draxil

Current gen of "AI" companies aren't that interested in such trivial things!

Yeah, you can still live in that era thankfully :)

So org-mode for vim I think?

I expect that's nice if you don't like emacs for some strange reason :D (and indeed object to setting up evil mode).

My curiosity is dampened by it not really explaining on the wiki very well and trying to force me to watch a video.

This is the part I actually want from an LLM, I write the code and it spots the problems. A mega linter. Unfortunately it's not very good at this yet.

What as in something you should know not to do pretty quickly?

From a distance: So iTUNES isn't the music app? Seems confusing :)

Surprise! As soon as you aren't thinking about your code and not understanding it...

On seeing the link test I automatically amended it to

> ChatGPT "knows" things that Google doesn't

reading through it seems like that was probably correct. That said OpenAI could have fed it a book that's not on the internet. However I'm not sure why this guy didn't ask the bot for a source! Not that I'm bothering to do that either ;)

Presumably soon "the CEO" will just be GPT6 in a trenchcoat anyway.

As marked by another model.. So as long as the machines think it's true, it's true :)

I had no idea the site had groups!

...but you should probably use netcat instead.

the editor muscle memory thing is always the thing for me.. Even changing keyboard and not the key layout causes me issues.

> It is not pronounced like the plural of pig.

I've got news for you buddy :)

Ibroadcast is amazing!

We are all struck with the novelty of generative AI, it needs time to settle. People will throw the universe at the wall and see what really sticks.

To my mind generative AI is great at finding needles in the haystack of stuff we already know. Of course it just as often gives you a fake needle right now, just to see if you notice.

On the other hand "traditional"/predictive AI is often better at the things we don't already know or understand.

For a while a lot of distros started suppressing the Unix clipboard. Not sure if that's still a thing, but drove me crazy because it's just muscle memory for me now.

See also:

use common::sense

Which is also quite nice, giving slightly more opinionated defaults.

I'd generally prefer a machine that copes with whatever it finds rather than keeping state, which is a recipe for trouble. I've booted an old disk on a different hardware and have it be fine. I've also seen windows folk change some hardware and have their machine freak out.

But then I seldom reboot since linux hibernate got good, so maybe I'm a bad judge.

As a dedicated org-roam user: Interesting to read Prot's analysis of this crowded space. I must give this a spin some time.

"they".. Really on the fediverse it's very much on an instance by instance basis. really it's like saying that email is a haven for some group or other. Don't shoot the protocol!

The promise of all the overblown claims made for it?

I don't think anything could fulfil that!

I'm sure there are some useful applications for blockchain tech, but it's not a fundamental base for a new generation of the internet. However the desire to get out of the highly centralised corporate controlled version of the internet is a good one.

Personally I do hope the next generation is based on decentralised/federated tech. Like the "fediverse" systems such as mastodon. I think these genuinely do fulfil some of the promised claims of the web3 bandwagon, but actually have nothing to do with blockchain.

However I also doubt if the fediverse will be the future of the internet either, but it's certainly the side of the internet that I'm enjoying right now and shows what a social internet away from the shackles of the big tech companies could be!

I assume this is nice if you have a strong benefit from not going into the cgo black box. No real surprise that auto-transpiled code isn't optimal.

There are good reasons to avoid C dependencies in go though. Because it's essentially a big black box to the runtime and so you loose some benefit when you go there (no pun intended).

1 desktop, 1 server, 3 laptops (one belongs to my employer, one is old), 3 raspberry pis, 4 games consoles, 1 chromecast.

Sounds like a feature, not a bug.

I used to think "surely this is just fancy find and replace".

But actually it's more like defining a keyboard macro. It's very powerful and quicker and easier than a macro for a lot of tasks.

Definitely.

Go and Rust both have strengths and weaknesses.

And I think they both have a love/hate dynamic because they make pretty strong choices in their own ways, and so people react strongly in response. Personally I'm a fan of both.

You can, I do. It's really no problem.

You do have to make a bit of effort to setup DKIM, SPF etc. But really it's not too difficult.

There will definitely be a place for someone with your dad's blend of experience and interests. I'd suggest that possibly he'd be better in the product owner role, some tech interest and sympathy but with the wider perspective of the other jobs he's done.

That said, there's probably also a programming role where that not-programming experience would be an asset to someone who can also learn the code.

Of course there's probably many many other places where it wouldn't work, the trick is finding that correct fit. But most of being a good developer isn't programming it's thinking about the system, the use-case etc. There's plenty of rockstar guys who can code amazing solutions, but people with a wider experience and a different perspective are much rarer and can be more valuable.