jrimbault

Having designed a good number of internal tools for teams of developers I couldn't agree more.

Earlier I had the tendency to "leave the guts" open, thinking my users were developers and would want that. All it did was put obstacles in my teammates actually doing their work. My teammates must use the tools I made for them to achieve work the company needs them to do, they don't want, nor should they want to, fiddle with a little tool they won't find anywhere else.

I still leave a lot of escape hatches, but I try to design the internal tools in such way as to make the users fall into a pit of success.

Edit: also, error messages, error messages, error messages and auto suggestions for common errors

Edit 2: also the number of people only addressing the examples in the post rather than the spirit of the post is... disappointing.

I love how new people keep discovering Ian's website (cf the xkcd 1053). It's a really well made website, the pictures and animations are very well chosen to explain knots and lacing.

I notice how the title by Ars Technica is much less baity than Nature: "Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?" vs "Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?"

Note that for little while now lazy iterators have been available:

- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

- Array.prototype.values https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

This addresses a few criticisms here, and the main criticisms I had.

Cheekily, might not the "purist" want a "pot-au-feu" ? (i have a sincere dislike of purity talk, especially in cookery)

The article mentions it, but doesn't disprove it.

Of course, there is indeed no shame. There is also no pride.

But there's is "pride" in making tools people actually use without issue

Couldn't you have used a subdomain "ai.mozilla.org" rather than a new tld? I'm guessing some marketing executives got involved?

I saw that, but anyone can link to anything. Luckily on mozilla.org there's a link to mozilla.ai, so that legitimizes it a bit. But that is not obvious.

Sorry, dumb question: is "mozilla.ai" related to "mozilla.org" and to the larger Mozilla organization? Because changing the tld makes this actually non-obvious. I see "mozilla.ai" and I think "someone is trying to phish".

Except a lot of actual, very smart, economists are for UBI or similar arrangements (it's not a settled matter). And geohot might be smart, but he's just a self described hacker.

If we're going to use authority arguments.

In C this kind of issue is so common it wouldn't raise to the status of "CVE". People would just shrug and say "git gud".

When the "classics" were decided to be "the classics" (by who? why? on what authority?) a lot of them were newer than Mickey Mouse is today.

The quotes aren't in the original title:

Two US marines implicated in killing family in notorious Iraq war shooting, expert tells BBC

I used to.

Thanks for the first link it's really fun game :)

I've been playing lots on OGS (with my friend in particular), under my pseudonym erelde

I've been quite taken with Go these last few months and I wish the western world had more skilled players. The Asian servers do not do much (if any) i18n, they don't need to, they aren't many players outside Asia.

I've been fortunate that one of my high school friends is a 4 dan EGF player and that he has taken lots of time to play with me and teach me. But I can see other beginners struggling with the basics because they're only playing other low-skilled players.

I wish the western world paid Go more attention, it's a beautiful game with a really nice balance.

I've been writing code (and prose) with 3 vertical rulers for almost 10 years now: 66, 80 and 120 characters each. None of them are hard limits for me. But they do help guide my eye.

Most lines fit under 66. A lot more than 50%, even code written by other people. I'd say most lines also fit under 80, and very rarely do lines actually cross 120.

Yep, I looked it up a few hours after, different branches in the evolution of ML. Still weird to dismiss AlphaZero as just "playing games".

This meant that while Google was playing games, OpenAI was able to seize the opportunity of a lifetime. What you train on matters.

Very weird reasoning. Without AlphaGo, AlphaZero, there's probably no GPT ? Each were a stepping stone weren't they?

Wild to learn this is the same company selling MSG (mono sodium glutamate) and build up film

- https://www.ajinomoto.com/innovation/our_innovation/buildupf...

- https://www.ajinomoto.com/brands/aji-no-moto

I meant "empty" of actual information. I'll guess there'll be more on the date. But for now that's just weird and suspect, trying to raise hype for a security related announcement ? weird and suspect

Nothing to talk about, empty big black scary page.

FYI, maybe for you and other readers. My key to really understanding clap's derive macro was to understand that the macros takes as argument every methods of clap's Command struct https://docs.rs/clap/latest/clap/struct.Command.html

Looking at this resolved most of my issues about discoverability.

A routine gesture I've done everyday for almost all my life: getting a glass out of the shelves and into my left hand. It seems like a no brainer, I open the cabinet with my left hand, take the glass with my right hand, throw the glass from my right hand to the left hand while closing the cabinet with my shoulder. Put the glass under the faucet with left hand, open the faucet with the right hand.

I have done this 3 seconds gesture, and variations of it, my whole life basically, and never noticed I was throwing the glass from one hand to the other without any visual feedback.

I find this article from the New Yorker to satisfy my own intellectual curiosity. I think that's the wording in the guidelines on what to submit on this site.

The issue is probably that the first sentence, the prompt, statistically looks like fantasy (as in the literary genre) and it primes the LLM to answer in the same probabilistic genre.

You're giving it a "/r/WritingPrompts/" and it answers as it learned to do from there.

From what I understand the gloves are only used on case-by-case basis. For some items they are more damaging than the oils from our (washed and dried) hands.

What about the not-LLMs works?

I know barely anything about it but it seems some people are interested and excited about protein engineering powered by neural networks.

Not a couple of sentences

CppCon 2017: Matt Kulukundis “Designing a Fast, Efficient, Cache-friendly Hash Table, Step by Step” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHmEUmJZf4

I wonder if the feature could be added to serde itself and gated behind a feature flag.