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vander_elst

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vander_elst··on Generative AI learning path
I have the impression that these days there's a very strong bias against Google on HN.
vander_elst··on TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language
I wonder why text protobuf is not widely used for config. There is a formal description of the structure and the configuration structure can be statically checked.
vander_elst··on Neovim 0.9
> Everything works just like it's supposed to

There are different defaults for the pane management and the terminal. The vim defaults, IMO, allow a more consistent user experience. E.g. when you are in a vim terminal and you go to normal mode to yank some stuff to put it in the other pane with the code, nvim defaults adds line numbers to the terminal that need to be cleaned up afterwards, vim just does not add them. This is just one small example, but there are several edge cases where the vim defaults behave like I would expect and nvim either does something unexpected or it lags or it crashes.

vander_elst··on Neovim 0.9
I've really tried to move from vim to neovim for a long time and spent many hours trying to configure it to behave like vim, but every time I try it breaks in unexpected ways or it hungs up, while vim for my workflow never flinks. I hope that they'll reach a 1.0 soon where things are more stable.
vander_elst··on Calling all open source maintainers
Sometimes it's hard to distinguish between what's a joke and what's not. I thought at first this was an April's fool, but it actually seems real.
vander_elst··on AAD misconfiguration led to Bing.com results manipulation, account takeover
In their report (https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/guidance-on-potentia...) Microsoft doesn't even say whether end users were impacted. This seems to be a MASSIVE issue.
vander_elst··on Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today
Reading that post you can really see how little Google cares about the end users. They are closing products and removing features without providing a replacement and providing ridiculously short timelines for changing.
vander_elst··on Bard and new AI features in Search
Isn't this what the Google assistant basically does?
vander_elst··on Ask HN: How to self-promote at work?
I disagree, the organization needs to know that feature came from YOU. I'm very bad at this and I from my experience every time I don't do this some one else swipes in and gets the merit, e.g. my boss bragging they were able to successfully lead the delivery (they didn't even know what the feature was about it until after delivery), a co-worker (who might have helped rolling it out during onduty) etc. Promoting yourself is essential.
vander_elst··on Chronophoto
Love it! Nice job.

It would be nice to have a link with more information about the single photos, at least the exact time and place where it was shot, i can then look for the related events myself.

vander_elst··on Dinner for one: A little-known British comedy famous in Germany
The best thing about the German version (if you watch in on tv) is that before the comedy begins, there's an explanation about why it's funny.
vander_elst··on Scriptio continua
This also lead to some confusion https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/busillis
vander_elst··on Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bad Writing
[spoilers] I like the interpretation, but I wish this were highlighted a bit more, imo the movie seems to suggest that the twin will pay no consequences for her act but only the bad guy.
vander_elst··on Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bad Writing
Imo if you destroy the Mona Lisa to punish a person, you don't punish a person, you destroy the Mona Lisa.
vander_elst··on Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bad Writing
[spoiler warning] Just watched the movie yesterday evening and I was also quite disappointed, some of the choices did seem cheap, the twin, the book stopping the bullet, the "punishment" of Miles by the destruction of the Mona Lisa. I think that the movie had some potential, but after the twin reveal everything started going south.

Edit: added warning

vander_elst··on Ask HN: Why is the Wikipedia Foundation's begging tolerated?
The foundation has around 700 employees (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation), back on the envelope calculation and we have 200k per employee. I think it seems reasonable.
vander_elst··on Ask HN: Why is the Wikipedia Foundation's begging tolerated?
You can login, opt out of the banner and it won't be shown to you anymore.

But to answer the question: because it's one of the few annoyances (and probably the only one) on that website. Other than the one month long banner I personally have no complains, Wikipedia is one of the best websites on the internet imo.

vander_elst··on CircleCI Layoffs
Best of luck to all impacted employees!

The terms seem above average, I hope something like this will become the standard.

vander_elst··on CircleCI Layoffs
I've heard about Twitter and Amazon campaigns, but not Google's yet. Would it be possible to provide a link for that?
vander_elst··on Estonia saved its citizens 820 years by moving public services online
I didn't mean to gender, sorry if it was perceived that way. My understanding is that this is a standard industry term. Anyway, I'll try to use human years in the future.
vander_elst··on Estonia saved its citizens 820 years by moving public services online
Saving 820 years is great, but it would be nice to define it better. From the article I not sure if they mean 820 man years in total or man years per year or something else. It would be useful to know how much energy was spent to achieve this e.g. of they spent 8000 man years to achieve this it would change the perspective.

Edit: grammar

vander_elst··on Why is the terminal input so weird?
Thanks for the answer! Still curious, how does vim work in Warp? Do you know what process are currently running and then you stop buffering the chars and you pass them directly to the process in foreground? I didn't read the code, but from the article it seemed that you pass the text to the shell only when pressing enter, I think in vi(m) you want to do it the whole time (?). If I want to insert something I just type `isomething to insert<Esc>`. How does this work in Warp? What happens if I put the process in background and then in foreground again?
vander_elst··on Why is the terminal input so weird?
TO better understand the architecture, how will this work if I want to use the shell in vi mode? IIUC that would not be possible with their setup, right? Warp would need to implement a vi mode, correct?

Is it possible to work with vim in warp?

vander_elst··on Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover
That's about 0.018% of total twitter user base (assuming total user base = 396.5 Million, 0.018 = 100*70K/396.5M). In relative numbers that's very little.
vander_elst··on Algorithms predict sports teams' moves with 80% accuracy [pdf]
Thinking the same thing! Volleyball is very structured, there are schemas and tactics basically for every event in the game. Additionally, at professional level the accuracy of the players is quite high so the variability should get lower e.g. the setter will set the ball very precisely and the spiker will attack from a specific position. What it might change is the timing (depending on how high the ball is), but usually the professional games are very fast so that should also simplify things.
vander_elst··on Magic Leap 2
If I'd use something like this for work, let's say ~8 hours a day for a year, how are the eyes affected? Are there studies around this?
vander_elst··on Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
It depends on the hardware. If you buy one of the certified machines maybe, otherwise you're in for a painful treat. IMO my requirements are pretty low: i3 window manager, chrome (sorry), a terminal, audio and multiple displays. To be honest Linux is not able to provide a fully working experience for those things.
vander_elst··on When cities treated cars as dangerous intruders
IMO middle and northern Europe might be a good fit.
vander_elst··on Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store
What's the use case for this (besides being a nice learning project)?

I didn't see this on the readme.

vander_elst··on Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)
Such consulting companies are on paper quite well suited for these kind of jobs: you can easily ramp and down teams in a matter of weeks, consultants already have experience with your project, they do have experts in all possible areas. Additionally, usually upper management in both companies already know each other so if you need something why don't you go and ask a person you know about this? I actually think it's almost sells itself. Accenture & Co. won't tell you though that the experts will only stay for the first week in the projects (afterwards they need to go and honeypot a new customer), and they won't mention that the developers only need to pass a behavioural interview for getting hired (absolutely no code required) and that they have a constant massive turnover so that people stay usually in your project for 3-6 months, or that there is basically no coder that has more than 3 years of experience.
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