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So... is this the same strategy as their "flatten the curve" early COVID policy?

Slow everything down because resources aren't available, hoping that the entire system doesn't go bankrupt and explode, because that would be worse?

Hoping that eventually some kind of solution will be available, and wanting to still at least exist when that time comes?

It's a feature many apps implement in all kinds of ways already, especially games and social media stuff, so this, in theory, just makes it easier and consistent?

I'm against leaking our kids ages, and all the privacy and other concerns as much as anyone, but are we just getting overly angry too quickly on this one?

I get that it's a slippery slope too.

I fully expect both.

Also, given that AI content is still the responsibility of the person prompting, and not the AI company, then *surely* anthropic must be liable for this?

resist evil, but flee temptation.

Build willpower through disciplines, such as fasting, meditation, stillness.

Think about the larger value that a smaller temptation points to - junk candy food is an echo of the celebration food from a community event - the connection of enjoying delicious food together with others is something beautiful, so invest and look forward to that. How can we have more deep celebration times, and less binge snacking?

Life is complex!

Peace

https://derlien.com/ "Disk Inventory X"

regularly to find stuff to clean up.

If you want more proof, then you can take the essay, give it to chatGPT and say, "Please give me a report showing how this essay is written to en by AI."

People treat AI like it's an omniscient god.

But for people with extremely limited experience, LLMs offer a "create an app by talking!!" Zero understanding required. So they won't know to not leak user PII in JSON responses or have publicly writable endpoints or keeping private keys for external services server side and outside of the code base, etc... Let alone anything more complex.

There's still some glitches, occasionally the entire app code would get replaced by the function the LLM was trying to update. I could fix it by telling it that's what had happened, and it would then fill everything in again... Waiting for the entire app to be rewritten each time was a bit annoying.

It got the initial concepts of the app very very quickly running, but then struggled with some CSS stuff, saying it would try a different approach, or apologising for missing things repeatedly...and eventually it told me it would try more radical approaches and wrote online styles... I wonder if the single file approach has limitations in that respect.

Very interesting, very fun to play with.

I'm kind of concerned for security things with LLM written apps - you can ask it to do things and it says yes, without really thinking if it's a good idea or not.

But cool!

And anything which helps with the internet to be full of small independent quirky creative ideas, the better.

A one-off script to extract data for a report - potato.

A brochure website for a company that'll be replaced in 6 years, a small house (or even just an interior of a house, or kitchen revamp...).

It looks like a start of a packages.lock.json kind of tool for dependency resolution eventually?

Or am I missing something?

Is writing software closer to growing potatoes or designing the Sagrada de Familia, or writing the Clarinet Concerto?

I'd argue that writing a web browser is a lot closer in scope to writing a symphony than building a house - at least in audience and durability. In a house's life time, maybe 100 people live in it, and perhaps 2000 people visit it, but a browser, or a symphony, will have an audience of millions.

The market is massively smaller. The impact massively larger.

Then use an AI image generator to generate cartoon pictures for the characters in the screenplay.

Then use an AI voice system to generate all the voices for it.

Then put it all together as a video, present it as a early storyboard concept pitching to them for funding to turn into a full TV series.

I'm a long time vim/neovim user, and have a couple of curious colleagues who I'll be linking to this soon.

I really like the tone of the writing, the visual style, the pacing, the examples.

Maybe having animated GIFs or similar to visualise jumping around might be nice too? (Eg showing the cursor position in the `w` section).

Great work!

Yes, pyright is fast enough, 99% of the time. But the install story, requiring npm etc, is a bit of a pain.

A rust based version with similar install ease as ruff would be great.

Additionally, if it is a lot faster, I think it should unlock more possibilities for eager search to improve the lsp.

Quite often the pyright lsp doesn't find auto imports - there's just too much many places to search.

I'm following this with great interest!

Possibly mention a specific virtualization system, and then run a honeypot version of the above to try and catch directed attacks at it while actually relying on a totally different system...

I have a shell open almost all the time, and use it constantly for testing functions, writing queries etc. It drives me crazy watching other Devs change a query, wait for the server to reload and refresh the browser repeatedly, when editing in the REPL is so much faster.

Being able to `dir` and tab complete experimentally is so fast. (I also have this in the ipdb debugger... Also Django extensions has a debugger inside templates which is really nice)

Being able to `%edit 1-20` and have the repl session instantly in my editor to copy paste is fantastic too.

