looshch

such a wonderful advice, this resonates a lot with me. I know i would ignore it when i needed to hear it though

i used to always use proper em- and en-dashes because i care about typography, now i force myself to use a regular dash whenever even the assumption i used ai for what i wrote may impact me negatively

We tried a few different approaches to improve this UX

how about acknowledging that you fucked up your own customers’ money and making a full refund for the affected period?

Educating users on X/social

that is beyond me

ты не Борис, ты максимум борька

completely off-topic, but i love the fact that this blog has the exact shade of black for the background as my site loosh.ch. Guess we both took it from some of the Google product’s night theme

This has long been the argument for a male-only draft. One woman can make 1-2 babies every 9 months on average. It is difficult and expensive to speed that up; you can implant quadruplets and induce labor at six months, but that introduces all sorts of other problems. Sperm is much easier to obtain.

this argument is detached from ukrainian realities. Can ≠ will. Also have you checked the birth rate? Do you expect it to grow in a post-war context?

Women, if too many men die in the war

so who will then raise these 1-2 babies every 9 months on average? If women need to replace men in the workforce, first they need to go through education and training. Along with having children, it’s incredibly hard to accomplish

Women entered the workforce in large numbers for the first time. Plenty of precedent for this sort of shift

in the same sentence you say ‘for the first time’ and then ‘Plenty of precedent’. You either have no idea what ‘plenty’ means or you contradict yourself

the states weren’t ruined like europe was. The large numbers you are talking about are only large compared to normal historical numbers and female population percentage

also you completely ignore the cultural context, ukraine is not the states. The story of your country, which seems the only one you know, isn‘t as relevant as, for example, the history of ussr. We didn’t have a boomer generation. There are way too many differences for me to continue, so surely you are uneducated on the ussr history

yelling at others.

yelling? Not a single exclamation point but still yelling? You have a rich imagination for sure

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that argument is uninformed, check the birth rate in ukraine

also check who are these refugees abroad: mostly women and children. How many will return? No one knows. Also what’s the incentive for women to return knowing there are far less options to marry?

who will be working hard jobs where men are prevalent?

what about the current generation? Who will be rebuilding the country from ruins? I’ve never seen women working in construction in ukraine

also this is cynical, your position assumes it’s either men or women, not sharing the military service duty

go learn the history and then come here to comment on the matter

why?

The constitution made it impossible to make a less sexist law

with the right level of public exposure citizens would surely have been able to put enough pressure on the government to make this happen. But instead zelensky kept repeating the talking points that we should not be concerned about the war because the risk had not changed since 2014. Near-zero effort was made to evacuate ukrainians living near the russian border or those who would be in the way of russian troops. The intelligence had been there for at least six months before the war began

and the government was already struggling with making a law at all

what do you mean?

I worked at a quantum computing company

the moment i read it i immediately thought about Rakhim, then i checked your username and indeed it was you. Fun!

The open source community has lots of models that are great at creative writing.

would you mind sharing some examples please?

i went even further and use neovim as my multiplexer

agreed, i use neovim as a terminal multiplexer because vi-mode is really bad. I wrote a blog post on how i solved the issue for myself https://loosh.ch/blog/neovidenal

hey folks, a while ago i made gouse to toggle ‘declared and not used’ errors in Go

the goal of gouse is to make debugging and exploratory phase easier

recently i improved the tool and published integration plugins for all the major IDEs like VS Code [1], Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity [2], IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and GoLand. And since the back end of the tool is a cli, (Neo)vim integration [4] is super simple

your feedback is more than welcome!

have a good one

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=looshch.... [2] https://open-vsx.org/extension/looshch/gouse [3] https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/30501-gouse [4] https://github.com/vipkek/gouse#integrations

being posted by Americans Americans with vested interests

proofs, please?

who would never dream of posting the same comment if it was about the US reducing their dependency on Chinese tech

it’s just your assumption. I personally don’t know anyone from the states who would want this except their government

Imagine a post on that topic - there have been many when it was higher on the agenda - and droves of Europeans commenting "Gee, how strange that the US wants to do this"

again, it’s the government who fights the dependency on China, not the regular people. You are confusing politics and normal people’s concerns

so much reasonable scepticism here is being downvoted, i don’t get why

to add my 2 cents: why does anyone think the EU countries don’t or won’t pose the same risks as the US? They might just be doing it silently and illegally. Where is the guarantee that the mere fact a service is EU-based provides benefits over using US-based ones?

why is it important to mention where he is from?

hey there, i was trying to get my Neovim key bindings and plugins in my terminal and have spent quite a bit of time trying to solve this task. Sharing it in case you ever wanted to achieve something similar. It’s a repost, i made some updates to the original version, e.g. added a few demo gifs and clarified a couple of code snippets

hey everyone!

i was trying to achieve what the title says for quite some time, so thought this guide would be useful for someone

my main annoyance is deciding when to use a pointer or not use a pointer as variable/receiver/argument

i think you can take these[1][2][3][4] official advices and extrapolate to other cases

[1] https://go.dev/wiki/CodeReviewComments#receiver-type

[2] https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/decisions#receiver-ty...

