recursivedoubts

I’m surprised apple hasn’t solved this in some way. Seems like the apple is at would be to make removing the drive just work.

"The limits are here too, and they are real."

You are right to push back on that.

You are right to push back on that.

Please, please, please: we NEED a magsafe version of USB C

Yes, you can buy adapters, but you end up w/device warts that don't work w/normal USB-C cords and my understanding that they are for the most part pretty dangerously out of spec

Magnetic coupling is an incredibly underutilized user experience tool

That's not me, but I do weight 50/50.

My experience is that no students get a C- except for students who blow the first part of the class and try to work back. I usually work a deal out with them anyway.

Building visualizations with LLMs has been a major boost for my CS classes:

https://htmx.org/essays/universities-and-ai/#demos-visualiza...

Many visualizations that I have always wanted but just didn't have the time to build, I now have.

To give an example, I wanted a simplified 8-bit computer to complement the 16-bit teaching computer I use and designed this in a few days with the help of claude:

https://bdp.cs.montana.edu/

no strong opinions on the article since I don't watch TV or go to movies often, but I do recall the in the "Solo" movie thinking that when the female (if I'm remembering correctly) abandons Han for the other guy it was surprising because she was not only behaving badly, but behaving badly in a specifically feminine way, rather than aping male misbehavior

i have no idea if this is relevant to the article or not

lol, he must have plagarized himself so many times over the years

lol i clicked on the article prepared to be angry that GK Chesterton wasn't mentioned and he was the first one mentioned. His collected works run to at least 37 volumes:

https://www.chesterton.org/store/product/volume-xxxvii/

i have the first four

i'm sure this is unpopular, but I think dark mode was an (understandable) mistake

in my made up, undersourced version of tech history, what happened was that the first LCDs that came out were very dim compared to the CRTs they were replacing, which OS makers responded to by going to very bright/white UIs over the previous gray/color schemes that were used and everyone cranked their brightness to 11. Over time LCDs improved and the new white-standard/high brightness regime became untenable for people who were on their screens for long periods of time, which drove the creation of dark mode, first in coding themes and later for the entire OS.

Dark mode support makes it VERY hard to do a website well because it is almost always going to look mediocre in one mode or the other and it is very easy for a gremlin to sneak in in the mode that a developer isn't using.

I would love to go back to a gray-base color and use a mildly muted white for a reading background and dark for code/special content. The hyperscript website is kind of a gesture in this direction: https://hyperscript.org/

interesting story

as an aside, I think the original code, with the if statement, was clearer and would be easier to debug, etc, even if it was a bit longer

Why not both? ORMs for the simpler CRUD operations, SQL when it gets a little hectic.

The author basically says this in the first paragraph, but the title (and some of the language the author uses) implies that people should just use SQL.

It's a reasonable article pointing out some of the annoyances and problems of ORMs (especially in the Java world, where they tend to be overengineered) but there are still a lot of advantages to them if you are in an OO language and they used in a reasonable way.

no:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

Well, then... G'day, mate! Let's put another shrimp on the barbie!

sorry:

https://bdp.cs.montana.edu

idk i think i'm pretty good w/AI in general, e.g. designed these using it:

https://mtmc.cs.montana.edu

https://bcp.cs.montana.edu

but we can all be better i guess

Opus 4.whatever (it was last week) via a command line interface in the IntelliJ Claude plugin.

The series of prompts weren't particularly interesting or innovative on my part: a paste in of the user report then a few back and forths on fixing it, me reviewing the changes and coming up with the final answer.

I would like to offer someone the next openclaw: a GUI for the mac that allows people to manage and install local models with a single click, provides GUI tools for tweaking important aspects of them, and also provides a good command line interface to those models.

:) i let a younger person on the core team create the new website for something different

it is using astro, we are scaling down the use of tailwind (I wanted to give it a try, but didn't really click with it.)

I don't mind someone doing something kind of fun with the website and trying something new out, I know some people don't like it but some people do. All good.

hello all, this is an article I wrote up on my interaction with an agent, Claude, in fixing a bug in the hyperscript parser

it was a rather mundane bug, but i thought the interaction was interesting and worth analyzing to show where AI is very strong and where it is not as strong

“Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.” -GKC

less the hardware (although that is still expensive at scale) and more the management, physical space and maintenance.

We have a testing center set up for people who require accommodations, another piece of legacy functionality I never expected to use back when I gave my tests online.

I agree and would like to move towards a customized computer setup like you mention. A friend at Berkeley manages a similar setup. Unfortunately Montana State is too small to have set one up yet.

More expensive than you'd think, but I am pushing for something like that.

In the AI era, tests are going to have to be in person and hand written.

I have written an article on how I have adjusted my classes to the situation:

https://htmx.org/essays/universities-and-ai/

Ironically, I think the AI era may make university degrees a better signal of the intellectual abilities of students due to the presence of pre-computer infrastructure like large lecture halls, industrial-scale copiers, etc.

Academic peer review has been broken forever and AI appears to be the final 1 ton tungston rod that will break the camels back. The wave of AI generated papers is crushing this years conference cycle and the traditional academic preference for opaque, ponderous papers over clear, straightforward ones means we are going to get heaps of even worse rubbish than in the past.

Bad time for me to decide to get a PhD!

I wrote an essay about how I am handling AI in my CS courses:

https://htmx.org/essays/universities-and-ai/

tbh, not sure i ever understood it

Once locals get to Opus levels I think it we may see a phase change because that + a reasonably competent programmer is going to be a very powerful combination for most practical programming problems.

Frontier models may eventually achieve super-intelligence (no opinion beyond mild skepticism) but super-intelligence isn't necessary for most practical day-to-day programming. The problems, as always, become communication, understanding what users really need, etc. that is, softer skills.