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I wonder how many people actually had bad experiences with SO vs how many people found it genuinely helpful. I'm going to guess the people with bad experiences are much more likely to comment about it loudly than all the people who found it helpful. (I always feel this dissonance when reading about the mean mods ruining the site, since I never experienced them firsthand.)

Men with the first name 'Odd' 72

Men with the first name 'Even' 73

Men and women with the last name 'Even' 11

libera#emacs tends to have around 8-900 users connected (maybe more when the US is awake, probably not everyone uses a bouncer). Both reddit and mailing list are quite active too.

pretty sure it was meant sarcastically

Native compilation is now default, so elisp is much faster than it was out of the box.

Tree-sitter support is quite smooth now, with automatic grammar installation.

Apparently very good Android support.

Canvas support is in master, people are building all kinds of crazy stuff[0] with this

Lots of nice built-in packages like modus themes, eglot, which-key. Editable grep/xref/occur results is also built-in now. New context menu things.

Load the "newcomer-presets" theme to enable stuff that newcomers tend to want enabled (tab bar, fancy completion, lots of little things).

[0] e.g. https://monadicsheep.org/blog/an-introduction-to-canvas-in-e..., and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61-uNV9N154 / https://github.com/yibie/exc.el

https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm apparently the idea eats dumb people too.

neat idea :)

should probably use local language wikipedia? english is rather bare-bones for my area

That's wonderful!

But to combat the burnout of the leader, couldn't he delegate? Like Linus has second-in-command's etc., and they could organize sub-mobs.

now I'm trying to imagine what artificially intelligent golden retriever bread looks like

    $ cat .inputrc 
    "\e\C-a": " | awk '{print $ }'\C-b\C-b\C-b"

then control+alt+a inserts your awk snippet, and you have even less reason to learn modern tools

that's 8G vram? you're using it for coding?

(contains spoilers)

This is hilarious. Seems AI, but still, I'm keeping this around in my bookmarks for whenever I next see these arguments made by real humans.

I would pay if I could get an openwrt router that was already set up with features like

- ad-blocking

- kid network vs grown-up network vs guest network

- blocking sites (on kid network), with easy way to temporarily disable or disable on a schedule

- safe and regular updates from openwrt, that I can trust will work even if your company goes bust (ie. your layer on top needs to play well with upstream)

(but I'm in Europe so might not be your customer)

Oh haha. I was thinking performance-wise, but yeah if you want to pass around undefineds..

Don't you mean foldl (non-strict version) is a footgun? I can't think of how foldr is a footgun, at least not in a lazy language.

"We lit a bunch of fires in our special wooden containment shed and one of them went rogue and escaped! One of our ex-employees thinks it's alive; he's kind of a kook, but he's also really smart so maybe he's onto something. Fear us! Invest in Prometheus AI!"

Hahah that's hilarious. It doesn't quite feel like they chose to be explicitly evil like Palantir or Anduril though:

> Why Mordor Intelligence Private Limited is a Great Place To Work

https://www.greatplacetowork.in/great/company/mordor-intelli...

> Pottery Workshop. Roleplays in Entrepreneurship Training

https://www.mordorintelligence.com/about-us/csr

Feels a bit more like some Doctor Who-ish happy-sounding evilcorp than Omni Consumer Products

Two main things:

Network effects like presets and plugin ecosystem, tutorials and books, team knowledge (you can ask a colleague how to do things).

Switching costs like lightroom catalogues, learning new programs, if it works why fixit.

And the price is not that high if your company pays for it. Open stuff would have to be much better and Adobe much more buggy before most people consider switching.

well of course, it has no model number:

https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/...

hyperleaking

Huh, I hated Snow Crash, but loved Cryptonomicon. Haven't read any of his other fiction.

I liked this interview, very nuanced and well-reasoned answers.

omg thank you! I would not have guessed they included an option to stick with "classic", that's actually quite decent. This made my day, thank you again, random internet stranger.

I would say $15 is cheap for the learning, growth and experience. Interacted with humans too along the way. People pay much more than this for schooling which teaches you less.

I miss the old Google Translate. I use it for learning languages (translating little snippets, lyrics etc.) and these days it "interprets" way too much, confabulating like an LLM and inserting stuff that's way beyond what's in the text. I have to remove words and rewrite and look for other sources to be sure it's actually translating what I'm inputting and not something it just made up to make it sound good.

> a website without a message is meaningless more or less.

meh, I don't care about the message of your business, I just want the ADDRESS and OPENING HOURS. Why is that so hard to put up front and center and instead I've got to scroll past videos and hero images and chatbots and dickovers and embedded interactive maps without the actual address showing argh </rant>

sorry that website was probably not your fault

Ooh, you're saying you need to ask it twice to get the same real-world result. I thought you meant the tokenization was less efficient (as if `Endofunctor` were tokenized `Endo`+`Functor` while `AbstractFactory` was a single token or something like that)

there are a lot of strong claims here, but to just pick one:

> inefficient token wise to use functional languages

where does that idea come from?

not the okasaki of Purely Functional Data Structures fame I guess?