[3] https://go.dev/doc/effective_go#pointers_vs_values

[4] https://go.dev/doc/faq#methods_on_values_or_pointers

i had similar experience when i created a tool to solve this problem which i mentioned[1] earlier and posted[2] it to golang-nuts, people told me it’s horrible and you are fine doing what my tool does manually

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44982491#44986946

[2] https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/QL5h8zO7MDo/m/qiLi...

Debugging is a nightmare because it refuses to even compile if you have unused X (which you always will have when you're debugging and testing "What happens if I comment out this bit?")

i made a cli tool[1] to mitigate this problem, it can be integrated into an ide quite easily, currently it has (neo)vim integration described in the readme and a vs code plugin-companion [2] which both can serve as an example and inspiration for creating an integration for your ide of choice

[1] https://github.com/vipkek/gouse

[2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=looshch....

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what about interceptors?

down arrow key scrolls the modal for me

Companies spend their money on all kinds of things that are apart from their core offering [...] I don't think I could buy anything from anyone if I needed to go line by line through their accounts to make sure I approved of everything

you are dead right, but spending nearly a third of the total revenue sounds like a waste for me. They aren’t an established company, they are still very small in terms of users. I would be way happier seeing them re-investing in growth. If they would signal somewhere at any point they want to keep being small, i would totally get their move with the t-shirts. Since they haven’t mentioned it even once to my best knowledge, i assume they are taking the traditional path which is growth

You didn't want them doing AI but you're not opposed to it. [...] But you don't need to pay for the level that includes that so once again I'm puzzled as to what your point is

i pay for the pro version which has CLI support, it’s crucial for me and lets me to almost never leave my natural habitat, terminal. Also it has bigger context windows, bigger token limits, better everything, which i don’t believe i can achieve with Kagi’s subscription. I’m strong proponent of the Unix philosophy: each thing should do only one thing and do it well. To me AI, just like t-shirts, is an unaffordable luxury which a company like Kagi at the moment absolutely shouldn’t even look at. You may argue that in the modern world AI seems like a next logical evolutional step of search engines — but to me is trying to be a jack of all trades, master of few. I paid for the product for 2 years, i expected different things. Give me bigger limits of include/exclude website lists in lenses, maintain your own blacklist of garbage websites like pinterest (you can even use AI for this), create a public collection of easily discoverable lenses, give better local searches like the ones google provide. I didn’t get any of that, and then i received an email about my t-shirt being ready to be shipped — and shipping wasn’t free by the way, which was confusing to me personally after so much noise about free t-shirts. That subtle detail, still paid shipping, was another putting off factor, which seemed like a dark marketing pattern

I'm absolutely sure this isn't what you meant

sorry, i didn’t get that, can you please explain what you are sure about that i didn’t mean something?

sure

You like the service but don't agree with the company spending money on... t-shirts [...] It smells a bit like you want to control what they spend on?

i like the service, but spending money on t-shirts seems unreasonable to me. I'm sure there are a dozen things which would benefit from the money and time which were spent on manufacturing clothes. From their own blog post [1]:

The process from here involves setting up a business entity in Germany, so we can import the t-shirts, store them in a warehouse, connect inventory logistics and ship them all over the world. This includes building a website and connecting it to a back-end database

which sounds to me like not the best way to spend the company's time

also:

why did we go through all this trouble and allocate nearly a third of our investor-raised funds to produce and freely distribute 20,000 t-shirts

all their answers to that question they asked themselves in the same blog post seem silly to me. Go give bonuses to your employees, upgrade devices, make a company event, etc

On AI - I think they have no choice tbh, they need to bring something to the table there

absolutely not! If i want an AI search result, i go to an AI provider of choice. Again, i don't think that should be their focus

I cancelled my chatgpt sub because I can use kagi for many models

replace chatgpt with claude and reverse the statement and it will be true for me — i cancelled Kagi subscription because i use claude as a search engine

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k

and they would reach this milestone faster if they haven’t spent money on silly t-shirts and AI which made some folks to lose their faith in Kagi. I personally quitted my subscription after this

to the web

you mean like to browser? If yes, how did you achieve UDP connections? To my best knowledge, browsers allow TCP only

if you think 3rd party recruiters usually do this, you are out of touch with reality

i had a similar experience. I was understanding the concepts i’ve learnt a year earlier and hardly ever would grasp anything immediately

agreed, i renamed [1] it to ‘who’ (well, actually it’s just ‘w’ since i’m a vim-diehard)

[1] https://github.com/looshch/configs/blob/master/.gitconfig#L1...