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loegon On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

If you ignore it, do you continue allowing edits to the file? Now undo history is corrupt and useless anyway. Or do you disallow editing until the user manually deletes some hidden, implementation-detail file for a feature they probably never use?

loegon On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

Keep in mind NeoVim forked in 2014, too.

loegon On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

It was a real problem, but as GP already mentioned, Vim has integrated some version of it since Vim 8 (2016), probably at least somewhat motivated by NeoVim (forked 2014).

https://lwn.net/Articles/713114/

loegon On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

It was ostensibly necessary for other, arguably more important features. Persistent undo maybe just isn't that important? I certainly don't use it nearly as much as the author seems to.

loegon Does Georgism work? Five years later

It's just one local revenue stream, comparable to property tax. Nothing about it requires or precludes any other policy goal like making cities "nice" places to live.

loegon Does Georgism work? Five years later

I don't even think "unused" is helpful framing. I'd say, property taxes should be assessed on land, not productive imps. If you want to keep your expensive urban downtown land a parking lot, fine, but it shouldn't be subsidized by lower taxes than your neighbor with a high-rise.

loegon Does Georgism work? Five years later

LVT is assessed on land value. Your 13 rural acres aren't insanely valuable and would not be assessed a million dollars a year under a Georgian model.

loegon Plan mode is dead

> My experience with that is not very good. It gets so hung up in its initial decision. Like, it won't make changes because they're "breaking", for something never even committed.

This hasn't been my experience.

> Or it will litter the code base with defensive code and comments about the path not chosen.

I've definitely seen this, though.

loegon Plan mode is dead

That sounds like a contorted way of saying "better."

loegon Plan mode is dead

The older models were less good at inferring intent. The new ones just seem to do a better job.

loegon Plan mode is dead

> How does it otherwise work if I am not even quite sure what exactly I want to build myself?

It makes some plausible choices and you can retroactively ask it to make different ones later, if you want.

loegon Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

> They are still trying to prosecute him.

Bro, Jeanine Pirro filed to dismiss this (ridiculous) case against Hearn in July. It's over; they are not still trying to prosecute him.

loegon Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

They can try. And just as in myriad other attempts at overreach, they will fail in the courts (on obvious 1A grounds, as others have already pointed out).

loegon Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster

Ok. I think the goalposts have shifted from your original remarks.

loegon Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

Estrada was convicted of tampering with evidence, which is what he did for his wife's little terrorist cell after they were arrested. The elements of the crime aren't in dispute. "Transporting zines" isn't an accurate summary of that and The Intercept's "reporting" on this is just completely slanted slop.

If you know the government will be interested in documents in your possession in relation to a criminal investigation, it is in fact a crime to destroy or remove them. Regardless of content. As to the sentence term -- this is up to the judge.

And it's all completely unrelated to the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which was the topic of this fine article.

loegon Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

No, this is something the article attempts to claim, but it is not true.

loegon Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

Do you think lying about an unrelated case furthers your argument?

loegon Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

> There can be foreign agents criticizing AI, but not all people criticizing AI are foreign agents.

Right. The DoJ is demanding the former group register as foreign agents, as they are required to under FARA.

loegon Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

> the Justice Department instructed “citizens and noncitizens” that anyone furthering the “goals” of a foreign power in “any public activity” — including even “public demonstrations” — must formally notify the government to avoid arrest and prosecution.

Citizens acting as foreign agents have always had to register that representation! This is not new to the Trump admin. FARA dates to 1938.

loegon Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster

Crucially, it is easy to avoid making things worse, which was the entire thrust of my earlier comment and the part you've ignored in your response.

loegon GPT-6 Sol and Luna

And the bicycles have weird dimensions -- extremely slack head tube angle, handlebars in the wrong orientation, etc.

loegon Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees

No. Seattle caps security deposits.

loegon Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster

> They can also spin round and round making the numbers worse

"Claude, if this idea doesn't measure as an improvement (use X benchmark and a T-test), discard it and try the next idea."

loegon Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster

> but [LLMs] won't come up with [ideas] on their own.

They can, in fact, generate plausible performance optimization ideas on their own.

loegon Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees

A $500 deposit isn't covering 4-5 figures of damage.

loegon Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster

They're quite good at just iterating different "ideas" on a performance metric with an objective measure. They can use tools like `perf` and do some analysis on the output. Sometimes they go off in the weeds unproductively, and sometimes they give up because your goal was too high, but as long as you're sort of babysitting the process, you can make pretty rapid improvement to naive code.

loegon Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less

Ok but losing 50-75% of 2024 Trump voters would in fact cede control of more or less every democratically elected position.

loegon Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less

The right doesn't like, control the executive by democratic vote. Trump single-handedly does.

loegon Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less

He doesn't actually "get away" with it. A lot of people, left and right, are unhappy about tariffs. But for now, he controls the executive, so it is what it is.