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BatmanAoD

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  • 93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs

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  • Perl programs are, by definition, text. So "paint splatters are valid Perl" implies that there's a mapping from paint splatters to text.

    Do you have a suggested mapping of paint splatters to text that would be more "accurate" than OCR? And do you really think it would result in fewer valid Perl programs?

  • What was it that convinced you to start using NeoVim? | How long was your "evaluation period"? | What convinced you that NeoVim was the best for you?

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  • I tried NeoVim pretty early on, I think, around 2014. My primary editor at the time was gVim (I prefer a proper graphical front-end to running in a terminal).

    I used nvim on and off, primarily with nvim-qt as the front-end, though briefly with a custom setup that launched a new terminal emulator window and ran nvim there.

    Once nvim incorporated nvim-qt into the base install, I started using it more regularly; eventually I switched entirely to Neovide and haven't even installed gVim on my last few work computers.

    I now primarily use VSCode with nvim integration. Unfortunately, I do have a weird issue where "undo" combines more operations than I'd expect, or, in some rare cases, it seems to corrupt the buffer and produce states that didn't previously exist (!!). I don't know if that's an issue with the plugin, though.

  • "prompt engineering"

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  • No, you leapt directly from what I said, which was relevant on its own, to an absurdly stronger claim.

    I didn't say that humans and AI are the same. I think the original comment, that modern AI is "smart enough to be tricked", is essentially true: not in the sense that humans are conscious of being "tricked", but in a similar way to how humans can be misled or can misunderstand a rule they're supposed to be following. That's certainly a property of the complexity of system, and the comment below it, to which I originally responded, seemed to imply that being "too complicated to have precise guidelines" somehow demonstrates that AI are not "smart". But of course "smart" entities, such as humans, share that exact property of being "too complicated to have precise guidelines", which was my point!

  • "prompt engineering"

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  • ...I didn't say that it does.

  • "prompt engineering"

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  • We can create rules and a human can understand if they are breaking them or not...

    So I take it you are not a lawyer, nor any sort of compliance specialist?

    They aren't thinking about it and deciding it's the right thing to do.

    That's almost certainly true; and I'm not trying to insinuate that AI is anywhere near true human-level intelligence yet. But it's certainly got some surprisingly similar behaviors.

  • "prompt engineering"

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  • Have you considered that one property of actual, real-life human intelligence is being "too complicated to have precise guidelines"?

  • I just ask my problem bro...chill....

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  • That's fair, but if you edit the question to explain how it's different (without which, how could anyone even answer your question?), it can be (and often is) reopened.

  • I just ask my problem bro...chill....

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  • They also changed the wording from "closed" to "on hold" years ago, and I don't think I've ever seen the people complaining about the site take any notice.

  • Programming languages personified - leftoversalad

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  • Probably more importantly, it runs on the JVM and is designed to interoperate with existing Java code. (FWIW, I actually think they made a major mistake in how they handle null Java objects, and that Kotlin did better here; but Kotlin is much newer.)

  • My Git Knowledge

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  • Whoever named the "final final fixed" one seems to have missed the point of version control. 😑

  • My Git Knowledge

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  • ...yeah, I already said that if there is another branch starting with those letters it should be deleted. You need a naming convention.

  • My Git Knowledge

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  • git checkout ma<tab>

    If you don't have autocomplete set up for your shell, get it working. If someone has a different branch named ma..., ask if you can delete it, and get your team to adopt a decent branch naming convention.

  • wait what

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  • Sorry, my phrasing was sloppy. Most popular IDEs and editors do not have a plug-in or setting that implements elastic tabstops correctly. In particular, there's no implementation for vim, emacs, VSCode, eclipse, or any JetBrains IDEs. (I had forgotten that there's one for Visual Studio and one for Notepad++.)

  • wait what

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  • Essentially no. I wish so badly that this had taken off.

    Edit: as noted on the website, various plug-ins that attempt support are in fact not correct.

  • Hey, I'm new to GitHub!

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  • And even if releases are hosted on github, there should ideally be a download links page somewhere that presents the different binaries or installation files in an easier to understand format, especially if the software is designed for non-developers.

  • Hey, I'm new to GitHub!

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  • That's not a download button for the program. But there is indeed a link to the release page right on the home page of the project, so you're still correct.

  • Pulsar, the best code editor

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  • The author also makes some incorrect or misleading claims, specifically about emacs. I acknowledge there's a high bar for entry there and don't personally like emacs, but it's not modal, and it does have the ability to display images and markdown previews.

  • Programming: The Horror Game

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  • If you have a Linux or Mac handy, you can trying it out! It's...kinda wild. If you know some Vim commands that start with :, there's a good chance they'll work in ed, except you don't type : itself (effectively you're always in "command mode").

    There's also a novelty Twitter account, @ed1conf, that tweets about ed.

    Some coworkers told me a story about a previous job candidate who said his preferred editor was ed. They thought it would be really interesting to see someone actually use it. But during the actual interview, when he opened ed, he didn't recognize or understand it; he was actually accustomed to a graphical editor that he thought was called ed because he apparently did all his work on a system where someone had symlinked or aliased ed to a modern tool.

  • Programming: The Horror Game

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  • ed, the "standard editor" (according to its man page) and the predecessor of vi (the "visual editor"), is a terminal editor that doesn't automatically display any of the text you're working on; you have to use the p ("print") command to display the lines your wish to see.