chrisguilbeau

With everything changing it's great to hear others have the same workflow. I added a snapshot step so I'm doing

plan, generate step 1, review, snapshot, generate step 2, review, snapshot...

That way I have a chance to diff with the previous iteration and clean up comments, modify skills, etc. also if it bonks on a step I'm one snapshot away from trying again...

Is there a place people share their workflows other than HN comments?

I live near a 3d printed neighborhood in Georgetown, TX. We would have bought one if they'd had more than 3 bedroom floorplans. They are concrete and stay cool in the summer, they also all have solar panels...

Everyone I've talked to says they are wierd looking like the movie set of Edward Scissorhands or something, but it's mainly because they didn't leave old growth trees so every tree is < 5 years old (maybe for the printer to have room to move around?) and they are very very similar. People also don't like the concrete factor.

I don't know if it counts as successful but if we'd had fewer kids I'd be in one right now!

LLM: wrt frst 100fizzbuzz

I spent three months with my family in Japan (Feb-Apr). We were in Osaka and used trains exclusively, just working remotely, homeschooling, living life with a few day/weekend trips. This captures for me the simple, clean, engineered beauty of being in a Japanese city. I just sat an watched for a while feeling like I was back there. Having the easy to learn characters above the traditional ones is also super nice. Amazing.

Being able to hover over the characters and see the phonetics would be a nice bonus for us beginners.

I live in rural VT, 600 person town in national forest. Tons of us have EVs because you don’t have to drive down the mountain for gas and they drive great in the snow and mud.

All I’m saying is that starting FSD from park in my driveway and having it drive to my destination with my hands on my legs and then having it park itself when it gets there seems reasonable to call “full self driving” to me. I pay for the subscription and I would continue paying if it never got any better. I do live in a rural state, so maybe that’s why it works so well.

Mine drove me from my house to the airport without my ever touching the steering wheel so what exactly do you mean?

I'm a developer that primarily uses gh copilot for python dev. I find it pretty useful as an intelligent auto-completer that understands our project's style, and unusual decorators we use.

What tools would you tell a copilot dev to try? For example, I have a $20/mo ChatGPT account and asking it to write code or even fix things hasn't worked very well. What am I missing?

I'll add my experience to the mix. I was in Thailand in the early 2000s and we were eating at a night market and I heard a song that sounded like something by the Beatles or another 60s band. I started looking for what it might have been when I got back to the states a year later; did it say doctor Jones? Friends and google were no help. Anyway, 20 years later I asked ChatGPT and it come back with "New York Mining Disaster 1941" by the Bee Gees... Simply incredible. I suppose there will be fewer of these decade long searches now!

I've been using a comic sans based mono font now since the last time I saw it on HN (about a year ago based on my receipt). I use a paid version called Comic Code [1]

I find it very easy to read as well as fun. I had similar feelings about using Monaco in the past. I find it personally makes programming easier on the eyes and enjoyable.

I remember reading the font is similar to the letters that are taught in kindergarten which is a theory of why it's easy on the eyes.

[1] https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

Late to the party, but I have a script called zbeep that takes command and args as arguments. Makes a sound before starting execution and has success and fail sounds. It’s great for those 5-10 min processes. For long stuff I have a similar zslack command.

The term made it's way into climbing too for building anchors when trad-climbing. (traditional as opposed to sport climbing)

I have it set up on a raspberry pi for my kids and it works pretty well even with the mouse. One problem I have is that the mouse gets out of sync because the resolution of the tv the pi is on isn't 4:3 like the emulated window. I think if I set the resolution correctly the issue would go away. I use retroarch with snes9x core. Here's the command I use to get it going: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-snes9x2010/snes9x2010_libretro.so ~/Documents/Mario\ Paint.smc

I used a pi2 and an LCD I got off Craig's list to build an old Mac emulator with Basillisk II and a lot of patience (took a while to get the right combo of compile options, settings and display environment). It's relatively stable and my 4 year old daughter has been playing kid pix, cosmic osmo and hello kitty on it for a while now. It's also fun to see the after dark screen savers when I go into her room.

Wow, so are we on the same wavelength or something? I made this a few weeks ago on JS fiddle with the idea of recreating kidpix. Even used unicode chars with a face for the undo!

https://jsfiddle.net/97vLt5dj/24/

If anyone is looking for a good book on using vim effectively, this one is great:

https://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim

We just bought a used leaf for 12k at carmax. It was a 2013 with 16,000 miles on it and it easily gets 80 miles to a charge. All of the great things you read about them have all been true for us, super quiet, surprising acceleration, convenience of charging at home. It was hard to get our hands on one as they kept selling them as soon as they'd come in at carmax.

To be fair, the things you mention (slavery, segregation, oppression, even genocide) have been justified by people led by pure atheistic humanism effectively cloaking oppression in logic, academia and scientific theory (Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot). I think it's fair to say that people with all sorts of ideologies have treated those they fear, don't understand or just plain don't like pretty poorly.

I'll add that some who have been at the forefront of fighting for the abolishment of the oppressions you list have done so while following Christianity (MLK, Wilberforce)

Growing up in Austin, I remember my dad telling me about this after hearing the lyrics to the song they used for the theme for Austin City Limits (the PBS show not the festival). Good ol' Texas country.

"Well, when you're down on your luck, and you ain't got a buck, in London you're a goner. Even London Bridge has fallen down, and moved to Arizona"

London Homesick Blues, Gary P. Nunn

I came up with this very minimal implementation of flex box. Basically defines row or column, their content can be centered or marked as tight to keep from dividing the cell evenly. https://github.com/chrisguilbeau/quickflask/blob/master/s/fl...

I no longer use ST due to being in the terminal most of the time, but one thing I miss is how easy it was to write new packages with Python. Just enough of the API was documented and exposed to get what you needed done and usually resulted in a plugin with pretty good performance. It took very little time to write things I missed from emacs like "sort paragraphs", opening files by typing a path, an auto complete that uses a similar algorithm. Even a ctags module that I wound up prefering over emacs. I think ST's extensibility is easier than just about any other editor I've used (I do develop primarily in Python though)