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Fortunately this is a false choice.

I think 78 and fine is better than 45 and 80 in pain.

But in this country we are so adverse to giving someone agency over how their life ends.

Because it’s not good Business.

If they can’t get stuff you think is easy right, it saps your trust that they got the things you think are harder right.

Centering is not easy. Apparently. It requires human eye to verify. I can prove my decryption algorithm works. I can’t prove centering works.

My hunch is they have an agenda and is willing to lie to spice up the story.

If they are not a clanker.

Right. As they said, you can’t do it 100% autonomously. A human needs to feed it.

You essentially said: you’re wrong, it is autonomous when it doesn’t need a human during one specific part of its overall usage.

I knew an old lady that swallowed a fly…

Cute.

Back in the day, I looked down my nose at other young fledgling developers that would #define true 1. I knew only clarity and woe lived down that road.

    if(5-2 == true) ;

As verbose as it was stupid.

I felt superior because I knew that #define false 0 was the only Boolean keyword hack that would work.

    if (5-2 != false) ;

Still verbose, and stupid, but at least it was correct.

These days… I don’t feel as confident about anything as I did about those #defines.

Computer nerds are a rare breed. We like to be right. And we like to be arrogant. And if we have a solution to a harmful problem… it’s your fault for not being “smart enough” and you suffer your consequences.

Maybe we aren’t so rare. I can think of another group that values enduring hardship over progress making things easier for everyone.

Not using it as a backup strategy. But it doesn’t matter. Vim has a feature, persistent undo. People are using it for whatever reason. Under your blessing or not. A different app, neovim, broke vim’s feature.

They don't get a pass because you disagree with an imagined use case.

Type A. Type B. Save. Type C. Save. How do you get back to state “A” using git?

You do not have all your states available.

The article gave 2 examples.

I can give some as well. IDE crashes. Computer reboots at an undesired time. Even if my work is saved, I am not “finished”. I would like my undo history to extend before file / open time.

>nothing silently wins.

Fantastic! Never change this.

People will complain. These people also prefer type unsafe languages. Hold fast.

The author is missing fundamentals. Exactly what to expect from someone who thought the built is BASIC was lame.

That was my origin story. I was 8. Tandy CoCo2. I didn’t have a cassette so I had to type all the programs from the books. Again and again.

I hope this makes you feel better: all industries are doomed. But few rise and fall in one lifetime.

Not really. I get what you are saying, and with discipline you could emulate depth with sheets. But it would only be by convention and I don’t think many functions worked that way.

Can you extract values from the embedded spreadsheets to do math in the host sheet?

What was that syntax like?

But treesheets isn’t used by millions of office workers across the globe. I doubt treesheets is know by 2% of the HN audience. So it just doesn’t make the news.

Or was the point you knew an obscure fact about an obscure application?

Excel just got a z-axis. Cool.

Apple is stubborn.

And to Apple, Siri is to Siri AI as MacBook is to MacBook Pro.

Completely different product.

Autohotkey for the win.

Powertoys even offers keyboard remapping.

You could search for “small lightweight browser with add blocking and minimal footprint” and find a few, evaluate them, and choose. Or you could use AI to build a “small lightweight browser with add blocking and minimal footprint.” And tweak it to be exactly what you want in maybe the same amount of time.

I had a friend that stored her docs in a folder in the start menu back in win 95

It was odd at first, but it made a lot of sense from a document first mindset.

I eventually adopted a similar strategy myself.

Leadership still holds engineers accountable. And for that, they need to know the plan. Leaders are also held accountable, so again, they need to know the plan.

You don’t quibble about what words mean when the words you choose have very specific meanings in exactly the subject area you are talking about?

You make it really hard to take you seriously.

We realized we needed a delivery mechanism for nuclear weapons before Russia was able to build an ICBM.

Space? That was excellent marketing.

How is this not marketing for large websites?

Facebook doesn’t give a shit about censorship, beyond it means a limited audience.

It’s not about the language. It’s about the runtime environment. Not everything is fully developed UI running on beefy CPUs with gigs of RAM.

Sometimes the environment forces a language choice.

Discover the laws in a current code base?

They are usually in the “tests” folder.

So anything capable of extracting unit tests is extracting “laws”.

One might consider the test name the text of a law. And the AI fills in the details.

So… all that data is literally there for any unauthorized person to walk up and take it.

It’s not even suitably encrypted on device?

Zero trust in anything Flock says.

I will applaud them for being clever, hacky even.

Applause!!!!

So you mean the ability to run a shell from code And receive structured data back?