I also use a lot of TDD for tasks that fit that style, mostly where I'm writing business logic or data processing functions... but for exploring data / APIs /queries / data shaping, interactive just feels instantly productive. Once I've got the API or whatever it is to correctly produce the happy path, it's then easy to copy that into the codebase knowing what shape to expect, I can then turn that into unit tests and throw all the weird external data and edge cases at it with reasonable confidence about what should be happening underneath.

It also has a mode to print out all SQL statements it runs underneath your code - which is great for checking that you've not missed a join or something and got n+1 sneaking in

[1] https://django-extensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

They worked together with him to write a curriculum they used with the entire teaching staff in our school to learn the systems before the new Windows computers came in to replace the old acorns or BBC micros or whatever, including several "inset" (?) days.

The big problem with all the teaching things at the time was being called "Windows for Dummies" or "Microsoft Office for dummies" or whatever - was that the teachers were really smart people - not dummies at all. So the "you don't understand the computer, therefore you are a dummy" was extremely degrading and put up walls instantly.

How people respond when you teach people as "smart, interested and motivated, but currently still extremely unfamiliar and somewhat apprehensive" compared to "not especially clever, and it's a very complicated thing so don't expect to really understand it" is very different.

- population growth over that time - percent of people able to afford cars and fuel over that time - % of those numbers that are in London ( and other big cities) - so the number of people able to afford to live in London compared to jobs there... Many people were priced out, and so have to commute, and pollution taxes and parking prices are now there to discourage cars - how much train line maintenance has been dropped, and will be coming up as needing replacement "soon" but not done - how much subsidy the private companies are actually getting still.

...

Trains in the UK are really not great at all... Compared to the rest of Europe anyway.

So if I'm not hyperchondriac, but am frustrated and stressed by (x) random symptom or covid related (y), or being off sick w/ "normal" Covid & struggling to regain energy, then if I'm emotionally distressed by it, then may develop IBS and fatigue symptoms on top of that - which then feeds into the loop...

(Said as someone for the last several months currently struggling with a whole bunch of symptoms and not managing to get any helpful diagnosis or area I can work on to improve things...)

It's not all NASA sites - but used by NASA for some sites.

One of the many more complex sites we've used it to build is https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/ which tracks over 10k companies, 100k+ articles in 15 or so languages. We've also built internal dashboards, live updating forums, donations platforms and so on. Another interesting one might be https://www.achurchnearyou.com/ which is used by the church of England to provide "mini sites" for all their congregations around England, so several thousand church administrators use that every week.

Find stuff you'll enjoy reading to them. And read to them a lot. You've got the right idea.

MO Williams books are great for that age. The elephant and piggie books are fun, Annette's Baguette is brilliant. The Brambly Hedge books are lovely. Dr Seuss is mostly quite fun. Peter's railway (if they like trains or engineering at all), the Thomas the Tank engine books, the topsy and Tim books are ok...

But get lots of books from the library, charity / thrift stores. Get lots of books to try out, and have available for them to read. And if they aren't interested, you can always thrift them again. Hanging out at the local library can be good. No time pressure, just let them browse and look at whatever random things they want.

For slightly older kids, we've really enjoyed reading Hillary McKay, Terry Pratchett's kids books / short stories, Vivian French's books are great. and some of the classics are great too - EE Milne, the Paddington books...

"Root for all the evil is the love-of-money..." Word for word (ish).

The greater context being seeking contentment with your current lot in life, and focusing on becoming good, not rich

1 Timothy 6:10 NRSV

So, just for random theological context, money itself isn't good or bad - it's just a convenient token of value... But it's the love of money, ie, the desire to possess and control value that you can use to get things from others, and somehow find security and worth in your possessions that is the big problem. And not "the" root of "all" evil, but "a" root of "all kinds" of evil...

If you want just to "play" and do some tiny projects as low level as reasonable - go for learning C first. You'll learn a lot - and then when you learn rust, the reasons why things are done that way will make a lot of sense. Also, so many low level utils are written in C - having a basic knowledge of it is really useful. But don't try to build a big complex thing in it unless you have a really good reason to (or you fall in love with C. Some people do!)

If you want to actually build something big and complex and for real world use - probably go for Rust.

If you want to build a big production system using an already established tech that's based on C++, learn that. (Eg. one of the C++ based game engines, or a C++ GUI framework, or whatever).