keithnz

100% - I want to use whatever pager I might prefer at the moment, this advice violates their core principle "you make programs that are modular enough to be recombined as needed"

I get claude to use my voice when making emails, works out pretty well.

I find this kind of thing too limited and you can't do much with it. I like to take problems from our domain. We work with all kinds of measurement data for agriculture / mining / utilities, I'll usually work through the problem of coming up with an alarm/alert system given a timeseries. It has relatively straight forward programming problems like simple on off threshold alerting and more complex issues like making predictors to decide when to irrigate for example. Depending on the level of the person we can do different things, talk about our domain and some of the problems in that domain. So we can go through specifying things, making design decisions, implementing an interesting aspect (usually not too complex with limited scope), next steps to build the system out, how to validate, logging, etc, feeling out how they'd approach making it production ready basically.

just get ai to generate mermaid, it's super competent at doing it, you don't really need any other tools.

thanks! Now having seen the video, certainly not as cool as it sounds.

I built some scripts to do something similar but all local. It also live updates the document so you can see changes come through. Super useful

seems odd to me also. I thought tech people would adapt and embrace (and many do!) but I'm surprised by a lot of responses on HN in the last year or so in relation to AI. Lots of quite negative takes. There is of course downsides, but this seems it is more just being cynical to be cynical.

I feel like for photos you are better off getting them done via a print service anyways, they are pretty cheap and have much better hardware

Personally I love people being excited about tech, and people who were really limited in what they could do being able to do really cool things with AI and doing all kinds of weird things with it. I find the attitude in the article really unappealing, they want to poo poo on peoples excitement over what they can do now. Try and make out its all "boring" etc, but its the cusp of quite a big change in how we interact with computers and the thing we need the most right now is people who are imagining what we can do with it. Feel free to go back to your smoking or whatever, find other grumpy cynics to complain about everything and anything while pretending you are somehow having a better conversation.

yeah, I have a cheap brother laser printer, I don't print that much, but it's been solid for several years. I did have an HP, but it was incredibly problematic, would jam rather easily. Works fine under linux as well.

not sure what it offers? potentially you might not of heard of whichkey? Also, given how little is in the repo, not quite sure why you think this is worth showing on HN?

this isn't an appropriate response on HN, please read the guidelines on how to conduct yourself https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Looking for slavery, it comes up with Leviticus 25:46-49 but misses the context that starts at verse 44.

This just reaffirms my view is that big companies will lose headcount because of AI, but small and medium companies will (or at least have the potential to) leverage AI to do bigger and better things. This is because big companies could always spend big money on getting what they want made while small companies always have to tradeoff what they can realistically do with the resources they have.

was about to comment similar things! PID is relatively straightforward to tune. Also a lot of the time you just need a PI controller. D can be problematic depending on what noise you have.

what? no? people generally loved, especially with the likes of frog in a blender...

for the younguns https://archive.org/details/joe-cartoon-frog-blender#

a lot of the compatibility stuff on Linux runs windows software, so that's usually not a huge blocker. Having recently switched to Linux as my main (used to run it in a VM) the real issues are all these things that don't quite work out of the box (different distros might get different results). For instance my audio when playing dota2 would randomly cut out and not return when using discord. It took a bunch of fiddling around to get both to work. Then there's weird compatibility things depending on choices you make, for instance, I used RustDesk a lot in windows. But it doesn't really work well in linux with wayland. So while my overall experience is Linux is pretty good... I'm now in a world where I can end up with all kinds of random issues, all likely solvable, but all likely semi unique to my setup.

no, and this shows you haven't really used it, prompts are useless, access to context is what matters. It's because I have access to things that others don't that make the difference, prompts are useless unless you are accessing public information. What you and others are missing is the results are highly valuable to the recipient, assuming AI responses are garbage is just silly these days, people need to get over their obsession with "AI slop", because it isn't.

from what I can tell, you dont have to wear it?

? you missed the point, ironically showing the problem with human responses :) humans are super bad at providing information, they concentrate on singular things, especially if they think they have a point / suspect they know what the problem is, but if they are wrong their response doesn't have enough to go on, so you have back and forth.

depending on actual conditions you are in, it could potentially double (or more) the time before you die of thirst if it was your only source of water.

More and more I'm generating AI emails, often to people outside the company and often to do with technical issues / integrations we have / APIs. So far I don't think the people I'm emailing are really using AI as human responses are, well, lacking. What would be great is new email conventions for different communication pathways.

  Human -> Human (think we have this sorted)
  AI -> Human
  AI -> AI

For AI -> AI you kind of want a hand over document as an attachment to an email. Only thing here is making sure there's no injection of security risks. But quite often instead of getting a human response to my AI generated emails, it would actually be nicer to hear from their AI which could give a better context/details. It would be really nice to be able to go, can you have your AI talk to my AI :) (security is a major issue here)

isn't this relying on properties that aren't proven about pi? it needs to be disjunctive or normal, and neither of those are proven

the real risk is using it at all as you are already sending them your data. If you are ok with that, then this retention/review seems ok.

you might enjoy having a read of HN guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The irony of an article that makes a false claim about what Google was found liable for.... and that very few are fact checking it :)

The law they broke was a law protecting personal and business reputation against false statements of fact. Essentially no one can say I might be wrong, check yourself, but X is Y if that claim is essentially defamatory.

This is pretty good, I hope googles approach is to make sure they don't end up making statements of fact like they did and use more appropriate wording like according to X.... with direct disclaimer that they can't verify it. Even better that they look court documents to find any legal ruling and point people to that too.

it used to be a hardware thing, so if your pixels were represented by a nibble, and the definition of the color for each of the 16 possible value is in table the hardware references, you just update that table (on a vsync, or even an hsync) and you could get cool animations effects (for the time)

random example from the Atari 800xl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPjLZ4MVKCc (you can see how slow it is to draw a scene, but the animation effect due to pallete rotation is really fast).

autocomplete isn't "exact", so it does have in its suggestions things that don't exactly always make sense, but it does list things by what is contextually relevant. It has a basic understanding of sql syntax such it will suggest potential keywords next, it introspects things like tablenames so they are available in spots where a tablename would be relevant, and if it has tables it will introspect them to get fieldname, and any named things like x as y will also become suggestions within the context of the query you are working on. This results in mostly correct suggestions. However it generally always has the suggestion you want, it works really well with field names / table names, which mainly what I wanted, and very basic with sql syntax (which I normally don't need any help with other than relevant keyword completion)

thing is, he didn't accept the limitations, he categorically cut off his "Dream". The whole point is, if you are going to super rigid about the criteria of your "dream" then you are likely going to be defeated by all kinds of hurdles. You need to adapt. If at the first hurdle you give up, then likely it's just a whimsical fantasy, not something you seriously wanted in your life. To me, it's not rude. It is ok to give up on things like that if it's not really seriously what you want. Which is essentially what he is saying. I'm saying not to confuse it with the dreams that the commenter above is saying, things that he seriously wants to be part of his life. Not whimsical fantasy. For that, pursue it, adapt, change, find solutions, don't be rigid. Hence the problem with the term "Dream"

I wrote a tui sql client to replace DataGrip (which is really slow). https://github.com/keithn/sql It's quite customized to what I wanted, I haven't really checked it works with other things.... only thing is, I don't really use it much anymore, I just get claude to do all my querying.

Most of the tools I write now are bridges to various SaaS products that have APIs but no CLIs.