yea, vim doesn't have that, and you don't have to check if vim/emacs is installed on the remote box. just use tramp and if you have ssh access to the files, so does emacs.
I used claude to handle a git commit for me (I wrote the code myself, but used Claude just for git -- I prefer fossil so never bothered to learn git command line) and it took credit for doing nothing but the commit.
I've not had that problem, but I have 35 years of programming experience, so I can describe exactly what I want. Maybe that's the difference. It doesn't have to be a single sentence, I write a whole paragraph or even pseudocode most of it and tell it to use the pseudocode as comments for the code it will produce. It'll give me a plan and I'll refine the plan until it seems to be what I want. Then we'll get it to start writing and I'll give it feedback and keep it on track. If it tends to overthink a problem, I'll interrupt it and have it talk over the issue, until it gets a clear understanding of what I want. You have to treat it like a coworker more than just a code monkey.
That may change over time, but it's not going to change anytime soon. All the fabs are sold out and companies like Nvidia and AMD are buying up all their capacity until at least 2028, and new fabs aren't going to be coming online in a short time. So, no, there won't be a lot more competition until at earliest 2032.
Imagine someone telling you that their cousin who convinced someone to off themselves and may hallucinate occasionally that they should be the person dealing with your customers. You'd flat out tell them to go f themselves. But if their 'cousin' was an AI you wouldn't bat an eye.
I tried it out, it built a system, calling itself AGOS, created a test project and coded it up successfully, added validation checks, verified everything worked properly, made a bunch of scripts to track goals and tasks and other stuff.
I did switch it to use ZODB for database instead of postgres, and fossil-scm instead of git, which it was able to successfully navigate. I'm a python head so this makes sense for me, ymmv - I have 30 years of development experience and that's what I choose to implement.
The hot/warm/cold didn't seem to materialize though, but the task focus kind of makes that a moot point.
I tried with claude, qwen, and gemini, all seemed to pick up and continue working. Work seems kind of slow, but it was all reviewable, clear goals and tasks, and overall kind of usable? I'll experiment a bit, but it seems promising. I still don't know why you wouldn't just have it build you a system then release that.
No love for fossil (fossil-scm.org)? It has a wiki, bug tracking, forums, email alerts, chat, dvcs, etc. It's written by and used by the same developers of sqlite. A single small file gives you the whole chili and pickles.
No, they gave the cannibal ants a link to a new food source. Imagine you're living in your house, your neighborhood, and there's this large pit in the center, where the cannibals live. They're 30ft down so they can't get out, so you don't have to worry. Then someone puts a ladder down to them. Start of a horror movie if you ask me.
From what I've seen (at a fortune 100 company) they made the supposedly "best" employees fully remote, and they neglected to tell the others that there were "limited slots" for fully remote and thus they had to come in to work. After a few months of coming in for work, they then laid off those employees, as not enough people quit for that to happen. To be fair, I was given a severance, but it still sucks. And the office was in bad shape, bathrooms poorly maintained, cafeteria in disarray, with substandard food (compared to before). The reason they're trying to get rid of employees is to make their stocks look good. We did better during covid by all measures, when everyone was working remotely.
Aerospace already has software standards for certification like DO-178C which is critical for certification from the FAA. You don't have to be licensed to write the software, but if it doesn't meet standards required for certification, well you have to fix it.
That's not even the point. Also IQ tests are normalized for individuals in their same age group. If they're comparing them to people, then what age group people are they comparing with? Also the tests are timed, so IQ is more a measure of how quickly something can be figured out, which really doesn't apply to computers. The whole idea that you can apply an IQ score to an LLM is ridiculous.
There's so many photos of just her staring off into the distance, and only one photo with her presenting the actual thing that she's supposedly famous for. I don't get the point of just all these random photos of this girl.
fossil is great, and I wish more companies used it. It's so simple, has everything you need, documentation, bugs, email alerts, chat, a forum, a wiki. It's all there. Having to go to jira to manage something, confluence for something else, git for source code and bug tracking, it's all a mess, when you can use something like fossil. Yet all I hear when I mention fossil is "never heard of it, not using some toy project, sticking to what I know".
>From what I was told, Python was originally seen as a Swiss Army knife for sysadmins.
Yea, I was a sysadmin around 2000 (before that too) and I knew it as such.
>between 2005 and 2006, two important things happened:
Somewhat - I used it in 2001 for Plone which is based on Zope, which was somewhat popular around that time. Writing all the web stuff with Python made sense, since Plone provided a CMS and could include a wiki. Adding on some sql calls to it in python just made sense. The competition was between PHP and Python, though there were some other less popular choices. Ruby on Rails definitely was getting a lot more popular around those times. PHP didn't start getting popular around 2005, if anything, people started using Python more, and started criticizing the crappy code that was circulating in the PHP community.
