anowlcalledjosh

This looks incredibly cool; I'm wowed by the fact that the model has learnt to negate words in if-else statements, though I struggle to think of a case where that particular completion would have been useful.

At the same time, I'm less excited about the fact that the model is cloud-only, both for security/privacy reasons and because I spend a not-insignificant amount of my time on limited-bandwidth/high-latency internet connections.

I'm also curious as to why the survey didn't ask about GPU specifications; most of the time I use my laptop to code whilst plugged in, and I'd happily use only LSP completions when on battery, so power consumption wouldn't be an issue (though fan noise might), and allegedly my GPU (a GTX 1050) can pull off almost 2 TFLOPs, which is well over the "10 billion floating point operations" mentioned in the post.

Presumably it's no more confusing than, say, a shebang is for Windows users.

Sorry, brain fart – you have to upgrade between non-LTS releases sequentially, as far as I know there's no supported way to upgrade to 19.04 from anything but 18.10. (in general, to get to release n, you must either be on release n-1, or n must be an LTS and you must be on the previous LTS.)

IIRC, do-release-upgrade won't upgrade between LTS releases until the .2 release.

One difference between ctrl-tab and alt-~ (or alt-`, depending on your keyboard layout) is that tabs within a window are very close to each other, and obviously distinct from windows in their own right, whereas it's frequently not immediately obvious whether two windows belong to the same application.

> Installing F-Droid is easy

but nevertheless harder than installing Netflix

> installing and managing apps through it is also easy

but updates are not automatic (unless you root)

I don't dispute that F-Droid is not terribly difficult to use, but the original statement that "It's easier to use than the Play Store" is obviously false as soon as you take into account the mechanics of getting it installed.

It also doesn't come preinstalled on any devices I'm aware of, which adds a significant amount of friction.

Even once you've installed it, it can't auto-update apps.

That's from the "tabs" permission; I'm not sure why the extension requests it, as it doesn't appear that it's required by the code (the chrome.tabs API does not require it, you only need the permission if you're reading the URL/title/favicon of existing tabs AFAIK).

Because it's not true! Threads in Python can muck around with the state of any other thread, at any time – it would be a language change to assume otherwise.