.

But does rerouting traffic through other bypasses actually alleviate traffic?

Motorways and bypasses generate traffic, that is, produce extra traffic, partly by inducing people to travel who would not otherwise have done so by making the new route more convenient than the old, partly by people who go out of their direct route to enjoy the greater convenience of the new road, and partly by people who use the towns bypassed because they are more convenient for shopping and visits when through traffic has been removed

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

the workers coned off the bike path

Why didn't the workers cone off a lane from the street to make space for the bikes? Cars usually have easier alternatives, they can just take another lane.

EDIT: But anyway, the real viable alternative to cars is probably not bikes, it's trains and buses.

https://notco.com/ makes vegan alternatives to meat-based products, with an AI creating the recipes. Not exactly what you're looking for, but close enough I think.

but that'll be much harder for me to remember than :set number

You could also do Ctrl+P on VSCode (or Ctrl+Shift+A on a Jetbrains IDE) and search for "line number". Command based interfaces are no longer unique to CLI tools.

It's easy to feel thankful to Wikipedia, motivating you to donate.

My guess is that parent's family members aren't using Alpine, so they don't have this problem.

Maybe if Mozilla had just forked Chromium in ~2015, its market share wouldn't have gotten as low as it is right now.

I've told some people to switch to Firefox. A lot of them switch back to Chrome after a while, simply because it's faster.

Despite the name, it originated in Canada, you'd expect it to be normal there.

Article agrees, check out the picture at the end. It has "many to one" listed as a relational strength.

This sounds like a design choice that was made decades ago and permeated everything else in Linux. I don't think it's changeable at this point, if they wanted to.

But Visual Studio 2019 is available for mac.

Very comfortable pydantic integration. This gives you Swagger docs and type checking for free.

I've never actually used starlette directly, but it doesn't sound very ergonomic

Because (1) no one else can and (2) after a ransomware attack, they get the blame.

Facebook could start fighting back against Apple by giving influencers with Android more visibility, or worsening React Native on iOS. I wonder how much of an effect it would have.

Apple is already screwing over Facebook (look at the features in iOS 15), which is why they could consider doing this.

Because she won't back up her files, and if she gets ransomware she'll lose them. But if she has a Microsoft account, they'll be on OneDrive. Which she would never have set up if it wasn't for Microsoft's nagging.

how can you trust more a system from Google than a system you build yourself?

You have never built a system yourself. Neither has Google, for that matter, but they've gotten closer than you. The amount of code that runs on the average modern computer is probably too much to be read in a lifetime.

You can't do programming in the browser

But you can on a Chromebook because you can use the Linux underneath.

Also, if internet doesn't work you are basically screwed, what do you do? Stare at the screen and play with the dinosaur game?

You use the apps you have installed. I don't actually have a chromebook, but try to argue in good faith

There are competitors: The Linux phones (pinephone, librem). In fact, privacy has been one of the selling points of desktop Linux forever. The problem is it doesn't sell, or at least it hasn't till now.

This is what Apple is trying to change, basically convince people (through ads) that they need to care about their privacy, because they know it's a competitive advantage they have when compared to the other big companies.

Epic can sell one game that is empty and make every actual game DLC

That would make the "empty" app qualify as a general-purpose computer and therefore break Apple's ToS.

Oh, and if the app mentioned the possibility of going to the website, that would also break Apple's ToS.