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Thank you for saying this. I've been saying this for years. No one listens.

It's GNU Readline[0] or similar. It's all over the place, on Linux at least. Being GNU it defaults to emacs, but the vi support is also excellent. The first thing I type in any foreign bash is 'set -o vi'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Readline

I generally agree with you about UIs (if by shit you mean they've thrown away a ton of utility), but I don't think his video was bs, maybe just moved too far from it's original context.

For some reason your reply immediately caused me to imagine Ross Geller shouting into the phone, "Operator", like the, "Pivot" scene from friends.

This is a good and useful breakdown. There are lots of ways to get an education and continue learning.

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Hi I'm Matt, Software engineer for ~20 yrs, VP of Engineering for ~10 yrs. Extensive experience in both Server-side and Front-end Engineering.

Stand your ground.

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DB engine appears to be sqlite. It's in the tags on the main page and there's a file full of sql to create what looks like a sample db in the data/ dir.

Choosing to name variables with a single character has nothing to do with syntax. At most it could be considered idiomatic, but there's no reason to slavishly follow every idiomatic choice, just as there isn't in natural language.

Ah, good eye, ty.

I appreciate your write-up, it was well done. How long did you spend on this? I'd be most interested to know how long, not counting writing the blog post.

See response to sibling comment.

I think I just responded too hastily. I am working in Go. There is file IO going on in addition to the calculation (which because of a NAS or whatever could also be network IO). As a practical matter I had never felt the need to offer cancellation or timeout for these use cases, but I probably should, so mea culpa.

You've misunderstood how go routines work. You need to put the "go" keyword before the function call in order for it to be run concurrently.

This isn't true. I have use cases that don't require cancellations or timeout. The tasks I'm running don't involve the network, they either succeed or error after an expensive calculation.

To me this is proof that doing a good visualization is really an art. I saw this on hn for a couple hours, but really didn't think much of it. As soon as I clicked through the funny names, and "continents" brought a smile to my face.

I guess my little project is too small to make it, but now I too aspire to join the great nation of Golandia.

I never said I stopped reading anything.

Manipulators frequently admit their manipulations, knowing that they work on you anyway. There's nothing novel there.

From the linked post:

I cheated a bit there, I admit. I changed one of the words. The name that the saint used in that passage was not ‘Ahriman’. It was ‘Antichrist.’

That's manipulation. That's gross. That's a shame. There are some interesting ideas in the post.

This was an excellent summary, ty.

Surprised, none of the more functionally minded have jumped in. Looks interesting, I'll be taking a look, when it ships.

lol, the nuclear option. You don't mess around, but really, I think the answer is, never quit Vim.

That's the spirit! (but I can't help it if you've mistaken a cleverly disguised web browser for a text editor.)

...but then the difficulty of quitting Vim becomes a feature. Can't crash the system by exiting, if you can't exit (taps head meaningfully). /s

As we all know, nobody uses emacs.

Ha! Old school. It's boring now that we're all pals.

That's awesome. That's exactly the kind of thinking that turns L's to W's.

Peter Gabriel is fucking courageous. I love it. I'm a 50+ programmer. I can absolutely feel this shit pressing on me. Good. Are people right that there are ethical concerns, absolutely. We need to get busy realizing the potential and dealing with the issues.

I also got middling results. I gave it a novel NASA picture of the moon passing in front of the earth, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory Satellite, so an unusual vantage point. First it was just wrong, and said that it was a picture of a crescent moon taken from a mountain top, or something like that. Not terrible at least it recognized the moon, but wrong. I tried to give it a chance and corrected it with the additional info that the picture was taken from space. It then did better, but on the last line it threw in that it was not a photograph, but a rendering of some sort, which again, is just wrong.

More and more I get the impression that people are so taken with the chat interface that they are grading these models more favorably than is warranted.

Yea, I definitely wasn't trying to quantify it's value. ChatGPT definitely appears to be proving valuable to people. I was just challenging the idea that so far it's acting in a tutor/instructor/mentor type of role. While it seems like an interesting direction to take these LLMs, so far I haven't observed them doing that.