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> the naive logic that because LLM execution speeds or benchmarks marginally improved over the last 24 months, (...)

"Marginally improved"? Are you really going to sit there tell me that an appropriate way to sum up the difference between the AI we had access to in Sep 2024 and the AI we have access to now, is "the benchmarks marginally improved"?

> you should not run code you don't trust, period.

This reduces to "you should not use a computer, period." No-one can audit all the code they run daily.

> It wasn't AI generated.

You're lying: https://www.pangram.com/history/94678f26-4898-496f-9559-8c4c...

Not that I needed pangram to tell me that, it's obvious slop.

I bet some guy just told Claude Code to archive all of LWN for him on a whim.

My crackpot theory is that what stops newcomers is how unergonomic "(" and ")" are to type on typical keyboards. If mainstream lisp dialects used square brackets instead, we'd all be programming in it!

One does not "simply" use Emacs.

I do, for over a decade. Hope it doesn't die. Can't fathom how people live with these tiny qwerty keyboards on a touchscreen.

Still, most people who have a crypto wallet on their desktop computer don't get hacked. I always found this interesting because it puts an upper bound to how many machines out there are compromised (at least by an agency that's motivated only by money).

Reading these wikis makes me feel we need to invent some visual convention to indicate AI-generated text. Like a particular color or font. This would make it so people don't feel cheated after they realize they just spent several minutes trying to make sense of something churned out by an LLM. (I mean this as a voluntary design enhancement for sites that want to be nice, of course people can always cheat.)

You sound like ChatGPT.

Looks like the Emacs developer community needs a Linus to talk some sense into these Mauros

Referring of course to https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

> Microsoft should just buy Everything off Voidtools

Don't give them ideas, they'd find some way to ruin it.

Errata: In the table under "How many bytes are in UTF-8?", bottom row, "10000" should be "100000".

I get "The model: `gpt-4-0314` does not exist".

I'm an emacs fan but there's no excuse. It's insane that an editor from the 1970's is perceptibly laggy on the latest Macbook Pro.

This is a good article about the problem https://discourse.doomemacs.org/t/why-is-emacs-doom-slow/83/...

Surely at this point half the content on /pol/ is from professional propagandists and LLM-powered bots, trying to create the impression of a "4chan consensus" to sway anyone stupid enough to be taken in by that.

How well can you use this as utility from your current shell, without replacing it? Something like "nu <command>" to execute nu commands from inside bash?

Similarly, the best source for nutrition information used to be whfoods.org. Unfortunately it's been down for a while now, and while there are some imperfect archives, you can't easily search through the site anymore.

A middle ground would be to offer public searchable logs, but strip the usernames. I would be fine with that.

Rather than a GPT-3 generated email, I would rather receive the prompt that the sender would have used to generate the email.

We could even come up with a conventional shorthand for this.

Imagine you send me a message that just says [[personalized thank you note for the pair of socks you got me for christmas]]. Then I just imagine a long GPT-3 generated message in its place. And I reply with [[gracious acknowledgment and well wishes for the new year]].

Exactly the same intention is communicated, and we both waste less time :)

ok gpt

> I seem to recall Dell saying that you should never store a suspended laptop in a laptop bag, because there are situations where it might wake up and overheat.

Which is the stupidest thing ever. I want to see Apple use this to shame Dell in ad.

> they're often connecting from public IPs that are "suspicious" which causes automated systems to treat them more harshly.

What's worse is that the the error messages never explain the problem. It's just an endless sequence of "Oops! Something went wrong" "We could not fulfill your request" "Please try again later".

Could drive someone crazy if they're not savvy enough to realize what's going on.

Depressing to think that, even if you find a way to make this work, it'll be deprecated in a few years as most distros move to Wayland. Then if you figure it out in Wayland, it'll probably break again when they come up with some new backwards incompatible bullshit. Everything in desktop Linux is like this.

The very fact that Emacs is so ancient makes me feel comfortable investing in it. If I extend and reconfigure it heavily, my setup will probably be usable for the rest of my life. Emacs will always be around.

Meanwhile, VSCode will be replaced by some new hotness in a few years, and anyone who invests heavily in the perfect VSCode setup will lose all their work.

This post is why I believe the Apple Magic Keyboard is actually the best gaming keyboard currently available. I noticed it when I tried gaming on traditional mechanical keyboard, and then on an AMK. The Apple keyboard feels distinctly snappier, lets me react faster and take actions in quicker succession.

Now when I watch a real-time strategy gaming streamer or something, and hear them clacking furiously at their fancy mechanical keyboard, I wince. They're losing 10-20ms to key travel on every action they take!

Who doesn't love a bit of smoothed brown noise to drown out the outside world. No need to diagnose yourself with ADHD over it.

> And a funny anecdote: a few months ago, Instagram started pitching ads about very high end, luxury items, probably thinking I had hit a jackpot or something. Simultaneously, I was thrown into a new cohort on dating apps. As if I was now eligible to a whole new level on the social ladder.

Maybe you can game this by googling stereotypical rich person questions and browsing luxury goods, then watch as you start getting better matches.

Clicking "Save Image As..." did nothing, no file dialog appeared.

Had similar problems before, so I guessed it was some snap bullshit. This page seemed to confirm it https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1290489

Followed the instructions here https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-d... , and then it worked as normal.

> Out of curiosity, how did you do it?

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-d...