I use restore quite a lot but it kind of terrifies me that it can erase any amount of uncommitted work if I type something wrong. "git restore ." is basically "delete everything that I don't have a backup of".
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Putting blatant covid misinformation and facts about the 2016 election in the same category is complete bullshit.
The most frightening thing is that views like this are the ultimate goal of the type of propaganda we're seeing. Convincing you of fact X is secondary. The main goal is to convince you that nobody knows the facts. They want to diminish your belief in institutions, like journalism, education, medicine, and democracy.
Oh boy, what do you dispute? That covid is real? Do you dispute that over 600,000 Americans have died from covid? Those are only the ones we know about. And that's with our incredible luck to have lived in a time where we can develop a vaccine with incredible speed and effectiveness. And that's with all the measures we've taken to hold back the virus, with people like you kicking and screaming the entire way. Maybe you're hearing the same "narrative" because it's reality.
We know what would happen if we did nothing - see New York, Iran, Italy last year. I don't know what people like you want. Apparently you want to sit back and pout with your conspiracy theories while the rest of us do our part.
The gold standard actually doesn't do anything because no nation on Earth uses it any more. We have lots of evidence that when it was used, it created instability and economic chaos. Nobody who seriously studies economics things a "return to the gold standard" is a good idea. Here's an example poll of people who have studied economics at the highest level for their entire lives: https://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/gold-standard/
Conspiracy theories about the gold standard are peddled on youtube/twitter because it's easier to blame things on conspiracy theories than to understand complex topics. Kind of like climate change or covid.
By the time I saw the answers, I couldn't remember why I guessed which way on each question.
Having tried it out, I was very mindblown at the several basic usability problems and lack of customizability, meaning I can never use it. Don't understand how this made it all the way into browsers.
It's strange how there's this large gap between what developers need and what ends up in the browser. It's a lot better than it was though.
My approach is to just explain what I can or can't do, and explain the trade-offs for everything. I'll give the decision-makers the info but I'm not going to be the curmudgeon going to war over something the marketing people say we need to survive.
> Though they have terrible eyesight, the rats are ideal for such work, with their extraordinary sense of smell and their size – they are too light to trigger the mines. When they detect a mine, they lightly scratch atop it, signaling to their handler what they've found.
Even on HN it's the same knee-jerk reactions every time one of these stories hit.
This is one of the most pressing technology issues of this moment and the discourse just sucks.
* Does banning ransom payments do anything? Good idea/bad idea? Historical analogues?
* Do we need to pay rewards to cyber privateers to take down cyber criminals?
* Is this an issue that can only be solved at the geopolitical level because of the role states play in enabling this activity?
* Will the hardening brought about by this eventually outpace the crappy attacker software?
* Is this a phase or the new reality?
* How much of this is enabled by technology vs the geopolitical situation?
But watching someone use something I made, and struggle to complete the task because of a fairly straightforward disability they overcome every day in many ways, but they couldn’t get that thing I made to work? That’s an incredibly humbling experience. Never felt anything like that before. I’d highly recommend doing some testing with a real user if you ever have the opportunity.
It would be great if the audio clips had the standard seek bar with the ability to pause/play. Perhaps when I scroll up or down to a section, pause the current audio clip. Then resume playing it when I come back. But also allow me to seek around. Rather than just restarting from the beginning. Because these clips are several minutes long and I am given no indication of their length.
Currently all I can do is either continue listening for an unknown amount of time, or go to the next/previous section and completely lose my progress.
The first thing I noticed is that this interface is discoverable - it shows me what I can do, which is incredible and makes me want to use it. The main reason I've been a casual tmux user and not an advanced one despite using it for years, is because every time I want to try something new I have to google if it's possible.
The second thing I noticed is that it uses ctrl-r as a core shortcut. Mega problem: ctrl-r is a built-in bash feature which I use every day to recall previous commands. This makes me think I can't use this tool at all.
I would suggest to consider taking a page from tmux's book. Just use a global modifier key. Ctrl-b is what tmux uses, so you know it's safe. Other software being developed knows they should avoid it, because tmux uses it. By also using it, you'd no longer have to dance around the global space of what shortcuts every software in existence is using. Additionally, if you use ctrl-b to enable your commands, you can minimize your interface. Currently you're using two entire lines to display your menu. That's going to become tiring as I use zellij 8 hours a day for years. I'll have to hide it eventually. Instead, what if you reduced it to zero lines? Put "ctrl-b: menu" in the upper right of your title bar. Pressing ctrl-b now enables commands and shows what your next keypress will do. You have now (1) avoided breaking existing shortcuts, (2) aligned with established standards (3) given some familiarity to welcome tmux users (4) expanded visible screen space and (5) simplified your menu system. You can also now remove ctrl-g since the interface is "locked" by default until I want to start interacting with it.
Anyway that's my 2 cents. Thanks for this exciting demo.
With human-like agents that have human-like voices, appearances, and mannerisms, they'll be able to communicate with millions of average Joes, and all in a way particular to that specific Joe. AI being able to do infinite amounts of "ambient work" and expose us to the results via human-like entities makes for a very different world of possibilities.
And right now the big AIs that most people directly interface with are clumsy and abstract, but they're also tied in the backend to large pools of closed data owned by mostly well-meaning entities. But how will things change when and if the AI Joe interacts with isn't directed and contained by wealthy US-based corporations?
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