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Boston has a whole bunch of live and college ratio stations still.

A motion sensor activated light unpredictably turning off and on on my street would be worse than the steady street lamps we have now. It would be even more distracting and annoying.

The fact that I know what both Gleam and Tangled are in this context means I spend too much time on HN and not enough time doing useful things.

Why do you need an archive link for this?

The point about interaction with undo in a digital inking app is interesting. Seems like with ML handwriting recognition, we could create a handwriting "text editor" instead of a drawing app that understands the semantic structure of the text and operates at that level instead of the individual stroke level.

I had some friends who worked on this for a while but didn't get far with it. It turns out it's tricky to design a general purpose system that adapts to users' handwriting idiosyncrasies and is fast enough to work in real time with handwriting with sufficient accuracy.

Some of that work is still visible in the ChromeOS virtual keyboard handwriting mode, but it's very limited - one line at a time. https://cursive.apps.chrome/ (the built-in note-taking app on Chromebooks) has some interesting inking gestures for manipulating written words, but doesn't have any semantic-level understanding.

I don't see how "trust" is anthropomorphizing. Do I trust this bridge to hold my weight? Do I trust that this tool in my hand will perform as expected?

"Trust" - what level of review does the output need to meet your standards of correctness?

Donald Knuth's code would be much more likely to meet my standards during a code review than some LLM output.

Set small achievable goals and hold yourself accountable.

Nice balanced perspective there at the end:

"as such [LLM-coded interactive] supplements are not mission-critical to the core of the paper, I again feel that the downside risk of using guided interaction with LLM agents to generate such visualizations is acceptable."

It's a tool. Good for some things but not others and generally not to be trusted.

Use it to write and edit code when that makes sense for you to do so. Just like you always have. It's an extremely useful skill to have even still.

I've had much more success with agents reviewing my code and offering inline autocomplete over LSP than I have with letting the agents write the code, which I then try to review. I end up with a much better mental model of the code and higher quality output than either I or the agent could do alone.

That might work if the software platform vendors kept compatibility with old versions, but they're quite poor at this. Windows used to be quite good at it, but Android and iOS are really bad at it, and macOS is not a lot better.

Software is, unfortunately, a living thing and when not actively maintain bit-rots and becomes unusable.

It's not anywhere near hot enough to generate steam and make electricity.

There are uses for low grade heat but they require colocation and careful design, which costs more than just dumping the heat.

Until it falls apart immediately or gives your pet a rash because of the poor quality materials that were substituted.

"cycled out" what. The tech world is still completely insane.

Per the video description, this is a Lapp Knot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapp_knot, sadly not animated by Grog.

A reef knot (or square knot) cannot be adjusted or tied under load. When you tie the second crossing, the first one always loosens a bit. The lapp knot in the video can be tensioned properly after tying, which is pretty slick.

Assuming they had any control over the ventilation in the room.

Keep the body shell, modernize the internals. I think they have already done so...

the noise pollition I hear coming from the electric to me is a million times worse than ICEs.

What are you talking about? The electric ones are significantly quieter.

Wow there is so much wrong with this post I don't even know where to start.

Widespread car usage has caused an enormous amount of harm. It has destroyed American cities, killed thousands of people directly, tens of thousands more with sedentary lifestyle diseases, and burned a truly enormous amount of fossil fuels into CO2, and locked in the infrastructure to continue to do so for decades. It's an absolutely enormous tragedy.

Cars are also useful and have helped a lot of things, but they should not be the default choice of transportation.

Not sure where this icy, thunderstorm-prone city where it's either walk or drive with nothing in between is, but it's certainly pretty far outside my experience.

From what I've observed, the vast majority of car trips in my city could be easily replaced with a bicycle trip.

We would most certainly notice if the modest bicycle traffic in our city was replaced with car trips. The already terrible traffic would be significantly worse. "Stealing" some space for cars for a drastically more efficient means of transportation that's also 5-6 times faster than walking is a huge win both for people who want to get places reliably and on time and those of you who are always carrying cargo or can't cycle for some reason.

You wouldn't hear from me at all if it weren't for accusations like "stealing" space from cars (who in turn stole entire walkable city centers and streetcar lines!) and just made a little room for those of us who are able (which is most people!) to choose a healthy, efficient, humane form of transportation instead of hauling a 3 ton steel caged air-conditioned living room with armchairs and sofa on every trip.

What makes you think our current cities are anywhere close to the limit you propose?

I used Chrome on Android.

Both, as I learned from 5 min browsing the site.

"Stealing" as in having a public process for proposed street designs that you can't be bothered to attend.

"There is never anybody in this bike lanes" you don't see them because they aren't stuck in traffic like you. Also the city has to build out a full network of high quality bike facilities to convince a bunch of skeptics and scaredy cats to get out of their cars and enjoy life and actually get somewhere instead of just be traffic all the time.

Sure, but it's a trick not available to most JVM languages.

Does not reproduce for me.

https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/blob/main/wasm2c/README....

ISTR Siemens uses wasm2c to compile Wasm for a bunch of embedded devices runninng Zephyr RTOS.

There is no universe where an LLM helps one learn to read. You need to be able to read first to use one, and worse yet, you need to be able to think critically about the outputs, not just decode and sound out the letters.

> I will continue to enjoy writing once and deploying anywhere!

Except to the browser, iOS, embedded systems...

WebAssembly is the real write once deploy anywhere tech now. JVM had its turn and lost.