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Beautiful irony in getting ratioed for this post.

They turned it off specifically then. Just like the previous one at 1066. We used to do stuff like this in our labs as a joke. Or try and stop timers exactly on :00

No it’s pointless doing it because some guy on HN said it’s a long way off and therefore you are not allowed to be excited or enthusiastic about it.

This hits so much harder 15 years on.

Additionally Xtranormal missed out on the generative video curve

You should use mongodb. It’s web scale

I recognise, but it reads as if it is. Overly complex word soup!

This reads like AI.

This is what I mean, there is no physicstodon or similar

“Touch grass”

This turn of phrase says everything to be honest.

Very healthy mindset

Who is it

Tom Scott and LTT did research on this and you are absolutely correct. It just “works” for engagement. Even those who are already your top viewers.

What a silly point of view. Instead what should they do? Post comments like this on HN?

They clearly enjoy watching and digesting information from YouTube- the biggest platform for this. But people need to make money from it hence the ailment these these plugins remedy

Tangential; why is math popular on mastodon like computer science is - but little other subjects? What do physicists use, chemists, mechanical engineers?

I was thinking about this just yesterday. I was advertised a device for an aircraft to geo-assist taxiing? (I have never flown so I don’t know why). The comments were the usual “old man shouts at cloud” angry that assistive devices make lives easier for people.

I feel this is similar to what you are pointing out. Why _shouldn’t_ people be the “magic” users. When was the last time one of your average devs looked in to how esm loading? Or the python interpreter or v8? Or how it communicates with the OS and lower level hardware interfacing?

This is the same thing. Only you are goalpost shifting.

Oh wow. I remember this fad. So weird looking at it now - “today we are gonna practice… no not exercise… stacking cups”

I use it as a tool to get me somewhat there in a topic I have no knowledge of. It excels at that.

60% of the time, it works every time. - Amazing how Anchor Man predicted this.

Hmm. But it is not an oracle. I wonder if you prompted it as an expert in palaeontology it may perform better.

That said, I do wonder if its corpus of training data contained that much information on your subject. It is rather niche is it - compared to cooking recipes, or basic software development techniques of 2 years ago, or chemistry, maths and physics.

My friend is a leading research chemist and he, and one other person in china, are working on this one particular field - individually - so there would be little information out there. I asked ChatGPT 4o to give an overview of what he was doing based on the little information I knew. He was astounded. It got it spot on. I asked it to elaborate and to come up with some new direction for research and the ideas it spat out were those he had considered and more.

Backend dev who wanted to try “full stack” (whatever that means)

Give svelte(kit) a go, I enjoy it

> arguably better layouts like dvorak

I don’t think this has any truth outside of causing such argument. I am sure there is a paper on it that showed negligible difference for different layouts.

I used to use Dvorak but then I stopped when I was around 17? Qwerty for life.

Can he notice when it shifts? What happens when the magnetic field flips?

It explains the phenomena and the response but not the mechanism. Anyone know?

Does not see anything that os larger than the field of view?

I can’t conceptualise this. How? Surely this is the same as humans where if you had a big enough uniformly lit object in front of you, you couldn’t “see” it?

Why is this implemented in python? Is it compiled some how?

Medical device research to reduce risk (liability)

When I read that $person has installed $opensource_thing for $tech_illiterate_relative I always imagine the “anon uses gimp” greentext.

Excuse me what. I did not know it could do this I shall have to try it

> if you open two copies of the same repo and copy and paste code, you're doing it wrong

It has worked for 10+ years - is that really doing it wrong, or just doing it in a way different from you.

> into something that looks good

Is this a requirement? Or just out of being particular?

>squashed […] before review

Is deleting (obfuscating) the history of your approach (chain of thought) important to you? The reviewer will review the last commit anyway (always) so is this necessary other than subjective neatness? This can be squashed at the point it is merged

It appears you are very efficient at git. I am having difficulty understanding the real utility of much you described. I wonder if it is a justification for finding the fun in using more uncommon features of git, or for “neatness”? Which is fine.

Interesting

I have only worked on huge applications that take ages to spin up so bisect was never really an option.

> start doing something unrelated to the task I would change branch to that — if I ever had liberty to change priorities like that.

I have not tried git switch thank you

Great feedback. Others can learn from you