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siodine··on Artificial intelligence is losing hype
I had the same problem with using the latest neo4j API and Sonnet 3.5 -- except it wasn't really a problem. I just created a project where I explain that its knowledge on neo4j is outdated and to instead use an API reference and changelog that I add to the project.

It's not magic, you need to think what you would need in a similar situation and then provide that to the LLM. It definitely does suffer from severe overconfidence, though -- if you were to think of it as a person.

Also, you need to break up your project into manageable portions and provide context to the other portions (without providing the entirety of them) for it to effectively work on the portion you want to work on.

siodine··on For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
I don't know. In Herzog's "Happy People: A Year in the Taiga," you see a dog keeping up with a snowmobile at a constant pace for several hours. (Edit: the dog ran 150 kilometers nonstop at a snowmobile's pace)
siodine··on Sublime Text 3 Beta
* SublimeBlockCursor works for me.

* Set `"vintage_start_in_command_mode": false` in the vintage preferences.

* You can remove the autocomplete on '.', just look through whatever plugins settings or bindings.

Also, make sure you get the plugin VintageEx.

siodine··on Rice Cooker Hacks - The Ebert Way
I want to do this. What do I buy, and where do I get recipes?
siodine··on 21st Century C (new book)
Please implement RSS.
siodine··on Kindle Paperwhite
How is the paperwhite with pdf journal articles and textbooks?
siodine··on Free Book: An Introduction to Programming in Go
Why is it a better index?
siodine··on Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released
Complainers gonna complain.
siodine··on Show HN: A RottenTomatoes for Books
The scorings are terrible. Rottentomatoes is fairly reliable for getting solid recommendations as a cinephile, but this site is giving high marks for what is clearly crap.

Maybe there just aren't enough book critics, or you're not aggregating them all, or you aren't selecting for the top critics like rottentomatoes.

siodine··on My $47 collapsible standing desk
Yup, this seems to be the best solution, and surprisingly makes the laptop the best workstation. You get to change your workspace every 30 minutes to an hour with ease. And virtual desktops + remoting into more powerful computers mitigates the problems with a laptop.
siodine··on Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text
>It's a feature that lets you take poorly aligned code that is difficult to read, and fix up the alignment a la K&R et al. Hope that's clear enough for you :)

I linked you to plugins that do that. Also, you can find other such plugins through the site I linked for you. I wasn't inferring that you were a newcomer to Hacker News, I was inferring that you were new to this kind of technology in general (sort of freshmen level). And because my profile is two months old, doesn't mean I haven't been on Hacker News much longer. I'm glad I didn't hurt your feelings :)

siodine··on My $47 collapsible standing desk
Yes, but there are similar problems with standing.

http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStand.html#

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10...

siodine··on My $47 collapsible standing desk
http://www.novadesk.com/Portals/84375/docs/ergonomic-summary...

Hopefully someone can upload "Head and Neck Posture at Computer Workstations - What’s Neutral?"

siodine··on My $47 collapsible standing desk
Last I checked, there's no conclusive evidence showing a standing desk has any health benefits over sitting. Treadmill desks, on the other hand...
siodine··on Three Months with Sublime Text 2
Search http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/community for "scheme" and "theme." https://github.com/cafarm/aqua-theme is what you're looking for, I think.
siodine··on Three Months with Sublime Text 2
I think that's unlikely. ST2 is already exceptionally fast and complete as an editor. As an IDE, ST2 requires plugins. These plugins are written in Python (which can use libs written in C) as opposed to vimscript or elisp. Moreover, these plugins aren't required for editing text files (or having SublimeClang isn't going to significantly slow down editing python files).
siodine··on Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text
Sorry? My response was tailored for your comment -- you didn't mention plugins and you weren't (and still aren't) clear on the features you're missing. I.e., from your comment I inferred that you are new to all this, and so I treated you as a newcomer. I guess that hurt you feelings? If so, I didn't mean to :)
siodine··on Three Months with Sublime Text 2
This kind of anecdote is more useful with reasons.
siodine··on Three Months with Sublime Text 2
The Go and Haskell support is better in ST2 than in IntelliJ. For Python and Ruby, it depends. IntelliJ is unquestionably better for Java, though.

Also, consider that ST2 is in its infancy and how developed its language support already is (see SublimeClang, for example). As ST2 becomes more popular, it might compete with the most developed IDEs.

siodine··on Three Months with Sublime Text 2
1. The configuration time for stuff like this in ST2 is comparable with IntelliJ.

2. IntelliJ costs more.

3. IntelliJ is simply better for Java than ST2 (more significant time-saving professional features), but not necessarily so for other languages (it becomes less clear cut with languages like ruby).

4. ST2 replaces your standard text editor, IntelliJ doesn't.

siodine··on Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text
First, search google for "sublimetext save all." You should then get this website http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/commands.

Now, create a new user defined bind for that command (you can google how to do this). Or you could use Ctrl+Shift+P+"save".

siodine··on Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text
This is probably obvious for most people, but when you can't find a feature you want in an editor, you should look for plugins.

So, in this case, you would go to http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/community and search for "indent" or "pretty" or "xml".

siodine··on Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text
Ctrl+Alt+P to get a dialog for opening all your Sublime projects.

Ctrl+R for navigating to functions or classes within the current file.

SublimeClang gives you Visual Studio-style Intellisense, static analysis, and jump to definition/implementation.

When setting up Vim emulation, you'll need to install VintageEx and change some of the default bindings (Ctrl+Shift+P+"key" to see the binding files). You'll also want SublimeBlockCursor.

For example, put the following in the user defined keymap to override the defaults: [ { "keys": ["ctrl+f"], "command": "move", "args": {"by": "pages", "forward": true} }, { "keys": ["ctrl+b"], "command": "move", "args": {"by": "pages", "forward": false} }, { "keys": ["ctrl+shift+f"], "command": "move", "args": {"by": "pages", "forward": true, "extend": true} }, { "keys": ["ctrl+shift+b"], "command": "move", "args": {"by": "pages", "forward": false, "extend": true} } ]

siodine··on Hello Opera 12
FF has lazy loading. Options->General->Don't load tabs until selected.
siodine··on Hello Opera 12
For me, the most important missing feature is tab lazy loading -- without that my usecase is impossible (hundreds of tabs).