In any case, it was a fun time, but what's the point of looking back like that?
I think you may be mistaking Society of Mind with a different book. It's not about lisp or "good old fashioned AI" but about how the human mind may work - something that we could possibly simulate. It's observations about how we perform thought. The ideas in the book are not tied to a specific technology, but about how a complex system such as the human brain works.
I've been programming in python for over 20 years. An LLM creates code that sometimes works, but it definitely doesn't meet my standards, and there's no way I'd use the code since I couldn't support it. People who have less experience in Python might take that working code and just support that with their LLM, still having no clue what it does or why it works. That's probably fine for MVP but it won't stand up in the real world where you have to support the code or refactor it for your environment.
I tried to use an LLM to write a simple curses app - something where there's a lot of code out there, but most of the code is bad, and of course it doesn't work and there's lots of quirks. I then asked it to see if there are libraries out there that are better than curses, it gave me 'textual' which at first seemed like an HTML library, but is actually a replacement for curses. It did work, and I had some working code at the end, but I had to work around platform inconsistencies and deal with the LLM including outdated info like inline styles that are unsupported in the current version of the library. That said, I don't quite understand the code that it produced, I know it works and it looks nice, but I need to write the code myself if I want a deeper understanding of the library, so that I can support it. You won't get that from asking an LLM to write your code for you, but from you using what you learn. It's like any language learning. You could use google translate to translate what you want, and it may seem correct at first glance, but ultimately won't convey what you want, with all the nuance you want, if you just learned the language yourself.
>That’s a disingenuous argument. You don’t know what you don’t know. Literally. A completely self guided high school graduate following random online materials will not learn nearly as much on their own. Or they will go down rabbit holes and waste countless hours, and not having an expert unblock you or guide you down the right path would waste a lot of time.
Citation needed. There's great books out there that provide a lot of guidance down a particular path. I'd say a lot of them do, and I can't imagine online learning sources would be worse. There's online communities for learners for specific subjects that are full of people offering good advice.
Washington has "committed intimate relationship" which does confer community property and is similar to a "common law marriage" so if people think that being in a long term relationship and not getting married is a way to "protect their property" then that's a fallacy.
Not just farmers, pilots, and anything that flies long distances will be hugely affected.
Pilots rely not just on forecasts, but also warnings like turbulence, icing, thunderstorms, low visibility, etc. Without precision, and relying on other sources will cause a higher risk of encountering unexpected weather. It will increase costs, as they'll have to subscribe to alternative weather services, emergency responses will be affected as well. Need a helicopter to medevac someone? Well, better hope they updated their weather subscription, and that it covers the area you need to be evcuated from and to. It'll also increase delays due to the adverse weather events encountered unexpectedly.
I don't think the result of this study would stop people from getting tattoos, but if you're on the fence, then perhaps it could sway you. Either way, it can provide information to doctors to perhaps screen them more often for skin cancer, or people to get screened, given that it might show a higher risk.
You don't ask for the requirements. You ask what they're trying to do, or what problem they're trying to solve. Sometimes I have to ask "where is this data going" or "what do you expect the end result of this to be".
"FSD" is not running red lights, the so-called "driver" is. Ultimately you are responsible for what your car does, when you are in the driver's seat. If you allow it to run red lights, it's on you.
there's 8 million pixels in 4k, so if you're trying to graph 8 million points, might as well just fill up the screen with a single color and call it a day. If you have 8 billion, well you can graph about 0.1% of that and fill up every single pixel of the screen, but then you're just looking at noise. To be able to show connections between nodes, you'd need maybe 9 pixels per node, so that's around 900k nodes you might be able to graph on a 4k screen, assuming a maximum number of connections between nodes is 8, and the connected nodes are adjacent. So now you're at about 0.01% can be graphed on yor display, and that's not even very usable and there'd not be a lot of information you could glean from that.
You could go to 81 pixels per node and you'd be able to connect more nodes to a graph, and maybe you could make some sense of it that way, but you'd only be graphing 0.001% and at that point, what's your selection criteria? Your selection criteria for nodes would have more of an impact than how you choose to graph it.
I don't get the whole societal focus on these 'grade school kids attending college classes' type of "genius kids". They are advanced for their age, but that's about it. When you get in the real world, nobody cares about your age, just what you can do, and nothing seems to indicate that those kid wonders are any better off than anyone else.
Why? What specifically caused you not to seek out alternatives? PyPy and libraries with CFFI seem to work okay together, but it can run python native code nearly as fast as C, so I always look for a pure python solution rather than depend on a C library.
You are comparing miles to number of taxis, and some vague frequency of accidents vs an inexact statistic. I appreciate you trying, but I believe accident statistics are normally based on "per million vehicle miles traveled". If you're trying to make a statistic, you should probably use that basis.