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Getting better equipment (larger screens, faster computers, licences) would solve most of your concerns with the IDEs. And getting better equipment usually soon becomes a non-problem for professional programmers.

Having an IDE is like hiring a side-kick --- if the side-kick is component enough and you can afford them, why wouldn't you hire one?

Same here. `psvm` is perfectly consistent with the rest of the language. IMHO it is much better to have a consistently verbose/explicit language than an inconsistent one.

> Do you think quantum mechanics says that light is made up of electrons?

No, only that electrons can exhibit light-like behaviours (e.g. interference patterns).

Light and pressure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_pressure

Are you being serious?

> You're conflating electrons and electromagnetic radiation.

Isn’t that one of the main points of quantum physics? Light does apply pressure. Also photon exists?

I am not that familiar with MathML, but I can imagine programmatically manipulate math expressions with MathML; can TeX math expressions be manipulated in the same way?

As AI grows stronger, the "me" part is going to matter less and less.

A "graduate + AI" might be nearly as effective as "you + AI", while being significantly more... cost-efficient.

For people who point out this is already being done: I hope you see the recursive nature of this ;)

I wonder how long it will take before people start to use LLMs to generate prompts...

I think it used to be that one needs to write dedicated programs to go through large amount of data --- you need to know a programming language, all its toolchains, and the all the proper algorithms for doing the query __out-of-memory__ --- certainly above your ordinary analysts' paygrade.

With SQL you need none of those.

Not wanting to deal with Javascript the language [1], maybe?

[1]: https://javascriptwtf.com/

Nice to know, thanks!

I am not very familiar with how modern Python wsgi servers manage states, but in Java e.g. states can be cached in the heap of the one and same JVM --- can one say that the need to use an external state store like Redis is a direct result of the underlying web server having to launch multiple Python processes in order to scale up for greater loads?

I like it. Reminds me of Vaadin and friends.

One question regarding the states: when do I get a new State allocated? Is it with every new tab? It's definitely not per-browser-session: if I open a new tab I seem to get a new state, while undoing a closed tab seems to recover its state with it though.

Also are old states gc'ed?

It would be interesting to see what happens when we describe the rules of chess to chatgpt as a completely new abstract game and ask it to play it. That should show whether chargpt actually understood the rules or has been just scraping from past game records.

I'd thought direct observation of the photo would mean physically interact with it (and thus changing its behaviour). My understanding is that there are also other experiment designs which allow identifying which path a photon went after it passed the slits; in such cases the interference pattern disappears too.

My interpretation of the double-slit experiment has been that the presence of physical matters in a certain configuration imposes some sort of probabilistic "reality field" that propagates at light-speed. The superposition of these "reality fields" at a certain point in space(-time) determines the probability of the particles' behaviour at that point, not unlike how support vector machines with a RBF kernel work.

This interpretation has the benefit (I think) of bypassing the problems with the "observers" --- any apparatus that is able to discern the path a particle had taken just so happens to impose a field such that, when superposed with the original "reality field" the double-slit imposes, the mixture field no longer exhibits the interference pattern.

Of course I am not a physicist by training, so the above could be completely nonsense (or it could have already been an established theory).

Which job title sounds cooler: Senior Prompt Engineer or Senior Prompt Designer?

My experience has been that most of the time you don’t tell DuckDB to insert data. One is expected to point DuckDB to an existing data file (parquet, csv, json with this new release, etc.) and either import/copy the data into DuckDB tables, or issue SQL queries directly against the file.

Think of it as a SQL engine for ad-hoc querying larger-than-memory datasets.

I had similar thoughts.

The next evolution towards general AIs would be the implementation of curiosity.

I thought what they meant was just "you are laid off not because you had performed poorly". Of course, it is still the CEO's decision to over-hire, but the parent suggested that over-hiring was not CEO's fault either, but a necessary move to capture the additional growth.

> if a bill comes about that passes meaningful climate change reform but bans abortion (in the united states) altogether, is your position that such a bill should be accepted by the climate change advocacy groups?

If the world ends tomorrow and the only way to avert it is to ban abortion then almost certainly yes, otherwise the baseline deal ought to be better.

Is there a Web UI equivalent for tools like this, where one can spin up a web server pointing to a git repo on the server and do commit, diff, merging, graph visualisation etc. through a web interface?

If CP were to be compared to virus, then all households would have some.

New virus emerge naturally all the time, the same cannot be said for CP.

Also things can go wrong just due to bad luck. Someone's home caught fire doesn't necessary mean they are committing insurance fraud; majority of them will be genuine accidents.

Why would they? Would you allow your neighbours to search your home and inspect your computer as soon as they claim that you are a pedophile?

But how is it different from human artists creating new artworks based on their studies of thousands of previous works, I wonder? No artists have paid royalties just because they went to an exhibition and had a glimpse of other painter’s work, no?

TBH I think you are mistaken if you think they are here to heed the legal warnings.

It might be just me, but it would appear they are banking on 1) no individual start-up is going to bother to sue them over a slide deck because it's expensive, and 2) those who do notice the infringements would recognise that suing a group of debt-laden students/graduates won't amount to anything (hence the emphasis on "doing this to fund education" aspect).

What kind of "open source" are these --- the "GPL" kind, the "non-commercial" kind, or the "do whatever you want with it" kind?

It's worth noting the author's agenda:

> But our findings point to a more alarming hypothesis: that most companies ineffectively deploy their development teams, bogging down engineers with distractions, disruptions, and meetings as well as system inefficiencies, such as slow reviews, slow builds, and bad tools.

So what they are saying (presumably to company managements/executives) is that you can make your developers code more per day by adopting better tooling ("perhaps buy our products?"). To me, this sounds like a classic "manufacture anxiety then selling solutions" scheme.

It is also worth noting that the "developers spent most of the time thinking" argument against the claimed statistic won't stand when companies need to lay off the "low performers" based on how much time they spent coding --- after all, were you able to come up with the right solutions more quickly, you will be able to spend more time coding implementing them.

> It's not quite China yet,

I'd call it a decentrailized surveillance system --- very robust against any attempt to dismantle it.

> fresh browser context

I get your point, but I am not sure how fresh our browser context is.

Do people agree that corporations should respect the customs and values of the local people when operating their business there?

If yes, then Amazon is not "bowing", and it is The Guardian who is playing word games here. If not, then it would seem to imply that we are OK with western powers using their capital (instead of gunboats) to impose their ideology on other cultures in the world.

Now, one may argue that the customs and values of some countries are incompatible with those of the West and may even be considered "backward" to the point that western companies should completely withdraw from those markets because providing services to such markets equates to empowering those backward social values. That can be a fair assessment, but just remember not to blame them for "banning western companies" in the future.